The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-21

42.46l,3S1. less than SIX 10 the squarc mile.
 With this sparse population the production of wealth is already enor- moods. The latest trade statistics show exports from South America to foreign of $499, 9,S5s,600. Of the five hundred millions of goods that South America buys. we sell them but $63, 3,246,525, pr 12.6 per cent. Of the $745,0O0. GOO that South America sells. we buy s152'O9s.ss 900 or 20.4 per cent, nearly two and half times as much as we sell
 Production Is Increaafng.
 leaps and bounds. In eleven years the exports of Chile have increased forty five per cent. from $54.0S0,0o0s In ls94. to $7s.s4o.oe0 in 1905. In eight years ears one hundred per cent. from 2l3, 3,S9e'0o0 in 1887 to s5S,75S.O00 in 1905. In ten years the exports of Brazil have in Ssn esS oco n n'1sf 1ss4 to ss2s, .ooo in isoS In ten years the exports of Argentina have increased one hundred and sixty fs9t fsss to pes fess SS in isS5
 This is only the beginning. Ninety seven per cent. of the territory of South America Is occupied by ten in- dependent Republics living under con stitutions substantially copied or adapted from our own. Under the new conditions of tranquility and security which prevail in most of them, their  the old world will not long pass un' needed. The pressure of population abroad will inevitably turn its streams of life and labor towards those fertile fields and valleys; more than 100000 immigrants entered the Argentine Re- public last year; they are coming this year at the rate of over three hundred thousand. Many thousands of Ger mans have already settled in Southern
 Two Continents COmpIements.
 .lrAs sv4 sucS ian fseid seS neaS under free ~ institutions with the fruits of labor and the re- wards of lenterprise secure, the pro- duction of wealth and the increase Of purchasing power will afford a market for the commerce of the world worthy to rank even with the markets of the Orient, The material resources of South America are In some important that continent is weakest where North America is strongest as heldl for manufactures; it has comparatively little coal and iron, In many re- are complementary to each other; the South American Is polite, refined, cul- tivated, fond of literature snd of ex- of fife. while the North American Is strenuous, intense, utilitarian. Where we accumulate, they spend, The chief merits of the peoples of the two con- tinents are different;. their. chief de- fects are different Mutual intercpurse and knowledge cannot fail to greatly benefit both; each can learn from the other. each can teach much to the other, and each can contribute greatly to the development and prosperity Of the otn- CT. A large part of their products find no domestic competition here; a domestic competition there. The typ- ical conditions exist for that Kind of trade which is profitable, honorable and beneficial to both parties.
 'srhe relations between the United States and South America have been chiefly political rather than eommerS cial or personal. In the early days of the South American struggle for inde- pendence, the eloquence of Henry Clay awakened in the American people generous sympathy for the, patriots or diplomacy of Richard Rush, the Amer ican Minister at the Court of St. James. effected complete understanding lion in opposition to the designs of the Holy Alliance, already contemplat' ing the partition of the Southern Con: tinent among the great powers or laration of Monroe arrayed the organ. ized and rapidly increasing power Of the United States as an obstacle to forever plain that the cost of Euro . pean aggression would be greater than any advantage which could be won even by successful aggression
 Monroe Doctrine Perpetual.
 "That great declaration was not the chance expression of the opinion or the feeling of the moment; 1t crystalized the sentiment for human liberty and human rights which has saved Ameri- can idealism from the demoralization of narrow selhshness, and has given to American democracy its true world power in the virile potency of great example. It responded to the instinct of self-preservation in an intensely practical people.
 The particular circumstances which led to the declaration no longer exist. Those conditions were merely the oc- casion for the declaration of principle of action. Other occasions for the ap- plication of the principle have arisen since it needs no prophetic vision to see that other occasions for It's appli- | cation may arise hereafter. The prin- | cple declared by Monroe Is as wise an | expression of sound political Judgment | today, as truthful representation of the sentiments and instincts of the American people today. as living in its force as an effective rule of conduct whenever occasion shall arise, as 1t was on the End of December. 1923.
 Twenty years ago MT Blaine | undertook to inaugurate a new era of l American relations which should sup plement political sympathy by the in | tercourse of expanding trade, and by | mutual helpfulness. As Secretary of 1 State under President Arthur he in- vited the American nations to a con ference to be held on November 24, l 1882, for the purpose of considering and discussing the subject of preventing war between the nations of America. | That invitation was renewed under Mir. Cleveland, and on October ?, 1ss9 MT. i Blaine, again Secretary of State under President Harrison. executed his form CT design and opened the sessions of the first American conference at | Washington.
 "The policy which Blaine inaugu- | rated has been continued: the Congress
 of the United States has approved it; | subsequent Presidents have followed it. The first conference at Washington has been succeeded by a second conference in Mexico, and now by third confer
 ence in Rio de 5aneiro; and it is to be | followed in years to come by further | successive assemblies in which the rep
 resentatives of all American States shall acquire better knowledge and more perfect understanding and be drawn together by the recognition of common interests and the kindly con sideration and discussion of measures for mutual benefit.
 The Time is Now.
 Nevertheless MT. Blaine was in ad-
 vance of his time. In 1881 and 1889 neither had the United States reached | a point where 1t could turn its ener- | gies away from it's own internal de- | velopment and direct them outward toward the development of foreign en- kterprises and foreign trade. nor had T the South American countries reached | fv, ,rt