The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-06-24

were of equal density we would have
population of TO0.OO0.OOO in the con
tinental United States; and, although
nearly half OF the country Is noun
famous. the people are normally able
10 get their living out of what they
produce and still have a comfortable
balance OF trade In their favor
The Salvadorean people. are differ
ent from those OF any other Central
American state. They have a middle
class. There are thousands of little
farms not much larger than good
sized city block, and yet II is here that
the real prosperity Of Salvador is
created. In no other way could a mil
lion and quarter souls find sub
sistence on 5000 square miles Of ter
ritory, nearly half Of II mountains.
Nicaragua and Revolutions.
Nicaragua is in much the condition or
Honduras There have been revolu
tions there since the memory of the
inhabitants runneth not to the con-
tTary. Here one sees thousand OPP
portunities for the development Of
great wealth. Virgin forests Of all the
precious woods In the category extend
ing for miles OH end; coffee lands
where millions Of pounds OF splendid
coffee might be grown; sugar lands
which might yield hundreds of thou
sands of sacks Of sugar; and yet all
stand idle. Why?
Ask the American cUIfee growers Of
the Matagalpa district; ask the
cotton growers of Campo Santo. The
revolutions come along and leave their
coffee To spoil ungathered and their
cotton tn 30 To waste unpicked. Ask
the financier from New Orleans who
spent 20 years Of hardships there try
ing to gather together competence,
and who finally found his business
| wrecked and in the hands Of the re-
| celverS
Given good governments, then, no
| countries on the map would afford
greater opportunities for profitable in
vestmentS than those of Central Amer
| lea. With such governments as some
of them have had heretofore all their
natural wealth cannot Offset the dis
advantages Of those governments. and
an investment at 4 per cent I'm the
| United States has often been preferred
TO one yielding 100 per cent in some
| of these countries.
When we come TO Costa Rica, things
are beginning 10 he different, and
Costa Rica does not like To be reck
| oned I'm the same class with Nicaragua,
| Honduras and Guatemala Until re
Gently she has had scarcely revolution
! In n generation.
Panama which is geographically a
part Of Central America. though Ii has
not been politically so since independ-
ence was gained from Spain. is blest
with some very fine farming and fruit
lands in the region next to Costa
Rica but nearly all Of the Panamans
! have gone down TO the canal zone re-
gion for the time being. Some of the
most beautiful TERRA templada lands
| in America are TO be found in the
Chiquiri country and when the people
OIL the 1nltsu states get acquainted
with the possibilities there. some Of
them are going 10 settle In that re-
gion and make it a splendid example
of the possibilities OF tropical Amer
lea.
II is not improbable that one Of the
results of the completion OF the Pana-
ma canal will be the realization by
the people of the United States that
its safety depends in no small degree
upon the good conduct of the govern.
mentS Of Central America That will
mean "A demand for "A new order OF
things i'm these countries. which In
turn will mean safe investments foI
American capital.
Then will dawn an era of develop
ment in Central America comparable
TO that which has taken place in Porte
Rico and in Cuba.