The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-07-18

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| commercially.
sit should not be forgotten, and l
| wish to bring it to your recollection
clear and strong this evening that
at one time steps were taken to bring
into closer relationship all the South
American countries with this nation,
and this by means of the legislation
| for commercial reciprocity. 1t re-
NAMED for one great American states
man, a man who saw clearly and with
prophetic vision, the duties and re-
sponsibilities of the future-James G.
Blaine, to put in force and record
treaties which If followed up would
have brought the counties closer to-
gether and resulted in conditions of
| infinite betterment to the people, to
the trade and to the labor of the
countries. But the exigencies of
party politics played havoc with that
plan, and Blaine's work fell through.
1t was a policy of give and take. but
| the ultimate result would have been
American trade for the Americans.
It is one of the great misfortunes of
our system that party success means
| a complete abandonment of the policy
began along these lines. Later on
we will grow wiser and profit by our
mistakes and losses in the past and
| by the successes of our competitors.
THE diplomatic gentlemen are not
to blame for the conditions as they
exist now, the result of this constant
| upheaval of party and the menace of
| uptearing lasting law. The diploma
tic gentlemen are but creatures of
| the law which they serve. The rem
edy is purely legislative and rests
with the people themselves, and they
alone have the matter in their hands
and in good time they will be heard
through the men who represent them
in the legislative councils ofthe nat
ion,
THAT which enunciated law will
do for our commercial marine will be
done in good and due season; it is
coming and it will come. A people
which numbered according to the
best estimates of statisticians at the
close of the twentieth century from
3S5 millions to 400 millions, must look
early to every possible avenue open
for the protection which follows a
well paid, we'll housed and we'll enter
tanned labor holding sway in the
great markets of the world.
but now about our neighborS-
what and what are they? They are
Spanish in the same way that we are
English, German or Irish, by descent.
They are bright intellectually; their
courtesy is charming, refreshing and
gracions-it is always and every
where, never forgotten. l bow be-
fore womanhood, and especially
the womanhood of Uruguay, rich in
all the virtues of good women, ex-
ample of the most glorious type of
Gou's choicest creation-Divine
women. Rudeness is the sin unpard-
enable; crankism can find no plea of
abatement. Their life is formal and
dignified, but always one of pleasure.
No more enchanting scene can be
conjured up than an occasion of
grand opera al mode in Buenos Ayres
or Mont svideo, where the flashing
and lustrous jewels, rich and hand
some gowns, and the beauty of the
women are absolutely unmatched in
any or all of the great capitals of the
world. The equipages are of the
same rich and luxuriant style, and fit
to belong to the day and hour.
The houses are luxurious and
many of them veriraole palaces. Their
architecture is Spanish, with touches
of the Renaissance. The mildness of
the climate is such that great roomy
houses are easily afforded as they do
not have to be heated in the winter
time, and in the summer they are
always cool and pleasant. Band con-
certs summer nights enliven the
times, and the best of classical music
is played. Life is made delightfully."-
picturesque and enjoyable. AS on
the continent only two meals a day
are served; coffee and rolls on arising,
breakfast at noon, and dinner, SER
we'd in courses, in the evening.
The wines are of excellent charac-
ter and abound in use universally. The
sobriety is equally universal. Drunk
eDness is almost unheard of there. In
the four years that I have been in
Montevideo | have seen less drunk
enness during the entire time than
can be seen one afternoon in a small
country town when the miners are
paid off.
'Being the son of somebody or
other cuts no figure with them. The
Roman Catholic is the state religion
and the almost universal religion,
and as usual the women are the most
numerous and devout attendants.
Bull fights are not now permitted and
the trend against the old Spanish
amusements is growing.
Great herds of sheep and cattle
are seen in Uruguay in larger num-
bers than any other place in the
world, and the stock are all free
from disease. 1t is a very pregnant
fact that wish to empha-
size to you, that the mature, we'll
fed steer, four years old, may be
bought in Uruguay for from SIS to S24,
as choice animal that can be found in
any of our export herds, and sweeter,
too, and from the River La Plata one
million head can be exported annu-
ally just as soon as the refrigerating
vessels and steamers necessary can
be sent there to take them away. Be
assured that there are other ca tie
farms than in the west,
Life in the native farms, or es-
branches, is of the patriarchal type,
the tenantry being satisfied with a
simple life and ready to do actual
battle for the padrone of the es-
trancha. The poems go with the es-
trancha when sold, and l have seen
three generations rounding up cattle
on the estrancha where they were all
born.
1.-THE houses of the estrancha own
ers are all large and roomy, solidly
built around the square, with paved
court in the center, and rooms along
the sides furnished as the taste and
the purse of the owner may see fit.
Chapel is held every morning and
the work of the day we'll begun.
Grace and dignity attend this life,
life of honestly aimnlinitV and SINGER