Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-16
EUROPE VS.. AMERICA.
THE CONQUEST OF TIE FYRMER
BY The UNITED sTATES.
A New Line of Speculative Reason
ing Much to the Aggrandize-
ment OF Uncle Sam.

UNION by Samuel H Geriish.
The nations that have the power fol
conquest conquer with armies if they are
warlike; if peaceful, with commerce, in
dustries or the press. And in that way
things appear to be so disposed by mys
terious hand that the nation OF power ano
conquest destined to march at the head o
civilization will go every time further to
the west. OF such certainty is this thai
the diverse points of the line recorded fol
them have these names: India, Assyria
Egypt, Greece, Rome, Western Europe
Great Britain. The center OF the economi
cal and intellectual life of the modern
world is the region near the North Sea
and Canal de la Mancha. Civilization APP.
pears TO be resting on both sides of the
Atlantic. Will it now cross this sea, as ii
has already crossed the Mediterranean,
TRANSFORMING its center in America? An
English writer responds in the affirmative,
In an article most certainly interesting,
published in the Contemporary Revieio.
MIR. Gladstone recently said: There
reigns on this side of the Atlantic great
antagonism between the States, and mill
tary pest, that will drag the continental
nations to bankruptcy and ruin"
The great English statesman is right /;
his words note the fears of many, as they
contemplate, with terror, the enormous
sums, the intelligence ard lives that this
pest Of militarism is now costing all Europe.
The military superiority of Germany
threatens to return her to barbarism. The
evil, far from lessening, augments. A few
days since, M. Freycinct, said in Parlia-
ment, that the war expenses of France, not
only were not reducible, but that it would
be chimerical to make any effort to reduce
them now. And these expenses are up
wards of S100,000,000 yearly Can they
maintain in France on peace footing
$4,000 men? The different States of
Europe have under arms, also on peace
footing, four millions of soldiers, that cost
nine hundred millions of dollars year.
Add to this the work lost, that signifies
the existence OF four millions of idle men,
in the prime of life and chosen exactly
from among the most robust. This will
explain why these same nations owe
23,430,000 of dollars whose revenue
and expenses entail debt each year of
Sl69,G00,000. Forty per cent. of this enor-
nous debt has been contracted during the
twenty years that has passed of the Ger
mamie preponderance. Calculating only
as 500 yearly the amount of the work of
each OF these men, condemned to-day to
idleness, there will result loss of $780,
00G,000 annually.
The United States, with territory to
defend equal in extent to that of all the
European nations together, only has q ,S16
soldiers; in the war expenses there is to
each Yankee 81 so, 10 each German 81, to
each Englishman So 40, and to each
Frenchman SD CO. And France, Ger
many, England and Italy are increasing
their aTmaments, and with these their ex-
persas; the United States on the contrary
are diminishing annually their debt The
struggle for existence is In Europe each
day more difficult; here the births di-
mlnish and the mortality increases There
are already nations as France, where the
cypher of population remains stationary :;
terrible symptom of decadence that, thanks
To the emigration, is not mark on all the
old world. More than million Eu-
ropeans annually abandon Europe to never
return. The changes Of population in the
United States augments in a prodigious
manner. In 1890 the Yankees were $780,
coo in 1900, 5,306, 600 in 1910, 7,240 600;
in 1920, $685., 600; in 1880, 12,S66,000; in
1910, l7.069,000; in 1880, 23,192,000; in
1850, 81 $4,000; in 1870, 3S,556000; in
l&Sn rl,aN ,,accaI ln0 nnn
to-duy they reach almost TO co.
100000. In the same proportion the
United States will have 100000 of
Inhabitants at the end of the present CEN
fury. All the manifestations of social life
have followed an equally rapid develop
ment. In 1900 the estimated wealth of
England was 100000; In Franc.
S240 600 900; in the United States 81 .062.-
100000 In 1880 these riches were S4S.
200,000000 Sl,2l5000,0 900, S43,60O.0 00,-
O00 respectively. That is TO say, that thu
United States has left England herself be-
hind. The extraction. of coal will serve
Us as a barometer for calculating industrial
progress. In 1860 the extraction of this
material was 100000 Of tons; in 1856, had
arrived at l02.0o0,000 tons. In the time
that the United States shall have passed
hall a dozen years more they will have
conquered England in this. 1t is not ne
cessary to accumulate more ciphers
Enough those presented to justify many to
think them exaggerated. The Americans
of the north have worked constantly TO
emancipate Europe. The Monroe doc
trine IS well known. "Our fundamental
axiom ought to be, not TO mix in the in
ternal questions of Europe, and never to
consent that Europe ever interferes in
those OF America"
Never have the United States departed
from this. BY its application they pro-
tested against, the expedition to Mexico;
pretending now they intervene in the
pending conflict between England and
Russia they having purchased Russian
America; they are going to construct an
inter-oceanic canal, rival of that of Pana-
ma; they are working in the creation of
an American Customs Union TO convert
the new world into vast market closed to
the Europeans And the limits of the
United States as TO this policy, that we
may call defensive, is unknown. Well, we
are inclined to see the great republic be-
gin to enter a second period of expansion,
now pacific, and without any doubt to-
morrow violent. On the great ocean her
influence overcomes many times that of
England. The Sandwich Islands are
found under her protectorate. In the Ala
bama question the United States obliged
England to pay an enormous indemnity,
threatening her with war In Spain we
viii never forget the question Of the Vir-
ginius. The English statesmen are not
rnacqnainted with the pretensions of the
Yankee Government to the annexation of
Canada. A recent act, the expulsion
of Mr.. Sackville, proves the air of superb
ority that the ancient British colony treats
the most powerful European nations
Her influence among these is such that no
one is bold enough TO deny toe right of
Intervention in European conflict, or yet
IN all peaceful business On the contrary,
the Intervention of Europe in any Yankee
business is not tolerated under any pretext.
The political balance begins already to in
cline to the other side Of the Atlantic, at
the same time as the economical balance.
Will We be conquered in that land as
we have been in this? VIII the United
States arrive to be an invading and war
like power? The elements of the problem.
such as we know to-day, oblige us to an
swer this question in the affirmative. |
will have readers, and perhaps they are
many, that will not justify the title OF this