The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-01-18
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ed, says Sedgwick, are now things OF
the past, present minor internal dim
culties amount to nothing more than
riots which are suppressed by the po-
lice.
In the Argentine Republic, one day,
Sedgwick was on a street car when
newsboys shouted the news of what
the papers termed a revolution in Men
doca but nobody on the car was In
terested enough to purchase a paper
and, he learned afterward, a number
of police were sent to suppress the ex-
element, which they very soon did.
"Old time revolutions" said Profess
sor Sedgwicl1 this morning, are things
of the past and foreign newspapers
now exaggerate what few internal dis
turbances, little better than riots, are
occurring.
The South American governments
are doing all in their power to bring
about closer social and commercial
relations between themselves and their
neighbors and foreign countries. In
Lima, Peru, there are half hundred
of the more energetic, enterprising and
younger men of business who are
banded together to advance trade at
home and abroad and to realize greater
advantages for the people.
The Peruvian government, as well
as other South American governments,
are sending young men to England,
Germany, France and the United States
to obtain liberal educations and to re-
turn with new IDEAS Laborers's chill
dren are being educated, on the planta-
tions, and in the municipal schools
and they are being taught the folly of
uprisings and how such actions tend
to retard their own welfare as well
as the welfare of the nation.
"Of course there are opposing poll
teal parties, as ever, but all parties
have the one main idea of the MAIN
tenance of peace. English is being
taught in the schools. and in some
cases it is compulsory to learn English
Peru and other governments are es.
tablishing agricultural schools; agri-
cultural experiment stations are being
established and night schools, hospi
tails, poor houses and other institu-
lions are springing up and everything
is being done to advance the public
welfare.
THE present president of Peru is
neither a soldier nor a politician, but
a practical business man. The none
tary standard is gold and the Peruvian
pound is worth two pence more than
the English sovereign, the English and
Peruvian pounds being exchanged at
face value; the introduction of silver
is limited, while there is no paper
money in the country. This gives for
eigners confidence to go to Peru to in
vest or to accept salaried positions.
Quicker connections are being es-
tablished between Callao and NEW
York and steamers now run in five
days between Callao and Panama to
connect with the United Fruit Com
pany's boats to New Orleans, then to
New York, in from ~ to IA days where
as before the passage occupied from Is
to % days.
Peru is importing Japanese labor
ers, Japanese boats taking in laborers
and going home with nitrates. La
borers in Peru are taken to the plan
tations from the mountain regions and
receive good treatment, having medi-
cal attention and schools, even being
encouraged to have bands. musical ms
tructors being supplied by the plan
tations to organize bands. They are
! given good homes.
But what the sugar plantations OF
Peru need more than anything else is
a remodelling of the factories and bet
/ ter mills.
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