Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-10-22
SOUTHERN AMERICANS.
sTHE MOST ENTERPRISING CITY
IN THE WORLD
Some Facts for Enterprising Yankees
Imports of $3.50, ,OOO,OOO


Mr. Il. j. Hurley, of Fort Worth,
Texas, and which is given unusual
prominence now by the interest that
attaches to the approaching Pan-Amer-
lean conference which will convene IN
Washington early in October, and will
be made up of delegates from the in
dependent nations of the American
continent. The main purpose of the
conference will be to evolve such
methods and laws and treaties as will
lead to n more extensive business be-
tween the American nations. Mr..
Hurley saws:
There exists IN our land a surprising
ignorance concerning the mighty pen
insula which contains the Amazon; the
La Plata and the Andes. 1t makes a
cosmopolitan smile to hear our people
boast about our snap and enterprise,
and complacently assert that we are
.the smartest traders on Gods green
earth,' and all that sort of thing
Why, there is city in South America,
a commonly supposed abode of bar
barism, that, in push and enterprise
is far ahead OF even our Western cities.
i mean Buenos Ayres, the capital of
the Argentine Republic. Trade GEN.
tiers all over the world consider Bue-
nos Ayres the most enterprisipg city
to-day on the globe. Probably not
one man in q hundred knows anything
of Buenos Ayres or the country of
which 1t is the capital, or could tell, Off
hand, just where they are. The pop
ulation of Buenos Ayres is now near
ing the million mark. In lSS6-S7, 1884,
, 600 European immigrants landed there
Its population is made up of natives,
Italians, French, German, English,
and many Irish, the latter there, as
here, being influential in political and
financial affairs. The city has LAG
miles of street cars. Ii has more tele-
phones in proportion to population
than any other city in the world. 1t
! Is considered the best lighted city in
the world 1t has eleven large banks,
some of them occupying mNble palaces.
Two of them have larger capital Ean
any dozen banks combined in the
| United States. The Bank of Provence
has paid-up capital of S37 ,000, 900, a
| circulation of S22 900 900, deposits
amounting to $50 100000, with loans
and discounts TO the amount of S70,-
900 900. Fifty-seven large steamers
q month arrive and depart, but
not one of them flies the American
flag. The British government spends
about 5000 900 year in subsidies to
mail steamers 10 Buenos Ayres- As a
consequence freight and many of the
mails from the United States to Buenos
Ayres go via Liverpool. Enterprising
| Yankees should mediate on that. The
| pan,,ll,, nffaraI 10 ha
United States to pay half of a subsidy
of $500 900 TO be granted by our gov
ernment to a line of United States
steamers TO Buenos Ayres. The city
has 20 daily newspapers. The editor
of one of them, by the way, is Wins
low, the fugitive Boston forger, who,
it is said, has amassed a fortune OF
nearly half a million. There are
many other enterprising and rapidly
growing cities in South America and
Central America, and new towns are
are coming into existence all the time,
The Argentine Republic is probably
the most progressive of the nations
south of US. Every head of a family
is entitled by law to $50 acres of land
free, and as much more as he may
want TO purchase, TO limit of l 300
| acres, at 75 cents an acre. Or settler
may acquire SEQ acres free after five
j years, by planting 900 acres in grain
and "a acres in timber. They also
have free transportation from Bueno:
Ayres to the place of location, exemp.
ton from all taxation for ten years
and the government will loan then
money, not exceeding 81 900 at 6 pei
1 slsa .Rnlr 1xratt
of a certain area of land, and the cree
ton of improvements of certain val
ne. AS a result of these liberal laws
over a million acres year are added
to the agricultural area. I'd like som'
of our Texas mossbacks to chew OF
that fact.
There are 4O, 900, 900 sheep in tn,
] United States, and 100, 900, 900 in tn,
Argentine Republic. There are so,
/ OO0, 900 cattle, about the same number
as in the United States. More thai
$50, 900, 900 has been paid for wir'
fences"
What becomes of all their cattle?'
wsssasked. "Have they packing
bo,Hs?"
"Yes," he replied, "the largest il
existence. The establishment of tn
Liebig Beef Extract Co., one of tn
finest of its kind in the world, is il
the Argentine Republic. 1t employs
capital of S17 900 900, and for its bee
extract alone, $500 head of stock
day are slaughtered. Eight thousant
carcasses of frozen beef are shippe,
every week to London" Most of tn
manufactured articles used in Soutl
and Central America are importe,
from Europe, although the differ
ence in distance in favor of the Unite'
States is some 1900 miles 1t is enough
to make enterprising men wish to Sc
our next door neighbors going T.
Europe for everything they need in
stead " buying from us.
1t is estimated that the annual i'm
ports of South and Central Americ
are over $3.50, 900 900 in value. O
his enormous amount the Units,
States sell less than $50, 900, 900, tn
remaining 400, 900, 900, going from
England, France and Germany. Tn
IMPORTS of the Argentine Republi
amounted lest year to more than 500,
SOC, 900 of which only ga per cen
we're from the United States. Th
empire of Brazil imports annnuall
sver S100, 900 900 worth of goods, o
which the United States sell only abou
per cent, while England alone sell
Is per cent.
Mr.. Hurley was asked why it is tha
I We have SO small proportion Of thi
rade.
"It lie due mainly he said, ''to on
Yankee self-conceit and hard-headed
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