Show AMERICAN COMMERCE The need of more American lines of 01 ships ship is is accentuated by the condition of affairs in South America Buenos Aires is about to have a pan- pan American congress and it will be a great international inter national fair for the products of South America will be displayed ed in their fullest magnificence Referring to it the Sun of Ne New York says s 's If Ifa If Ifa it a a trip to Buenos Aires could be made from New NewYork NewYork York as comfortably as a trip can be made by half haf halfa hafa a 2 dozen lines from Europe It it is probable that hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of our people would this summer spend a afew few fw weeks in the ports of South America It seems to us that that ought to be text enough for fer congress to upon and determine that trips should be made from New York and other American Amer ican ports to Buenos Aires as comfortably in Amer Amer- lean ships sailing from American ports orts as they ever ver be he from European ports e C could uld an any In Iii 1899 Ar Argentina entina imported merchandise valued at at Last year by bj- the tile latest reports the tue indications were wore that the purchases amounted to not far from The Tue e exports ports from the United Stat States s to Argentina were in 1859 and in 1909 This shows that in I I more Ift 1009 9 Europe sold to Argentina then we did lid The three countries of eastern South market for practically AJ America are a present worth of merchandise annually and our present share in that market larket is only 12 per cent o 0 0 about while in fl return we buy back them a year And Anti what we hn buy comes come t to us in foreign ships We Ve have ho traced their course repeatedly They Ther jo go Ol out t from flom England or from some German port with witha a n. n cargo of merchandise They trade it for what tilt thu hc United States wants charging ii in addition to toI I the cost of the merchandise their freight out They get a cargo in return and and- carr carry it 1 back k to Hambur Hamburg Ham Ham- bur burg or 01 to Southampton then they ther add the tho back Jack freight to it and trade it for a n shipload or two twos s shiploads of American p products deducting the freight feight from the United States across the Atlantic 1 Then often without unloading the ships they bring the thc q Argentine product over o to us charging one fl freight ight And congress and the president l look ok on that kind of work steadily year after year ear and Jd there is not g genius enough nor patriotism c enough ough nor common sense cn enough ugh in the whole wd f to change that program It tt is much worse from Rio than from Buenos BuenosAires Aires Aies because from Rio the exports arc are much more ore costly and absolutely necessary They consist of s sugar gar and and coffee and other tropical and aUll semitropical semi i cal al products which we wc cannot get et along without To io a business man it would look as s though congress con con- gress ought to be dynamited some way war not blown up UI p with powder but the intellects of congress ought to be blown up UJ until they can see things as fa favorably for their own country as they can for forthe forthe the great ship owning countries across the sea |