16 BRAZILIAN COTTOX 



COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE NATIONALITIES OF IMMIGRANTS, 

 FROM 1910 TO 1920 



] have not come across the figures showing the number of foreigners 

 who have again left Brazil. This item is specially heavy as regard the 

 Itahans, many of whom have been attracted by their compatriots 

 who have settled down in Argentine. And again man}' of the Italians 

 have almost developed a nomadic trait going and coming every iew 

 years to and fro between Italy, Brazil and Argentine'. 



There is healthy and plentiful work in Brazil for every able- 

 bodied man for many years to come. Anyone accustomed to agri- 

 cultural labour and mJling to work will find a good living in the interior 

 of Brazil. Many immigrants make, however, the usual mistake in 

 settling in the cities, which are becoming over-crowded. In the 

 State of Sao Paulo the Italian element is very pronounced, in the 

 interior the work on the coffee plantations is largely carried out by 

 them to the satisfaction of the " fazandeiros " (planters), and in the 

 city of Sao Paulo the Italian immigrant makes an excellent cotton 

 mill operative. I have been in mills where 60 per cent, of the work- 

 people were Italians. Altogether Sao Paulo is said to have more than 

 300,000 Italians : they learn the language readily, so much that 

 Portuguese is often sj)oken amongst Italians and the second generation 

 becomes Brazilian. The German colonist is held in high esteem 

 amongst the Brazilians ; it may be said that the war-hatred towards 

 the German is no more existent. The highest officials, Brazilian 

 business men and others seem to have made u^) their minds that the 

 war is over and that the German element in Brazil has been and will 

 again be a great asset to the country. The Spanish immigrant is not 

 much appreciated by the cotton mill owners, as many of them try to 

 stir up the workpeople to strikes and discontent ; some mills refuse 

 for this reason to engage Spaniards. 



As regards the Climate of Brazil the most mistaken views 

 prevail. The Brazilian climate is generally judged in Europe to be most 

 dangerous and detrimental to the health of Europeans. It is not 

 sufficiently taught in our schools that latitude is not the only deciding 

 factor in climate. The prevailing Avinds and the altitude are causes 

 which make the greater portion of the Brazilian climate a very 

 agreeable one. There is only a tropical temperature along the narrow 

 coast line, which is a few feet above the sea level, but by far the 

 greater portion of Brazil constitutes a range of plateaus seldom less 

 than 100 metres and mostly ranging between 500-1,000 metres high ; 

 it is this tableland A^hich interests us from a cotton point of view. 



