Show TRADE 1 1 It ills lagood good tasee to sea one united states senator talking clear sense about our trade relations wilh central and south america senator points out ont exactly the situation when ho says tile demand of a country for commodities does not depend as much upon its numbers as upon the state of its society its wealth and civilization ap and hl his 5 rom remarks that followed d ought to bo be pasted in the hat of every tuan loan who imagines that freo free trade or any kind of trade Is going to open a sudden bonanza for american products lit in the south they are arc as follows when lio lie looked at it any central american state lie h thou thought glit speaking aklo with frith reserve and conservatism hint any ono hundred anvor ago age p people eople in north america Anier loa laid derink tile the last IS consumed more of the products product a food and clothing that po go to inake tip the comfort and happiness of man mail lelnd ulan than liny any ono thousand average people in tile the central or south states therefore tile expectation of tho the united states able to of 0 u n larsoin law increase ot of its products i was lit in hla his opinion on one of tho the greatest errors tb that at brilliant don or sober statesmen had lately allen fallen into uc ile did not locan dinean hou however ever that be was not willing and glad to try the plan of receive jui fox any of the products ot of those countries united states did not produce and giving to lo thein the products which they did not produce that little exhibition of commonsense common commons sense onse Is afuli a full answer to tho the crazy visions that certain men have hare conjured up when they have taken tho the number of inhabitants in south america as a basis to work from and have sold said to themselves if wo we could only get the trade of this people it would bo be all till elih country would need that trade lit in the aggregate agg regato is a good deal but to obtain it we will hive to go to work and earn it first and a groat great trade will not como come until scattered among the thousands there shall bo be somo serve hundreds oi of amer caus calls to give direction to affairs and to awaken tho the resources that slumber there aud and as wo we have often said before tho the great agent that is to produce till thia will havo have to bo be steam steamships on tho the sea and railroads on oil tho laud aud in bool looking I n g over that field wo we do not see wh why american capital contemplating what has been dono done by pushing our transcontinental roads through tho the wilderness does docs not grasp tho the idea to repeat that experiment on tho the other side of tile the continent and bring tho the table lands lads la ds and the rich woods and the lipids lic ids on which sugar and coffeo coffee aro are to grow in tho the future in close connection with our oar own port following along the lino HILO of such a road thero there would bo be tile the strong men frold this country and from ireland from scotland from england and from germany they would ciza upon tile the mires they would put tho the colds under cultivation thoy they would level tho the forests and transport tho the rare woods to our shores they would build cities and tho masses of tho the people there would become their employees the same process Is already going on in mexico tico along the lines of those thosa roads that thai havo have been pushed into that country from our southern border americans are at work they are ara cramped in ono one way that they would sot dot bo be in south america the iha lands of mexico are owned by certain families those families will neither work their lands nor sell them then on the borders of every state are custom houses whichard which chare aro a perpetual annoyance anno yanca and hindrance to settlement and trade in many cases they amount to almost a prohibition of trade those troubles would not bo in the track of men exploring south amer IC ico L the trouble is to start a railroad on the sickly coast and get it up to the healthy regions of tho the table lands another trouble Is that tho the ascent to the table lands after leaving tho the valley Is so precipitous that rail railroad road building Is difficult still the problem can bo be solved and it Is in that line that the groat great results aro are to come from that country |