For seventeen years the PostmasterGeneral has been ready and willing and anxious to employ American steamships to take our mails to and from South American countries. but no American shipowner has been found who is willing to perform that service for the compensat ion provided. with the result that today not a letter nor a postal card. nor a pound of mail of any kind is carried from any South Atlantic or Gulf port to any country in South America. except Venezuela. upon a steamship of any kind floatIlg the American flag. Moreover. not a single American steamer of any kind or class is today running between this country and Brazil. or any South American country. except Venezuela. If we are willing that our work should be done by Asiatics. we can get it done at Asiatic prices. If we want it done by Americans. we must pay American prices. It has been demonstrated that we can not get our mails carried to South America in American bottoms at the price fixed by the act of 1891.
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