New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-09
GERMANY AND BRAZIL.
SOUTH AMERICANS AROUSED OVER COW
EToUs DESIGNS OF EMPEROR.
BELIEF THAT HE WANTS THE THREE GREAT
SOUTHERN STATES OF THE REPUBLIC
ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES
INTERESTED.

INTERESTED.
Rio Janero. August s.
No problem in international politics Of recent
origin has attracted attention in public and official
circles OF South America equal to that aroused
over Germany's designs Brazilian territory.
The leading papers of the Latin republics have dis
cussed the matter with enthusiasm seldom
equalled. The people generally are aroused at
raeS STpe and sa the ed States
equally interested in the proposition.
There is a general belief that Germany covets
South Brazil-the great States OF Parana, Rio
Grande do Sui and Santa Catharina-as colonial
possession. Compelled TO seek new fields Of enter
prise for a crowded population, inspired by an
intense ambition to be recognized as world power
IN the largest of the word, the Fatherland
looks with eager eyes of keen appreciation toward
these fertile acres. Already a rival OF England In
the commercial affairs Of South America. Germany
IS attempting peaceful conquest OF the splendid
agricultural districts adjacent TO Uruguay. En-
peror William has followed the policy of his pre-
decessors in giving encouragement to Germany
Iatin-A American trade. While he has assiduously
cultivated the fine arts. mngling painting, poetry
and music with his craftsmanship quietly and
almost imperceptibly influences have been at work
under his guidance win the goodwill OF trans
equator countries. German merchants are found
in every port Of the South Atlantic, from the Car
ibbean Sea TO the Strait of Magellan. German sales
men court the native tradesmen German schools
are encouraged and German settlements are -four
fishing
The Hamburg and Bremen steamship companies
have added magnificent freight and passenger boats
10 their South American service. Upward OF thirty
steamers have been built by the Hamburg South
American Steamship Company alone in the last
ten years for service between Germany and Bra
lillian and River Platte ports Twenty Of these
boats have been placed in commission in the last
I'VE years. Eight make regular trips TO the States
Of South Brazil They share the immense trade
with the cargo steamers of the Freitas Line. Of
Hamburg, and the ships of the North German
Lloyd and Hansa companies.
The German Minister of Marine in a recent
port states that his countrymen have over $780,
Oo0.eeO invested in South American trade, agri-
culture and manufacture, exclusive of stocks and
bonds large percentage of this amount is placed
in Brazil At Para. Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio
Janeiro the bulk of the importing business is
handled by German firms through German banks
Petropolis, the home of the diplomats and consuls
from foreign countries. and the capital of the
State Of Rio. is an old German settlement founded
by the last Dom Pedro. with street names clearly
indicating the nationality of the early pioneers
Novo Freiburgo, a beautiful city nesting in the
mountains near Rio is a miniature Of its Breisgau
ancestor which brings to many of its citizens
pleasant thoughts Of its Saskatchewan original
WANTS BEST AGRICULTURAL LANDS.
1t is not these cities. however that the Emperor
would Ike to take into his colonial family but
the healthy. fertile and States of Parana Rio
Grande do Sui ard Santa Catharina-the best agri-
cultural district OF Brazil. These three States
have population Of million and a half not in
-cluding Indians. The number includes three hun
dred thousand German Brazllans. In the largest
German colonies the paternal tongue is spoken
more than Portuguese the language OF the coun-
Try. even the blacks conversng in German.
Eugene Seeger, Consul-General of the United
States at Rio Janero in a recent report on his
trip through the three southern States of Brazil
published in the consular reports makes an in
teresting statement regarding the German-Bra-
eilians and their attitude toward the Government
Mr. seeger, himself German-American from
Chicago, says:
Although constituting one-ffth of the population
fSL Ine so9thern states CSoOOO out OF 100000 and
hhaxing financial and commercial importance far
hbrazilians 90 not take any part in national pol
surrounding native element They thus create for
themselves condition of isolation which has often
given rise TO the suspicion that they endeav-
oring to establish a political commonwealth for
themselves Nothing could be more erroneous than
What is known as the German Brazilian ele-
very numerous descendants in the second third
end fourth generations; German Poles, Austrians,
Jennings sWeoes Norwegtans and Dutch. AS
in Brazil. although the more experienced and bet
IF b among fo them are Of the opinion that
oy very considerable subsidies TO go to Southern
possbiites would have been far greater t tSaf
they could have lived in more congenal surround
privileges which are denied them here
or the three hundred thousand Germans In
Southern Brazil, not two hundred citizens of the
German Empire. There are only forty in the great
the much talked of Hanseatic colony Of JoinviIe
tssanta catarrhal: They are nearly all Brazilian
would resent any interference from outsiders in
their own affairs.
RESOURCES AND TRADE
The country is little developed as is shown bv the
fact that while the republic four times as large
as France it has less than half the population
Nearly equal in area to the United States the
number Of people is little more than one-ffth
Vast sections of the interior are practically I'M
known The rubber industry of the Upper Amazon
the cocoa and sugar industry Of Pernambuco and
the State of Mnas Geraes the coffee regions about
no and Santos and the little developed Agricultural
interests OF the south are immensely valuable bui
their development is retarded through lack of pOp-
Parana is the least developed State in the south
OF Brazil II has an area Of 50 i38 square miles with
half the people colored. The STATE is divided
geographically into two zones distinct in their
range named Sierra do Mar. The mountain zone
low and unhealthy. while the latter is a patean
Sl1 hundred to four thousand feet above the sea
perature for the subtropcal part of the State is
% degrees Fahrenheit. On the highlands the mer-
aqua is the most important seaport. II is con
az tSe SIN CbTityoa the capital and metropolis
THOUSAND feet through scenes of grandeur. ''ec
Ot the 10000 inhabitants Of Parana half are
natives OF Brazil. 10000 are Germans 50n are
rohsh austrian or Russian. 10000 are Italians and
Is almost exclusively in the hands of Germans T1
5ssi this business amounted 10 100000 worth of
former class included large quantities of canned
goods and preserves from Germany; machinery
pharmaceutical preparations, clothing firearms
etc from the same country; dried meats from Ar,
SSr1ggists' supplies and coal oil from the United
confined TO coffee and tobacco HoOuS Is
,. Ieroe matte. or Paraguayan tea, is the largest