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Show United Stales. Other things beintf e.(itul. it is mora desirable that trade relations with thin country should be. established. Tim Ilra.ilians feel that their best interests nro involved in such a jKilicy and the Kuropeau demand for equally favorable oppol (unities is not likely to receive serious consideration, Thomas .Il.lH.itsoN believed that the people of the western hemisphere should stand together, and ho hoped that the time would come when the Iloets of the western uutioiiH would be strong enough to prevent Kuropean interfereueo with the ah airs of any of then). Thethimgh t has been expanded and put into definite defi-nite form by Mr. 15i.ai.nk. The I'au-Amcrican I'au-Amcrican congress that was recently held crvtali.ed the sentiment aud it is not. 'likely that it will be difficult to keep the Latin-American republics together on any proposition looking to their mutual advantage. IiECIl'HOCITY I.N lH.4II j It appears that the reciprocity treaty ! between the United Slates and lira.il does not meet the approval of some of J the people of the latter country. Those I who object are engaged in uianufactur. ing enterprises that are interfered with by the importations under the new arrangement. ar-rangement. The Brazilian government, however, does not caro particularly about the development of home industry, indus-try, and the people as a whole are well satisfied to confine themselves to the production and exportation of a few staples. This suits the United States very well, but if there were more of the American spirit, of protection in the southern republic there would be a more emphatic assertion of the American Ameri-can principle of protection and the Yankees Yan-kees would not so easily find a market there. Another feature of tho situation is that the European merchants doing business in Brazil are demanding that they be put on the same footing foot-ing as their American competitors. But the Brazilian government manifests mani-fests no disposition to grant the demand. The idea prevails that the principle of reciprocity should bo made to work to the special advantage of the western republics. This again is very important to the United States, and it is at the same time a wise course for Drazil to pursue. It would undoubtedly undoubt-edly be better for the southern republic in the end if it could adopt a policy for building up its home manufactures, but . since the disposition of its people is such that such a course is impracticable, the best thing possible for it is to knit itself by the strongest bonds to the |