The Raymer enterprise., 1921-06-30

were ,of equal density we would have
population Of 100000 0OO In the con
tinental United States; and, although
nearly half Of the country Is noun.
famous. heipeople are normally able
to get their living out Of what they
produce andlstill 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 biloxi. and yet It is here that
the real prosperity Of Salvador is
created. Inlns other way could mil
lion and a quarter souls find sub
sistence on 5000 square miles Of tel.
ritory. nearly Aalf Of It mountains
Nicaragua land Revolutions
NicaraguaYis m.mlch the condition Of
Honduras. There have been revolu.
tions there ksince ltle memory Of the
inhabitantsi ,runneth not to the con
trary. Here one IsseS thousand op-
portunitiea fbr tie development Of
great wealth. vlr9in\ forests Of all the
precious woods In heAcategory extend
Ing for miles on enEA; coffee lands
where millions Of pounds Of splendid
coffee might be rownk sugar lands
which might yield lHlndneds Of thou
sands Of sucks Of sugar :; and yet all
stand Idle. Why7
Ask the American CofIee\ \Irowers Of
the Aiatamlpa district: ask the
cotton growers Of OaIpp0 Sttnto. The
revolutions come alongi and leave their
coffee to spoil ungattered and their
cotton to, go to, waste lunpicked. Ask
the financier from New Orleans who
spent 20 years, Of hardships there try
Ing to gathep together a competence,
and who, fiually found his business
wrecked fand1 In the hands Of the re-
celvers.
Givenl good governmental, then, no
countries on, the map would afford
greater opportunities for profitable In
vestmtnta tfnn those Of Central Amer
lea, With n1ch governments as some
Of. them, have had heretofore all their
natural wealth cannot Offset the dis
advantages Of those governments, and
aR Investment at A. per cent In the
United States tlhls often been preferred
to one yielding LOO per cent In some
Of these countries.
When I'VE come to Costa Rica, things
nre beginning to be different and
Costa Rlca does, not like to be reck.
'oned/in the samelclass with Nicaragua,
Honduras and Guatemala. Until re
Gently she has hail scarcely revolution
h IA generation.
Panama which, Is geographically a
part Of Central America. though It has
not been politically 80 since independ-
ence was gained from Spain. Is blest
with some very fine farming and fruit
lands In the region next to Costa
iRlca; but nearly all Of the Panamnns
have gone down to the canal zone re-
iglon for the time, being. Some Of the
most beautiful TERRA tenplada lands
In America are TO be found In the
Clnquir country and when the people
Of the United, States get acquainted
with the possibilities there, some OF
them are going to settle in that re-
gion and make 1t splendid example
Of the Possibilities Of tropical Amer
lea.
It ls<not improbable that one Of the
fesultslof the completion Of the Pana-
ma canal will! bel the realization BY
the people Of the United States that
Its safety, dependsl In no small degree
upon the lgood corlduct Of the govern.
ments Of Central kmertca. That will
mean a demand tfbr a new order Of
things inl these Countries. which IN
turn wal mean safe investments for
American capital
Then wlll dawn anAera Of develop
ment In, Central, America comparable
to that which hasA taken lplace in Porto
Rico anq In cuha-a
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