Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-10-26
Some OF Our Southern Neigbors

Mr.. Thomas c. Dawson, secretary of
the United States legation to Brazil.
has Issued a short work upon "The
South American Republics" from which
these curious facts about our near
.neighbors ard allies under the Monroe
doctrine are condensed.
Mr.. Dawson. like other observers. OBJ
jects to the notion that all South Amer
lea is rent by revolutions at frequent
intervals. Argentina. Chilli. Brazil ana
other important states have passed
through their troublous times and seem
as stable and tranquil as Mexico.
Argentina. for instance. had her civil
war-a long one-on the same issue
that long divided our parties, the Ques-
ton of states rights or federation. The
problem was finally settled by dividing
Buenos Ayres city from its province.
thus deprivine it of it's preponderance
in the republic. The war closed i'm
1862. three years before ours did. Since
then there have been in Argentina only
brief ard local disturbances
Argentina is the only country of con-
sequence in the world that grows faster
than the United States. Its increase is
per cent per year. one hundred
thousand per year is the recent average
Of immigration. The immigrants are of
as many races and tongues as with US.
Climate and soil are superb. Argentina
exported 4.O00,G bushels OF wheat in
1897 and 6100o.Onu bushels ia 1909.
The total exports of Argentina in
1899 were S1s5,O0O.OOO, twice as much
per head as those of the United States.
Argentina and Canada are the only
two New World countries that surpass
ours in relative foreign commerce.
The settlement OF South America by
whites proceeded almOatl altogether
from the Pacific side. Gold was the
lure. The Spanish kings long tried to
prevent direct commerce with the At
lantic coast. Freight for Buenos Ay-
res was sent to the isthmus. logged ov-
er the divide, shipped 70 Callao, and
thence carried overland to the Platte.
The rebellions of the South American
republics from SI,ain were all inspired
by the success of our war of liberation.
They mostly began about 1910 and were
completed by 1925.
Resides record example of swift
nation building in modern Argentina
South America possesses the most ter
rible example of the folly of war. Ac-
cordinE to Mr.. Dawson. Paraguay lost
between 1864 and 1870 225,0OO able-bo-
died men out OF $780, in the devastat-
ing war with Brazil and Argentina. The
despot Lopez had dreamed OF being Il
new Napoleon on American soil. This
was the result. Since then Paraguay
has grown rapidly by immigration and
by natural recovery.
Chill was not so devastated by the
war with Peru, but even there women
run the street cars. They began doing
so because the men were soldering.
In the ten years between 1850 and
1890 Uruguay grew from 400. 600 inhabi-
tants to 100000. Whenever a South
American country has had brief. re
spite from civil war it has shown sur
prising recuperative faculties.
OF I2te years arbitration has sue
ceeded to war as a means of settling
disputes among the fiery South Amerl-
cans. President Hayes acted as arbi-
TRAITOR in 1873 between big Argentina
and little Paraguay, and his decision
in favor of the latter was accepted. /
was a triumph when Chill and Argen-
tina avoided o war that would hav.
been bloody and costly beyond South
American precedent oy peaceably
agreeing on the division OF Patagonia