Paraguay,  which  claims  to  be  able  to  support  a  popula-
tion of  69,000,000  and  has  an  estimated  population  of
800,000,  reports  only  4,000  Europeans,  although  it  en-
courages immigration.  Contrast  with  these  lands  the
four  more  prosperous  states.  Brazil  received  76,292
colonists  in  1901,  while  the  total  number  who  came  from
1855  to  1901  was  2,023,693.  The  number  of  immigrants
is  less  now  than  it  was  twenty  years  ago.  In  1891,  due
in  part  to  a  crisis  in  the  Argentine  which  lessened  the
immigration  there,  277,808  people  came  to  Brazil,  of
whom  116,000  were  Italians.  The  Statesman's  Year
Book  estimates  that  there  are  1,000,000  Germans  in
Brazil,  which  is  probably  an  overestimate.  Sao  Paulo
is  almost  a  foreign  city,  and  the  result  is  seen  in  its
growth  from  28,000  in  1872  to  64,000  in  1890,  to  239,-
ooo  in  1900,  its  present  population  being  estimated  at
400,000.  In  Chile  the  number  of  Germans  and  English
in  1907  was  over  20,000,  with  as  many  Spaniards,  and
representatives  of  almost  every  other  European  nation-
ality. The  Argentine,  which  is  the  South  American
wonderland  in  wealth  and  development,  is  predominantly


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foreign.  Even  the  Spanish  element  has  been  almost
overmastered  by  the  Italian,  and  the  Italian  stock  has
been  a  good  one.  Argentina  is  becoming  a  new  Italy,
while  British  and  German  capital,  and,  with  the  capital,
men  to  supervise  it,  have  been  poured  in  like  water.
With  us  it  is  now  the  native  stock  that  dominates  and
improves  the  imported  blood.  In  South  America  the
imported  blood  dominates  and  improves  the  native  stock.
