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We have then nothing 1o fear from foreign com- 

 petition or measures of exclusion on the markets \\hich 

 are at present our l>esi clients; our fears for the future 

 do not come from the outside but from the inside. 



FUNDAMENTAL GROUNDS OF PROSPERITY. 



Our prosperity, present and future, is based on the 

 more general employment of the most perfect and use- 

 ful methods yet conceived in Agriculture. 



We are convinced that by employing similar me- 

 thods to those in the United States we can attain un- 

 paralleled prosperity . 



The erection of Elevators and a general system of 

 (irain Granaries is the basis of this system. 



We have seen that serious studies have been made 

 and the adoption of such a system offers no difficulties 

 either morally, industrially or financially. 



Opinions only differ as to whether the Elevators 

 shall be controlled by the State, by bureaucrats and by 

 politicians, or by experts. 



I think the general verdict in the Argentine Re- 

 public is in favour of commercial enterprise, and that 

 all who centre their hopes on seeing Elevators really 

 created as a practical Agricultural resource rely for 

 guidance not on party politics nor on visionary social- 

 istic well-wishers, but on exports and business men. 



Commercial enterprise is the only sphere from 

 whence definite proposals have come forward, there- 

 fore, pending the realisation of State socialism, Jet us 

 proceed commercially. 



Up to date, the chief obstacles for the practical 

 realisation of Elevators have come from the State. 



There is no reason for our present Government to 

 follow this policy. 



THE STATE AND OUR PROGRESS. 



The conservative spirit which characterises pur 

 Provincia 1 Governments, the comparative lack of ambi- 

 tion on the part of our rural population, proprietors 

 and "peones", the want of education, the absence of 

 social and true political life, the relative poverty, etc., 

 etc., prevent our farmers from availing themselves of 

 modern and approved methods, such as Co-operation 

 has secured for other lands. 



