The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-05-10

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ton that as result of all this the vcr-
| dict Of those who visit Buffalo next
year will be that in certain phases. and
| in not q few, the Pan American Expo
| sition will be justly entitled TO rank
| in history as the most beautiful and
successful of American EXpoSitions.
No one who has approached the sub
| ject of Industrial Pan America seri-
ously believes that the artificial trade
conditions now existing between Cana
| da, the different Central and South
American republics and the United
| States-as they affect and restrict COM
merce and communication between the
| different countrieS-can long continue,
| nor can it be controverted that great
| changes for the better in these regards
have taken place during the past few
years. Indeed. greater advance has
been made during the past ten years In
| the countries of the Western Henri
| sphere in all that counts for tie better
| than during the so years preceding.
| This statement, made broadly, can be
| verified in detail. 1t applies to every
| thing that has tended toward stability
| of government. toward the betterment
and improvement Of the people of the
different countries, toward the build
ing up therein Of permanent national
wealth and in the direction of utilizing
| to a greater degree than heretofore the
| products aud resources CT these coun-
| tries.
Governments nnd Expert Products
OF South AElerica.
. 1t is tue that exceptions II this
statement can be easily pointed out;
| but, broadly speaking. it will brar in
vestigatior and will he found 10 ne cor
| rect. For example, with few exceptions
! the seemingly unending boundary dis
| putes-all Of which. by the way. came
| down from the old Spanish regime as
on Inheritance and which have been
| for 20 years the source CT untold ex
| penSe ard Of constant irritation ami
oft threatened war between practically
| all of the republics Of Central anG
| South America have been aniirahiy
| concluded. The closing G:..yS OF the
| century fad that chief Sou"r" i trnll-
| Bile in Latin America happily r"d1c,'d
| to a comparatively small point 1t is
| but just to these republics 10 say in
| this connection that due credit should
be given thclH for the fact that in
reaching this result they lave consist
emily recognized the theory Of arNitra-
tiCl to be the proper and true li,'thod
by which such intCr@ati0:.:;l disputes
may be solved. Today no boundary
difficulty Of any kind affects the peace
Of the cast coast of South America. and
but two such questions are still to be
adjusted upon the west coast. Stable
government, well administered has
been reached in very many of the re-
publics south of us. In some notably
In those toward the extreme south Of
the continent-the most striking and
rapid advances Imaginable have been
made during the past ten years III their
material development and III The pros
perity of their people.
This has been especially true of the
Argentine Republic and of Chile. Fifty
years ago the latter supplied tlour Il
the entire west coast of South. Central
and even to that of North America.
The development of California and Or
egon, however, changed this. ard today
the latter not only supplies their own
wants, bet as wei a la"%e section Of
Central and part of Western South
America with breadStuffS. Chile OH
her part has become tllr worlds nitrate
producer and notably 50 in copper.
while her vineyards have Increased
with each year.
In the Argentine ECps.hl;" tie
changes that have occurred are even
more striking. because thy relate to
things with which we Of the United
States and Canada are mere familiar.
1t is, for example, relatively speaking.
hut 4 few wears since the United states