The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
SENIOR SAMPA IO
ASKS TRI-CITY
BRAZIL TRADE
rousut Tells Rock Island Business
Men of Commercial Openings
Exposition Flows.

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change of goods, not of money, Sc
nor Sebastian Sampaio, Brazilian
.onsul and commercial attache, re-
minded an audience of 200 Rock
Island business men, in the Rock
island club today that Brazil sold
the United States twice as much
merchandise as the United States
cold to Brazil, and expressed the
: hone that the tri-cities would make
bid for Brazilian trade.
He asked that delegation or at
least a representative be sent Of
Totally from Rock Island and Dav-
ennort and Moline to the centen-
nal exposition to open at Rio De
Ianiero. Sept. Z. and on their re-
turn to act as an intermediary Tor
! me establishment of trade reIa-
lions with the South American re-
public. z;s -. as nro-
bibition, and he hoped that many
from the tri-cities would be able
10 drink a toast in RIO DE Janelro
"a the bond of friendship between
the two republics at the expositlon
in September, in something strong
er than water.
and members of the rotary hl"an-
= and Exchange clubs, and other
representative citizens, VINO met
rnder the auspices of the Rock Is
land Chamber of Commerce. were
guests. . Coor
camnaio and Frank A. Harrison,
. ~, rfTnpnf II
STATE. told them that Rock Island
rs the nerve center of the United
states" and where "the west be-
pina" Rock Islanders, he said,
we're willing to try anything once.
Drove Ok Team Here.
Commissioner Harrison said that
he had passed through ROCK 1slaho
"a wears ago driving an OK team
on his way to the great west. He
informed Chairman Rosenfield thai
he came from a town, Lincoln,
Neb.. which had made Rock Island
try something not only once, pit
three times, a reference to VIII
liam Jennings Bryan which the
crowd enjoyed.
In a brief address, he said that
the state department regardol
important commercial mission
which had ever visited the country.
The government, he said, had ap-
propriated $1,00O,000 for its par
ticipation in the Brazilian exposi-
ton and was building a 100000
building there to become future
house for the U. S. embassy.
commissioner Harrison AMI
myself are to visit 120 cities in
the United States" said Senior Sc
bastian Sampaio, commercial at
tache from Brazil, on his arrival
in Rock Island from Washington,
d. G.. this morning. THE prince or
Wales" he continued, ION his tour
many years ago visited, believe.
onIy 35 cities l am wondering II
any representatives OF another
country ever made such a record
Of visitations in your country as
the commissioner and myself are
trying to establish"
He is Brazil's chief commercial
attache in the United States. Can
ada. Mexico and Cuba. He is head
of the consuls of the four coun-
tries and with Frank A. Harrison.
a member of the U. S. commission
10 the Brazilian International expo
ton, is touring the United States.
Formerly stationed in st. Louis,
Senior Sampaio is a newspaper man,
and for six years was managing ed
itor of the Journal of Commerce,
published in Rio de Janeiro, for
; which he is now writing his Amer
lean impressions.
Brazil Before Breakfast.
Senior Sempaio was in his pa
jamas when he admitted The Argus
representative at the New Harper
this morning, and allowed his
breakfast to cool to talk of Brazil,
the coming exposition, and trade
relations between the two coun-
tries.
Your Niagara Falls is very
beautiful, very grand said Senior
Sampaio, "but in Brazil we have
six waterfalls, each one of them
greater than Niagara Think OF
the possibilities in the way OF
power
Brazil is making real progress"
eenior Sempaio said. I'VE now
have $4,000 miles of railroad; 10
years ago we only had 10000 miles.
We have grown to a population OF
Sl000,O00
If we omit Panama" said the
: senior. Brazil is really the baby re-
public. We might as well omit
Panama, for Panama has been de-
claring itself free and staging
revolution every now and then for
good many years. People of the
United States should come to our
exposition, for there they can see
all Of the South American states
represented at one time. We invite
! you 10 come, with all our hearts,
Tor We, too, are Americans"
Senior Sampaio and Commissioner
Harrison have thus far completed
their tour of the southern states,
and also of New York and Pennsyi-
Tania. They leave tonight for Des
Moines and are visiting the great
agricultural centers. They expect
10 finish their itinerary about the
middle of June.
Europe After Trade.
commissioner Harrison said to-
DAY that England and Germany
were reaching out for trade with
Brazil, and that one object of the
TOUR is to bring the trade posi-
olllties with Brazil TO the attention
Oh American business men.
Senior Sampaio was driven
Through the business and residence
districts of Davenport this morn