Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-16

ton gained in amplitude what it lost in
variety. Italy is four or five times greater
| than Greece, in the same manner that
| America is four times larger than Europe.
/, The plains, mountains and the rivers OF
Italy were gigantic at the side of the
plains, mountains and rivers of Greece.
The Alps are to the Pelion and the Ossa,
as the Andes to the Alps. The Pc and
/ the Tiber to the Alpheus and to the Eu-
rotas, as the Amazon and the Mississippi
to the Italian rivers. The plains of Lom-
hardy to those of Thessaly and Boeotia,
that the savannas of the New World are
/ to the Italian Campanas. Sicily was for
the inhabitants of Rhodes or of Zante a
true continent. Soon the cities of great
Greece were more populous, more extern
! sive, more rich and more powerful than
! Greece. laramie, Selinoute, Sibaris Syr.
acuse and Agrigentum surpassed Athens.
When this city was in the apogee of her
splendor she sent to make Syracuse feel
her power and was conquered. The con-
federation of the Latin towns, most inn
portant product of Greek civilization, was
the United States of the antique age. As
| this born of federation; as this, given a
/ growth over ali in the superiority of its
institutions, in prodigious activity and a
political foresight, America of to-day is
what Italy was. The twenty-five centuries
that great Greece represented is repre-
sented to-day by the great Europe. We
will leave the complete demonstration of
this truth for a special work. For my
purpose, enough to leave it consigned
here.
Perhaps it is said that the United
States are people essentially commercial
and laborious, and never have demonstrated
bellicose instincts. Those that thus dis
course ignore without doubt that the most
sanguinary war of modern times that of
secession, was sustained by the Americans,
during which they maintained under arms
more than million men, and that in a
moment they improvised all-Generals,
soldiers and guns. For Transforming the
United States into a great military
nation, alone is wanted motive, and this
motive will be surely given by the first
collision with European power.
Portugal and Spain were not great mari
time nations, until by degrees they were
engaged in the arduous enterprise of dis
covering lands; no one would have prophe-
sled fifty years since the homogeneity of
Germany in Europe, considering it an
illusion; the Chinese, until short time
past, were considered as a factor at point
little less than despised in the scene of the
world, begin already to constitute a men,
ace for the Oceanic and American nations
With these facts in sight, would not the
assurance that the United States will be
forever pacific nation too much to assert
Besides, who knows what point may
make it necessary within century or two
to start war for dominion? Every epoch
has its character. In the centuries eleven,
twelve and thirteen they were marching to
the conquest of the Holy Land. In the
fifteenth and eighteenth centuries they
were seeking new lands where they would
have Indians to convert and treasure to
appropriate. In the nineteenth century
they open markets and send armies of
travellers with rich specimens they Or
ganize expositions and they struggle to sell
better and cheaper. From this competi-
ton there has resulted war, more than
once, it is certain but the conquest of At
RIGA has been until now work relatively
pacific, in which the products of European
industry has represented the principal part.
The superiority of the United States is
marked precisely in this land, on account
of Its immense resources, of its virgin soil,
and the enormous errors committed by the
first nations of Europe.
Nj. Henri de Beaumont, in work pub
lished on this same subject, in which he
recapitulates also the opinions of the
Contemporary RecieU, believes that the
struggle between the United States and
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land and Germany
The conflict will be most intense" he
says, between the two branches Of the
Anglo-Saxon race. Notwithstanding the
common origin of both peoples, the diff
ferences that separate them are most pro-
found. The distance that interviews be-
tween both nations, the difference of
climate, the manner of life and the con-
stitution Of the soil, they have created
different characteristics and customs. The
Americana English in nothing appears like
English of England. Besides, the United
States have more means of action over
their old country than any other Euro
pean nation. The great number oil irish
men that inhabit the Union, the nay
serve any moment to give pretext for
Intervention in the affairs of Great
Britain.
"The influence the United States may
exercise in Germany in commerce and
emigration would be most grave.
"The application of the formula,
america for the americans, to commercial
questions, is already reality, for the
United States have invited the South
Americans to Congress to meet in Wash
ingtop, to decide on the creation of
Customs Union to comprehend all the
American continent.
. 1t is probable that the proposition will
be repelled, but sooner or later will be
adopted, and then they will comprehend
the immense importance of this fact, the
extent of which to-day it is impossible to
have an idea. The German Customs Union
did more for the German unity than the
victories of Sadowa or Sedan. The Amer
lean jurisdiction will be considered as the
prelude of the confederation of both Amer
icas, after which will come the war of
which We have spoken"
No country of Europe is more interested
than Spain in this business The CONNER
cial struggle is at the point of beginning
to take away from her one of her principal
markets-South America. Besides, they
will ponderate the people that form il, and
they are our brothers-by race, customs.
language and even interests-to the dispo-
sition of the Americans of the North. The
future of the Spanish here ana over the
Atlantic depends on the care that they
pay in avoiding the snare that they wish
TO set. If the North Americans wish to
have America for themselves, the South
Americans ought to want it also and con-
federate for defending it, forming COM
pact nucleus of 100000 individuals.
Mexico, that is the most threatened of the
Spanish American States, ought to be the
initiator. Perhaps the morrow will be too
late. At the time Of her separation from
Spain, she had 100000 of kilometers
square of superficies; to-day it will not
reach to 100000. The rest has passed to
the hands OF the Anglo-Americans.
We will yield again to the words of NJ.
Beaumont
"The European States will not be saved
without renouncing these insensate ex-
penses; the remuneration to be disposed as
for war, forever returning the men to
work, who are now shut up in military
barracks, paying the public debts and
tightening the people of the taxes that are