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Sounds A Warning

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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"VVasnington, Dec. 5. - For the benefit, of North Americans who constantly wrlte letters inquiring what Americans without capital, but with "energy and push," can do in Brazil, United States Consul Mathews, at Para, sunds a note of warning in a report to the state department on his indigent oo-untrymen, a class arriving there every month In the year. He says there are more applicants than positiona; salaries are wwy.small, and living is the most expensive in the world. As to out-ofdoor labor, no white American exposed to the burning sur. and daily raina could hope to escapo yellow fever, and t)erhaps death. To deal in rubber req.uires larfe capital, and American rubber gatherers woulá have but one chance in ten for liïe, for even among the nativcs the mortality is 50 per cent on eome rivers. I

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Ann Arbor Register