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On the other hand, if you read the books that have 

 appeared lately by reliable authorities on the immigration 

 into Latin-America of all classes, you will have learnt, 

 with regret, that at the chief commercial and social 

 centres the number of British subjects tends to go back 

 instead of going forward. I will only quote one instance. 

 Mr. Reginald Enock, in his book on the " Republics of 

 Central and South America," told us that out of the total 

 immigration into Brazil during 1911 (134,000 souls) only 

 5,850 were British, and from the figures of 1912 and 1913, 

 I should say, without being certain of the fact, that this 

 difference was even more marked than it was shown to 

 be in 1911. Mr. (now Viscount) Bryce also calls atten- 

 tion to the scarcity of English-speaking people in Latin- 

 America, for you may remember that in his book on 

 " South America: Observations and Impressions," he 

 quotes, on p. 510, the saying of Mr. Hiram Bingham, 

 '" that the educated young German who is being sent 

 out to capture South American commerce is a power to 

 be reckoned with." 



Do you not think that this is a very serious matter? 

 We are investing our hard-earned savings in another 

 country which, if we are not careful, and if we do not 

 increase by two- and threefold the number of our own 

 countrymen to represent us (better still, were they twenty 

 times the number that they are to-day), this very capital 

 will militate against our own prosperity by generating 

 trade which goes to other countries, who will benefit at 

 our cost on account of their countrymen being so greatly 

 in the majority to divert the trade to their countries. 



