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Show aX TRADE WITH LATINWRICA . I have read the varra) articles and letters In the Sua rtnaJing tho , relatively small trade 'United , States Is doing with LatijjAmorlca , as compared with the vo&of bus- i iness done in Europe. j'Jeve the I r following to be the grMtg& draw- J ( backs for the United SUM, manu- facturers not enjoying mcrtjCf that c trade. . v 1. Tho proverbial indlfcttce of r American manufacturers foTupQrt as g to packing Instructions; tbAth it Is y obviously improving, it hasjj? reat a fiold for betterment. Thet55iics3 c in many Instances mustbeKf? to bo believed. Goods for the fcfljWPTr ot Colomobla, Chile or ?ivWWMc" are subject to man) trar'P0"18 ani ha.yojpgn .oj-iaands of miles and "HPart ofthenrarrled on muleboclj J through narrow high mountain passeg and bridgelcss ravines, are packed jj J such a careless manner as If they I were going to be ferried from cloven:! town to Jersey City. , " I Surely Aniericnn manufacturer I who have such open minds and ar0 J ready fo rany Innovation that sho j . possibilities of .rteXVd Unwove their packing , J1.1 Jbatter SvasaM brought before their !ijen Uon hrrtH concrete nnd coinincinjj form 7JH 2. It may .JlBd nni udt:MM rlattng. but the u"Kr njjPW Hi "representatives ol jgfrM 'and England JjKf, g M I higher type tbsSfl'ially of a hh H try" sends jifcjrpSfhose that this coH mercr0lA6irL Thoy assist foreteiifH seenjjj in every possible way uf H lygPtrj renlizo that that is what'tt H ere sent there for. It is unfortuSJ eH ; for those in tho center of the strfaXH like ns commission merchants tn Nev'H 1 iork, having simultaneously to pfeue'H ; parties at both extremes, as seldcn M v?o find co-operation in the Anierlcw H representative, with a few honoragte M exceptions. "iH I Jilff0 assume a lord,v a,r w'th the sensitive people lo whose cpuntrv IH thoy are assigned, which alone is H enough to damn the efforts of the H me Ca,n merchant eagerly striving to H get business, and if by chance they H do see drawbacks to the development 'H oi American commence they seldonifll see the causo of the situation and are 1 consequently unable to suggest a rcm-'H edj i need hardly add however H that the diligence of the Department H or Commerce and Labor at Washing- H ton In sending out reports, as thcrH arc doing to all American manufac-tH turers who apply for them, is helpful H and encouraging. -'fH The American people can't have 1 brought homo to them too strongly H tho importance of having in theso H :ounties an intelligent nnd fearless H :lass of men as Consuls and rpnw. H sentat ves, not only for commercial H but also for diplomatic reasons - H Richard Balzac in letter to New York'H I Sun. a H oo ' l |