The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-09-27
NOTED BRAZILIAN
CANCELS VISIT
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DOING Central America.

of the international Bureau of Ameri-
can Republics i'm every essential a
high class illustrated monthly maya.
zine-contains in its September mum
ber an article on travel in Central
America. The author of it introduces
his remarks with the statement that
he has long felt that the stranger who
might contemplate an invasion of that
land where the banana, cocoanut,
coffee and rubber trees flourish, want
ed something more than dissertations
on the literature of the Spanish repub-
lies, or raphsodies concerning the seen
cry. The traveller, and especially the
commercial traveller, wants to know
aobut " the simple mihutiae of daily
experiences, which will be a valuable
guide in his own future plans for in
vading new territory The author
then proceeds to give an interesting ac-
count of life in the republics of Central
America, where the Frenchman, the
German and Englishman are better
known and better liked than the Ameri-
can, and where the foreigners do most
of the business. However, it is not true.
according to the writer, that Central
America hates us. He says: "They
may hate the individual who miscon-
ducts himself; they may hate the cor
poration who gets the best of them;
but it is nonsense to assume at the out
side that any individual must run
counter to radical antipathy. Go in
to Central America with an open mind
and human spirit of friendship.
That's all there is to it,
Persons who think they may posi-
bly, pay visit some day to the tropical
countries south of us, would tind the
letters begun in this number of the
Bulletin worth reading.
The Abandoned Visit.
1t seems that the announcement that
the president-elect of Brazil had be n
compelled to abandon his visit to this
country was not given such general
prominence as the notices of his in
tentlon to spend month in this coun-
try. On account of the Importance of
Brazil, the largest, richest and most
populous country on this side of the
World-excepting only the United
States-the prospect of closer rela.
tions forecasted by the prolonged visit
of the eminent Brazilian gave the pub.
lie much satisfaction. Many still re.
member with pleasure the visit of the
late Dom Pedro, last emperor of
Brazil. The Bulletin of the American
Republics, referring to the many
municipal invitations that had been
extended to Marshal Hermes da Fon-
SEGA, the president elect, and the prep
parations that had been made to enter
tain him, says: fIt was a source of
profound disappointment to everybody
interested in the development of clos
er relations of friendship and COM
merce between the United States and
Latin America that Marshal Hermes da
Fonseca, president-elect of Brazil, was
obliged to give up the plan he had
originally made for visiting the United
States during August. AS soon as the
news reached Washington that the
Marshal would spend several weeks in
the United States, word came from
such cities as New York, Boston, Buff
falo, Chicago, Pittsburg and Philadel-
phia that their representative Off
clals and business men would be pleas
ed to have the distinguished Brazilian
visit their cities and accent their en-
tertainment and hospitalities. His
itinerary would have included, Of
course, a call upon the president of the
United States at Beverly and upon the
secretary of state at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania
Mr.. Wickersham S Discovery.
The attorney general is meeting
with some new experiences. Being a
typical New Yorker, he had that idea,
attributed by the rest of the country
to most New Workers, that beyond the
Bronx lay a vast but uninformed and
scarcely civilized territory. He went
to Alaska in company with the secre-
tary of commerce and labor, who, be-
ing from Missouri, knew more than the
attorney general, but yet enjoyed the
capacity for being shown still more.
After they had spent some weeks in
the far northwest, they returned to
Seattle ON their way back home, and
Mr.. Wickersham, betrayed for the
moment into something akin to a burst
of enthusiasm, told the newspaper men
that he had gone to little place call
ed Alaska, and had found an empire.
Whereat a broad smile went up which
quickly spread across the country. Mr..
Wickersham IS discovery is one of the
most notable in history. 1t is to be
hoped that the government will con-
tinue to send him on travels to enlarge
his understanding and that the people
of Alaska will benefit by some en-
lightened legislation so that the coun-
try at large may see that "empire"
developed and share in the prosperity
which will inevitably result.
Booming Foreign Trade.
The state department has a special
appropriation of 100000 with which to
work for the extension of the foreign
commerce of the United States. 1t
has already taken up plans for the ex-
penditure of that sum to the best ad-
vantage.
That the work of American con
suls, and other government agents
charged with fostering American com
merce, has been of some avail, is in
dicated by a recent report by the
bureau of statistics which finds that
while the value of the exports of nat
ural products has fallen off during the
first seven months of 1910, as compar
ed with the first seven months of 1909
there was on increased expectation of
manufactured ~oods, and an increased
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