Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-26

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while Great Britain sends to Brazil $685.
600 600 in merchandise, the United States
does not exceed 100000. The compari-
son is even more disadvantageous with re-
Iation to the Rio de la Plata and to Chile.
Thus, in the Argentine Republic. whose
commercial movement ascends TO S70,OOO,-
900 strong, and her population grows all
the time, the proportion of the importation
is for England thirty three per cent,
France seventeen per cent. and only three
per cent. for the great republic. The trade
is even worse in Uruguay and Chile; null
or almost null in Bolivia and in Columbia,
and represents only twenty five per cent.
in Venezuela compared with that OF Great
Britain. It only exceeds this somewhat IN
Mexico, owing to the advantageous treaties
of commerce they imposed alter iheir VIC
tories and by the close relations that Call
forpia has established between the two
frontier nations.
But if the United States will work per-
fectly they will secure all that is possible
for lettering their situation, following their
legitimate aspirations, consequently not
forcing their claims to the exclusion OF
Europe from the markets of America. as
they are already excluded from all intiu-
ence in the destinies Of America.
And if there is any nation that has the
right to claim this part. the titles of the
community of race of religion, OF Ian
guage, our sap and our blood, that at the
expense of the mother country we gave to
our brothers of America, it is Spain. She,
cured of vain dreams, condemned in all
her parts the political adventurer that pro-
dnced the war of the Pacific; having given
that noble example of fidelity to Mexico
even at the cost of the friendship with the
then powerful Napoleonic Empire. This
placed the monarchy in great danger, and
perhaps the recognition of Mexico in 1868
caused the downfall of Isabel ii.
We make no pretentions to any protecto
rate, neither aspire TO dominion of any
kind in America. We aspire alone to
those ties that now are intimate, to those
commercial relations that now are open,
will be closer and increase more and more
with the mutual advantage of the COM
merce, and of the prosperity OF people who
are brothers and of nations of the same
origin. Far from asking from these eX-
elusive treaties that one day they author
lied In Cuba, these favors make it impossi-
BILE to determine the expectations we de.
sire in the industries. We send quantities
of merchandise to America in bond, and
its price sustains the coucurrency with the
Republic of the north.
As the rapid lines of beautiful steamers
are growing more and more every day, our
geographical situation will not favor us
They will be in rapid communication with
Mexico, Brazil, the Argentine Confedera-
ton and Uruguay, as Italy with the Rio de
la Plata, England, France, Germany and
Belgium with almost ali of America Thus
we will be checked by international treaties
of commerce mutually advantageous.
These advantages are in so much suspicion,
that with them the great American Repub-
lie treats of arresting in their orbits the
other nations of the world of Columbus
The nations at first viewed with suspi-
cion the projected Congress of Washing
ton suspician not yet allayed in Brazil,
Buenos Ayres, Mexico and Montevido.
They accepted at first the persistent propo-
sitions of the United States, offering their
concurrence the Empire of Brazil, the
Argentine Republic, Chile, Venezuela,
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru. Honduras,
Nicaragua, Salvador, Hayti, Santo Domingo
and Bolivia. Each State will have its del
gate in the American assembly, ten being
there from the United States, although we
think that when they meet there will be
no more than one vote to each of the ma
tons represented. The Government at
Washington will not pretend to representa-
ton and rate superior to the other nations.
For to the contrary, it would be equivalent
to placing at their disposition major
ity that the other powers would have no
power to counteract
In midst of legitimate fears and suspi-
cions that the attentive reader may have,
we consigu to the American press the hope
that the representatives of the nations at
Washington will favor aud assist in having
full rights in the fecund relations of mutual
interests between South and North America,
and that they will resist most tenaciously
all those acts and all those decisions that
will tend to their absorption by the
United States. For Republics that wish to
preserve their political independence GER
tainly must have commercial autonomy.
We have already said in another place:
1t is impossible that the Empire of Brszil,
so closely linked to Portugal, with proper
physiognomy, that owing to circumstances
is the only Monarchy in America; that
Mexico, that sees every day before her
frontier the colossal Anglo American al
ready owner of the rich California; that
Chile, the model Spanish State of the
Spsnish race in America, and the two
nations of the Rio de la Plata, destined to
be by the constant increase of their popula-
ton that just alimeLt 20 Europe, and united
by narrow bands of ailiance-as in their in
dependence are Spain and Portugal-one of
the great centers of the Spanish race in
america, if they abdicate to-day this COM
mercial autonomy absolutely on the affairs
of another absorbent power. they will have
to sacrifice their independence also on the
morrow.
Brazil was not thus CALAMITY present
with her emporium Of riches in the Expo
sition Universal at Paris; Mexico with its
fantastic palace of the Azlecs the Argen-
tine Republic respiring in her exuberance
of life; Uruguay and Chile displaying their
agricultural and industrial treasures and
mines they have opened; Bolivia, Peru
and Central America, that have stanched
the wounds of their wars as demonstration
of this Spanish race that is like Anteo, at
whose tread new forces appeared on the
earth. This showed all these diverse coun-
tries united by the common bond Of blood.
Some may ignore it, but certainly we see
the vitality, the progress and the future of
Spanish America for sacrificing to no other
power and breaking at the same time their
secular relations with those of Europe.
1t is not enough that we have confidence
in Spanish America. 1t is necessary that
orr diplomacy seconds, intelligently and
with tact, the natural currents contrary to
an absorption; that they may not lack of
existence in Chile, as in Buenos Ayres, in
Rio Janeiro and in Mexico. Spain has in
the gentlemen Muruaga, Depuy de LONE,
Lopez, Guijarro, Casteilanos and others,
most intelligent representatives in the ma
tons of America. These know that in
this undertaking of reducing to rational
limits the results feared from the Congress
of Washington, they may count with the
most efficient concourse of England,
France and italy. These realize with
Spanish America commerce much supe-
rior to ours, and with the influence of pow
erful Germany, that is seeking markets in
all parts of the world, will not be indiffer-
ent to see those of America closed to her.
The European press pertaining to all
these nations is pre-occupied much more
than ours with the Congress of Washing
ton. With great pleasure we have seen
that they consecrate considerations very
similar to those that in this article we lay
open also, the most influential journals of