The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-03
POSSIBILITIES IN ARGENTINA
Opportunities for the Development
of American Trade

NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-The Rev. Dr. ].
F. Thomson, who has been a missionary
for the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Buenos Ayres for the last thirty -four
years is now in this country on a short
visit, but will return to his work on
Wednesday In talk with a reporter he
spoke of the various Interests OF his ooun-
try as follows:
The people of the United States should
be Impressed with the fact that the Argen-
tine Republic is the most progressive and
most important nation in South America
She has the greatest fleet the best dis
eipllned and most numef Gus army. and
stands ahead of all the rest in education.
There are more highly educated women in
Argentina. probably. than in all the other
countries OF South America together. This
Is largely due to the results obtained in
the normal schools established by teachers
that went from the United States.
The city of Buenos Ayres. the capital
OF the Republic. is the largest Spanish
speaking city in the world with all the
improvements and conveniences that could
De obtained in Paris or New York The
Population is nearly 500. 600
The United States is far from being
awe to her commercial interests in that
Il
deal OF mining and agricultural machinery
sent from this country to England is
afterward reseld by the English to the
Arsentines. The same is true with refer
ehce to white cotton cloth and your cele-
DRAFTED breakfast bacon. In the matter of
boots and shoes we believe you to make
the best article in the world and at
prices that We deem moderate and vet
We import fourteen times as much foot
"a from Er,r ~.
from the United States. The same is true
with reference TO hats. And you ought
to make all the cloth for wearing apparel
that is consumed in South America.
There are abundant seed oysters on
the coast of South America. but nobody
has yet begun to cultivate them. and
though the inhabitants of Buenos Ayres
are fond of oysters the article offered Tor
sale is so diminutive in size that man
would need to eat one hundred of them
before feeling satisfied. Could not sec.e
live Yankee look into this matter and
make himself the oyster king of South
America?
: mother subject that may be important
TO graduates CT colleges: the Government
has recently determined to establish tech
meal schools in ten of the fourteen prov
inces that constitute the Republic. The
teachers are TO be sought In the United
States, and those who. reading this. feel
themselves competent for such post may
put themselves In communication any time
after September with Edward Wilde, Ar
gentine Minister at Washington
"A word as to the climate In the hills
of Cordova. about thirty hours by railway
from the port of Buenos Ayres. there ex-
lists the best sanitarium on the planet for
the victims of pulmonary consumption.
do not refer TO a ey-making e.rganiza-
TIN. but simply TO the air that can be
breathed among those hills. pure. dry. and
Of equal temperature. / have personal
knowledge of the complete cure of several
persons, among others two clergymen. All
that is needed OF the patient is to keen
in the open air as much as he can. drink
nilh. and cat heartily, and in from eight
n onths to year he viii feel himself to
be a new man. 1t won't cost him more
than $3.50 a day. l feel amazed when /
see and hear of the numbers of victims of |
this dreadful complaint that seem to be |
ignorant of. or will not avail themselves OF.
this cheap and almost absolutely certain |
remedy for their sickness