Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-10-15
SOUTH AMERICAN LETTER
FROM CLAIRE TOTMAN.


Herald of Montevideo suggests that
the visit Of the Boston delegates TO
South America may serve to stimulate
the interests and attention of our
manufacturers in the states. The
delegates were all eastern men, 40 il
number, and including mostly
| representatives. of eastern factories
but as we'll, three or four professors
ID. M. Ford of Harvard University.
W. E. Rappard of Harvard Com
mercial School and A. L. SHUTS of
Hanover College. These delegates
we're sent out by the Buston Chamber
of Commerce.
Dnring their three day visit in
Montevideo they we're furnished autos
and launches to visit the city and
harbor. At odd hours they were re-
ceived by the Minister of Indussr ies,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the
resident of the Republic Senior Battle,
as we'll as getting big feed at the
American delegation.
It is exactly as indicated by Col.
Kincaid, Pres. of the delegation
that the U. S. is losing millions in
South American trade. South America
has been colonized by European i'm
migrants and the European elements
arc so pronounced and infential as to
throw most of the trade into the
hands of their home countries as Eng
land, Germany, Italy. and France.
For example the autoes in all cities
have visited are about 95 per cent
French and Italian, whereas they
should be 70 per cent American since
! the auto is an American product.
- 1t appears to me that the United
States has been too busy with the
Panama canal, allowing the philan-
thropic spirit to magnify before its
eyes aud hide the enormous advantage
of commerce and International trade
with South America while the
English, Germans. and French have
been mailing up signs here and
patching up all their old boats at
home to BIZ ready to jump in and get
the plums when the canal is opened.
1t has happened that some of our
European neighbors have been under
handed in some of their tactics, g. g.
a quotation from THE South Ameri-
can published in New York City,
Buffalo. N. Y. As one studies the
Latin American situation there is a
growing impression that great deal
of this dissatisfaction with the course
of this government in its relations to
its southern neighbors is being harped
! upon and exaggerated and misrep-
! resented by the British and German
commercial interests There is a
man by the name of Ugarte who in
recent months has been psrading
through Peru. Chile and Argentina
denouncing the American government
and the American people and claim
ing that it is our fixed purpose to
overrun their territory and literally
drive the Latin Americans off the face
of the earth. The ridiculous false
hoods told by this mischievous orator
were in several instances cheered to
the echo by great throngs of listeners
in those far away cities. The enemies
of this country are all commercial
enemies; they stoop to tricks of this
character and there seems to be a re-
gular propaganda of misrepresentation
under way, having as its design the
keeping Of Americans out of South
American trade. We pay little at
tention to these things in this coun-
try because we are busy with our own
affairs but this whol5 situation ap-
pears to be coming to a head. =
Also the Panama correspondent to
the London Times states that there is
no question but what sci Diario"
the ofiial newspaper of Panama has
assumed an attitude Of unfriendly
criticism to the U s. but points out
that this publication has plenty of
company for this is the chronic at
OlGUuO VI L4dalu AuGIlCdu uGWEDdIJ6IEs
The American minister at Panama
was obliged to call the attention of
the government to this fact.
Since there exists spirit of this
sort in these Republics it ought to be
the spirit Of fair play" dominating
the attitude of European merchant
men which would impel them to talk
their own wares aud not hope to better
themselves by injuring the relations
of their competitors. These re-
puhlics will in time learn the vale CT
American goods and hope the spirit of
jealousy of the European merchants
will reflect upon themselves to teach
them that It's "fair play that wins
the game.
The Monroe Doctrine has too often
been misinterpreted by other powers.
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