New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-16
TIE ARGENTME REPUBLIC.
PRESIDENT sARMIENTo. .

IL ia, we suppose, impossible TO excite an III Ina
snoceeded-projects which read like dream lhongh
sent armies 70 carry them out5we Of re yaey
OF the Ganges be as interested IN ne"s iIo Duon9s
Ayres in intelligence from BomDeS dnsra; anS
among us decorated victories over tne GuaaS anu
be reading with mixture OF curiosity anu pl,V tI
Of the laying of second cable ron are NOT lords alike
Of Uruguay and Buenos Ayres gen o TSW
was u5e away TO secure the safe retreat of the
defeated army, and the opportunity OI
race with territories rich and as vast as those OF the
other three was lost never TO be regalheu AZ
cal to be quoted the top Of the foreign list OF
the stock Exchange, the mass OF forot he
Argentine Republic altogether Not one political Journal
in London has, we believe ps4snga SNe Snd ceT
tainly not one not even Tbs Sadard mas .nOugnt Oh
sv remsrkabie man. delivered under very noteworthy
circumstances The territory OF the Argehtne
u.s. as isr aS mnoTant number Of immigrants who
neither speak English as their mother tongue nor
no o Sacs In any respect AngOsaGon The Immigration
has been rising Of late TIL 1t exceeds 10000 q
5000 almost the whole Of whom, some i hnIn
men excepted will be Immigrants from sog HaIs
and their influence it is said ia one OF the many when
are gradually sGdSngt ana 20 bs want Of population
numerous enough and civilized enough 10 teuuoo tne
Indians halfbreeds and political fanatics OF tne
to obedience and order 80 warke are me rDes 80 h
are the distances so ingrained are the "a ~
NOT TO speak of tho quarres between the states ana the
Central Power, and between Governors ana ds
has been impossible except through relationships sup
ported solely by terror. Successive governments nav
themselves felt OF sending shocks, it were through
non conducting materials that they have been forced 10
hecone tvraunies OF n type elsewhere extinct IN tue
world yrannes supported solely by their power OF IN
20 inevitable that tho President who has
made lifelong study OF spanish America oeoiaeS ~
,hing Innate historical traditional In Spanish America
tending TO repeat there the forms OF Asiapo
soyeregns of the Inca Rosas Of Franca are not the
expression OF some permanent ana lnoutaDe nd
aairs-One OF the strangest little dpehs INTO lne a
of Republican ruler we every remember to have read
battling himself unless we Tgsa n ise oT SsF
peually accretng power However tho se'ers Th hS
STovDess eohere who will first create opinion and then
make executive are at last arriving ana a. 49,, Lc h1
Spanish American alve-he one man among that group
OF who appears to belong to tho order OF men
Ssrmiento goes at HIS work like Indian Vceroy or
An Australian Governor rather than Spanish party
leader He tells his Congress that the first necessity Iot
the Republic OF secure loeomoon hat ne must
that he ia very glad members have come far
and through such discomfort because they nave hctua
felt the evils no desires 10 remedy Hampered as ne Is
by the Paraguayan war; Of which he speaks with great
| bitterness, though he goes on with IT, he has.
ready IL Effected Effected much in this direction and
| the Central Railway from Buenos Ayr e 20
Cordoya which opens up the mining provinces, VIII DO
more Nothing bothers ahighwayman Ike a loeomotiye
| q mil An Is
army into order. II has been the practice IN Bnehos
Ayres leave the soldier unpaid practice says . sa
rous nor very honorable" injustice which never has
long TO wait punishmeDt" but he Is remedylng tue
deal to restore TO the soldery gard for the Govern
ment and for the National institutions, unpaid persons
tves as coSsidera6y more sdyantSseous than either
Some sort OF discplhe seems 70 ana in Tie FAR me
terror where "a latent sense OF insecurity had almost
dissolved society; and the President has further Inn
proved the public force by armng II with an American
treeehloader which Indians, afbreeds and other DIS
orderly persons obtain and which OF tse there-
fore important element OF order Force thus re-
stored 70 the STATE the President Se. nSG nor 20
much by the want OF revenue, for the revenue has
IN se S y o @%s or 5bs to
escape taxes, taking brides for exemptions ana Tue
hnweYer he has nearly done it~rs by an abso
Lutte determination that II the state promised anything
s sS for Individuals and thirdly, beeye.
o dSdsn ne to take brides and lie believes when
| the work is completely done, that ls, when
| levied from tho people. the Republic will have
enough for It's wants and moro without any new tax
passing through a period OF financial distress.
by the tendency Of the people % postpone every
Of wool does not pay the restoration Of security aud
the opening up OF the mining provinces by the railway
new port great scale at the railway terminus have
been already signed ana the tresaen. is ABOUT 70
posterOus distribution OF the soil or all tho evils which
| retarded
greatest the tenure forced upon tho colonial govern
Inents by the circumstances OF the original conquess.
The granted In vast blocks 10 men who Intended
70 work their grants either through Indian serfs Inn
ported slaves aud though Slavery and serfage are alike
There are men in every State who
prncpates they cannot peoples and In tho States Of La
vdual owns Land sufficient TO make Kingdom" that
the seSSh cannot n ena vOrS ~
land the acquisition Of which IS not exposed 10 the
eventuaes Of purchase by private bargain, and with
| NJ U
100000 Of Inhabitants twOthrds of them know not
ment" The President has resolved that this system
should end, and intends apparently TO reclaim all the
lands belonging TO the subordinate States those
granted TO individuals but not used-a strong but nds.
pensable measure. in which he will DO backed by tho
All this looks like progress but all this Is In the Pres
dents Judgment useless unless the Republic can get rid
Of it's permanent burden-the Ignorance OF the popula
tion-to which no aser6es every evil II has endured.
aton, he says know nothing not even the laws they
have to obey and l this evil Is corrected the people,
eopts made in this direction have been confined to set
ting up colleges in each province, whence issues every
| who leave the masses behind without improving
them" g. sarmieno desires universal education, de-
sire for 1t has fortunately sprung up In the provinces
and hampered he Is by the he has still prepared
bills which will he believes bring the means OF educa-
President like all fanatics Of his kind great deal too
| sangune He must ind sehoomasters before he can
establish schools, Just as he must find honest tax
gatherers before nc MI his Treasury, and popaa-
| tion before his new industries will succeeds but
still, after all allowances there is something to
interest politicians in this spectacle Of
| panish-Amercan, a quiet Doctor OF Laws
standing up down there at the bottom Of the world
IT, by the mere exercise OF intelligence, he cannot
change population Of Spanish owners italian peasants
wild Indians and who, he says must be described
by some word bet1een bandits and prairie savages" all
dotted in little groups territories which strain
the Imagination Of geographers and have, he says.
bound but few roads," Into the peaceful citizens
| OF orderly and wealthy state organized on
civilized principles and open to all the poverty stricken
among Catholic manknd-dong II too with an obvious
effort not TO be too despOtc 10 advance too fast not
set up dictatorship IN the interests OF civilization
Very likely fall be what 10 may