FOREIGN TRADE 
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we benefit by it. Brazil makes a decided 
preferential tariff in favor of some of our 
goods in view of the fact that we are the largest 
consumers of her chief product—coffee. 
Everyone of these countries is in process of 
development and expansion. They have in 
profusion, the things the busy world most 
needs. Their mines are the richest known 
to man. Some have been worked for thou 
sands of years and are still productive. Their 
broad fields are destined to make them the 
granaries of the world. Their miles of pas 
ture lands and their extensive acreage mean 
that Europe and the United States will depend 
upon them for meat. Their vast virgin for 
ests are capable of supplying humanity with 
cabinet and other woods for several centuries. 
Their trade and imports must therefore in 
crease. It is apparent that they cannot di 
minish. We cannot as a nation afford to re 
main indifferent any longer to their possibili 
ties and opportunities. 
Very naturally there have been many ob 
jections on the part of our business men to go