The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-10-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.

known. In 1886 your correspondent was
present at the unwilling of his great
statue of Liberty Enlighteningt he World
in New York harbor. 1t will be renem-
bered by all who "assisted"'on the occa-
sion,that the eminent creator of the colos-
sal statue that doomed above them, though
he could speak English fairly we'll, was
permitted to take only the slightest part
in the celebration. The stupidity of the
management conspired with his own
modesty to shove him completely in the
background, while DeLesseps came for
ward and talked for an hour about his
great Panama canal which even then was
a disastrous failure. Perhaps the dis
tinguished artist was content in the re-
Election that he had provided himself with
a magnificent monument in the bronze
goddess who through the centuries will
lift her torch to light the pathway of the
worlds comerce.
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Our distinguished visitor from Buenos
Ayres, DIR. Carlos Pellegrini, former presi-
dent of Argentina. has just had lunnch.
con with the President, called on him
yesterday at the New Willard and had a
pleasant interview. DR.. Pellegrini is a
tall, MISUNDERSTANDING man, and
speaks English perfectly. 'That's a
great worlds fair at St. LOUIS" he said,
"hut Japan is really the only ma
ton on earth that does its best
there. Most of the other countries have
what may be called complimentary ex-
hibits. The fact is, the human race is
somewhat fatigued with too much worlds
fair" asked him if he saw many
changes since he was here twenty years
ago. ooh. great, and magnificent, he
answered, Immense everywhere. But
probably not so great as have taken place
in Argentina in the same time. We
have probably built more railroads than
you in proportion to the population.
This city is supurb In twenty years
more it should be-well. at the head"
showed DIR. Pellegrini the report of
Governor Luke Wright's speech in Man
lila, in which he affirmed that the South
American republics had shown that they
were not fit for self government. "Ah,
yes" he said, as he read, II had not
seen. The Governor does not know his
geography. He should be more careful
of his tongue. He means the north
western republics which are not yet very
far advanced. But Argentina, Chilli, Bra
iii, large proportion of their people are
white, descendants of Europeans and with
stable governments"
''Then Argentina does not believe in
the black races?" asked. "Oh, yes;
but the Indian is different-unquiet aud
fond of change. We have no trouble
with the descendants of Africans. The
color line is not drawn with us. Person
ally, politically and socially we make no
difference We have no such race hos
tilities as you have
THAT" suggested, perhaps because
the slavery question is absent, or because
you have so few negroes"
NO." he said 1--WE too had slavery, and
the proportion Of negroes in Argentina is
about the same as in the United States
say one-tenth. We have not learned to
dislike a man on account of his color
Many of our best citizens are colored
Portugal has just sent us her ambassador,
a negro. His mother, believe, was
quite black; he is dark mulatto, man
with fine features, scholar, linguist, a
in short, gentleman. His father is one
of the rich men in Lisbon. Well, this
brown ambassador is received in society
everywhere on par with any white
man, and he gives fine dinners and parties
ara we all attend them. Why should we
not 7 But yours is wonderfully progress
sive country. mean to visit it every
little while as long as live j." DR.. Pei
legrini is gathering data for the treatment
of labor problems in Argentina.
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and Labor. is energetically trying to
bring to punishment the scoundrels who
were responsible for putting on the mar
ket life preservers concealing within their
cork interiors bars of iron six inches long
of course because crude iron is much
cheaper than cork. A more hideous of.
Tense against human life has not come to
light during this generation. and the
Secretary vehemently declares that he
will detect the guilty ones and punish
them for their crime. 1t seems that
some of them. especially the manufac-
tuners who furnish the life preservers, are
already we'll known; it seems also that
there is no law under which they can be
adequately punished. To punish them
by fine 'for an attempt to evade the
United States laws" seems like trifling
with the sacredness of human life.
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