Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1899 — German Growth in Brazil. [ARTICLE]

German Growth in Brazil.

Attention is called to the fact that gradually Germany Is getting a strong foothold In Brazil, and that there Is a possibility of a bteach of the Monroe doctrine In the future. Germany already controls tbe commerce of BrazlL More than one-third of all the merchants in the country are of German birtb or descent Each year tbe emigration of Germans to Brazil is increasing. There are, according to the latest reports, 465,000 Germqn-bom residents In the republic, to say nothing of the large number who have been born in Sonth America of German parents.