The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-16
An Ocean-Bound Republic.

Senator John J. ingalls,, of Kansas, has
some vivid and extensive ideas as to the
future expansion of this government. He
believes that the whole western hemisphere
will not only eventually adopt the republi-
can form of government, but that it will
gradually merge into one great ocean-bound
republic.
In recent interview, written out by
himself, he says in substance, that the
Anglo-Saxon migration which in two CEN
turtles has marched across the continent,
expelling the Indian, the French and the
Spanish, now rests on the Pacific meditat-
ing new conquests, and being arace which
oyerconles all opposition and tolerates no ele-
ment that it cannot absorb and assimilate,
its next move will be to abolish the western
frontier, after which it will move northward
and southwark to the pole and to the equa-
tor Continuing he says:
We have reached the limit of arabic land in
our public domain. In ten years the homestead
system win be extinct within the territory now
open to settlement. Since the war with Mexico we
have ceased to enlarge our boundaries not because
the instinct of acquisition lost but because we
had enough The pressure of surplus population
viii soon be felt, and the overflow will absorb
and the other West Indian islands, which we need
for the tobacco and sugar products in order to
plee our industrial independence. We have paid
duties enough on sugar in the past thirty years to
have purchased Cuba from Spain thrice over. We
also need additional accommodations in the torrid
zone for the surplus African population of this
country which will require outlet before the
close Of the century, Tile race problem in the
south is not yet settled. If tho whites and blacks
cannot essimilate they viii eventually probably
separate. peacefully by common consent, the ne
gToes establishing states in the tropics and accom-
pshing their destiny in their original and native
environment. We have now continuous line of
railway TO Mexico. 1t viii soon be continued to the
valley of the Amazon. Veshbued trains will run
through without change from New York to Buenos
Ayres. Along this highway the Anglo-SaXon race
viii move TO the domination of the hemisphere.
Whatever may be said of Senator ingalls,,
his ability is recognized by all, and the ex-
teAsiye play of imagination in which he
INDUCES cannot be looked upon as the
vagary Of crank. There is certainly a
strong basis of possibility in what he said
even of probability. A race of such as the
Anglo-SaXon instinct cannot be confined be-
tween two oceans, particularly after having
fought its way from one to the other, and
having before it such boundless possibili-
ties OF expansion in 9th er directions.
After we had secured the Spanish and
French possessions to the west of the Mis-
ssslppi and had extended our government to
the Pacifc,we thought we had enough; but
Texas came next and then the Mexican
war which resulted In fixing the boundary
of the United States as it is.
Stronger feeling exists today for the ac-
QUESTION Of Cuba and Canada than that
which ten years before the conquest of
Mexico inspired our people with the desire
| to extend our southwestern boundary to the
| Rio Grande, westward.
| 1t is simply question of time as to
whether Cuba or Canada comes next. The
| acquisition of both or either of them, may
come through peace, or through war, but
I they will both inevitably become part of
| this government Then Mexco's time
must come, and after that we must cross
[ the isthmus of Panama. 1t may take q
( century and it may take many of them to
/ bring about the realization of Senator In
/ ealls's prediction, but It must come. 1t is
/ in the natural order of things and is simply
/ IN keeping with historical tradition.
AS to the senator's views OF the solution
/ of the race problem in the south, there is
/ no moro chance that the negroes will ever
separate from the whites by colonizing
I themselves elsewhere than in the south.
than that the Jews Of the world viii verify
I literally the prediction that they will one day
return as q whole TO Jerusalem. The ne
/ groes are here to stay, and they viii never
separate from the whites, by common con-
sent or otherwise. The race problem will
be solved in time. and no man knows on
what basis; but after the question is set
tied 1t viii be found tina. the negroes and