PROPOSED TRUNK RAILWAY FROM
HUDSON BAY TO BUENOS AIRES
NEW YORK, March 10 (by Associ
ated Press).—Realization of the
dream of a railroad “from Hudson bay
to Patagonia and Buenos Aires” has
been brought nearer as a result of
the recent Pan-American financial con
ference in Washington, according to
Charles M. Pepper, who in 1903 was
appointed by President Roosevelt, un
der authority of Congress, to visit
the several countries from Mexico
southward and report on the project.
A journey by rail from the Arctic
cj#cl^ to the tip of South America—
approximately 10,000 miles—could be
made under good traffic conditions, it
has been estimated, in sixteen to
eighteen days. At present twenty-four
days are required for the 5,871-mile sea
joyage from New York to the capital
of Argentina.
Th is dream of a trans-hemisphere
trunk line, running almost, the entire
length of the two American continents,
was born in the brain of Hinton Rowan
Helper, a Southern writer and former
United States consul in South America,
more than fifty years ago. The late
United States Senator Henry Gass
away Davis of West Virginia, a prac
tical railroad builder, saw its feasibil
ity, and with Andrew Carnegie and
other wealthy Americans, gave the
idea a fresh impetus. James C.
I^gphne also once advocated it.
The project, however, received first
definite form at the International
American conference held in Mexico
City in 1902, when it appointed a per
manent Pan-American railway com
mittee, composed of prominent citi
zens of the United States and diplo
matic officials of Latin-American coun
tries resident in Washington. Former
Senator Davis and Mr. Carnegie were
members of it. Later, as the envoy
of the President and the representa
tive of the committee, Mr. Pepper
went to Central America and South
America, and after visiting the vari
ous countries for a year, returned and
made a report which has been the
basis of subsequent discussion and
legislation.
The general idea outlined in tl*e
Pepper report was that the different
South and Central American nations
in their railway construction should
give special attention to the links in
a through intercontinental trunk line
fltorth and south, which ultimately
would be joined. Attention was also
gi^en to the building of branch lines
and “feeders,” especially in South
America, on the theory that in time
there would be through lines from the
Atlantic to the Pacific which would
form intersecting systems.
Subsequent Pan-American confer
ences held at Rio Janeio and Buenos
Aires approved the idea and contin
ued the Pan-American railway com
mittee. The international high com
mission, now renamed as the Inter
American high commission, which was
the outgrowth of the first Pan-Amer
can financial conference, ^held in
Washington in 1915, also approved
the project and urged its support by
the various republics.
“In the eighteen years since the
jlan was indorsed by the Mexican con
ference,” explained Mr. Pepper, “con
stderable progress has been made in
joining up various railway sections.
Chile has completed the longitudinal
line from Puerto Montt, in the south,
to the railways in the north which
form junctions with the main trunk of
the Pan-American system.
“The Transandine line, from Valpa
raiso to Buenos Aires, also has been
completed, while the lines joining the
Brazilian systems radiating from Rio
de Janeiro have been finished, so that
they form junctions with Uruguayan
and Argentine lines.
“The Argentine line was finished to
the southern border of Bolivia at La
Quiaca several years ago, while Bo
livia has closed up most of the links
in her Pan-American trunk line. There
are now less than 125 miles in Bolivia
to be completed, some of which is also
graded, in order to provide through
railway connection from Buenos Aires
to La Paz and to the Pacific. It would
cost approximately $5,000,000 to com
plete it.
“The group committee on Boliva
at the recent Pan-American Financial
Conference recommended that a loan
be granted Boliva for the purpose of
completing this link. It was explained
that the gauge was the same as that
of Argentine lines and an arrangement
by which Boliva could use Argintine
rolling stock was suggested.”
By a coincidence Mr. Pepper, who
made the Pan-American Railroad re
port under President Roosevelt, was
a member of the group committee on
Boliva. He also was railway advisor
to the Committee on transportation.
This committee adopted a resolution
offered by Martinez Vargas, of Boliva,
for calling a Pan-American Railway
Conference further to consider the
subject of railway operation, inter
change of traffic, standarization of
rates and financing. This resolution,
as amended by the Committee on
Resolutions and adopted by the re
! cent conference, provided for referr
| ing the calling of such a meeting of
j Pan-American representatives to the
Inter-Americsan High Commission.
Just when the trans-hemisphere rail- i
road conference will be called has j
not yet been determined.
Argentine’s keen interest in devel
oping the Pan-American trunk line
project was indicated by Dr. Ricardo
C. Aldao, a member of the Argentine
Financial Commission, not only at the
conference in Washington but also in
his address at the recent banquet of
the Pan-American Society here. It
was later pointed out by others that
Argentine now has an 1,00-mile rail
road from Buenos Aires to the Boli
vian border, much of it built by Bri
tish capitalists whose interests in
South America are estimated at $4,
000.000,000, half of which is said to be
in Argentinea. The Argentine govern
ment, it is said, controls this line.
France and Belgium also have heavy
South American railroad investments.
The war, it is said, has made it vir
tually impossible for European coun
tries to continue their financing of
South America and this is why delega
tions from Columbia, Peru. Chile, Bra
zil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay and
other South American lands have vis
ited the United States in recent years
to awakan American investors to what
they call “a big investment opportun
ity”. The proposed trunk line would
run from the United States through
Mexico, Central America, Colombia,
Ecador, Peru, almost the entire length
of Chile and from La Quiaca, Boliva
to Buenos Aires. From this mail line
would be connecting roads, some al
ready completed, extending like “fin
gers" in many directions toward the
Atlantic ocean.
Everybody Must Learn English to Make
Americans a Homogeneous People.
By HOKE SMITH, U. S. Senator From Georgia.
I am in favor of this bill to promote Americaniza
tion by {providing for co-operation with the several
states in the education of non-English-speaking per
sons and the assimilation of foreign-born residents.
Tn this country, where English is the language,
where American papers are all published in English,
how can a resident become a real part of the com
munity, know what is going on in the community,
understand the aspirations of the community, and free
himself from deception and misleading influences un
less he can speak English ? I would require, every
Vj^ere in the United States, of those who live here and intend to stay here,
200 hours a year learning English. 1 am opposed to keeping in the United
States permanently, if we can prevent it, a class of people who do not speak
English.
It is intensely a matter of interest to all the states that we should have
a homogeneous people, and that we should not nourish in our midst, and
retain in our midst, classes of people who from their lack of knowledge of
our language can not be assimilated as a part of our homogeneous popula
tion, who can not inform themselves of what is really taking place in their
community, of the true relations which they bear to those with whom they
are associated, who are left the ready victims of deception, who are left
in a condition likely to make them dangerous residents instead of valued
citizens.
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