The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-10-03

flom The northern provinces, Dns.
ques from the eouth Of France, and
Germans. The latter control the
principal commerce. An immigrant
becomes a citizen the day he lands
if he wishes. Land is free to colo
nsts. The huge areas of Patagonia,
fertile where it was once imagined it
was desert, are filling up rapidly.
Thousands of miles of railroads are
being laid in every direction. Very
soon Valparaiso and Bueno Ayres
will be connected by rail- There
are no labor troubles. Wheat grows
wonderfully. Fifty thousand car
cases of sheep a month go in refri-
gerator ships to Europe. Buenos
Ayres will have 100000 people in
less than five years. We have built
q city of 1000 inhabitants in less
than four years. Towns spring up
by magic. Mines are being devel-
oped in the west, and even in Terra
del Fuego, and everyone is making
money"
"Have you all modern conven-
iences?"
"Oh, yes. 1 introduced the tele-
phone into the Republic. 1t is far
more popular, and the service better
and cheaper than in America. Why,
| have three different telephones,
each superior to the Bell. Your
American telephone service is miser-
able. shall take back an electric
light plant"
"Do you sell many American
vessels?"
81 should say not. / am full of
anger at the way America is treating
her opportunities. AS many steamers
enter the Platte as enter the harbor
of New York, yet the American flag
is scarcely ever seen. The Argen-
tine Republic has been holding out
magnificent offer to subsidize an
American line, but never bit of
encouragement from America. The
map of the world is unknown in the
United States. A Chinese wall OF
exclusion is being built around it.
The markets of the world would be
at its feet if it would throw down
the tariff wall. The Argentine Re-
public would gladly buy American
goods if she could have advantage.
Gus opportunity. She sends hide:
in free now. Let her send in WOO
for your woollen manufacturers free
and she will buy your wooden goods
in return. Cutlery, cotton goods
shoes, locomotives and a thousand
articles would be bought if Their,
were reciprocal advantages. Here
is a tariff bill passed by the House
which is step in the right direction
but il is blocked in the Senate, fol-
political reasons alone. | was talk
ing with John Wanamaker, tn
Philadelphia merchant, who cam
over on the City of New York will
me, on the subject. 'We ought t.
have free WOOL said he to me
then we could compete with Eng
land in all the cheaper grades c
wooden goods, and with moderat
protection can compete in the hig
grade woolens. Yet here the polit
cal tricksters stand in the way {
Americas commercial greatness
"What is Paraguay doing?"
paraguay is developing. She
at peace; she has settled her dis
pute with the English bondholder
by a land grant. Land there, whic
was worth only $1,000 a league,
now worth $4,000. The countr
was nearly depopulated in its feal
full war with Brazil. The countr
was nearly stripped of its mer
There are now half-dozen wome
to every man."
Capt. Manton is native of Rhod
Island. During the war, as con
mander of gunboat. he served III
t der Dupont and Farrrgut. He ha
been consul in Uruguay for ]
, years. Boston Herald