The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-30

wherever they have attempted to deal with an
organized civilization or Standardization not
their own. No colonists succeed so we'll In an
unpeopled or q simply savage country; mono
fall so hopelessly where they come upon an
alien raco rooted In the soil 1t was from civ
ilized ireland that Christianity was carried by
st. Boniface to tho pagan Saxons, who muir
dered him for his mission: and now. after
nearly 300 years OF persistent efforts to colo
nize Ireland into British Kingdom. tho most
| conspicuous living Engshman OF tho nine
teenth century ia calling upon his countrymen
| to give up the attempt rs the IN ost ,anlalous
| and sanguinary failure recorded in history
Lower Canada and the Mauriius are not less
| aggressively French to-day than they wers
| when tho sword first transferred them to tho
rule OF England. Finance and speculation arc
the only real hold England has upon South
| Africa. wherc the Dutch colonists have trnmpled
| upon the meteor flag IA composedly and
| successfully as the Bataviaa hero OF tho Boyne
| two centuries ago tramplel upon tho
| English Constitution. And what woull
| become OF Lord Bcaconsfeds brilliant dream
Of the Indian Empire. were tho chicken
| Of Indian home rule onco fairly hatched
| out OF tho Baboo eggi Finance and spocu'n
| ton are tho only hold outside Of the lcsiti.
| mate relations OF her merchants and manu-
facturcrs with Uruguay and the Argentine
! which England has upon tn, regions Of South
| America. The Germans havo not turned thor
attention 30 seriously to these regions as to
| the West Coast but The German residents OF
| Brazil. Uruguay. and the Argentine outnum-
| Dor the English. and as Il class outweigh them
In local influence. Curous!y enough. how
ever. tho English and tho Germans put to-
Cether hardly equal in number tn" hustrians
| tchcfy from the Trcntno and from lstrih,
| who have been drawn into this part OF South
| America by tho Italian connections and inlu-
ences which run through the whole OF Italia
| 1rrdonta from Verona to Trent, and from tho
| Austrian frontier line to Trieste. Do not for
get this little fact. which has n significant
| bearing on the political canonizhtion Of San
| Giuseppe Garlhaldi.
As for tho influence OF tho United States In
this quarter OF tho American continent. it is
hardly an cxaCgeration to say that 1t Is no
more considerable than the influence of Italy
in the United States. Not one person in
five hundred in Uruguay or the Argentine
knows or cares any more about tho great
Pan-Americhn idea than about tho great
Pan-Slavic idcn. SO far as any political or
diplomatic action OF tho United States on these
regions ia concerned Buenos Ay-es and Monte
vdeo arc no nearer to Washington now than
Bangkok or Manila. In the days before tho
war;" wien our lamcnted 'Uncie Sam
Ward" went away. Secretary OF Legation with
the immortal Bowln. and revealed the
mysteries OF the French cuisine and of
American iced drinks to tho omniro-
tent Ur1uIza. tho friendship or tho
hostility Of the great northern republic meant
something to tho ouachos anu their rulers In
those days the most intelligent Argeatincs
imported American ideas OF education and
culture from New England and New York
as we'll rs American chairs and tables. boots
and shoes. and machinery. An American
astronomer then interpreted the starry
heavens to the jewellers on thu pi:nnns. aud
Cabinet officers at Washington. sucking their
sherry cobblers through silver Loabiiins.
seriously meditated on plans for making an
end OF European Interference in South as well
as In North America. All this is now n
thing OF the past. The flag Of the United States
represents in Uruguay and the Argentine.
commercially. little more than the flag of Bel
GUM. In 1890 tho whole commerce Of Monte
video with tho United States am nted to little
more than half tho amount OF the mporta.
tions from Great Britain alone. and scarcely
more than third Of the whole commerce OF
Montevldeo with France. Genoa and Naples
export more to tho ports OF the La Plata than
New York and Boston. and II tho Italian in
nuenco In Uruguay and the Argentine wc:c
measured only By tho value OF the commercial
exchanges between those countries and italy.
it would be much more important than the
influence OF the United States. There was
an opportunity to improve this condition Of
things when the Democrats got p)sSossion OF
tho American Executive in 1884. hut no advnn-
! tage was taken OF it. Whether it has been or
can be bettered under the existing tariff still
remains to he seen.
But as l have already intimRtel. the iHnu-
ence OF Italy upon the fortunes and tho future
OF this part Of the great coatinrnt. which four
hundred years ago was given to civilization by
| Italian genius and courage Is not to ho meas
| urcd by commercial exchanges. 1t is to be
measured by the establishment in these re. ions
OF n strong. substantial. numerous. prospor-
Gus. and increasing Italian population. n true
Italy In the Now World" For these Italians
of the La Plata and the Parana. whether they
come from Liguria or from Iombarly. from
the Emilia or thu Trentino. are intensely and
rassonatey Italian. How much the Italians
OF Genoa and Ligurla think OF what we in
} America call the main chance | have al
ready said. curious little phrase in use
among them was this: When they speak o
man as moral man they mcaa
that he Is a man Of substance "-Eomo cra
RIA da morale" in tho mouth u Gcnocsc Ar
gontine mems that the man has made his
pile But II wealth is too often synony'
nous with worth in tho minds of our own
Americans OF the North. as it is som, times
| said to be. we know and tho world has seen
that the love OF money has no chance with thu
love OF their country in tn, hearts Of th'
American people when it comes to a crisis In
the fortunes Of tho nation. And thu thrifty
Ligurian settlers In South America who prefer
I small gains but sure" pocc!teht ma Sscurchi
to those dashng games Of chance In which the
descendants Of the Spanish hidalGrs delight
are ready to give their savings as we'll rs thc
blood to tho cause Of ItGly one and indivls
q ihle." from the Alps to the Adriatic.
The celebration OF the Second of June mean
In italian South Amercn-whatever 1t ma
= mean In Italy-not the present or the past
but tho future OF Italian unity and greatness
Considerations Of policy may modify in Italy
the expression Of national passion and
n national purpose. which blaze ont in cv"rl
n manifestation Of the South American WORSHIP
of San Giuseppe Garibaldi. South America
8 Italy remembers that tho epic Of Italian in!'
o pendence really began in South America