The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-31

compete with ours in the markets of the world. In these industries the available country is by no means de- veloped. There is room there for 100,- 100000 cattle and S00,0o0,o00 sheep while the wheat territory, if 1t were all cultivated, could feed the most of Europe"
 A New Race fin Formation.
 How about the people. MT. Bar rett?" I asked.
 They are a strong people" was the reply, "the equals of any people know, There is new race in process of formation in Argentina, race which Is being made out of the best element of the Latin races with sprinkling of Anglo Saxon. just as we have the best of the Anglo Saxons with a slight sprinkling of the Latins. The original settlers of Argentina came from Spain, but they were mostly from the northern part of that country and their children and childrens children have grown up in the colder regions of South America. They have been inn proved by the more invigorating cli- mate of Argentina. Another large ele- ment is the Italian. which Is compos- ed of immigrants from Northern Italy. and another is French. More than one-third of all the people in the coun- try are foreigners, and 70 per cent Of the foreigners are Italians. About 92 percent of the immigrants have been of the Latin race, the remaining per cent being made up British. Danes. Swiss Portugese and Russians. All of these different clements are mixing together. The races are intermarry- ing and out of them will come the Ar genuine race of the future. The new generation in all cases seems to be proud of being Argentines, just as the children of our immigrants are proud to call themselves Americans
 The Metropolis of South America.
 How do the people live in Argen- tina. MT. Rarrett?" I asked. Ion farms or In cities?"
 There are a great many on the farms replied the minister, but by no means so large a proportion as In the United States About one-ffth of all the people in the republic live in Bue- nos Ayres and its suburbs. That city is by far the most important in the country Rosario coming next with 125. 900 and Tucuman in the far north with 50,o00. Cordova has, l udge. about 50.000.
 "Buesnos Ayres Is a wonder" con tinued Minister Barrett. Tt is the | biggest Spanish speaking city in the world. It has 915.000 within its bor- ders and with its suburbs it numbers more than a million. It is a progress | sive city and is an up to date as any | city on tn North American continent | It has excellent street cars and elec- | tric lights, and its sanitary condition | is as good as that of the cities of the | United States. It is a town of wide | streets and big buildings. It has libra ries literary societies and good pub lie schools. It has good newspapers. and one of its journals, La Prensa." has the finest newspaper building of the whole world It is city of big banks of enormous capital, of stock exchanges, whose business runs high into tens ot millions, of fine clubs and of live twentieth century people, In the other capitals of South America the people stop business from Il un- til for breakfast and a siesta Bue- nos Ayres does business all day long and the streets are thronged from day light until dark. Indeed the town makes me think of New York and Chi cago rather than the ordinary South American city"
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