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ARGENTINA & URUGUAY
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ARGENTINA AND URUGUAY
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A PART OF THE IGUAZÚ FALLS
ARGENTINA AND
URUGUAY
BY
GORDON ROSS
FORMERLY FINANCIAL EDITOR OF “THE STANDARD,” BUENOS AIRES
AND OFFICIAL TRANSLATOR TO THE CONGRESS OF AMERICAN
REPUBLICS, BUENOS AIRES, 1910
WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS, FOUR DIAGRAMS
AND A MAP
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
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First Published in 1917
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TO
Sir ROBERT JOHN KENNEDY, K.C.M.G.
THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
OF THE MANY KINDNESSES SHOWN
AND VALUABLE AID GIVEN
BY HIM
TO THE AUTHOR
IN HIS
LITERARY WORK AT MONTEVIDEO
IN 1911
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CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
An allegory of the Pampa—Patriarchs and Oligarchies—National        and local politics and administration—Patrician government—The        landed aristocracy—Patriotism and foreign railways—The problem        of agricultural labour—Propaganda, in theory and in practice—Needed        and unneeded immigration—The peon of to-day and the        gaucho—Urgent need of rural population—Industries in waiting—The        INCALCULABLE future of the River Plate countries—Lack of        Uruguayan statistics1
CHAPTER II
THE WAR
The shock falls on existing local depression—Vigorous and prompt        action of the River Plate governments and banks—No “Mañana”—Mr.        C. A. Tornquist’s views—Again the need of rural population—Socialism        from above and below—Buoyancy of national securities18
CHAPTER III
HISTORY AND POLITICS
The Declaration of Independence—Subsequent chaos—Rozas and        Artígas—Sarmiento—Mitre—Juarez Celman—The Argentine financial        crash of 1891—Uruguay; “Whites” and “Reds”—Uruguayan        patriotism and hones                        
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