Cámaras de comercio

Abstract

The image presents a news called: The Chambers of Commerce The law of the last congress on what is currently called the national toll and the difficulties, taxes and messes that it has already caused begin to awaken the trade and some places are already resenting the need for another to become a guild As it happens in most of the civilized world. And it is really time for me to do so. Between us, either by character or by the reduced in these industrial elements. The truth is that everything is mixed up and abandoned to its own resources, one of those of the three capital industries that economic science recognizes, no, we do not have that very halfway There are no factories in Colombia other than agricultural and commercial, and it is likely that they will be for a long time. You are industries How the agricultural one can be said that you were the fiscal system of the states since this extracts the most valuable from your real property taxes, the consumptions and the slaughter of cattle point in the same way the commerce is based on the Federal treasury, Since it represents the customs revenue, nothing more is pengue and the rest to come among us. But apart from the absolute freedom of the industry, like neither the national laws nor the laws of the states, I have not done anything in favor of commerce or agriculture. They emancipated them like slaves; i final point, if both the ones and the other laws did not take care of recording them each year with different kinds of contributions. And this, without giving them instead the security in terms of public order that is the cardinal generator of all industry and all work. There is no public or private wealth that thrives within alarms. "Work and pay" the law has said to the producing elements, and agree as you can with the transformers of the social order. I will engrave more in war than in peace, and I would leave the spring doors wide open. The objective of Colombian society is not peace or prosperity but politicking; And how can we not be great and happy except by the path of revolutions, see the symbol of our redemption in the banner of using an improvised point" so that while this order of things does not change, we must adapt ourselves to it as much as possible, with that love The Ecuadorians who live at the foot of the volcanoes that destroy them give to their disasters. However, you have to look for some relief; Since among us there is no Secretary of Commerce and Agriculture as in other parts, the merchants of our main centers should seriously think about the establishment of joint chambers of commerce in charge of supervising their own interests or at least in the appointment of unions or attorneys. In the Old, each community of arts and crafts had a trustee, and they would constitute what is called a guild. Today, the trade union is the first lever in the world, since the exchange industry is the one that represents the greatest activity, the greatest capital, and the most extensive relationships; Well, by way of counterattack, if in the Old Age he was looked down upon, however, than Solomon. He honors himself by joining his trading fleets to those of the king of Tire to send them to Ophir, today he is one of the first influences, one of the first forces, and one of the first forces. the most effective indirect supporters of governments. If it were given to us to penetrate well into the secrets of the English political path, perhaps we would see with full eye that it is inspired and directed more by the interests of commerce than by any other element, so much that Bogotá commerce should think seriously about this and set an example . Published in El Relator No 51, October 30, 1877.