Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1917 — GREAT LAND IS ARGENTINA [ARTICLE]

GREAT LAND IS ARGENTINA

People and Resources Wilf Place It In the Front Rank of South Amorlean Republics. J" The great landowners come to Buenos Aires and spend their money upon the glittering boulevards, and this makes the city an abnormal one, and In a sense a false guide to the characteristics of the people and the country, says a writer in the Christian Herald. Argentina, however, is slowly, but surely gathering to herself, out of the polyglot nations of Europe, which compose her, a spirit and individuality of her own as free and unique as is the air of her boundless prairies. At present she resembles more truly the Old World than does the United States, which has had much longer time to develop to a particular civilisation fill her own; yet you can hardly insult an Argentine more readily than to suggest Buenos Aires as merely a copy or tinseled imitation of a European capital. He sees In it his own expression, and although he will tell you that to know the country correctly the North Amari run must read the history of the United States 50 years ago, he is nevertheless deeply confident that Argentina has a future quite different from either the United States or a European nation, or any other South American state. The longer one remains In the country, the more surely be will be inclined to agree with the inhabitant of this great land, where are being gathered forces of population in an agricultural area nearly half as big as the United States, possessing resources in many senses more uniform and prolific than are to be found in any other one commonwealth on the face ot the earth.