, 1891-05-23

heggemouy OF The United States throughout
tile Western world would be II very real
rs we'll as a very big thing for d|iplonatists'
consideration. They will see how blight
is ifthey will ouly imagine u similar claim
put forward by any European poverty
Great Britain, for instance, III right of
neutrality-suspicious. larger inalea even
than the Union.
SO long as the Government of Washington
plays fair. we have no objection TO raise
even to this gigantic scheme. 1t IL Tor
Canada rather than for us to say how far
she chooses to agree to it nor have we
any, even the smallest, right to control
the treaties made by American Republics.
They have u right to establish Free-trade
with the United States alone, if they so
please. and if they are not prevented by
specific treaties, or, even, it they see tit,
to place themselves under the protection
of Tho American flag, We arc not afraid
for English trade, which has survived a
.'CoEtineutal System > before now and
as for the profitable supply of capital,
we can probably undersell any rivals
whom the next thirty years will bring into
the field. England is n Storeh0uSe Of
accumulated wealth, wi.hftOO little room
tor its expenditure. AS to the sale OF
ROONlSt II wv "A III a NtiI Hb 80 80 3D.
open marker, let them; for even then
every second dollar they employ will pay
y dividend to an English investor. All
that We ask in that connection is, that
Americans shah not offer Reciprocity trea-
ties to an entire "hemiSphere,' aud then
declare that they believe only in the SyS-
tenn Of Protection, because a conflict Ike
that betwixt words aud acts is i~ntellec-
iually provoking. But we would call our
readers attention TO the new tone underIy-
inc the Presidents ~SueeclI, to the vast
ness ofthe projects which no treats as If
there were detailS-he only allndeS, you
see, en- DaaSant to that mighty work, the
Nicaragua Canal-and to the calmneSS
with which he ASSERTS American right, as II
it were not only unaSsailable, but past queS-
ton. to the commerce Of half the world.
There is a ring in his words which, II he
were Il King, would suggest that he enter
tainel vast ambitions and they may be
present in the mind Of the real King for
whom and 10 whom he is speaking, the
people Of the United States. President
harrison. he il remembered, is seek
ing a second term, and, as an experienced
politician is not likely tOibe mooting projectS
which he knows to be disagrceable to his
vast audience of king-makerS. Ofc0urse the
Interval between talking of projects such as
these and carrying them into effect, may
be a longOne. 1t is by no means certain,
TO beciu with, that the American people IN
tend their Treasury to keep so full, or that
they will not at the next election find them
selves face to face with vital questions,
Snch aS those raised by the armer
Alliance. in the pres ence Of (which the idea
of commercial treaties to be contracted
with Il whole hemisphere may recede into
the obscurity Of a distant future. Then,
although Brazil has yielded in'part to Mr..
Badness Seductions, it is by no means Ger
tain that all Spanish America will. The
new republic in Brazil greatly needs warm
foreign alliances, and its older sisters may
prefer those they already have, more espe-
cially as The Spanish Americans entertain,
AS the Portuguese Americans do not, q
deer, root, Il dislike and dread of the En-.
glish. speaking Republic whose citizens in,
vent ~contemptuous nicknames for them, and
tell them openly that the Onion is, in the two
Americas, the reversioHary general heir.
There are TREATIES, too, with the moSt-ta-
vonred nation clause in them, which have
not yet expired, aud the Republics are
Jealous of abandoning their complete con-
trol over duties which alone enable them
TO Iaise sufficient revenue. They are too
thinly settled as yet 70 'raiseumuch oy d.
rect taxation, and they are dependent Tor
the conditions of progress in the COM
melcial sense, upon Ruropean capital. 1T
=, Il, IA Yoahns,t CArtain pitheFi that the era