ARGENTINE CONDITIONS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 41, 10 August 1911, Page 7

ARGENTINE CONDITIONS

• - 1 '• ..v '■ " j ZEALANDERS. • - 1 tv.hV) J,[| r t7tTi ; ' . ' liifft'O J;:l!< ; ''IMS OCURITi' OF .LIKB A.M)' : - • P.ROBiER®Y>iM i'in I o/l .--t!. ' 'UAH English resident in Buenos Aires ' ymia jto the New ZeaJctodn Herald, -warning j English-speaking jJttp! against migrating to the Argentine Republic, "at. least as jemploymcnt-Miekers. He' saVB: ' ! "j^ >w and . tl,en J agrP9lftftt W- ; •rmfeemfent in the 'English.'_pa.pers in of acme y pimg, Neyr.. ,Zea-, lander or 'Aiittrifllan iookiiS'fpi: mnL/Wtf of lany 'iirid'. 1 ' noimorej' fjtf;intty in iliis'inlio|mt r oJW«'fcou^ti^; r J .toiall*& warn jilflqSlh-' speaWigj least as einjlftjiyfeiit-seekera. *. "V ■ All woiild &> Wfrll to (notice that tlig Gorarfljnent, warns afl intending cmigran|s,,' aeamsi" J coining jto this ; wintry /*- or, ' Bra«il owing to thc:aj-)fi(ilute insecurity- of life and propferty: ThV cliferlc' and ,tti£ ftr.&an can undoubtedly . Mirn a jnueh .Jiigher

jor the IJ.b.A., but. Ins if aiiv ' are ;far-and away less, owing to tfie'.'.Mtreto% cosifif Hying, whjleli;,is/«! least two rinfl a-ns.lf■ p? throe ,tWs,'tliat °V e'thei of ,'coim■tries. the ipUfa. different,; and no nian can have'those home litjotnforte Which, however' humfjie,.'' make 1 life worth living in Engjish-speak-* ing countries, ( , "Thei Argentine 'Gevernmenl, loafeY pn everyone, from the "big merchant down to: Hie day labourer, a., merely something to be:, exploited in otder to 'fill' the ■pockets.' of the thousands and tens ot, 'Mirei(eptesi'gririgos ieomo i estkn"' ttobSjando: .fluw nastros,' ■ / 'iook' ! a.£'"these "gringbs"! (a terra of contempt for Europeans generally), how they are working for us,! thoroughly represents th ? , Argentine idea of the value ol immigrants. There.is Ino country.,in the ™yM taxatioh js so high, but the proceeds iind their .way bv a ■won<torti)]iy.pick directly into the pockets of the Government leechqs.,. >"ou in New Zealand consider that you, arc'very highly,taxed, and that is so; ibut you should remember that you are as yet only about a million, and l that your country is honestly administered. You have 'government, of the people, for the people, by the people,' whereas here it is government of 'the people iby an .unprincipled oligarchy, to exploit the people and the country in order to fill the pockets of themselves and their parasites. Elections are only a farce; robbery is a highly respectable art, and killing is no murder.

"It 'will go down to history that the Argentine Republic celebrated its first centenary of independence under a state of siege, which was declared plausibly to prevent 'the socialists and anarchists from creating any disturbance, but in reality in order to license the students to commit acts of the greatest vandalism, such as burning Frank Brown's circus (because it 'was English), and the printing offices of three socialist newspapers, in every case assiatod by the police, and assaulting with sticks and revolvers every foreigner who refused to take off his hat to the Argentine Hag when ordered to.

"'To New Zealanders particularly I woul'd say: "Stay at home and try to develop your country, try by every means to induce a steady flow of desirable immigrants, and don't be so exclusive with regard to races.' Remember that Northern Italians, French, Bascos, Swiss, Germans, Scandinavians, Germanspeaking Russians, are all industrious, peace-loving people, and make excellent citizens, but 'Stock-Russers,' Russian Jews, Slavs, Calabrescs, Sicilians, and Spaniards are the bast kind of Europeans to keep as far away as possible! You are the best judges yourselves as to Asiatics.

"Land was very cheap here at one 'time, but now good land can be bought cheaper in many parts of North America. Of course, there is plenty of 'cheap'laud to be had here, 'but it is 700 to 1000 miles from anyrwhere, and worthless without irrigation, and! where the water is to come from is more than St. Paul can tell."