The times., 1899-09-16
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Is, 1888.
south America.

When preachers wish 10 select text ior
8 sermon. they usually turn to the best
book known 20 sinful msn for the basis
of their remarks" We shall reverse
the order and resort 10 nearly the very
worst thing in print Of which the country
has any knowlsdga.
Recently, in viewing with alarm an al
leged movement in certain South American
States, inimical to The dominant power Of
the hemisphere. the Springfield Repub-
licana said: ''Unsasinezs exists because it
is beginning to b. reallzed that moral fcrce
is still power among the nations, and that
We eanaot plovols the distrust and quiet
unfrisndiiness of these naighboTing STATES
without injury to our commerce. our inlu-
ence. End our prestige in the ways OF
peace.
II is not especially pertinent TO our par
pose, but it may not be amiss 10 remark
thai the moral force" which is still d
power zmoag the nations, - and to which the
Springfield Republican" so foelingiy a.
luces. N the eyes OF that journal is TO
doubt the force represented and exerted BY
the Eoar and Atkinson trsason mill in Bos-
ton, aided by such oatander philanthropists
as GodkiH and schrrz. Il is quite safe To
say that their zeal aad efforts have been
not only productive of much aid to the
Tagal rebalS in Luzon, but have been emil
nently ethcacious in spreading an opinion
Throughout Central and South America that
the Government and the people Of the
United States are what they represent them
10 be. that is, a grand aggregation OF liars,
hypocrites, mock seutimentalists, territory
grabbers. oppressoTs. and butchers. For
whatever suspicion OF our motives and world
policy that may exist today among '-neigh-
boring States the work Of our domestic
propagaEdists OF Misrepresentation. sedi-
tion, and treason is distinctly and solely
responsible.
As one who enjoys the respect and ad-
miration Of the Springfield Republican
and the Filipino junta once sententiousIy
remarked 1t is condition and not a
theory that coufronts US" In the absencs
Of definite information let US assume that
Brazil. Paraguay. Uruguay. Argentina
Chile. Peru, Honduras. Costa Rica, the
Mosquito Indians, and ali the rest of ths
so-callea Latin Republics are in terror fol
fear the Colossus OF the North" may sons
day come down and eat them. What then
They have merely to behave themselves
properly and escape that awful doom
But. since they and the people in this
country who have incited them to feal
and unfriendliRess. have precipitated tn,
question, it may be as well to suggest thal
they really must conduct themselves viii
something like order and decency. Go,
forbid that We should ever want to incor
porate them or their territory in the uniol
which constitutes the one American nation
But they must maintain themselves as tol
cradle neighbors, or expect. soon or late
TO be abated as nuisanees.
From the southern boundary Of Mex
leo 70 the South Pole there is but on
parcel OF real estate that has the smalies
attraction for us. That is the .territor
which it will be necessary for us to ow
and control for the purpose Of constructin
the Nicaragua Canal on our own soil an
under our own flag. After We get tina
our aspirations for land on this side Of II
Atlantic VIII have been completely salts
fed. AS 20 the wilds of the Orinoco. tt
mudbanks OF the Amazon, the skyscrapin
heights Of the Andes. CT the snake raneht
OF Argentina, the present denizens Of thos
interesting wildernesses are heartily we
come to them. We do not wish or al
to be the landlord of South America; v
do mean to be its high sheriff and polio,
man, il the interests Of peace, good rde
and civilization.
For long time The Times has sat s
lently listening TO a great deal of Offer
sive nonsense about our free sister r.
publics OF this hemisphere" II is time
put the check OF common sense to sue
twaddle. II we except Mexico. which
@ well governed and progressive Stat
worthy OF respect. and, in a lower degre
Venezuela, there Is not an example in Il
lot worthy to be considered as "repul
lic," or even as a civilized c0mmunit
Why should il be otherwise? The san
old poisonous seed Of Spanish eoloni
misrule. corruption, and murder, the I,
sultant crop from which we have be-
compelled to plough into the ground
Cuba. has been sown throughout all Il
Latin part OF the hemisphere. has sprou
ed with trogicaI luxuriance. and the us
less. deadly weed IL always propagates b.
mixed with other weeds Of aboriginal I'll
African genesis, until the consequence