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Show AMERICAN LINE SAILING TO BRAZIL Pbr many years I he Stars and Stripes, except as Injrne b yachts and men-of-war, have been strangers lu the chief ports of South America. Not one American steamship service has been in operation In Chile. Peru. Argentina of Brazil. Une whole communication com-munication with those important Latlu countries has been dependent on our competitors of Europe. But within a few weeks an American Ameri-can frei?htiii2 service has been established estab-lished irom New York to Rio Janeiro, the reat Brazilian port. One laden steamship ha,s already sailed, and three more esscls, the steamer American, California and Hawaiian, are scheduled to follow, cine a month. These vessels belong to the American-Hawaiian company, which Is able to spare them i com Its large fleet, pending iir acts al opening of the Panama Pan-ama (anal. Thhese three steamers jare all American built, of a fine, efficient ef-ficient type, distinctly superior to tho foreign "tramps' that monopolize the i cf our South American carryn:. It Is reported In New York that the new American steamship service to 'Brazil will have the formidable back 'lng ot the United States Steel Cor-Jporallon Cor-Jporallon v. bleb Is a large of its massive products to Brazil and all ihe ports of South America. This Ol itself should prove a very great ad vantage There have been preitstenl charges that the European Steamship conxpaniee, practically those operating to Brail and Arelintlna, have made a practice of discriminating acain American trade wherever the dared congress has lately mande a searching I Investigation ol the subject, and these I European campanles are now under prosecution In the Fedetal courts All the European nations actively competing for the export trade of South America Insists on havin- their merchandise delivered under their o wn colors, in ships owned and controlled by the lr own manufacturers and merchants. mer-chants. Tho value of the national tlag 'Is a proposition which does not need to be argued In Great Britain or Franc Of Germans r Italv. Our own country 'Is the onliv country which has con-tinned con-tinned in irusl Its roods to the delivery de-livery wagous of Ba rivals. Boston Herald, |