Germany Has Grip On Chile's Trade.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 15, 1912:
Berlin Papers Rejoice in Tribute Paid by Valparaiso Journal to Empire's Strong Position.
PUSHING THE ENGLISH HARD
German Editor from Brazil Says His Countrymen There Should Combat Americans' Influence.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Sept. 14.— South America and its political and commercial possibilities for Germany have never occupied more attention than at the present moment. It is intelligible under such circumstances that the German press should circulate with manifest satisfaction the following quotation from a recent editorial article in La Union of Valparaiso, discussing the gradual Germanisation of Chile.
    "From north to south there are threads which are binding us closer and closer to the gigantic German Empire. German banks have attained an extraordinarily strong development among us, and now dominate the money market.
    "The leading import houses, the electric light and power plants, education in the public schools, the seminaries, and the army, the saltpeter refineries, and steamship companies are all either in German hands or under German Influence. German shippers are pushing harder and harder the English companies, which long held undisputed sway.
    "The German invasion, however, has by no means come to an end. Capital for converting the Chilean debt is on deposit with three German banks. A German corporation is seeking to obtain a concession for electrifying the State railroad system in order to acquire a monopoly of the electric power supply in the zone between Santiago, Valparaiso, and Maivo. The German spider in Chile is spinning a firm and invulnerable net with skill, patience, and prudence which are truly remarkable, but which make the invincible progress of Pan-Germanism throughout the world entirely clear."
    The German-Brazilian Congress, which ended its sessions in Berlin early this week, was a pronounced success and has given a substantial impetus to the German cause in South America's largest republic.
    An editor from "the German colony" of Sao Paulo, in Southern Brazil, who addressed the congress, said that the paramount duty of Germans in Brazil was to interest themselves more in the domestic politics of the country, particularly with a view to "combating the North American trade policy and the North American conception of the Monroe Doctrine."