The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-08
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In our dispatches yesterday. a state.
ment was made TO the effect that
a paper PzbIished in st. Louis, known
as the Commerce. de! Yale, prints a
letter from its correspondent IN the
City Of Mexico which says the presi-
dents AID .ezpresideRts of the Central
American republics are in solemn con-
sultatiSn with a view of bringing about
a union of the five Central American
repUbAcs, viz: Guaemala, Saz Saliva
dor, Honduras. Nicaragua, snd-oosta
Rica. Alter the. Union OF these petty
repCblies iEto a eonfederscy. the ulti-
mate intention appears 10 Se to annex
the whOleto Mexico. r-nA --
There caa be ne question but what
the. modern tendency Of political gov
ernments is TO form great State sys-
tens. The days of small independent
kingdoms, cities and republics appear
TO be numbered. There was a time and
n0t,Yery far remote fron the present
WREN the greGtest part Of Europe was
divided into petty independent king.
dems o. duEedoms, and free Cities.
Those political lines have new
become well ESgh erasedfron our maps,
asthose petty Kingdoms and free cities
have been merged into vast empires.
Germany, fOg instance, is an example,
Austria is aasther. The territory in
tkesOutheasern part of Europe is an
exception. Aad those petty kingdoms
-ROumaniS, SerYia, Montenegro and
Bulgaria placed as they are, one under
theprotecttOn of Turkey, another under
that of Russia, and smother under
AEstria sndS0 Oh, ares Constant men
ace to the peace of Europe. la
This work Of forming great State
systems has prevailed -f recent years.
not only inE1rope bat in America az
vel. The separate British American
provinces have been formed into q great
confederney: and now it appears that
the petty.republics of Central America
desire to do likewise.
In connection with this modern
tendency in governments to form great
State systems, the American will be
pleased to note the triumph Of
our own system Of governments
more or less modified Of course, under
tke varied circumstances of different
nations Of people-but nevertheless the
same principle forming the basis OF
her confederscies throughout-that is,
whether inthe maSsing Of petty king
doms and freescities into an empire, as
inCermany; or the collecting Of q num-
Der of separate provinces as in the case
OFSanads: or of small republics as is
nov proposed with the republics Of Gen.
rdAmeriea; the principle of allowing
separate, communities with distinct To-
calinterests to be sovereign in the man
agenent Of those affairs which concern
themselves slone-and then each former
petty kingdom, province and republic
guaranteeing SO much of its power to 3
central organization to be known as the
general government, creating for it q
spheEein which to operate, and giving
TO hesabsolntesoFereignty in its largest
phere as the respective States or smaller
divisions have in their spheres-is
the grsad principle on which they are
built And that principle is the Amen.
can idea of government.
horeeEeI, when the smaller States
and KINGDOMS shall have become either
formed into new AID larger govern
rnents, or incorporated into larger gov
enments already existing; as inter-
course shall become more general, as it
undoubtedly viii; and the interests Of !
all States shall be more closely bound
together, until the human race shall be- I
one race, with mesely ~.seuarate ]
local Interests, We may look for a fur !
Their triumph Of the American idea of
"a the establishment Of a
great international Congress of the I
world, composed Of representatives I
rom all the greaI powers of the EARTH (
ZACH of which will surrender 10 /
his central government of the a
sufficient of their mowers
o make it as sovereign in the I
International sphere assigned to it, as $
respective empires, kingdoms ana {
ePublics shall be in their respective i
pheres. Then may It not transRire 4
hat that era of peace on earth and L
God will to man, of which both angels q
nd men have sang, that philanthro-Y
lists have dseamed OF and prophets {
oretold-when the spears shall be k
1rned into pruning hooks and swords a
it) ploEshares-shall be realized? and v
ne nations learn war 0 more. p
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