The farmer and mechanic., 1915-05-25

divided and time of intensive cultl-
vation would come. Said he:
"The county could easily support
ten times it's present population, and
it would then have only 1O0,O0O,OOO.
1t would then have only about as
many as your country has now"
His excellency spoke of the Pana-
ma canal, saying that although 1t
might benefit the western part OF
Argentina, it's chief value would be to
the west coast Of this continent. He
referred to the San Francisco expo
stion, saying that the exhibit sent
from here is as good as the country
can furnish, but that it seemed to
him like carrying Goals to Newcastle
to take the products Of the Argentine
to the United States of the two coun-
tries are both agricultural and pas
tOral and their interests are very
| much the same.
/ asked as to the Argentine of the
| future, speaking of the immigration
| from Europe and the possibility that
| the country might be Italianized
| thereby. Mr.. Victorino la Plaza re-
! piled:
"The Argentine Of the future will
| be much the same as the Argentine
of today. No matter what the nat
l
we soon assimilate him and he be-
| comes an Argentine and a patriot.
| We are making ArgentinOS of our i'm
| migrants, just as in the past you have
| made good Americans Of the mixed
elements you have brought in from
| the various countries of Europe. We
| have the same advantage that you
| have had, III that we can put the i'm
migrants out on the farms and in
that each man can have his own land
and own home and grow up with the
| country. This makes him a better
citizen than if he were herded with
others of his own kind in such con-
gested districts as the cities and
mines, as is now the case with much
OF your immigration. We have SO
much land that I believe we can as
simulate our immigrants for a long
time to come"
Leaving the Pink House I took a
taXicab and, for about 35 cents of our
money, rode through the wide Aven-
ida de Mayo, the Pennsylvania ave
4 rue Of Buenos Aires, to the new cap
2 itol, where Congress meets This
building is still in course of Construc-
t ton, but it is already one of the mos
e imposing structures Of the world. 1
D stands in front of a magnificent plaza
l which was carved out Of the bushes!
part of the city To make it four sol
e id blocks Of buildings were torn dowr
q and the ground was built up and GOV
q | cred with grass, trees and shrubs
u Fine statues were erected, fountain
d were instituted and other decoration
e made at a cost Of $5,OOO,O0O. In or
d der to have the park ready for tn
= centennial display of 1910 the wor]
was all done in ninety days
e| The capitol faces this plaza. It re
q minds one a little of our capitol a
=, Washington. 1t is marble buildin
= of four Stories from whose cente
rises a great dome which weighs 80
=, 0G0 tons. The dome rests upon pill
"A lars Of white granite and its weight
p" such that in order to strengthen i
- it was necessary to construct an in
= verted dome beneath it. The build
~ ing is Of Graeco-ROman styles. II
Re center has the form of a semi-circl
ct and there is a wing at each end an
va a projecting pavilion at each corne
ds The buildings contain the nation:
be halls of the house and senate tf
H. secretary's offices, the committe
is rooms and a library All of it's fur1
nd ishings are magnificent, and it is lii
,is the state house of Pennsylvania ar
Sc the capitol at Albany in the extrav;
o gaEce Of it's expenditure. Indee
7 there has been so much scandal COZ
"a nected with it that it has been nicl
T named the palace of gold.
in The original estimates for it we
he 100000 pesos, but it has alrea(
cost over thirty millions. Somethi1
like $14,0O0,OOO was spent for c
he ment alone, and two millions, SO Il
Gle people say, was paid out for wo
ny that was never done. Another ty
ed millions was sQuandered on bron
capitals, three millions on mari
OF statues, and seven millions more
.en mistakes on the dressing and stuc
Id of the fronts Over and above tt
has fabulous sums were spent for decor
W. ton and furniture, and no one knO'
be where much Of the money went il
led at this time, when we are looking
ith to the pork barrels of our Congre
the at home, the people here are, begi
ming to question the pork barrel en-
en- or this capitol building, and, in t