Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-07

"1ITHIN short time noatins
w exhibit Of manufactured prod
ucts of the greatest mills and
factories of the United States will sail
from New York, and this move will
mark the beginning of the most ex-
traordinary plan ever proposed in the
history Of the country for the extension
of the foreign trade of the United
States.
An ocean liner filled with vast ar
ray Of American made goods will visit
every important port in Latin America.
and will serve as a trade ambassador
from the manufacturers to the millions
of Latin Americans who, either by
force Of habit or by reason of other
circumstances. now look to the Euro
pean markets for their machinery,
their fabrics. their hardware. their food
products and their clothing.
This great ship will sail under the
patronage Of the American Manufac-
turers' Export Association, an organi-
cation Of important producers. 1t will
sail, too, with the official Endorsement
of the President of the United States,
the departments of State and Commerce
and Labor, and with the good will of
the Pan American Union.
Already the Department Of State has
prepared instructions to the diplomatic
representatives of the United States
throughout Central and South America
to herald the approach of the exhibit
tfves of the manufacturers every cour-
tesy that such an expedition may enjoy.
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Already, too, the ministers in Wash
ington of the neighboring republics of
the south have assured the trade mis-
sionaries of a cordial welcome They
have agreed with President Taft that
anything tending to a more perfect
and mutual understanding among the
peoples of this hemisphere and to the
greater development of the commercial
relations between them shall be en-
couraged as far as diplomacy can en-
courage 1t.
Products of the skill and brains OF
North American manufacturers will be
carried to the door of the consumer in
Central and South America. This con-
sumner will be shown-not by catalogue
not by photograph, not by a salesman S
itself-what it is this country has to
sell, how 1t looks and how cheaply 1t
can be purchased.
To make this floating exposition posi-
Die, thousands or dollars nave Deen eX-
pended, and thousands more will yet be
expended by the manufacturers. To Sc
cure and operate an ocean liner; to fit it
out with exhibit booths, with great show
cases, and to provide motive power for
the machinery in motion. has been an
extraordinary undertaking.
From New York this vessel will sail for
the West Indies. Three or four days will
be spent at each of the important ports
of these islands before the exhibit ship
touches at Vera Cruz in Mexico. Colon,
the Central American seaports, and the
trade centers on the South American
coast. BY easy stages the vessel will
work its way south to Rio Janiero and to
Buenos Aires. where a week, and perhaps
two, will be spent before she sails around
the Horn and enters the Pacific.
The west coast of South America is an
almost UNEMPLOYED wilderness in SO far as
American trade is concerned. It has
never been pioneered except by few
railroad builders, and the millions of
Latin Americans living along this coast
line from Santiago. Chile. to Guayaquil.
Ecuador, are as the Inhabitants of an
other world to the great producing inter-
ests of the United States.
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