The daily gazette., 1881-06-09


THE PRoaREss OF MANIFEST DEs-
great strides which the
United States has made during the
last decade is attracting the attention
Of the whole civilized world. In an
article Of the Providence Journal, that
paper refers to the subject, as follows:
"The country has now arrived at
period when it is ready to take fresh
start, not only in its own interior de-
velopmen.; but in extending into ad.-
Joining fields. It has arrived at q
sound and settled state of its finances
renewed prosperity stimulates enter
prise and constant accessions from
the Old World and visible growth
and stimulus. The most open and in
viting field for foreign adventure is
Mexico, with its rich resources, its
stagnant population, and its contiguous
neighborhood. The shrewd and far
seeing business men, accustomed TO
great affairs, and who take into ac-
count natural tendencies as well as
substantial details, have not directed
their attention towards Mexico more
for its inviting resources and to en-
courage emigration than because they
recognize that emigration is inevitable,
and that the spirit of the people and
the impulse of circumstances make 1t
natural. 1t is not to be supposed that
there will be such an excitable rush
and forcibie absorption Of territory as
followed the discovery Of gold in Cali
fornia, but the same enterprise and
energy that devoted itself to the de-
yelopment of the mines in Nevada and
Colorado, and has now begun its work
in Arizona and New Mexico, will in no
long time extend to Sonora and all the
upper tier of States in Mexico. AL
ready the first pioneers and adven-
turers from California have entered
upon the land and reproduced in .
more moderate way the early expert
ence of the gold-finders. They will
inevitably be followed by the more
substantial capitalists, like those who
have built the immense works for
the development Of the Nevada mines,
and also by the farmers and business
men of all sorts. A new era has
dawned for Mexico, and country in
| which there are nov $4,000 laberers
| engaged in American railroad enter
prises, and whose Government has
just granted great concessions for fu-
| turs ones, must expect TO see very
rapid change In the next ten years.
These great enterprises for improving
communication between the United
States and Mexico do not take into as-
count the native resources Of the coun-
| try and the advantages Of trade alone,
but reckon also on the pouring In Of q
tide Of American emigration, Which is as
inevitable as the emigration from Eur
ope to this country. The contiguous
portions Of Mexico are on their way tc
be Americanized In population, and th'
American influence will permeate tn
whole country. With this there will b.
an equally rapid change Of the relation
of the country TO the United States.-
There need not and it is to be hopet
that there will not be any repetition o
that violent seizure of territory whicl
was forced by the territorial aggressive
ness of the South, and IL is quite posi-
Bile that nothing but the most friendl
relations may be sustained between th
two Governments and the two people
until they are homogeneous and Mexic
becomes . part ofthe United States D
the easy process Of the natural develop
, | ment of circumstances. But In the pr
sent condition Of things, and the inevi
able advance Of American enterprii
. and population into Mexico, such r
suit seems as certain 10 any far-reachir
view as that Tie white popuiatic
/, would occupy the whole Of the Unite
States after 1t had passed the Alleghai
les. There is no natural barrier, an
the vitality and governing spirit Of th
population of the United States NAL
the advance over the border as certain I
the flowing Of the tide. The time b,
come when the tide is swelling to Il
. hood, and unless there is something e
b tirely unexpected in the way OF q n
tlonal catastrophe, the next decade "
's see as rapid change and developme
70 In Mexico as that which has been MAJ
70 ed in any growth in population tows
" the West. We may deprecate the far
m or extension Of our territory, and {
@ that II is not unaccompanied by dange
IN but 1t is natural and inevitable rest
Of and We should direct our efforts TO p
of vent its being violent or hasty, and
a- sure its harmonious operation, as far
be possible. But we must accept our m
at fest destiny to take charge Of the Am
I'D l lean continent to the south. We can