The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-11-28

enterprises under construction. The
story is told by the foreign trade re-
ports of the past three years
The great mass of the people Of Bra
I'll have always been enthusiastically
and sometimes aggressivelv, pro-ally,
80 that when the eminent Ruy Barbosa
counciled open allegiance to the cause
Of the entente, he was warmly APP
plauded. But there is a large foreign
element in Brazil which has done its
best to stem this tide In the southern
states of Rio Grandc do Sui, Santa
Catharina, Parana and others, some
100000 Germans have for long time
lived and prospered. These people have
given to Brazil some of its most modern
municipal and port works, and, through
intermarriage have supplied the govern
mental ranks with some of its most
able leaders German influence has for
years been strong i'll the larger cities
where its merchants have lead in trade
often, as in Rio, constructing and OWL
ing rows OF business blocks on the main
avenues that their ware might be more
efficiently retailed.
AS a result the bitterness shown be
tween the nationals OF the various war
paralleled i'll any other non belligerent
part. Each Sunday flags wave from
hundreds OF residences, the banners of
| the central powers being in the decided
| minority but ALWAYS flying German
members have been mceremoniouSly ex-
! PEELED from international clubs and
! some hotels here are now extensively
! advertising the fact that no Germans,
| Austrians or allies of the central pow
ers viii be admitted as guests
Writers and speakers, in discussing
| this matter of neutrality, often point
| with condemnation TO the United
| States because the northern republic
| failed TO take a stronger stand on the
occasion Of the invasion of Belgium bv
Germany. These contend that the Unit
| ed States as the leading non belligerent
power might have established a pree-
edent in this matter which would have
| done much to have saved future embar-
easements for all neutral nations.
In magazine article recently
! published in one of the Brazilian re-
! views, however, the, writer attributes
the cause of the general pro-ally senti-
ment among the people of the southern
! republic to the intellectual and finan-
cial domination which France has ex.
| ercised for the past five decades over
! Brazil and the rest Of the countries OF
South America.
In Brazil as in the other countries
OF the southern continent, French is
| taught TO the children of the better
classes as matter of course The
dream of every young atinAmericar
! writer audf thinker is TO finish off hi,
course by sojourn of a year or tive
in Paris. French philosophy. French
psychology and French literature ar,
the models for this entire people. Thu
| natural result is a warm sympathy Will
all that is Gallo.
France, according to this writer, ha'
done everything in her power TO foste'
! this natural inclination. Money ha
been appropriated to establish schools
where the children OF the country MAJ
learn the language without great eff
fort or expenditure. French banker
have loaned money where the more con
servative Anglo-Saxon. OF Teutol
would have hesitated. The commercial
campaign Of the great European repub
lie in South America has had guidin!
philosophy somewhat different from
that of England, the United States o
Germany where the effort to sell seem
to have been the only one France ha
pursued the more subtle course of ma
ing the South American nations he
debtors. Already. the author of the re
view article claims, she is reaping he
reward in the general wave of svmpa
thy which goes out from all classe
here to her.