Note 3 — Chapter I · INTRODUCTORY
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Still the following words, which occur in an anonymous work on Uruguay issued by authority of the Consulate-General of that country in London in 1883, are as essentially true to-day as they were then.
“It cannot too often be repeated that only two classes of emigrants are fitted for the New World: those who are accustomed to manual labour … and those who have capital to invest. Clerks and penmen should know to whom and in what capacity they are going.”
Argentines and Uruguayans can themselves supply all the book-learning and clerkly devices as yet needed on the River Plate.