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a question a broader induction of facts is necessary 

 than it is possible for a man to make who has only 

 paid a fleeting visit to the south, and has only touched 

 it at a few points. I can only record my impressions. 

 I may however say truthfully that so far as my individ- 

 ual experience is concerned I discovered nothing which 

 would not imply genuine friendship for the United 

 States in the circles with which I was brought into 

 contact. It is true that it was my happy lot to be 

 thrown during my brief stay into the society of educated 

 and broad-minded men, who in all lands are very much 

 the same. There is an international brotherhood of 

 scientific and literary men, which lives above the at- 

 mosphere of common strife, and which, bound together 

 by mutual sympathies and purposes, sees in all men 

 friends. It was with such men that I was associated. 

 There is reason, however, to think that not all of the 

 people of these lands are as intelligent and far-seeing 

 as the cultivated gentlemen with whom I was brought 

 into contact. I noted not without surprise as I read 

 the daily papers that a feeling of suspicion and distrust 

 as to the integrity of the purposes of the citizens of the 

 United States in their dealings with the peoples of 

 South America was occasionally expressed. It was 

 particularly surprising to note the evident hostility 

 of the only English newspaper printed in Buenos 

 Aires to all things "American," using this term in the 

 sense in which we are in the habit of employing it 

 among ourselves. It was at once amusing and a 

 trifling disconcerting to find one morning on the front 

 page of Car as y Caretas, the weekly magazine published 

 in Buenos Aires, which corresponds to our Puck and 

 Judge, a caricature representing " Uncle Sam' as a 

 big black spider in the middle of his web, about 



