[Inclosure in No.
266.—Translation.]
Foreign
Office, Argentine Republic,
Buenos Ayres, February 7,
1880.
Mr. Minister: Charged by the President of the
Republic to represent him in all matters concerning the Continental
Exposition, which has been placed under the patron age of the national
government, I have the honor to address myself to your excellency,
requesting through you the aid of your government and of its citizens in
order that this great exhibition may enjoy all the significance and
luster which it merits.
By the information which your excellency will have obtained from the
documents in regard to the exposition, which I have had the pleasure to
send to you, you will be
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advised
of its extent and purposes and of the terms which it accords to the
exhibitors who may be able to be present, together with all the
assurances which, in such cases, it is necessary to have in order that
the efforts which are made may not be without reward.
The national government adds, if it is possible, to their assurances its
own moral guarantee, and your excellency, in recommending it, can
mention this idea authoritatively to your citizens and to your
government.
The Argentine Republic has already shown, in the national exposition
which took place at Córdoba, that it has within its extensive and rich
territory the noblest productions of universal commerce, which only need
the hand of man and the presence of capital for their development and
for increasing its public and private wealth.
That exposition is to be repeated upon a larger scale and with relation
to the other countries of America which may send their products to this
continental exposition, and with the advantage that it will take place
in a city as populous as Buenos Ayres and which combines all the
facilities and attractions necessary for those who may come to visit
it.
It will be profitable for foreign industry and capital to know
practically and while they are collected in one place all those natural
resources which America contains and which are destined to meet such
great necessities, and, perhaps, to remedy the social evils which all
Europe is suffering from and which, as is natural, it is desirous to
have disappear.
I doubt not your excellency will find worthy of consideration these
observations and that you will receive them in the cordial spirit in
which they are suggested, urging your fellow-citizens to come to this
exposition, assured that they will find in it all the advantages which
these contests of human progress afford.
I improve this occasion to salute your excellency with all consideration,
and repeat myself your obedient servant,
