Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-26
PAH-AMERICAN CONGRESS-.
THE FEARS OF HIS ExCELLENCY COUNT
DE COELLO.
He Sees in the Congress of the Americas
Things that are Not Dreamed
of in the United States.

| UNION, by Samuel II. Gerrish.
Although l have already written on this
subject in the columns of La EpOca, the
great circulation of La Illustration Espdnold
in the world discovered by Columbus, gives
to it legitimate and sympathetic infiu.
ence over the thoughts of our brethren Of
Central and South America. This fact i'm.
pels me TO open up subject that tends to
the absorption OF all the people of the
! Spanish and Portuguese race by the power
full North American confederation, and to
close the New World to the products Of
Europe. The consideration of this, as a
realization, is stone wall to the aspira-
tons of Spain. The exterior commerce Of
the Spanish Republic without
counting in the Empire of BrsziD amounts
/ to upwards of six hundred and eighty
millions of dollars. That Spain only has a
trade of twelve millions-England and
| France having the greater part of it-does
/ not diminish the Importance OF the danger,
neither the greatness and gravity of the
consequences to Spain, since it may be
said that the interruption of our CONNER
cal relations with the Spanish-American
! nations By moral blockade, that follow
| ing their emancipation, aud by our own
civil wars in Spain, has annuled all the
! industries of the mother country. When
| trade began to rise from its prostration, it
was again checked by the deadly struggle
of the Pacific nations. But once again
they are beginning to live, grow and de-
velop on all the coasts and among the peo-
pie of that immense continent.
II demonstrates the ur0praSS Of Cate
| lonisn industry, whose exposition at Bar
| celons-although forming a contrast with
| the same manifestation that we made after
wards in the Universal of Paris-realizsd
much for our name in America. More
over, there are indications of this regener-
| alton of trade in the splendid reception of
| the ship Exposition Flotante, with its
| worthy exhibition of the products of Spain,
which by happy thought was sent to the
banks Of the Rio de la Plata, as also to
| Mexico. The productions of our artists
approved by collectors in Montevideo,
! Buenos Ayres, Chile and Central America,
have been the works of our painters and
| sculptors of the artistic Spanish colony OF
| Rome.
Besides, this question ought not to be
! considered by Spain entirely on the com.
mercial side as England, France and Italy
do. There is at ending it the international
| political influence, that DIES nationalizer;
| that is to say, the Spanish race ought not
to abandon the world that our great genius
| and sublime Captains discovered and COL
onized. This would be equivalent to En-
rope abdicating before the United States of
America.
Our century has seen--as we have al
ready written in another place-the results
that the Zollverein Germanica has given
for the Constitution of the German EN-
pire; and if all the hopes, and all the
gigantic plans, that the policy of North
America proposes to obtain, with the Con-
gress of Washington are realized, not only
European commerce, but all the influence
of Europe, and with this, that of Spain,
will have disappeared in South America in
the twentieth century For at the limit,
the great German Empire nearly prepon-
derate as it is in the continent of Europe,
is not alone. She has at her TANKS Russia,
that in the proximate century will power
fully dispute her position as the first power
in; and France, that cannot agree TO the
definite loss of the post held by her four
times with so much glory.
Meanwhile, Austria and Italy, if they
are allied in policy, defend theoretically
their commercial autonomy. In America
there is nothing of this. Near the omnipo-
ton each fourth of a century-and already
very much superior to this same Germany
there is nothing but States of relatively
small populations, and they are divided by
strife that often has rent them asunder.
The programme of the American Con-
gress, eonvoked for the I'd of October, at
Washington, eoquently says the idea was
conceived by McCreary. Minister during
the late Administration Of President Cleve-
land. 1t was more liberal than the party
that to-day is in power in the United States.
President Harrison represents this party.
He is as enthusiastic in political matters as
celebrated motto, America for the Ameri-
cans" he has accepted with enthusiasm.
For it's celebration the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Republic have
voted large sums for the expenses OF the
Congress at Washington.
This Congress has been called to con-
slider the creation of lines of steamers-a
great deficiency until now-carrying the
American flag, and embracing all their
poTts establishing a single customs zone
for all the confederate cities of America;
equality of money, weights and measures,
especially for the grand zollverein; ener-
getic laws protecting the privileges of
American manufactures; monetary and
administrative unity; constitution OF a
tribunal of arbitration, that, following the
fecund example of Geneva, which, impe1-
| ing war, decided one of the most arduous
questions between England and the United
! States, called to decide all the difficulties
| that may surge between the American
peoples, they would realize, beginning by
, the suppression of the obstacles of customs
duties between the different States, that
grand project of confederation which, be-
| sides making Washington the political and
/ commercial center of the two Americas,
would accelerate the absorption OF Mexico
and would establish with an arbitrary SOW
ereiguty the protectorate of the United
States over all South America.
They plan that three years after this
| Congress, in 1892, the powerful North
American Republic will reunite in New
| York with an exposition that will leave
far behind by its grandeur that of Phila-
| delphia, coinciding with the centennial of
| Christopher Columbus, which celebration
| the nation of Washington disputes with
/ Spain and with Italy, the double country
| of the great disc0verer of the new world.
| What an attraction, so immense, will not
all this constitute for nations less advanced,
and above all, infinitely less powerful than
| the American Union
1t is the accomplishment of all this, al
/ though taking most glgantlc forms In a
political aspect, of that Spanish-American
| Commercial Union. whose inaugural ses-
sion was held in New York at the end of
last year, and one of whose results was the
impulse given, as a preparation for this
plan, to the transatlantic navigation be-
| tween the ports of Europe and the ports of
South America, and the vast commercial
relations between the United States of the
North aud the nations of the Rio de la
Plata, whose increasing development can
not fail to attract the attention of the
| statesmen at Washington.
For my part l am forced to declare that
the United States have perfect right to
work as they work, and that their political
! parties, Democratic and Republican, as the
chiefs that lead them, are doing very well,
viewed as patriotic interests, competing in
zeal, in everything that tends to the aggrand-
izement of the Republic of Washington.
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