Endowments; Pan-Americanism; Periodicals--Publishing--Finance; New York (N.Y.); South American Publishing Company, Inc.; Allen, Wing B.
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
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DIRECTOR GENERAL BARRETT: I am sure we are very grateful to the gentlemen who have addressed us this afternoon. Now then the meeting is open. Mr. Wing B. Allen, I wish you would give us about three minutes on general observations. MR. WING B. ALLEN (N ew York): I have not a single thing to say except the thoughts that have been passing through my mind here today by listening to the different papers read. The thing that impresses me most is that all these papers are discussions about how we can sell goods in South America. I read a story once about a convention like this where a common delegate got up and after they had talked all about the exports of the United States he wanted to know something about the imports to the United States, especially from Latin America. Most of us are Americans here, although it is very noticeable that there are a large number of Latin Americans here, but there ought to be more of them. We ought to have equal representation, at least. These thoughts have been going through my mind, that we are too selfish, we are always thinking about what we can sell, what we can get from Latin America and we are never going to make much progress along this line until we consider what we can do for Latin America, what we can buy from Latin America, what we can exchange with Latin America. I am trying to do some work along this line myself. If you will permit me this personal word, we are publishing two papers, one of them is devoted to Latin America and the other to the United States. They are both related to each other, they are working for closer relations and better acquaintance. For many years I have attended these conferences and conventions where the subject was Latin America and, as usual, the Latin American trade which we might obtain. Time and time again I have heard public men say, talk about our help to Latin America. Yes, and they usually wind up by saying that what is needed in the situation is to know those people better and that they should know us better. I have heard that so much that I wondered why something wasn't done about it, why some effort wasn't made to get better acquainted. So I decided to do something. I decided to tell the people of the United States something about South America and we are going into our English papers as South Americans and printing a Spanish paper and trying to tell the Latin Americans something about the real United States. We are not getting that paper up like commercial dope, we are not bragging about the excellence of our goods or the credits which we can give them or anything like that; we are trying to tell them the ideals of the United States, our objects in the matter, something about our standards of living, in order that they may understand the real friendliness of our people. We are telling the people of this country about the Latin Americans, explaining the things about them that we haven't understood. We have studied these things and we are trying to tell what we have learned. You men can do the same thing in your business with these countries. You might stop and think once in a while, and if you can help them dispose of some of their goods up here, it will help a great deal to bring about those friendly relations which everyone is talking about." [SOURCE: Barrett, John and Moreno-Lacalle, Julián. Pan American Commerce: Past-Present-Future, from the Pan American viewpoint. Report of the Second Pan American Commercial Conference, Held in the Building of the Pan American Union, Washington, D.C., June 2-6, 1919. Washington, D.C., Pan American Union, 1919, pp. 54-55. HathiTrust, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433020818815. Accessed 16 Oct. 2018.] "THE SOUTH AMERICAN A JOURNAL FOR ALL INTERESTED IN LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS "THE SOUTH AMERICAN" is published each month by "The South American Publishing Company, Inc." WING B. ALLEN, President; L.A. Allen, Secretary and Treasurer. Office: No. 1 Broadway, New York. Telephone: Rector 8329. YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 IN THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, PANAMA, CUBA, PORTO RICO AND THE PHILIPPINES. ELSEWHERE $1.50 GOLD. WING B. ALLEN, Manager. J.W. DAVIES, Editor. Cable Address: "Sampoco" Codes: Lieber's A.B.C., 5th Edition. This company also publishes "El Norte Americano" a journal printed in Spanish, issued monthly. It carries news and descriptive articles of the United States of interest to Latin Americans. Yearly subscription, $1.00 in the United States, Mexico, Panama, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines; elsewhere $1.50 gold. Combined subscription of "The South American" and "El Norte Americano," $2.00 in the United States, Mexico, Panama, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines; $2.50 elsewhere. Postage free. THE OBJECTS OF BOTH PERIODICALS. To disseminate among all Americans a more intimate knowledge of all American countries, peoples and affairs and to stimulate greater amity and confidence between the inhabitants of the United States and the Latin American countries." [SOURCE: South American Publishing Company, Incorporated. The South American: A Journal for All Interested in Latin American Affairs, vol. 3-4, May 1914, pp. 23. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=f3Q-AQAAMAAJ. Accessed 16 Oct. 2018.]