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Show OUR COMMERCIAL RELATIONS . T$ VITH SPAIN. Tho American merchant who heeds the experience of Hie BrlHah experimenter experi-menter and introduces into Spain something of value, not to Americans, but to the Spaniards, something they can appreciate and want more of when once they recognize it, has a market .belore him limited only by the capacity of the population to absorb ab-sorb hlsjgoods. no of Hie most enor-getlcofour enor-getlcofour consuls said to me recently: re-cently: ,0"The word 'American' sells goods here. It is synonymous with 'duality; When the Spaniards finally get it;through their heads that a thing Is gothf.costumbre' comes In again, and they stick to It. Trade hero would, increase greatly If American ox-portersTvrould ox-portersTvrould realize this, and if they would "also realize that it is now a case ofifhc American catalogue, printed print-ed in English, and therefore unintelligible, unintel-ligible, Against a hustling German salesman who speaks the language. In other words, a dead thing against a live' one" There is no feeling in Spain against America; ralher a respect born of ac-n.ualntarice ac-n.ualntarice with our military methods and familiarity with our ways of constructing con-structing agricultural machinery, which forms a Inrge part 0??,"' ports into southern Sunjif. ' ..lal. consuraid. "American" Pf ' cndoro lly." and the farmer fc ftVff. too. have recognized th'"- . nC;-, or Spain is not p. genera dfijLuoi tariff sche-hns sche-hns hc(jn on ",' last Her tariffs dule slty J""n (he same proportion, toward e..aIf0 Is reciprocity on the so that tucc(S(ora9 duties Century score ' Magazine.. |