Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE SOCIAL EVOLUTION OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC BY HON. ERNESTO QUESADA Attorney-General of the Argentine Republic; Professor in the Universities of Buenos Ayres and La Plata Publication No. 636 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Reprinted from THE ANNALS, May, 1911 Price 25 cents This Reprint is made from the May, 1911, volume of THE ANNALS, the complete contents of which are INDIVIDUAL EFFORT IN TRADE EXPANSION. +Hon. Elihu Root+, United States Senator from New York. THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN STATES. +Hon. Henry White+, Chairman of the American Delegation to the Fourth International Conference of the American States. THE FOURTH PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE. +Paul S. Reinsch+, Delegate to the Fourth Pan-American Conference; Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin. THE MONROE DOCTRINE AT THE FOURTH PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE. +Hon. Alejandro Alvarez+, Of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Santiago, Chile. BANKING IN MEXICO. +Hon. Enrique Martinez-Sobral+, Chief of the Bureau of Credit and Commerce of the Mexican Ministry of Finance. THE WAY TO ATTAIN AND MAINTAIN MONETARY REFORM IN LATIN-AMERICA. +Charles A. Conant+, Former Commissioner on the Coinage of the Philippine Islands, New York. CURRENT MISCONCEPTIONS OF TRADE WITH LATIN-AMERICA. +Hugh MacNair Kahler+, Editor of "How to Export"; Vice-President, Latin-American Chamber of Commerce; Publisher of the Spanish periodicals, "America" and "Ingenieria." INVESTMENT OF AMERICAN CAPITAL IN LATIN-AMERICAN COUNTRIES. +Wilfred H. Schoff+, Secretary, Commercial Museum, Philadelphia. COMMERCE WITH SOUTH AMERICA. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN PERU. +Albert A. Giesecke, Ph.D.+, Rector of the University of Cuzco, Cuzco, Peru. THE MONETARY SYSTEM OF CHILE. +Dr. Guillermo Subercaseaux+, Professor of Political Economy, University of Chile. THE SOCIAL EVOLUTION OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. +Hon. Ernesto Quesada+, Attorney-General of the Argentine Republic; Professor in the Universities of Buenos Ayres and La Plata. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF CHILE. +Hon. Henry L. Janes+, Division of Latin-American Affairs, Department of State, Washington. CLOSER COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH LATIN-AMERICA. +Bernard N. Baker+, Baltimore, Md. IMMIGRATION--A CENTRAL AMERICAN PROBLEM. +Ernst B. Filsinger+, Consul of Costa Rica and Ecuador, St. Louis, Mo. Price $1.50 bound in cloth; $1.00 bound in paper. Postage free. THE SOCIAL EVOLUTION OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC[1] BY THE HON. ERNESTO QUESADA,