The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-21

Oubu AhlttElCA 10 LOTclkn countries OF
S74S, 8 10000, and imports OF t49a, sSs, 600.
or the five hundred millions OF goods that
South America buys we sell them but
$83 ,248 ,S25, or 1915 per cent. OF the seven
hundred n forty-ive millions that South
America sells we buy S152 ,O92, 600, or 2O.4
per cent. nearly two and a half times as
much as we sell.
WONDERFUL GROWTH.
Their production Is increasing by leaps
n bounds. In eleven years the exports
OF Chile have increased 45 per cent. from
t54 100000, in 1894, to SIS, sac, 900. in 1906.
increased 100 per cent. from SIS 500, 600. In
1897. to SOS. 75s, 900. In 1905. In ten years. the
exports Of Brazil rave increased 66 per cent.
from tl3A ,O62 900. in 1894. to S22s .101 900. In
1905. In ten years h exports of Argentina
in 1895. to ssh ,S44 ,6Oo. / n 1905.
This Ia only the beginning; the coffee
n rubber OF Brazil, the wheat and beef
n hides of Argentina and Uruguay, the
copper and nitrates Of Chile, the copper and
and sugar Of Peru, are but samples Of what
the soil and mines Of that wonderful con-
tinent are capable Of yielding. Ninety-seven
per cent. Of the territory OF South America
Is occupied by ten independent republics
living under constitutions substantially
copied or adapted from our own. Under
the new conditions Of tranquility and Sc
curity which prevail in most OF them their
eager invitation to immigrants from the
old world will not long pass UNDECIDED,
inevitably turn It's stream OF life and labor
toward those fertile fields and valleys; the
streams have already begun 70 flow; more
than 200, 900 immigrants catered the Argen-
tine Republic last year; they are coming this
year at the rate OF over 800 ,000.
GERMAN IMMIGRATION.
MANY thousands OF Germans have already
settled in southern Brazil. They are most
welcome in Brazil; they are good and use
ful citizens there as they are here; I hope
that many more will come to Brazil and
every other South American country, and
d their vigorous industry and good citi-
zenship to the upbuilding Of their adopted
home.
with the increase Of population in such a
field, under free institutions, with the fruits
of labor and the rewards OF enterprise
secure, the production OF wealth and the
increase Of purchasing power will AFFORD a
market for the m OF the world
worthy to rank even with the markets of
the Orient as the prize OF business enter
prise. The material resources Of South
America are in some important respects
complementary 30 our own; that continent
is weakest where North America is strongest
as a field for manufactures; it has CON-
paratively little coal and iron. In many
respects the people OF the two continents
are complementary to each other; the South
American is polite, refined, cultivated, fond
OF literature and OF expression and Of the
graoes and charms of life, while the North
American is strenuous, intense, unitarian.
Where we accumulate, they spend. While
we have less of the cheerful philosophy
which finds sources of happiness in the
existing conditions Of life, they have less
OF the Inventive faculty which strives con
tinually TO increase the productive power
Of man and lower the cost of manufacture
ACH CAN LEARN FROM THE H
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continents are different; their chief defects
are different. Mutual intercourse and
knowledge oannot fail to greatly benefit
both; each can learn from the other each can
teach much to the other, and each can con-
tribute greatly to the development and
prosperity OF the other. A large part OF
their products find no domestic compe-
tition here; q large part of our products will
find no domestic competition there. The
| typical conditions exist for that kind of
trade which is profitable, honorable and
\ beneficial to both parties.
The relations between the United States
and South America hAve been chiefly po-
litical rather than commercial or personal.
In the early days OF the South American
struggle for independence the eloquence OF
Henry Clay awakened in the American
people q generous sympathy for the patriots
| of the South as for brethren struggling in the
common cause of liberty. The clear eyed,
iudicious diplomacy OF Richard Rush, the
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affected a complete understanding with
Great Britain for concurrent action in op-
position to The designs Of the Holy Alliance,
already contemplating the partition OF the
Southern Continent among the great powers
of Continental Europe. The famous dec
laration Of Monroe arrayed the organized
and rapidly increasing power OF the United
States as an obstacle to European interfer-
ence and made 1t forever plain that the cost
Of European aggression would be greater
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wen by successful aggression.
MONROE DOCTRINE TILL vIRILE.
THAT great declaration was not the chance
expression Of the opinion or the feeling
Of the moment; 1t crystallized the senti-
ment for human liberty n human rights
which has saved American idealism from
the decentralization OF narrow selfishness
and has. given to American democracy
It's true world power in the virile potency
of a great example. 1t responded to the
instinct of self-preeervation in an intensely
practical people. 1t was the result OF
conferences with Jefferson and Madison
and John Quincy Adams and John c. Cal
ho,ln and William Wirt-a combination OF
political wisdom, experience and skill not
easily surpassed. The particular clrcum-
stances which led to the declaration no
longer exist; no Holy Alliance now threat
ems TO partition South America; no Euro
pean colonization Of the west coast threat
ems 10 exclude us from the Pacific. But
those conditions were merely the occasion
for the declaration of a principle OF action.
other occasions for the application 81 the
principle have arisen since: 1t needs no
prophetic vision TO see that other occasions
for It's application may arise hereafter.
The principle declared by Monroe ID az
wise an expression Of sound political judg-
ment to-day, as truthful a representation
of the sentiments and instincts OF the
American people to-day, Is living IN its
force as an effective rule OF conduct when
ever occasion shall arise, as 1t was on the
ID OF December, 1923.
These great political services to South
American independence, however, did not
and could not in the nature Of things create
any relation between the people OF South
America and the people of the United States
except a relation Of political sympathy.
BLAINE's VIEW OF FUTURE.
Twenty-Five years ago Mr.. Blaine, san
guins, ~resourceful and gifted with that
Imagination which enlarges the historians
understanding of the past. into the states
mans comprehension Of the future, under
took TO inaugurate a new era Of American
relations which should supplement political
sympathy by personal acquaintance, by the
intercourse of expanding trade, and by
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