. India rubber world. :-^^. Front View of the Pedro de Toledo in which w.^s Held. ond session of the Congress, in deference to Mr. J. Simao daCosta, who had promised beforehand to address the audience. Mr. da Costa spoke for an hour and succeeded in riveting theattention of his audience by the interesting w-ay in which he laidout the lines and indicated the avenues open to the people of theAmazons, making it clear tliat it was up to them to followthese lines and win the respect and the admiration of the world,or lag behind in a state of humiliation and failure. In open
. India rubber world. :-^^. Front View of the Pedro de Toledo in which w.^s Held. ond session of the Congress, in deference to Mr. J. Simao daCosta, who had promised beforehand to address the audience. Mr. da Costa spoke for an hour and succeeded in riveting theattention of his audience by the interesting w-ay in which he laidout the lines and indicated the avenues open to the people of theAmazons, making it clear tliat it was up to them to followthese lines and win the respect and the admiration of the world,or lag behind in a state of humiliation and failure. In opening his speech, Mr. da Costa said that he thoughtJames Bryce had been harsh and unjust as to the characteristicsf the Brazilian race, but in one respect he was right,—in thematter of agriculture. As regards this valuable industry, Brazil-ians cannot deny that they have preferred words, words andwords, and after-dinner rhetoric, to practical deeds. But therecould be no agriculture where there were no agriculturists. Thenee
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