Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-25
THINGS In GENERAL.
The Conquering Progress, by Peace or War,
of the AngIo-Saxon Race-The Present
Troubles in South America to Result the
Same way-The situation in Chile.

| modern society to the new era And the
three most notable characteristics of the
| new era in his estimation are these: ~ The
| world is passing into the hands OF the En-
glish-speaking peoples. ~ Society, is being
| reorganized on a Soeialistic basis. (3)
Woman is at last being recognizedas as being
| with a right to equal privileges and oppor
| tunities with man.
| Mr. Stead is the pre-eminent Professor OF
| Things in General There is no instructor to-
day in all the immense faculty OF the uni
versity of the universe who keeps such
/ wide and observailt outlook over the world
i we live in. Nothing escapes him.
The interviewer did not get complete salts
faction from the Holy Father on these sub
! jects Although, l believe, he went away
| somewhat encouraged. Rome was not so
obstinately and irretrievably behind the
times as some people imagined He told the
| Pope, / remember, that what he needed
more than anything else was good, live
newspaper. What you want, he said, is an
| Organ "Put out 20 cardinals, and in their
place set 20 progressive editors, and you Will
quadruple your hold upon the world"
The Reign of the Anglo-saxon.
Read this: 1.-The Norsemen first discovered
/ the American continent, the Italians gave it
/ its name, and showed the Old World the
way to the New. The dutch colonized New
/ York, the French occupied the mouths of
the Mississippi and the ST. Lawrence, and
| the Spaniards held the Pacific coast, while
| the Russians annexed Alaska. To-day,
from Nova Scotia to San Francisco, from
| Behring'S Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, the En-
| glish-speal,ing man is supreme. Mexico and
| South America are honey-combed with
Anglo-American agencies. Australasia has
fallen as the golden fruit of Hesperides into
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Asiatics, whose civilization and culture were
| hoary when our ancestors stained them
| selves with wood and offered human sacri-
| fees in the recesses of the forests, acknowl-
edge the supreme authority of the English
| man. And in South Africa, black and boer
alike, admit that the sovereignty of the
| continent will ultimately be vested in those
who speak the tongue of Shakespeare and
of Milton. Everywhere, therefore, there are
| the manifest and unmistakable signs of the
ascendency of our imperial race"
Yes; the people of the future will speak
English. The institutions of the future will
be English institutions. The conquest of the
Latins, which our forefathers the Goths,
began, is still going on. Italy and America,
standing up together before the world, rep
resent the past and the future.
The Victory of the New.
The old and the new have had a fair fight
of it in North America. The northern half
of this continent will never be anything else
than English. 1t will never permanently
sustain any other than Anglo-SaXon institu-
tions. In speech in religion, in politics, in
manners, we belong to the new era. - 49,
Now the battle is being fought in South
America. 1t seemed at the beginning, when
the two divisions of this great continent
were being colonized, as if the old and the
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agreed to partition this vast territory be-
tween them in the South the Latins, in the
North the English. That partition still con-
tinues. But the North is moving the South.
Pittsburg sends locomotives to Brazil. Year
by year this whole country sends new ideas
from the Gulf of Mexico to Terra del Fuego.
And the new ideas are beginning more and
more to get hold.
We really know very little about South
America. Europe is ever so much more
familiar to us. Even Africa and Asia are
better known. News from South America is
glanced over like news from the moon. The
reader has a sense of obscure remoteness
which hindersllis interest
One of the benefits of war is that it serves
as an Introduction. The nations of the
world, almost the whole planet over began
their acquaintance one with another by
series of hard fights People are always
interested in a fight Just. now there is a
good deal of fight going oninSouth America,
and we are accordingly more interested in
that direction than we have been before.
The Transition in South America.
The Iatins seem to be having hard time
of it down in South America. The whole
land accustomed to earthquakes, is now
being shaken by a notable series of political
and financial convulsions. The Argentine
talists. Uruguay, where the Republic stands
shivering on the brink of financial difficult
ties, is not less immersed. Peru is little bet
ter than a bankrupt estate, which ought to
be in the hands of English liquidators. If
gold really comes to be worked in Yene-
zuela, that country also will pass under the
sway of those who speak the language of
Drake and Cromwell. Brazil having got
rid of its Emperor, who was an amiable, gen
tlemanly King Log, has fallen prey to King
Stork, in the shape of AIilitary-Dictator-
President Marshal de Fonseca, whose Minis
try has resigned, and who now rules Brazil
by his troops.
Now the center of trouble and of interest
is Chile.
Chile is one of the most remarkable of all
countries in its geographical position. 1t
lies along the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the
cape, thus including just about half of the
sea coast of Western South America On
one side is the ocean, on the other side are
the mountains; and the distance between
the Pacific and the Andes is 200 miles in the
widest part and 40 miles in the narrowest
Think of a country $500 miles long and $50
miles wide!
A History of Invasion and Revolution.
The history of Chile is a history of in
vasion and of revolution. The first invader
was one of the Incas of Peru before the
Spanish Conquest. Then came the Span
iards, and long series and alterations of
conquests and rebellions followed. While
we were fighting England in 1872 the Chileans
were fighting Spain. But the patriots were
defeated. Finally, in 1917 the national cause
triumphed and Chile became Republic. A
long course of dissension and anarchy fol-
lowed during which various triumvirates
tried vainly to rule the country. In 1S2Sa
constitution was adopted. In 1893 it was re-
vised Since that time the country has en-
joyed a fair measure OF peace and prosperity.
What is the trouble now? That is the /,
question to which we want an answer, and
particularly hard question it appears to be.
The whole matteris inextricahly tangled up.
This, however, is plain, that both sides claim
to be contending for Republican Institutions
Anglo-Saxon ideas are evidently at the bot
tom of it,
Cabinet, and two Houses of Congress. The
present contention began with dispute be-
tween the President and Congress about the
Cabinet The President, heretofore, has ap-
pointed his Cabinet at his own pleasure. 4