The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26
The Central American States.

A Washington dispatch tells of an eff
fort to form a union of the Central Amer
lean states without Guatemala. 1t is not
so stated in the proposed plan of confed-
Grafton, but the reason that Guatemala is
left out is that she is too great and pros
porous for her neighbors. There have
been numerous attempts at a Central
American union, but they have all fallen
through because of the difficulty of de-
termining, upon a satisfactory basis, just
what power each of the several states
Should have in the central government.
Guatemala, being the greatest in popula-
ton and wealth of the parties to the con-
templated contract, has always insisted
upon welding commanding power in the
councils of the nation. To this arrange
ment the other states objected. strenu-
ously and effectively. Guatemala might
be bigger than they. but her public men
were no more ambitious. Hence all Of the
propositions have come to nothing.
In the plan of confederation latest re-
ported, Guatemala is not considered. The
states in the scheme are pretty nearly
upon par in the matter of population and
Importance AS between them, therefore,
there ought not be a great deal of difficulty
in the way of arriving at a satisfactory
or rather equabe-basis of representation
in the national governing body. At the
same tine, it can be seen that a Central
American union leaving out the most i'm
portant part of Central America would fall
far short of what such a union ought to
be. 1t would be something like leaving
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
out of the United States. Salvador, Costa
Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras would of
course make government stronger than
that of either of the states separately, but
they would not amount to a great deal in
the family of nations. With the fifth
state into the compact, a powerful gov
eminent might be formed. 1t is under
stood, by the way, that Mexico is not
over anxious TO see her southern neigh
bors bound together for offensive and de-
fensive purposes.
Stutzke is disappointed. stutzke is
New Yorker. He predicted the other day
that the world would come to an end
during the first part of the week Just
passed. Being a consistent New Yorker.
he evidently set the time so as to head
off the counting of the Chicago registra-
ton, and knock the whole old globe into
smithereens before it could be published
to the world that the Windy City of the
west had grown larger in population than
his own town. Well, the world is still
wagging, and the Chicago registration
has been concluded counted and an
nounced 1t stands a long way ahead
of the New York list. And Stutzke is
unhappy.
Whether the boom in wheat was the re-
suit OF speculation or something else. the
| fact remains that the farmers of the west
are selling at advanced prices, and putting
profits into their pockets. Like the cot
ton planters Of the south. they planted for
crop on the basis Of prices that obtain
en- in the spring, and whatever more than
that the product brings is profit to the pro-
Queer Secretary of Agriculture Morton
estimates that the wheat already sold bv
farmers has put S4O,OOO,OOO more into their
pockets than they expected to get. That
being the case, they have not much room
to growl about speculation.
1t is said that Senator Hill went TO see
play called 1.-The Mummy the other