The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-21

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cellent facilities for communication
and other strong lessons were cited
in support Of his views.)
valleys Of Chile, Peru, Ecuador, b.
livia and Colombia are suited to the
habitation Of any race however far to
the north its origin; may have been;
hundreds Of millions of men can find
nancefin this great territory Ga
The ~ populations in 1900aSwas.s only
42,46l ,391, less than six to the square
mile. The density %of popula lion was
less than one-eig hth Of that in tile state
Of Missouri, less than one-sixtieth of
that in the state Of Massachusetts, less
than one-seventieth of that in England
less than; per cent Of that in Belgium
: With this sparse population the pro-
duction of wealth is already enormous
The latest trade statistics show ex-
ports from South, America to foreign,
countries Of $745, 100000, and imports of
lions Of goods that South America buys
we sell them but 500, ,525, or 1875
per cent. Of the seven hundred and
forty-fve millions that South America
sells we buy 1852 100000, or 20.4 per
cent, nearly two and a half times as
much as we sell.
Their production is increasing by
leaps and bounds. In eleven years the
exports of Chile have increased rs per
cent from, $54, 030, 1000, in 1894, to $751;
$4,000, in 1905. In eight years the
exports of Peru have increased 100 per
cent from $l3,S99,0O0, in 1897, to $685.
exports of Brazil have increased &c per
cent from $134,062,0OO, in 1894, to
1928, 100000, in 1905. In ten years the
EXPORTS of Argentina have Increased
l6S per cent from $115, 1865, 900, in 1895,
to 1911, $4,000, in 1905. ~,
Surface Only Is Scratched. ,
This is only the beginning; the coffee
and rubber of Brazil, the wheat and
beef and hides Of Argentina and Uru-
quay, the copper and nitrates .of:$Chile,,
the copper and tin of Bolivia, the silver
and gold and cotton, and sugar Of Peru,
are but samples of what the soil and
mines Of that wonderful continent are
capable of yielding. - s,..z
- Ninety seven per cent of the terri
tory Of South America is occupied by
ten independent republics living under
constitutions substanti TALLY 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
unheeded. The pressure Of population
abroad will inevitably turn its streams
Of life and labor towards those fertile
fields and valleys; the streams have al.
ready begun to flow; more than 100000
immigrants entered the Argentine Re.
public last. year; they are coming this
year lat the rate of over 00,000.= Many
thousands .of, Germans have already
settled in southern Brazil. They are
most welcome in Brazil; they are good
and useful citizens there as they are
here; t hope that many more will come
to Brazil and every other South Ameri:
can country, and add their vigorous in.
dustry and good citizenship to the up.
building of their adopted home.
with the increase Of population in
such a field, under free Institutions
with the fruits Of labor and the re.
wards OF enterprise secure, the produc.
ton of wealth and the increase of pur-
chasing power will afford market fol
the commerce of the world worthy to
rank even with the markets Of the
orient as the prize of business enter
prise. a.
The material resources Of South
America are in some important respects
complementary to our own: that cont.
nent is weakest where North America
is strongest as a field for manufac tures
it has comparatively 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 lit
eratnre end Of expression and Of the
graces and charms of life, while the
North. American is strenuous, intense
utilitarian. Where we accumulate, theJ
spend: While we have less Of the cheer
full philosophy which finds sources Of
happiness in the existing conditions OF
life, they have less of the inventive fac
ulty which strives continually to in
crease the productive power Of mar
and lower the cost of manufacture.
The chief merits of the peoples Of
the two continents are different; thei1
chief defects are different. Mutual in
greatly. benefit both; each can lear1
from the other; each can teach much
to the other, and each can contribute
greatly to the developmentsand prosper
ity of the other. "A large part of. Their
products find no domestic competition
here; a large part Of our products
will find no domestic competition
there. The typical conditions exist fOl
that kind Of trade which lis profitable
honorable and beneficial to both par
ties.
Monroe S Deed Praised. vs.
The relations between the United
States and South America have beer
chiefly political Hather than Commercial
or personal. In the early days of Thu
South American struggle for indepen
dence, the eloquenceN of Henry CLAY
awakened in the American people j;
gene rolts sympathy for the patriots Of
the south as for brethren struggling ii