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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
August
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Soutn America, for many years, has been to Europe all that tbe Anglo-Mugwump free traders would like to see North America become. The states down there have been content to accept European loans and European manufactures, and even to depend upo- foreigners for food. And what is the result? The Argentino Republic is (ilastered with mortgages and plunged in bankruptcy. The people of Valpami.o are in need of provisions, because war interferes with the commerce by sea, and even Peru, at peace with hII tbe woild, and in nounusual trouble from debt, is dlstressed througli occasional delay in the arrival of supplies from abroad. Dependence upon foreigners has reduced the people of those rf publica to such a condition that they do not know what real independence means. On the other hand. look at the United State . The protection of American industry, both factory and farm, has put UB in a poaition of almost com, lete industrial indepenJence, while as to food Biipply we have plenty and to spare. No Barings have a mortgage on the United States, nor are the bonds of our country (he play things of European stock brokers. The contrast between tbe North and South American republics is, with all due allowance for racial distinctions, the contrast between doing 11 we can for ourselves and allowing foreigners to do everything for us. -

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Ann Arbor Register