84 How to Pay for the War 



Whether the purer Teuton (i.e., the German) will finally do 

 better than the Anglo-Saxon Englishman or the polygenous 

 American, as regards profits from trading with tropical 

 America and Africa, remains to be seen. 



We have, however, both in this journal and v^hen 

 lecturing, always warned our own people that Latin 

 America is the country of the future, for white planters 

 and traders attracted hence from over-populated Europe, 

 and that the country desirous of leading cannot ignore the 

 way in which the commercial German and agricultural 

 Italian are exploiting that continent, which, by the way, 

 this country has done so much to finance, pouring in 

 hundreds of millions of pounds (nearly ^300,000,000 in 

 Argentina alone), to open South America up on all sides 

 for the others to benefit from, since Englishmen are far 

 slower than these other races to go to South America as 

 traders or planters. We were glad, therefore, to see that 

 Lord Bryce, on p. 510, calls attention to a remark on this 

 same matter made by Mr. Hiram Bingham, the American, 

 in his book, " Across South America," published in igii, 

 viz. : " The number of North Americans in Buenos Ayres 

 is very small. While we have been slowly waking up to 

 the fact that South America is something more than a land 

 of revolutions and fevers, our German cousins have entered 

 the field on all sides.' The Germans in Southern Brazil are 



day one finds so little trace of the energetic originality of either Romans 

 or Greeks as to be inclined to surmise that these nations owed their 

 greatness to immigrant colonists from the North whose exotic energy could 

 (jnly outlast a certain number of centuries." Evidently the East Indian 

 has deteriorated as regards energy in the same way, for Sir Bamfylde 

 Fuller goes on to say : "There is high authority for believing that the 

 Aryan tribes, to whom India owes so much of the greatness of her past, 

 had their origin in the cold regions of Northern Europe ; the modern 

 languages that are nearest akin to Sanskrit are spoken on the shores of 

 the Baltic ; references in Sanskrit literature to snow, and to pine and 

 birch trees may testify to the recollections of a northern home. It is a 

 fact of much interest that, according to the Sanskrit epics, the Aryan 

 women were free, showed themselves in public, and even chose their 

 husbands. But the practical energy of these northern tribesmen evaporated 

 under the Indian sun." 



' Blumenau, be it remembered, was founded by a German, Dr, 

 Herman Blumenau, some sixty or more years ago. Dr. Blumenau, we 

 understand, obtained a grant of land in Sta. Catharina from the Brazilian 

 Government, and with practically no capital (from all accounts) he went 

 there with a number of German farmers and their families, and estab- 

 lished the colony, which was named after him. It seems to have prospered 

 and is n(;w flourishing. Dr. Blumenau returned to Germany in 1864, 

 and died fifteen years later, regretting, it is reported, that he did not die 

 in Brazil. 



