Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-02
GROWING INTEREST
IN REPUBLICS
TO THE SOUTH
RESULTS OF ROOT TOUR
COMMENCE TO SH0W
South America Furnishes Az
most Untrodden Field for
Yankee Investor as Well as
for Pleasure Seekers.


Especial Correspondence TO Morning Journal
New York, Dec. 26.-That there are
tides in trade and travel as there are
in the permanent migrations of man
kind is Il truism long accepted by his
torians and s~ociologists. New markets
are the constant quest Of the mer-
chant, but the confirmed traveller is
no less o seeker after novelty, fresh
scenes and new experiences are al
ways attracting him away from the
fields which familiarity has deprived
of their interest. Particularly is this
true of Americans, who have won for
themselves the name OF the most rest
less and en~terprislng travellers of the
modern world.
This being true, It is no wonder that
statesmen and prophets Of commercial
expansion are alike considering with
keen interest just now the developing
symptoms of a reciprocal interest in
each other between the people Of the
United States and their Latin-Ameri-
can neighbors Of the southern hemi-
sphere. Consular representatives.
government officers. returned travel
ers have for years been preaching the
gospel of South American opportuni-
ties 10 the English speaking Ameri-
cans of the North, but until recently,
with very little discernible effect.
While American trade and American
travel have overlooked England and
1.-The Continent invaded the Medi-
%terranean lands and the West Indies
and made the United States q familiar
name throughout the near and far
East, South America has remained the
one great division Of the earth's sur
face practically unvisited and I'M
known The American Of the United
States has seemed anxious to know
something about every part of the
world except that lying geographical
ly nearest to him and embracing the.
larger part of the New World with
which he proclaims his identification
1t has been left for the beginning
of the twentieth century to bring the
first evidences Of Il change in this
attitude of Indifference or the part Of
the people of the United states to-
ward their "other American neigh
hors. within she past two or three
years these evidences have been ac-
cumulating in a way which indicates
that. thanks to the Introduction of
new forces in trade and politics, this
Indifference is finally being replaced
by a genuine realization of the posi-
bilities of South America. both as a
commercial field and as a new re-
gion for tourist travel.
1t may almost be said that the first
real general interest Of this kind in
South American affairs dates from The
widely heralded journey of Secretary
o non the capitals of the great
latin continent in the summer Of 1906
and that is was newly stimulated
when our battle fleet in its voyage
around the world visited the South
American ports and the newspapers At
home printed glowing accounts from
their correspondents of the hospitali-
ties showered upon officers u men
by the South Americans and Of the
strange and wonderful sights of Rio.
Bahia, Buenos Aires, Lima, and other
places which previously had been
merely queer names recalled vaguely
from the geography books.
The interest then implanted has
since been fed by numerous books
about South America written by tray
elers and students and by the great
or attention given TO South American
affairs in the daily news. In par
ticular the attractions of the lands
south Of the Caribbean as a new and
untrodden field for the American cap
italist and tourist have been set forth
in such attractive light by recent
writer's, of whom Arthur Ruhl and
Charles NJ. Pepper are examples, that
tho steamship lines plving between the
United States and South American
ports are reporting the beginnings Of
a decided tide Of travel setting TO the
s%outhward.
Upon the foundation of this evil
dence enthusiastic proclaimers OF the
southern continents attractions have
already begun to predict a future
which shall see South America the
great inter resort of the United
states and an ANIMAL exodus to the
lands below the equator equalling in
numbers that which crowds the Eu-
ropean bound steamships every
spring and summer
While the mlfillment Of TINS
prophecy does not seem TO be among
the things Immediately probable.
there can be no doubt That something
like a new discovery of the other half
of their own hemisphere by the tray
cling public of the United states is
a~ctuaIlv occurring. h most con-
vincing evidence Of this is the new
policy adopted by the SoCth Amer
lean steamship lines in giving IN
creased prominence 10 their facilities
n to the attractions Of the regions
which they reach. sin more signifi-
cant is the very latest development in
this direction. the step which has been
taken by the neutrality-suspicious. line
in addition 10 its annual itinerary of
winter cruises one OF cighty-one days
along the Atlantic coast OF South
America from Para, Brazil. 10 Punta
Arenas i'm the Straits of Magellan.
ANLtaitAA EAEE A' may HiHf wv "a H ENHh
thing is certain. The touring Ameri-
can in his descent upon this new and
practically unknown-SO Tar as the or
binary traveller is conccrned-terri-
tory. OF nearly seven million SQUARE
miles will have cause 10 complain of
no lack or novelty, ~ Inc experiences
which await him. He will find him
self for once in a truly new world
where ancient civilizations and the en-
xironment of a virgin continent have
been blended together with results {
which differ as widely As possible :
from those produced hv ) similar pro- z
cess in his own land. and yet are 7
quite as sharply distinct from those
or English speaking Amefica. He will ,
also have brought homa 70 his con- !
Eciousness some facts about the in
dustrial. scientific and Artistic pro-
cress made by such countries as Bra- 9
I'll. the Argentine Republic and Chile J
which viii cause q rcvisioA Of the too q
common Jumping Of the Etin-Ameri- {
can states as lands of ytiiow fever.