The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-09
TRADE OPENING IN ARGENTINA.
Manufacturers in This Country Have
Fine Chance for Customers.

Fine Chance for Customers.
From the Buenos Ayres Herald
1t really seems as if Americans were
only beginning to learn that in this
southern hemisphere there is a republic
boasting one of the largest and most
progressive cities in the world, coun-
try with great natural resources, which
are being rapidly developed-indeed, an
Argentine Republic such as we who are
here see and know it to be. This ignor-
ance of the country and it's conditions
is shown in the North American press
as rule whenever it has occasion to
comment on Argentine affairs or their
relations with the commercial world.
Indeed the common tendency is to re-
fer to South American countries as all
of kind and to judge of them by the
disturbances that occur in some of the
smaller states north of us, which are
dignified by the name of revolutions"
but which are in no sense so big so
dangerous or SO truly revolutionary as
were the recent labor disturbances in
New York and Cleveland.
That all such conceptions of this
country are erroneous and unjust no
class of people is more prompt to &C
knowledge than the Americans resident
here, as well as the British, the Ger
man and other Europeans. Relatively
speaking, there is doubtless less crime
in this country than in the United
States. In no city of it's size is vice less
rampant, probably, than in Buenos
Ayres. European capital is very large
ly invested here, showing that among
those who know the country well there
is confidence in its resources and it's
government, while our market has be-
come one of such Importance that It is
deemed especially worthy of catering
to by London, Paris Brussels and other
European trade centers. An Argentine,
while visiting in the United States was
once greeted by the exclamat ton:
why! Are your people white?" In
equal ignorance of the country, an
American from Philadelphia came to
BuenOr Ayres not long since to Intro
duce" barbed wire fencing, which he
thought would be a good thing with
which to inclose cattle ranches and
farms. He found himself years behind
the. times, Of course, and returned a
wiser if sadder man, with a new con-
ception of the country.
The American government and some
few business houses have ultimately
awakened to the fact that the Argen-
tine Republic is a country to be re-
spected and that it is open to great
trade possibilities. a determined effort
is now on foot to promote closer rela-
tons in trade; an American bank of
South America is talked of, also sub
sidiZed line of American steamships.
All this we would be glad to see, and
it may be realized in the not far dis
tant future. But the American manu-
facturer or merchant who would firmly
establish his goods here wants thor
oughly to understand that he is coming
to a market already well stocked with
the best the world has to offer; that its
people are insistent on the fact that
the very best is none too good for them:
that they are quite familiar with all
the European markets: that this city is
justly termed the Paris of South
America" and draws its style hot from
the French capital and that nothing in
the nature of "shoddy' or 'veneering"
can be introduced here with the slight
est prospect of success.