The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-28
A HOPEFUL VIEW OF ARGENTINE.

Signor Miguel Tedin, now in business at
New York, but for many years manager of
an Argentine railway, and otherwise con-
nected with large enterprises in that re-
public, is sanguine that the rountry will
emerge from its present difficulties in good
shape, to resume career of great pros
perity and progress, and his review of the
situation, in carefully prepared commu-
nication to the New York press, would
seem to fortify and sustain his position.
According to this writer the vast ranges
of Argentine now support about twenty
three millions of horned cattle, five mil
lions of horses and twenty millions of
sheep, all of which are fed by the
bounty of nature without causing their
owners care or cost. In one month, re-
Gently, three hundred thousand frozen
sheep were exported to England, and al
though they have not yet been able to ex-
port beef, large works have been estab-
lished, with capacity to preserve three
thousand head per day. Such immense
sources of wealth and revenue cannot fail
in time to materially relieve the present
| stringency.
On the pampas, Signor Tedin claims,
there are millions of square miles of fertile
lands, splendidly adapted to wheat culture.
which already before the late difficulties
| had for five years increased at the rate of
| % per cent. year, and the railroads.
| although constantly and greatly increas-
| ing their facilities, were unequal to the
| carriage of the freight. The territory of
| the republic stretches from the TWENTY
second to the fifty-second degree of south
latitude, and its products include wine,
sugar cane and superior coffee, and highly
| productive oil wells have been discovered
in some of the provinces.
But ii was hardly necessary to enlarge
| upon the great natural resources of that
counterpart of the United States in the
southern hemisphere. These have been
recognized and never disputed. 1t was the
people, and their rulers, and their political
methods that have caused doubt and IN
easiness. In these respects, also. this
writer gives an encouraging report. In
fact, he attributes large share, if not all
| of the calamities that have oyertaken the
republic To the maladministration of Gel.
man and his supporters, and to the cor
ruption and proligaoy which character
lied their government, which in all respect
was unblushingly partisan.
General Mitre, the present candidate for
President, with every prospect of success.
served ably and wisely in the same capac-
ity from 1862 to 1865, and it was he who
first reorganized and established a COM
pIete government for the republic, and
| who effected its consolidation and nut an
end to former rivalries and dissensions by
inducing the selection of Buenos Ayres as
the permanent capital. 1t was he, also
who initiated the railroad system, which
he confined within reasonable and safe
limits, but which Celman so atrociously
| abused.
With the Inauguration of this venerable
and patriotic statesman, it is believed that
economy and accountability will once
more prevail, and that linked with
these will be policy of sound
and healthy development of material re-
sources, and that late lessons will make
the people watchiul Of any approach to in
fringement of their liberties under the
guise of partisan appeals. Let us hone
| that the brightest of these authorizations
win be more than realized, and that the
counterpart TO the United States, which
Mitre and Sarmiento attempted and par
italy succeeded in establishing in South
America, will yet and soon become an
| actuality.