Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-09-19

produced by the enormous output Of the
same by the United States. Hence we
buy comparatively nothing of Chill, and
she, OF necessity, sends her products to
Europe. lit is almost impossible 60 bay
a bill Of exchange on New York In Val~
paFaisC. IF one wishes to remit TO New
York he must buy an English, French.
or German bill"
docs Chilli buy anything of us?''
Yes; and that furnishes the instance
of varl alton Just spoken of. She buysof
us 6 class of goods which, by reason of
their excellence, cheapness or exclusive
ness, hold the market against the natuE-
al law Of trade. These furnish the ex-
GeptiOn, however, and no device Of
steamship lines, subsidies, special treaties
of commerce, or anything else can curry
international trade where 1t does not
legitimately belong. We buy less than
one-hfth Of the coffee production Of
Central America and Brazil and
although Central America is at our
very doors we do not send more than
one-hfth Of its imports from the United
States. We buy some Of Brazil's coffee
anOlget some Of her trade in return, but
not enough to maintain an adequate
steamship line. We buy largely Of the
Argentine Republic in the matter of
hides, etc, and send many of our goods
there. But we can't expect Spanish
America to make its money in Europe
and spend it In the United States"
Did you see the letter in The Tribune
from the New York Sun written from
the Straits of Magellan inveighing
against Chill and the Argentine Re
/ public because of the Wiping out of Pats-
! gonia?"
al did, and was much amused by it.
! Three hundred and fifty years ago the
] Spaniards took the South American con
| tlnent from the natives just as the pow
| ers took the severaA portions of North
America. They held by identical titles.
In those early days exact geographical
division Of such a vast extent of terrific
ry, unexplOred In detail at that time.
was quite impossible. All Of the Span
| ish-AmeriCan states have had fierce
boundary disputes in the modern day.
Guatemala and Mexico, Nicaragua and
/ Costa RiCB, Peru and Ecuador, Brazil
and the Argentine Republic, Bra
I'll and Paraguay, and Chill and
the Argentine republic are familiar ex-
amples. The dispute of the two latter
has been Of long standing and they
have been on the verge Of war two or
three times. In 1872 the dispute was
amicably settled through the media
ton Of Thomas A. Osborne, of Kansas,
and Thomas o. Osborne, of Illinois, at
that time ministers to Chilli and the Ar
Igentine republic, respectively. A fixed
line was run between the states, and the
latter now are friends. AS to the wall
concerning thelpOor PatagOnian, and the
destruction Of savage life by Gen.
Coca, and it was a fine exhibition of re-
portorial imagination and ingenuity
The Indians Of Patagonia, so far as any
thing is known Of them, are cannibais,
| and they possess Patagonia, as hereto
fore, by right Of occupancy. If Chill and
the Argentine republic have invaded
Patagonia, it doesn't become any citizen
of the United States to make a fuss
about it."
! As to his own movements, DR.. Logan
was not certain at present. He thought
of passing, however, a few months in
/ the far North, with a view to freezing
the tropical malaria out Of his system.