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FOREIGN TRADE WITH LATIN AMERICA AND 
HOW IT DEVELOPED 
No military campaign was ever planned 
with such exactness of detail and precision as 
that which characterized the preliminary 
movements of the exporting nations of Europe 
to acquire control of Latin American markets. 
When the Franco-Prussian war was over and 
the Powers of the Old World had settled down 
to a development of their resources, it soon be 
came apparent that foreign fields must be 
sought in which to dispose of the excess prod 
ucts of their industry. With that object in 
view governments, trade associations, manu 
facturers, shippers, exporters, civic and social 
societies, colleges, merchants, and individuals 
united in one harmonious movement to ac 
complish this purpose. While each nation 
followed more or less the same general plan,