Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
TRADE WITH BRAZIL
Our Sister Republic Has the
Best of It.
WE ARE BIG BUYERS
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR COP
PER AND RUBBER.
Enormous Resources Of the Country
American Capital Invested
Protective Tariff.
WE ARE BIG BUYERS

Copyright, 1904. by Frank G. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
ST. LOUIS, 1904
'The United States does not want the
trade of BRAZIL"
These words were spoken by Col. F. M.
de Souza Aguiar, the Brazilian commits
sioner general to the worlds fair, when we
were discussing trade matters this after
noon. We had been chatting about the re-
sources Of the two nations as we walked /
together from building to building inspect
ing the magnificent exhibits of Brazil and |
were now sitting in the Brazilian pavilion, |
constructed by Col. Aguiar at cost Of |
$3.50, 600, to be his Offices during his stay |
here.
"You people pretend to want our COM |
merce, but you will not go half way to get
it." he went on. You cannot have trade
without adequate transportation and bank
ing facilities, and as it is, you are now
relying entirely for these things upon the
British and Germans. There are three lines
of slow steamers plying between New York
and Brazil, but they are all foreign and
| they charge you big tax for freight ana
exchange. What Brazil wants Is direct
| steamship connection with the United
| States and she is ready to join your gov
| eminent in subsidizing line of American
| steamers. We will pay half of the subsidy
| and you may pay the other half and take
all the profits. We have offered to DO this
| again and again, but your Congress will not
| consent If those foreign lines can be
| operated without subsidy an American
| line should certainly pay with one
| Uncle Sam BraziPs Best Customer.
what does our trade with you amount
to, Col Aguiar?" I asked.
| at is far greater than that of any other
| nation, but the balance Is altogether on our
| side of the ledger You sell us twelve or
thirteen million dollars worth OF goods a
| year. but we sell you sixty million dollars
| worth or more. In 1901 you spent eighty
million dollars upon Brazilian products buy
ing about four-ninth Of all 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 products
amount TOP
eve annually export about forty million
! dollars worth of rubber and about one
hundred million dollars worth OF conee
You buy almost sixty million dollars worth
of coffee every year, and almost all of this
comes from Brazil.
Can We Raise Our Own Coffeep
But this will not continue. Col. Aguiar,"
!. said 1, proudly. I'VE now have colonies
and are going to raise coffee of our own
your colonies could not fill the spoons
with which you stir your cups much less
the pots which are now filled with Brazilian
liquid; and they never will You Amerl-
cans are among the great coffee drinkers
of the world. and you are drinking more
from year to year. Your consumption IA
1903 was thirteen pounds for every man.
woman and child in the United States or
altogether more. than one billion pounds OF
t coffee What have you to supply such d
l fnrfn ylyhi
grow coffee are Porto Rico. Hawaii and
o the Philippines. In each or these couh-
tries the coffee lands are small.
Brazil is the coffee country OF the worio,
V | and it always will be so. Coree Is not
= common grain. 1t is not like wheat OF
! corn, which will grow almost everywneIe.
= | You must have just the right SOIL the right
| climate and the land must slope tne rlsht
, ! way and be at the right distance above the
: sea On all the earth there is only one
l. ! large tract of land which fits these condl-
s tons. and that is in Brazil lake you YOU
: map and follow the isothermal lines, and
: YOU will find nothing like 1t elsewhere.
y There are several islands and one or t"o
: small tracts of mainland. but otherWheres
i the country along the coIee hiies ID ei'iA
!; | swampy or desert.
g Java and Mocha From Brazil.
n .But how about our Java and Mocha
- colonel? We consume vast QUANTITIES VI
such coffee every Year,
Eyes. but where do they come from!' re-
| nlied the commissioner general L nave
q lust received letter on that subject IRON
l. one of the chief coffee dealers of TINS coun
n trv. He says that the total production %
n Java and Mocha coffee last year was ~,
d OOO 900 pounds. of which 17,5oo,oOo pouno'
: were Java and 100000 Mocha. NotWlth
standing this total product there were soi'
l. in YOUR retail groceries of the United state
= last year about 5OO,0O0,0oo pounds o
le Mocha and Java coffee, or in other Words
e. 4sO 600 600 pounds more Mocha ana Jaw,
y than Mocha and Java produced rms cor
llee | fee was sold at high prices bringing iron
- "a to As cents per pound. The question Is
nf where did the surplus Mocha and Jaw
"a come from? 1t undoubtedly came iron
,g Brazil"
= Big Profits Of Our Grocers.
But how about that Brazilian Moon
and Java, colonel? Do you sell your cone
nd branded that way?"
"a eyes we have mills which sort the bean
en- | into six different varieties. The beans OF
m certain kind and quality go into one 90
ng and are labeled Mocha, of another KIN
nd into another box and are labeled Mokln'
en- | of another into a third box labeled Jaw
ar | 80 ca m, The purchasers understand Pc