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Show gifted men In very many lines, the majority of our manufacturers and our bankers are narrow men, they have not read very much since they left eshool, they have never taken a broad, comprehensive view of anything, except the stock market from day to day; the idea of building up a great trade on wise lines with foreign countries; that is, to lay the foundation foun-dation of a trade without much profit at first and to continue it until it gathers strength to itself, has never crossed their visions. In this same Herald we find this item, "The Germans, with their wonderful commercial schools, were the first, to realize that to find a market for commodities is as important as to produce them." On that theory since 1875 the Germans have been establishing trading houses in, and running regular ships to Brazil, and they have made Brazil and the United States pay all the expenses for their stores, in the freight paid their ships, and still oui Congress Con-gress sits serenely by, and when a proposition is made to it to establish steamer lines on the only basis that steamer lines have ever been successfully run, sneering members, who do not know a ship from a camel, in the name of economy and in the name of the ancient purity of the Government, state that it is but a scheme to build up already rich men at the expense of the Nation and must be sat down upon. This has been going on now since "befo' the wah.' One of the las acts of the Buchanan administration was to kill the Vanderbilt line to Bremen and the Collins line to Liverpool, and to turn the ocean commerce of our country over to Great Britain. That senseless system has been clung to ever since, until our flag is almost a stranger in the foreign ports of the earth. COMMERCE WITH BRAZIL. A Brazilian steamer has just arrived in or is close by the port of New York. The New York Herald Her-ald devotes a great deal of space to its coming. It is bringing gifts to the President and to many other people. The Herald desires that its officers shall be duly honored, treats it as a most important commercial com-mercial enterprise, and. says; "If the expectations are carried out there will be two steamers of 10,000 tons burden each put upon the line to make the Voyage between New York and Eio Janeiro in twelve days." It thinks this has really grown out of '- the visit of Secretary Root to Brazil. That is all right only it emphasizes the contemptible position the United States is in, in not long ago having a regular line of steamers to Brazil and Argentina. This ship that is coming is a pioneer, and, in a measure, comes to spy out the land and to see if 6ome port concessions cannot be obtained until the line gets on a paying basis. . Regular lines of British steamers have been plying ply-ing between Southampton and Eio Janeiro for close . upon sixty years. The result is a tremendous trade has grown up between- the two countries. Why a country like the United States, producing an excess ex-cess of manufactured goods every year, buying indirectly in-directly of Brazil $100,000,000 worth of coffee and sugar annually, has all this time permitted England Eng-land and Germany to own all the delivery wagons to cjirry these goods is simply inexplicable. It is the more strange because Brazil has to buy all her wheat or flour, most of her bacon and lard, and ours is about the only country that for the last forty years has been able to supply her. On the other hand, we ' have to buy our coffee, and, until recently had to hu the great bulk of our sugar from Brazil, and it did not require any statesman to see that if there was ever a time when reciprocity cduld be worked to perfect advantage it would be between our coun- , try and Brazil. The truth is that while our country is filled with V. , . ' - "... |