Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-30

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way. The British merchant has his branch
houses IN Rio. New York, New Orleans,
baltimore. He ships his manufactured
| GOODS 10 Rio. With the product of the
SAFES there he buys coffee. which he ships
90 the United States and with il buys cot
ION which IS brought into cloth TO
ms home and manufactured 10 be
shipped to Rio. Or he buys -four
IA richmond or elsewhere in the
United States with t. to be carried 10
| bfazll 10 buy more coffee. All the bank
lug 70 sustain this trade il carried on in
London, and thus the Englishman reaps
AL the profits OF the business. While We,
owing 70 this condition OF affairs. and the
gambling In the Coffee Exchange OF New
York, and the large export duty imposed
on ~ by Brazil, although we admit Il into
our ports duty free. pay for this article,
amounting TO millions Of dollars IN value.
and OF such universal CONSUMPTION as 10
become almost a necessary of life, more
thah three times As much rs we should do.
UBIQUITOUS TARrrr.
AZ tho same time Brazil Is imposing
heavy tax on -four, the chief article we
export, and one Of the necessaries Of life
iMS u reciprocity with vengeance, and
the attention OF Alr. Blaine and his Pam
American Congress Is respectfully drawn
10 H. ana also Congress when they come
r.
mond College, called the lnsgG,o,s and
ubiquitous tarh. There are no two words
IN the English that more accurately ard
trnthiuly describe this financial mon
strosltv. wal the new republic that
is to be change all this? / think not,
ana as she Is to initiate us IN
all governmental things, she will in re-
strictive, llnberal, and high tariff; and If
what tho Brazilian negroes say Of them
selyes-that negro se7npJe negro" re-
peating what the negro SAYS Of himself in
virginia, that "a Niger viii be 2 niger
any way you can fix him us true, and /
agree with them IN their opinion If them
selves thus expressed. then the product Of
brazilian irce-negro labor viii fall OF. as
that OF our cnfranchised blacks did, 50 per
cent. And IS the coffee ~ entirely raised
by this labor, and az the brazilian negro is
more IDLE aud thriitless than ours and can
OBTAIN living in his country much more
easily than he could in this and there will
be less incentive for him 10 work. we must
come TO the conclusion that there IS q poor
prospect that We will get the cup that
cheers and not incbriates" cheaper. and
we must still pay for this important article
Of almost universal consumption three
times as much "a we should do. Brazil has
been the Paradise for pa1pcr Portuguese
and negroes and The Portuguese VINO have
settled IN tho country have become very
rich and numerous and have intermarricd
with the brazilian blacks, mulattoes, and
Indians, and thus producing "a progeny
with all the vices and with but few of Tho
virtues OF either race, and with weak vital
ltY. and scrOiulOus with n tendency to con-
sumption, and large numbers die OF IT. as
the mOrtuary reports will show, and. slngu-
lar to say III that climate, that exclusive OF
ycllOw-tevCr consumption in Rio Is tho
most fatal disease and SO think IN Rich
negroes Ia proportion % their number TO
whites in our city IS caused by tho same
disease, az nearly ono sixth Of tho deaths
are from consumption, rs the bills OF NOR
tally will show This mixture of the races
has resulted, as nature abhOrs It, III de-
generate mOngTcl breed and more thnn
three fOurths of them are touched with tho
Ear brush-haye African blood IN their
veins. There Is no color line among them
there is no pre- JUDGE among them. A. To
color thew have social equality they have |
solved tho negro problem among them
selves. and so they propose IN snort time
TO solve the equality political problem
by having a republic. ] have said that
Brazil is paradise for Portuguese and
negroes, aud when they get their re-
public under way our negroes should
by all means 90 there. They Will get All
they ever dreamed Of, the BIazlllans VIII
Doe glad TO have Thorn. and we will be de-
lighted TO get rid OF them, ana thus solve |
the race question in the South. They viii
20 among people some OF whom, II any
can be. inferior 10 them but many Of their
own color highly educated and refined, OF
polished and elegant manners, and the liEe
Of whom they have never soon or Their
own class i'm this country. Brazil or tho |
negro race. anywhere or at any time. has
mover produced a hero, Il statesman, n
great poet. painter or sculptor, or musl- |
elan or inventor, although Brazil has had
more than q century of opportunity, and |
backed by wealth, and the negroes OF tho !
south quarter OF n century. and Africa |
for ages. Upon this subject IN my next |
and last article / will have something more |
90 say, and here wish to be understood |
that was delighted with nv residence IN
Brazil. The happcst years Of my life were |
spent in Rio / was kindly treated. L
liked the people. climate, and the country, |
and knowing how wcll-suitcd 1t IS TO my |
fellow-citizens the blacks IF the South, | |
advise them to 60 there, and it viii depend |
upon themselves whether they will DO |
pleased with it as was. And if I,asOuth- |
eru white man. was pleased with 1t under |
imperial governmental JOrtori, mU1o |
fo~iiori-shouid southern black man DO |
pleased with it under the new repubhcT