India rubber world . a proclamation to theeffect that all seriiigueiros (rubber gatherers) who hence-forth irregularly leave their employers with the intention ofnot paying the debts they have contracted, will be visited withthe penalty of the law, and it is recommended that no patroes(patrons) allow In their seringaes (rubber fields) any formerlaborers of other employers guilty of such fault. This would in-dicate that conditions are becoming more settled in the rub-ber district so long in dispute between Bolivia and Brazil, andnow administered by the latter. It appears that it is only bymeans
India rubber world . a proclamation to theeffect that all seriiigueiros (rubber gatherers) who hence-forth irregularly leave their employers with the intention ofnot paying the debts they have contracted, will be visited withthe penalty of the law, and it is recommended that no patroes(patrons) allow In their seringaes (rubber fields) any formerlaborers of other employers guilty of such fault. This would in-dicate that conditions are becoming more settled in the rub-ber district so long in dispute between Bolivia and Brazil, andnow administered by the latter. It appears that it is only bymeans of being able to enforce claims for debt, and then keep-ing the rubber workers perpetually in debt to them, that thepatroes can ever be assured of having a working force. Thefailures of Europeans in this field doubtless are due to their in-ability to adapt themselves to the peculiar labor conditions. April i, 1905.] THE INDIA RUBBER \A^ORLD 223 NICOLAS SUAREZ, A SOUTH AMERICAN RUBBER BARON, By Charles Johnson ALMOST in the very heart of unexplored South America,at the upper end of the Fallsof the Madeira—by the sideof the Cachuela Esperanza,* in fact—there stands alittle marble shaft enclosed by a rusty and broken ironfence. The space within is overgrown with weeds and creepersthat, in these tropics, spring up in a night, and between thecracks of the poorly laid cement lizards dart in and out. Some-where hidden in the growth about the base is the inscription : In loving memory of the wife of Nicolas stands alone on a little rocky eminence above the cataract,and within the roar of its beaten waters. It is pathetic in itsdesolation ; it looks shabby, and seems neglected ; but whenyou realize that it has meantthe labor of scores of Indians(or many months dragging thegreat weight of the marbleblocks around the eighteenportages of the falls, that thenearest outpost of civilizationis a thousand miles away, andthat, measured by the stand-ard of money alone it to-
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