Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-04
wHnEE IsAmEKIcAN ExrEerk1sE,

The United States consul at Santa Catha-
rius, Brazil, writing to the State Depart
ment at Washington, Gays that the English
are securing vast enterprises in Brazil. They
have obtained concessions for railroads, gas
and water works, Telegraph and steamboat
lines, and other valuable enterprises, upon
each of which they have national gusran-
tee of five TO seven per cent. English direct
ors and EnglIsh engineers are set TO work,
and English workshops are kept active with
orders. On our own continent, with money
lying idle in Wall street, capitalists from
European country carry of prizes that
ought 10 be bringing wealth 10 American
citizens. "Have we no live men equal TO the
occasion?" asks Consul Comsett, in describing
these things. "Never lei it be said that The
Americans have found their m asters in this re-
spect. 1t would seem as though we were
continually hunting some big home hurrah,
which ends in nothing, while our 6rst aiten-
ton should be given 10 building up big
foreign trade" And big foreign trade is a
permanent result of this activity and enter
prise. The nation tina, carries out such pro-
jects gets footing 10 the country, and its
shipping brings commodities to aud carries
from the land where such connections are
formed. While this is doing the people pub
lish 10 the world that American enterprises
are all of the infant order, that can exist
only as they are fed, nursed, supported and
sustained by the public, they being without
inherent strength and unable, with manly
vigor and robust frame, to support them
selves, much less can they venture abroad
and battle for share of the worlds wealth
with the rest OF the worlds producers.
Well may the Nashville Banaer, refer
ring to the tariff discussion, say that
if this goes on much longer Americans will
lose their good opinion Of themselves; the
claim that our country is the greatest on
earth will fail; no more will it be told that
our people surpsss all others in ingenuity,
skill and intelligence. They will be reduced
to a few monopolists, rolling in the lap OF
ili-gotten gains. A great nation having
$4,000 squire miles of coal fields 10 Great
Brilain's II 900, solid banks of iron ore that
will last for = thousand years. consumption,
vast forests of fine timber, and an industrious
yet the coal can be dug, the iron
smeited, the timber cut only by psupers sup.
ported BY the contributions Of their fellow.
citizens, because their work will not support
them. Manufactures, and mines, and mills,
and ships can go only as they are "pro-
tected." Poor, limping, feeble, infrm speci-
mems of lettering infancy; how should they
mipgle in foreign trade, conduct foreign en-
terprises, and push their commerce into every
port on the seas? Protection brings imbe-
cility, COWS courage, enfeebles resolution, de-
stroys enterprise and dwarfs manliness. En-
gland can come TO our continent, push its
enterprises into Brazil, Chill and Peru; such
prizes are not for people who cannot main
tain themselves at their business, but must
"sponge" upon the lawyer, the doctor, the
farmer, the cotton planter and the laborer,
and lax them to suppor. their "infant indus-
triesD and maintain iron and salt and sugar
and auinine men that have no backbone, and
thst look to be uursed, and supported, and
projected, puses the public tsxss' s.--s.~~sl'