Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-01
COLONEL F. M. DE soUzA AGUlAR,
Commissioner General to the Worlds Fair.

What Brazil wants n direct steamship
connection with the United states and
she Ia ready 10 join your government In
Huhsidizlng line Of American steam.
ors, We will pay half Of the subsidy
and you may pay the other half ana
take all the profits. We have offered TO
do this again and again but your Cons
gress will not consent, II those foreign
lines can be- operated without a subsidy
an American line should certainly pay
with one"
what does our trade with YOU
amount TO, Col. Aguarg / asked
1T is far greater than that Of any
other nation, but the balance Is al
together on our side of the ledger You
sell as ~ or Is million dollars worth
az goods year. but we sell you 90
million dollars worth or more. IN 1901
you spent 80 million dollars upon Bra.
lillian products, buying about four
nlnths Of an we sold You are our best
coffee customer and our best rubber
customer, and these two staples form
our chief exports
what do your sales Of these pro-
duets amount TOP
I'VE annually export about 40 million
dollars worth Of rubber and about 100
million dollars worth Of coffee, You buy
almost so million dollars worth OF cot
fee every year, ana almost all Of this
comes from Brazil
CAN WE RAISE OUR OWN COFFEE
but this viii not continue, Col
Aguiar." said J. proudly I'VE now
have colonies and are going to raise coz
fee " our own
Your colonies could not mn the
spoons with which you stir your cups,
much less the pots which are now filled
with Brazilian liquid; and they never
VIII You Americans are among the
great coffee drinkers Of the world, and
YOU are drinking more from year TO
year Your consumption I'm 1903
was rs pounds for every man, woman
and child in the United states, on al-
together more than one hlli,9n pounds
OF coffee. What have you to supply
such "a demand2 Your only territories
which win grow coffee are Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines. 10 each
Of these countries the coffee lands are
small
Brazil is the coffee country Of the
world. and it always will be- so. Coffee
IS not common grain. II is not like
wheat or corn. which viii grow almost
everywhere You must have just the
right goil. the right climate and the
land must slope the right way and be
az the right distance above the sea, On
an the earth there Is only one large
tract of land which fits these conditions.
and that rs in Brazil Take your map
and follow the isothermal lines, and you
VIII find nothing Ike % elsewhere There
are several Islands and one or Two smal
tracts NJ mainland but otherwheres
the country along the coffee lines Is
either swampy or desert
JAVA AND MOCHA FROM BRAZIL
but how about our Java and Mocha.
colonel? We consume vast quantities OF
such coffee every year,
eyes. but where do they come IRON
replied the commissioner general y
have Just received letter ON that sub
Sect from one of the chief coffee dealers
of This country. He says that the total
production of Java aud Mocha coffee
last year was 90. 100000 pounds, OF which
Il 900 900 pounds were Java and 900 600
Mocha. Notwithstanding this totaf pro-
duct there were rold I'm your retail gro
crries of the United states last year
about 50OoOO,O0O pounds OF Mocha and
Java coffee, or IN other words isOO0O,-
iO0 pounds more Mocha and Java than
Mocha and Java produced. This cof-
Zee was sold at high prices, bringing
rom 80 10 IS cents per pound IAe
question il. where dld the surplus Mo-
Cha and Java come FROM Il undoubt.
IDLY came from Bn2Il"