Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-11

expand in Latin America and that good government alone is needful to turn this region into one of the earth's most favored. He writes:
 Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba and the neighbOring islands are rich in natural resources almost beyond imagination Nowhere e.se in the world has Nature been more bounti- ful in her blessings than in the Carib- bean region. Everything that her treasure house holds has been bestow- ed here with lavish hand. As some one has said if you tickle the ground with a. hoe, it smiles back with yam. Some of these lands are filled with wonderful plenty. Others are in wretChed poverty. In travelling though them one is impressed with the fact that prosperity abides with good rule and poverty dwells with misrule.
 Honduras poor, badly administered and undeveloped, is, nevertheless, blessed beyond measure in natural re- sources It has vast deposits of miner alS: untold thousands of acres of the finest fruit and vegetable lands Of the world and great areas of magnificent coffee and grazing lands With a stable government, it must become a, land of nlenty Salvador, across the border. is prosperous. Although containing only 1925 square miles, it supports nearly two m T on DeCnle in -Cr.fOrt and returns d balance of trade of about 3,500,G0O a wear Nicaragua, like Hon. duras, is a poor land teenling with re- sources and revolutions, undeYeloped, unsettled and hopeless
 'HIn Costa Ricas Cuba Panama and Dominican Republic, all possessing marvelously productive orchard and farm lands, wealthy in their outputs of sugar, tropical fruits, coffee and vari- ous cabinet woods, every preparation is being made to take advantage of the ] 6a Onnny-tr1IIiriaS that ThaSn tries expect to derive from the Pan anna, canal Everywhere in the Carib bean countries there is anticipation that the canal is going to bring in a great stream Of capital for develop meDt purposes, and that an era of Un- precedented growth and expansion will result In aiding these countries to realize their expectations, the United States will not only open up q rich field for its own produce but, also, will strengthen the community interest with the neighbors at it's gate, whose lands surround the vitally important canal
 United States business has already large and growing share Of the trade of the Caribbean lands In Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, CITba, the Dominican Repub- lie and Haiti, the imports from the United States represent more than one half of all the imports into the
 
 export of these countries is sent to the United States The great trade com petitors of this country in the markets of South America have been Great Britain and Germany, but their com petition was never as effective in Car ibbean lands as it was further to the south
 "The total foreign trade of South America in 1913 was valued at S2.864,- 816,244 While this is not large in pro- FA f,4S sF,, hand Is decidedly small in comparison with the volume of foreign trade of many other countries, (oeing but little larger than that of Holland) the pos bilities are shown by the statement that when South America becomes as large Der capita buyer in the markets of the world as Cuba is today, it will demand imports worth $2,000, 100000 annually, and when it has as much to sell per capita as Cuba has today it will have an export business worth $2,5o ,0O0, 600 annually
 But backward as South America is in it's Toregin trade. it is by no means as backward as Central America The volume of the exports of the six countries which constitute Central America is snaler in proportion to area than those of any other region of like size and resources in the New World How small it actually is may be illustrated by another comparison with Cuba's foreign trade Having a population five times as great as that of Cuba, the six Central American states buy only third as much in the markets of the world as the Island Republic; and they sell only one fourth as much as Cuba Their per capita imports, therefore are only about one-lfteenth as large as those of Cuba, and their per capita exports only one-twentieth as large Yet no one thinks that Cuba has reached the fullness of it's possibilities. and no one believes that Central America, once it becomes fully developed, will fail to show a larger foreign trade per capita than Cuba shows today
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