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Show his country is in an excellent state and that opportunities for the American manufacturers to sell goods are immense. im-mense. "f you would send your own people to Brazil," he says, "I am sure that the results would be greater than you believe possible. Wince the war we have tried your wares and found them satisfactory, satis-factory, and we are eager to try more. Take your cement as an example: 'e could not believe that it was the equal of that brought from Europe until the war taught us differently, and there is now an immense demand for it." Other American commodities also were much in favor, according to tho planter's report, but the difficulties of obtaining them were, in many instances, sufficient to serve as a complete bar. Every few days items in various newspapers tell of tho prospects of tho extension of American trade to this or that region hitherto little known or perhaps unheard of by the majority of the people. Such messages as the one brought by Senor Villares from Brazil arc becoming increasingly noteworthy in tho columns of tho daily press, and there is no doubt that their cumulative evidence is proof that the term ''Made in tho U. S. A." is finding its way, with astonishing rapidity, to every part of the world. NEW MARKETS. As America's foreign trade develops, it will constantly extend to new fields. We have already begun tho task of supplying sup-plying Europe, and we aro awake to South America and Central America. China and Bussia and even South AXrica are on tiie American business man's list for expansion. Concerning all these countries, the commercial interests of tho United . States aro quite- well informed. in-formed. There aro sections, however, about which they have only indifferent knowledge. Among these aro the Dutch East. Indies. The Dutch Fast Indies are important to America, since thence wo draw many of our prime necessities. Copra, co-coanut co-coanut oil, quinine, cinchona bark, rubber, rub-ber, tapioca products, tobacco wrapper and various fibres arc things we must have. Before the war America procured pro-cured them through the European commission com-mission merchants. The European middleman having been eliminated through the war and its effects, ef-fects, America can now begin direct trade relations with the Dutch East Indies. In-dies. It is one of the world's most inviting markets and destined within a few years to become an enormous consumer of American products. It is a friendly market and extraordinarily "safe," since competition would be of slight, importance. A few days ago there arrived at New York Henrique, Villares, owner of extensive ex-tensive coffee plantations at Sao I'aulo, Bru.il. lie brings reports that trade in |