Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-27
SOUTH AMERICAS FUTURE.

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amount of ignorance as to South
America, notwithstanding that it is an
interesting subject of study in this
age of commercialism. In the schools
the pupils are taught of Europe and
Asia and of ages both bloody and
dark. AS they advance they are given
more of the same thing in greater
detail, and as they leave the school
the mention of foreigners" foreign
governments, or of foreign trade" Is
likely to bring to mind England, Ger
many, France, Spain, Russia, China
and Japan.
Yet to the south Of us Is great
continent, great In territory, great in
productiveness, and in possession Of
great prospects for the future. Nine
ty-seyen per cent Of the territory Of
this continent is under the republican
form of government, the constitution
Of the United States being looked up.
on as model, ana changes in the
mode of government being made to
suit the conditions and the people Of
South America.
AS Secretary Root, says, the rela.
lions of this country with South
American republics have been OF a po-
litical nature, and we have come TO
think Of them as peopled with a class
whose principle aim In life Is to revol-
utionize their government. It is fact
that their revolutions are about the
only South American products that
are brought to our attention. But
Secretary Root has been there and he
has brought home message. The
only speech relative to that continent
that he has made since returning was
delivered before the Mississippi
Commercial Congress, and in few
words he gives vast amount of In
formation, as follows:
Throughout the greater part Of
that vast continent revolutions have
ceased to be looked upon with favor
or submitted to with Indifference; the
revolutionary general and the dictator
are no longer the objects of admira-
ton and imitation; civic virtues COM
mand the highest respect; the people
point with satisfaction and pride to
the stability of their governments, to
the safety Of property and the GER
tainty of justice; nearly everywhere
the people are eager for foreign capt.
tai to develop their natural resources
and for foreign immigration to occupy
their vacant land. Immediately be-
fore us, at exactly the right time, just
as we are ready for 1t, great opportuni-
tiess for peaceful commercial and in
dustrial expansion to the south are
presented. Other investing nations are
already in the f1eld-England, France,
Germany, Italy and Spain; but the
field is SO vast, the new demands are
SO great the progress so rapid that
what other nations have done up to
this time is but slight advance in
the race for the grand total"
He goes further in the discussion
Of the subject Of immigration. The
secretary says that under the new con-
d1tions of tranquility and security that
prevail their eager invitation to i'm
migrants from the old world will not
long go UNDECIDED. They are coming
now at the rate of three hundred
thousand year to the Argentine re-
public. This conditions of affairs will
undoubtedly go far toward solving the
immigration problem in the United
States There is much room in the
continent to the south, ana wiz, the
improved conditi, rs there thousands
will turn in that direction rather than
settle in the over populated precincts
of the United States. South America,
its wealth of opportunity and posi-
bilities, is a study for the commercial
world in the future