The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02

' ton needed for our 2o,ooo,0oo people, and we are weaving 1t in our own fac- tories. Our cotton is better than that raised in, the United States, and it commands one more cent per pound in the Manchester markets. Indeed, there was a time when Brazilian raw cotton could be taken to Manchester and there exchanged pound for pound. for low grades of cotton goods made from cheaper cotton. We are steadily increasing out cotton plantations"
 Tell me something about your cot- ton factories"
 Brasil Protective TariM Country.
 As I walked with Colonel Aguiar through the worlds fair buildings we examined the Bralizian manufactured products. They are now making goods of all kinds. Every industry is pro- tected by a high tariff and new fac tories are assisted S~ the government Among the exhibits are cotton goods of every description from heavy cam vass to calicoes. There are also wool en goods. corsets. hats and fine mill linery. There are silk goods from mills near Rio; and all sorts of iron ware from cooking stoves to safes As we looked at them Colonel Aguiar said:
 We have brought these goods here to show what can be made at a profit in Brazil. and to induce American cap italists to invest there. We want your big factories and toundries to estab- fish branches in and to use our cheap labor under our high tariff.
 We can give them an exclusive mar ket, and through their improved ma chinery and methods they can pay bfS dividends. We Brazilians have watch ed you and your success in manufac- ture and trade. We have come to be- lieve in a protected tariff and we want to initiate you in teh building up of our industrial empire below the equa- tor"
 The Bigness of Brasil.
 But have you the natural resources for such an empire?" l asked.
 We have almost everything" re- piled the Brazilian commissioner gem eral. Do you realize the extent of our country? We have almost half of all the land in South America. about one- fifth of all the land on this hemisphere and almost one-sixth of all the land on the globe. Russia stands first among the worlds great land holders, Great Britain next, the United States next, and Brazil next. If you leave out Alaska and your colonies Brazil is bigger than the United States, and I believe 1t has more good land. The greater part of Russia Is made up of icy wastes and desert steppes. The Australian desert, belonging to Great on the globe, and her territories in British Columbia are chiefly ice and snow. As for you. you have the waste lands of the Rockies, but our soil is almost all rich. We can grow every crop and we have nearly every miner al."
 How about coal and iron?
 We have them both" said Colonel Aguiar. Beginning south of San Paulo and running through three States for more than a thousand miles Is a coal field which is several hun dred miles wide-one of the great coal fields of the globe. It Is as large as your Appalachian coal fields. Close to that field are vast deposits of iron. some of them mountains of the finest ore. We have other iron deposits scat tered throughout the country. All that Is undeveloped, as yet We are doing but little mining. but we will change that in time.''
 Brasil and the Kaiser.
 How about your Southern States. ColonelT' I asked. Tt is said they are settled by Germans who call their coun- try west DeutSCntdnOs ana that they would like to break away from you and be a German colony under the kaiser"
 Tt is true that our Southern States have many German citizens" replied the Brazilian commissioner general, but 1t is not true that such citiZera want to break away from us. Indeed in those States our most enthusiastic patriots are of German descent. They are Brazilians first and Germans sec ond. They are like the American Ger mans; they love their adopted country, and they would fight for her against the fatherland rather than have her imposed upon. They retain, however, strong love for Germany, as may be seen in their commercial relations The Germans at home cultivate them, and owing to this feeling there Is a great trade between Germany and Southern Brazil. This trade has been fostered