The South America - huge, but very fertile continent, which natural resources are for the present

The South America - huge, but very fertile continent, which natural resources are for the present hardly begun to be used. Though not so big as the North America, at it is much more the big area of productive soil - and, really, the most part of its soil is rather unsurpassed much. It suffers, however, from two big lacks. 1. The most part of its area (four fifth) is in limits of a hot zone. In low areas of coast of this hot area, and also in the low wood areas irrigated at the big flat rivers of an interior, the climate generally is intolerable by the white. 2. The South America was unsuccessful in the settlement and colonisation. While last years colonisation as it is understood in Anglo-Saxon communities not was it is hardly undertaken in the South America in general. More and more early immigrations from the Old World have been caused by thought on reception gold and silver and jewels - if the requirement was capture of property and enslavery natives. Only the small proportion of the population - is no more than a quarter whole - they consist from white, and mainly of Spain and [178] Portugal. These conquerors of continent basically have not succeeded in establishing or steady forms of the government or
High types of a civilisation. Besides, mixed races - at mestizos or the metis as them name, descendants of earlier Europeans and natives - instead of promoting in a civilisation, are during some time by retrograding. Then, again, there is a big Negro element, descendants of the Africans once imported as slaves, to still complicate further a question on race; also there is a considerable element partially the Negro and partially Indian. Only in one state, Argentina, can affairs how to speak, be really rich, and even in Argentina a civilisation developed by its prosperity, is rough and material, instead of is cleared and intellectual. Following most succeeding and important states - Brazil and Chile. Probably Uruguay though least of all states, should be placed after Argentina. The remaining independent states of reserved Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivias, also are Paraguay all states of prevailing South American type. Their governments more or are less changeable. They are awfully burdened by a debt, and their credit is that, that they should pay high percent. The civilisation once entered among their native races by eagerness of the Spanish missionaries, worsens, not disappearing. And even among their leading classes is very much that desirable in observance of usual principles to be right and it is wrong.
THE EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION IN THE SOUTH AMERICA