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Show H South American Advancement DR. MOZANS has long been traveling in South America and in his book, "Along the Andes H and Down the Amazon," he tells of the won- H derful progress going on in that vast continent. H It has long been a wonder to us that our H statesmen and great financiers have not seen H that in South America is the field for young Am- H erica to turn to, and that the means to haBten H this has not been supplied. Brazil alone is about H the size of the Uu ted States, exclusive of Alas- H ka; Argentina is half as great in area as the H United States, including Alaska; Chile has just B about the area of our three great Pacific states, H Colombia and Venezuela are equal to three states H the size of Texas, and all these states, with Hfl Peru, Bolivia and half a dozen more offer everv E (Continued on Pago 4.) M SOUTH AMERICAN ADVANCEMENT. M (Continued from rage 2.) H inducement for money, brawn and brain to come H and engage in empire building. When one thinks Q of the roadB and cities to be built there, the H mines to be worked; the fields to be cleared and H cultivated, the first thought is that it ought to be H one object of our government to establish suh H relations with those countries that there would H never again be a labor congestion at home, and H never again be a graduate from our higher cdu- cational institutions who would not know that M if capable and worthy, a ship was waiting in some M home harbor to take him on a swift voyage, to H a land where he would have full opportunity to M make for himself a fortune and a name. m From some port in Europe almost every day, B a great, swift, splendid steamer sails for the ports M of those countries. Every day a great ship pulls M into some European port from those countries M with full cargo on board, and the chances are M even that half the cargo is for our country. It B was paid for by the cargo of a ship that sailed H from Great Britain or the Continent. As part M payment the freight across the Atlantic was B charged. When it reaches Europe another h trans-Atlantic freight Imb to be paid. Then an- H other ship which has brought cotton or wheat H from America, collecting its own freight, is load- H ed with the South American cargo and dispatched H for one more voyage across the Atlantic with H freight added, and in all this the American flag H is never seen, ahd in the land that sold the goods H to us, more than half the people, were they to H see the stars and stripes, would not know whit H country they represented. H And still we are building the Panama canal B and blowing not a little about the genius, the H enterprise, the brain and the power needed to H carry such a work to completion. And all the H time we have no direct trade with South Ameri- H ca, no ships sailing there, and no money that we H can keep in accord with the money of that great H continent, Hj President Taft will come here in a few days. m Ho will doubtless put that canal down as a tri- H umph of our country, but will he tell what prep- M arations are being made to utilize the canal ex- H cept for warships and coasters? He will hug him- B self for his part in the Canadian reciprocity B treaty, but will he add that we raise everything . that Canada does, but that we are not much concerned con-cerned about countries that raise what we pay hundreds of millions for annually? Countries, too, the mighty advancement of which just beginning, be-ginning, should be dominated by the brain and money of the coming generations of Americans? What is the matter with our manufacturers and merchants that they do not compel a change. |