| Show SEEING SOUTH A AMERICA Secretary Root foot has hns sailed from NewYork Now New York YOk for a tour of the South American cities going b by way of oC Porto Rico Ho lie Hoai was ai duo due yesterday at San Sn Juan and he lie will wI reach Rio do de Janerio Brazil late In July The New York Sun gives Ives the following Itinerary of or tho the secretary's secretary's secre secre- tar tary's rs r's trip Secretary Root is scheduled to re remain remain remain re- re main at the Brazilian capital until August t Aug-t G 6 when he will vill wi leave there for tor lont Montevideo where he will wi arrive arrive- on August 1 10 0 Leaving Montevideo en August 13 he will wi to Buenos Ayres on or the th following day lay At the theAr Ar Argentine capital he will wI remain until August 19 19 when he lie will wi sail rl for Val Val- paraiso Chile Chie which he will wI reach on onI August I 30 20 Leaving Lea Valparaiso on September 4 his next stop will wi be beala Callao ala 0 which he will wi reach on September September Sep Sep- Sep Sep- 9 9 Remaining there for six days he will wi sail sai on September 15 for P Panama iiama and arrive upon tho the Isthmus on September 22 2 Ho will wI remain on the Isthmus three e days das and leave leavo there for New York on September 2 25 reaching reaching reach reach- In ing New York on October 1 1 It I Is expected that the thc journey wIllbe will willbo wi wibo bo be of a advantage vantage to the tIme American re- re l in many ways waya ways For one thing tiling l II it will wi bring our own people a n little closer In friendly contact with wih the tho people of or the southern part parl of the hemisphere erp They know even en less les of the the United States than we know of them And th that t. t it must be confessed leaves them pret pretty nearly devoid oll dc of ot I f r i information in that particular line lne Besides it I will wi give an Impetus Impetus' to that which movement whIch Mr Elaine Blame Baine re regarded rc- rc so Important and which has Advanced so mat materially rial since his death It I is u unfortunate that ho hp could not nor J have lvell lived to 0 o seo see the tho success of or hi his plans for a pan-American pan congress American merchants indifferent to lo tha thO thOI I harvest ar that was awaiting them In South America gave European merchants merchants mer mer- chants n valuable start In winning tho the patronage of the Latin Americans German Germ ll manufacturers In particular studied the tho wants and the customs of or orthe the tho South Americans and supplied them with 1 what hat they wanted There was little little attempt to force upon them thorn unfamiliar goods S. S Chairs for carrying 1 passengers er over the Andes were manufactured manufactured man man- In German cities and sold 01 I in lii Chile and aud Peru Perz Scrapes hats hints sandals san san- nn- nn dals everything daIs cals the natives wanted wante they could buy bu of he Germans Germans And the he business became very valuable When hon American merchants final finally realized the tho worth of it I they found a great effort Cort necessary to regain the ground the they had hall 10 lost l. l And the they are working consistently now to win the position the they should by the logic of or geography have occupied exclusively irom from the tho first The visit of Secretary INt Root hoot will wI vastly vasty advance the cause causo of ot American manufacturers and mer mer- chants Some Somo day cay there will wI be a railroad down through Mexico an and into tho the heart Central America right of or that populous territory and the tho factories of or tho the states will wi consign goods boods to the tho interior towns towns Today Tolla there are arc lines of ot steamships that carr carry fr freight between Rio and New and New York It I 13 la a trade richer than that of China an and immeasurably nearer home more available The completion comple comple- tion ton of the canal will vilI wi do much to bring Americans even oven nearer their buyers buyers And every effort that can n be made meantime to familiarize Americans with the time commercial needs of those people and to acquaint them with wih Americans winning their friendly re regard regard regard re- re gard and cultivating their preference for or American goods will wi be of national alue to every cven material Interest of or tho the republic |
