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Show BRAZILIAN TRADE. The commerce of Bra.il, aa reported by Vice 'Consul General Slechter, atationed at Rio, has nearly doubled in the pjtst ten yeara, and last year amounted to $545,000,000. The distribution is s follows: United Kingdom, 67,000,000; Germany, $37,500,000; United Statea, $30,250,000; France, $22,250,000; Argentina, $20,000,000; Portugal, $13,-000,000; $13,-000,000; Belgium, $10,600,000; Italy, $7,500,000. Our part ia put down'Jat only about $.30,000,-000 $.30,000,-000 when in truth a great portion of that credited to Germany and Great Britain was bura. Those eonnrriea sent cargoes to Brazil and exchanged them for Brazilian produeta with1 freight added. Tha goods were then sent to Europe) and, with another an-other freight added, were exchanged for produeta of thia country f then, often .without breaking cargo, wera aent to New York and I atill anothsr freight eharged. . We should think our manufacturers and merchants mer-chants would establish branch houses up and down that east coast of South America, in auch cities aa Para, Pernambueo, 8 an Salvador, Bahia, Rio, Montevideo Mon-tevideo and Buenoa Ayrea, and put on a line of fonr-maated schooners to carry their freight. Of eouree, they would get no paaaengera, but they eould handle their freight And talk about reciprocity reci-procity with Canada, how doea it compare with what might be had with Bruit t Bras.il wants flour and salt and canned meats, household furniture, furni-ture, agricultural Implements a thousand things which we export. And everything that Braail produces pro-duces our country haa to buy in vast quantkiea. It ia pitiable to aee all that trade going to foreign for-eign countries, and the volume of it haa just begun to expand. Ita future ia immeasurable, and surely our country should have a fair proportion of it. |