Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-09
Reciprocity in Intellect Next

public speech. that the United states would
not interfere In the AFFAIRS Of the South
American states and would never aggran-
die itself at the expense Of any one Of
them have seemed to remove all political
suspicion and jealousy. The American sec
Rotary was enthusiastically received
wherever he went he everywhere listened
to Mandatory addresses Of personal welcome,
delivered sometimes In English, but more
often, Of course, in vernacular Spanish.
In Buenos Ayres the walls of the grand
salon in which the city dignitaries gathered
to greet him were ornamented with inter-
twined Argentine and American flags and
portraits of himself and President Roose-
welt.
OF the commercial necessity for some
such understanding as might be helped
along by an international exchange Of uni
versity professors, as is proposed for liar-
ward, Columbia and other institutions, nu-
merOus facts not altogether to the credit
Of American enterprise are cited. Argen-
tina, the most progressive in many respects
of Southern American republics, illustrates
the point. The republics foreign commerce
last year amounted to more than $3.50, 0OO, 900.
OF this large sum the United States, the
greatest manufacturing nation on the globe,
got but S2S,OOO,OOO. Germany, 1900 miles
away, received more into its trade Golfers,
while Great Britain obtained three times
as much These countries, from the nature
Of their export trade, should perhaps have
somewhat closer relations with European
lands, but the United States is not getting
its normal share of the trade Again, the
railroad system Of the republic has cost up
70 date nearly 5000 100000, not one cent Of
which has been drawn from American
source, although British investors have Of
late years realized largely from their in
vestments in country which is rapidly in
creasing in prosperity.
Yet there is money in Argentina to pay
for immense importations Of manufactured
goods This present year 13,SOO,OOO acres Of
wheat were harvested and the per capita
yield of wheat, forty-two and a half bush
els. is the highest in the world. The value
Of the exports of this grain in 1905
amounted to $l19,OOOO 900. The flaxseed area
equals 100000 acres and the crop will
bring more than $S1 ,OOO, 900 into the pockets
Of the growers. Alfalfa makes a perfect
food for millions of cattle on the Argentina
plains.
The exports of annual products the last
year totalled $115,OOO,OOO. Sheep by the tens
country was able TO export 10000 tons of
wool. The labor situation, which has be-
come so troublesome In the United States,
is very satisfactory in Argentina, for of
late years the country has attracted great
numbers of good workers from Italy and
Spain.
That such an arrangement as has been
suggested by Presidents Eliot and Butler
would be feasible is shown by the excel
lence Of Argentinan educational instltu-
tions. The public school system has been
enlarged and greatly enriched since Presi-
dent Sarmiento, one Of the ablest states
men that ever headed any republic, hon
ored the North American republic by TAX
ing as a model its system of public educa-
ton. There are important universities in
Buenos Ayres and Cordoba at which very
distinguished men lecture, and at La Plata,
in a beautiful provincial capital about an
hours ride from Buenos Ayres, a new gov
ernmental university of great promise Is
now being established. There would there
fore be abundant opportunity for exchange
of professors.