The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-07-27
TEUToN TO CONTROL.
GERMANs INVEST HUGE SUMS
IN BRAZIL.
South American Country Owes One
Third Of National Debt TO Ger
many-Warships Guard
Kaiser's interests.

Rio de Janeiro.-To Germany Bra
I'll owes about one-third of her ex-
ternal national debt of 100000, 900;
Germany has three steamship lines
plying to Brazilian ports, placing the
predominance of the transatlantic
trade in German hands.
Germany is negotiating for the con-
troll Of the Amazon river commerce.
which will lodge the command of In
ternal trade in her hands. Germany
controls commercial houses, factories,
plantations and industrial works gen.
orally, in innumerable parts of the
country.
German capital in excess of $780,
100000 is invested in various Brazilian
enterprises. from banking and rail-
ways to agriculture.
The guarantors for the safety of this
money are the warships Of Germany.
Germans know that they will not
be deserted by the kaiser If trouble
ever comes, and they therefore have
no hesitation in placing their gold in
the Latin republic and leaving it
there to work for them.
Rivalry among the big German COM
panies interested In Brazilian ventures
does not exist They are encouraged
by the far-seeing political guides in
Berlin to divide the country into vari-
Gus spheres Of influence, and there is
In consequence an absence of compete
ton among the Germans themselves.
They reserve all their energies for
fighting the other foreigners in Brazil
and when necessary they work to-
gether for the good of German inter-
ests.
For instance, the three shipping
companies that ply between Brazilian
and German ports, the North Ger
man Lloyd, the Hamburg American
and the Hamburg South American,
have divided the coast of Brazil into
three sections, and each company con-
fines itself to its own district. This
and other similar cooperative activi-
ties by the Germans lead to a belief
that the kaiser's guiding hand is d.
recting the various Teutonic move
ments In Brazil, and that he is using
them all as pawns in his great game
to call check at last to the Monroe
doctrine.
The Brazilian bank for Germany,
having capital of $2,500,O00, is do
ing everything it can. to help along
Germany's increasing economic hold
on the country. 1t is joint, branch
of the Norddeutsche Bank of Hamburg
and the Disconto Gesellschaft Of Ber-
In, which are secretly used by the
kaiser to further German aims abroad.
It's policy is directed from across the
Atlantic, and it has done great work
for the kaiser in Berlin.
1t discounts bills of Brazilian buy
ers of German goods, permitting Ger
man. dealers to send imports into Bra
I'll. at prices lower than the long credit
invariably demanded by the Brazil
ians would otherwise permit.
The economic tie not only strongly
binds Brazil to Germany, but also is
causing Germany to lean with increas-
ing weight on Brazil.
The raw material for innumerable
Industries is in Brazil, and Germany
is dreaming of the dawn of day
when it will be gathered in the South
American republic by Germans and
sent to Germany for use at home, thus
emancipating the Teutons from any
further dependence on foreign powers
for their economic well being.