The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-22

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ammunition had not been purchased
according to the Constitution, and the
debt was repudiated. The manufacture
ers sued, and the case was up for de-
cision in the Supreme Court. After CHS
bert Dauber had been in Caracas for
two months, the Supreme Court gave
quiet decision in favor of the manu-
facturers, and the young German, his
taste for South America as we'll as for
hvish expenditure suddenly extinguish-
ed, and vanished from the capital, with
the money in his trunk.
When the Englishman goes to South
America to sell any class of goods, his
dominant thought is that the natives
are all savages, unworthy of his atten-
ton. He goes straight to the
English bank and draws on his
letter of credit. He goes next
to the English Club and makes
the acquaintance of the men of the
English commission houses. He tells
every one of the commission men of
the goods he has to sell-and he never
goes near the natives. He never visits
their clubs, he never has anything at
all to do with them. That is the COM
mission mans business. Those of his
goods that sell, sell themselves, usu-
ally because they are cheaper than
any other importation. 1t is the En-
6ilSn ldSIlOll 10 dtthC the BOOQS anu
ram them down the customers throats.
Sometimes the customers swallow
them and again they do not.
One of the owners of the greatest
ranches in Chile-Juan Martinez-de-
cided recently that he was going to
stock his entire estate with machinery,
from ploughs and harrows to a little
railroad His order was worth $500,
000 Martinez, living up country, had
-
English machinery, and he went to
Valparaiso to place his trial purchase,
guaranteed, with an English commits
sion house and selling agency He gave
tle firm a small, tentative order for
some farm implements and some iron
to be used in contraction work; and
he specified certain changes which he
believed essential to make the mater
ial suit his purpose. The commission
house, knowing fully the Importance
of the tentative order, transmitted 1t
to an English manufacturing firm and
awaited results. Out came am agent
with a consignment of the old goods,
and stern determination to make the
ignorant Chilean take them, whether
he liked them or not Goods and sales
men went to Martinez's ranch, and
found there suave and courteous
South American who listened for an
impatient five minutes while the visi-
tor told him the plans he had laid
were nonsensical. When Martinez real
lied the full measure of the affront
that had been put upon his judgment,
he rose from his chair and remarked
to his visitor:
"Senor, 1 am a civil engineer and a
practical planter. You are a sales
man who comes from England to teach
me my business. I know It very
well. The door is open. Adios."
After that the Germans, the Beigians
and some Americans descended on
Senior Martinezs' ranch like a flock of
pigeons; the $780, 600 he had to spend
went to other parts of the industrial
world.
The South American. for his part,
is first gentleman and next trad
err. The most successful foreign trader,
in any South American country, is the
man who combines most agreeably
the shrewdness of the tradesman and
the tact of the gentleman When an
American goes to South America to do
business, he starts. first, and thinks
about 1t afterwards. When an En-
glshman goes there, he does not think
about it at all. When a German goes
he thinks about ii long time before
hand, and all the time he is on the
way, and all the time he is in the
country.
England and Germany, however have
the advantage of banking facilities.
The United States, because of it's lack
of these facilities, is practically in
the same commercial relation TO South
America as that which England bears
politically toward Bolivia. The story
of England and Bolivia dates back to
Lord Palmerston's time, when Belzl
decided that Bolivia needed a dicta-
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via needed. Great Britain sent Mr..
Lloyd, a new minister, the Repub-
lie. When the British Minister arrived,
he received a politely worded invita-
tiOn to attend a reception at the Presi-
dents house, which was signed by the
lady who was popularity known as
Madame Belzu. AS 1t happened, the
Minister was aware that Madame
Bezu was not married to the President
of. the Republic and he took pains to
let the fact be known that he would
attend no receptions at the Presidential
mansion so long as he must be receiv-
ed by a woman of that description.
The President Of Bolivia rose up in all
the awful wrath of his dictatorship and
sent the British Minister his pass
ports. Having received his passports
the President Of Bolivia rated him as
nothing more than British subject,
and he concluded to overlook the small
provision of treaties than even a Brit
ish subject, who has been a Minister,
must be given safe conduct beyond the
borders of the country to which he has
be accredited. The passports had
scarcely arrived when a file of SOL
diers and a mule followed. The Minis
ter of Great Britain was hauled from
his official residence, put aStride the
mule, face backwards, and SO inglor-
iousfy ridden beyond the borders of the
republic for whose official receptions
ne had shown so much distaste
When the Minister reached London
and told Of the outrage, Lord Palfners-
ton called for a, meeting Of the Cab
met and for a map of South America
He dipped a pen into his inkwell ana
marked *" as an unknown guam
tity, across the territory of the Re
public of Bolivia.
Gentlemen" said Lord PaImerston,
"henceforth Bolivia does not exist for
Great Britain"
British Navy to exact reparation; but
Bolivia proper was so far inside the
continent of South America that
neither the guns nor the marines OF the
British Navy could reach President
Belzu. The. fleet sailed away again
with the horors of war.
In due time Belzu heard OF Lord
Palmerston's performance with the
map Of South America. He, on his
part, summoned a meeting of his Cab
met, and called for a map of Europe.
Gentlemen" he began. and he emp
tied his ink bottle over Great Brit
ain, "henceforth there is for Bolivia
no Great Britain"