The record-union., 1899-09-16
AnotlcIa,' the Personal Organ of
Or. Campos Sales,
Publishes a Statement Of the Views of the
President of Brazil.
Is Not a Believer in an Alliance
Between the Southern Repub-
lies, Neither Does He See Any
Reason to Fear Opposition of
the United States.

see
Reason to Fear Opposition of
the United States.
Correspondence of the Associated Press)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 21-An
evening paper, 'Anoticia," the personal
organ of Dr. Campos Sales, President
of the Republic, publishes to-day under
the heading of South American Alli-
anceS" a notable article as follows:
kilograms from Rome to BuenoS
Ayres and thence to Rio de Janeiro af-
firm that it is currently reported in
the continental capitals that in case of
the reported alliance of the republics
of Latin America being realized, this
fact would have the frank support of
Italy, Austria, Germany and France.
Excepting probably Austria, which it
seems to US would decidedly be out of
place in this gallery, the report would
doubtless express the real sentiments
of the nations named as regards an
agreement of the Latin-American coun-
tries. Such an alliance, they suppose.
could only be engendered to oppose the
United States, whose wonderful pro-
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ing energy and spirit of adventure and
andacity they dread, especially when
that country is in perfect accord with
and, in fact, allied to England, against
whom the spite of Europe is raised in
angry opposition. Two European ma
tions for different, but not opposite,
reasons, Germany and France, feel
themselves more than all others threat
ened by the prospect of an English
American alliance and the vasalage of
Latin America by the very powerful
Anglo-Saxon nation.
The political or simply economical
predominance of the United States in
this portion of America would be. they
think, a deadly blow at their influence,
their commerce and industry and even
to their prestige. Italy and Germany
possess here numerous colonies, and
France, without possessing colonies,
has III Latin-America a very consider
able commerce and exercises here
real moral supremacy. The hopes and
ambitions of these two nations would
be frustrated in the ever increasing
augmentation of their industrial, not to
say political relations and greatly
diminish the relations of every kind
existing between France and the Lat
in American peoples, if, perchance, the
practical supremacy of the Yankees in
America should take place.
Such is the European point of view,
and Of this point of view we do not
need to investigate the value of these
rumors to be sure that they correspond
in fact to the sentiment and feelings
of continental Europe in regard to the
relations of the great American Power
towards the nations of an inferior ord
er that constitute the remainder of the
continent.
THE alliance of those nations, or at
least of the principal ones, against the
Anglo-Saxon colonies would, therefore,
be sure to find the aid and sympathy of
the continental European Powers.
But if that should be made effective
it would be only the first step on the
way to the recolonization at least NOR
ally, of all Latin America. Such, then.
is our situation in the present june
ture. Either we must suffer the eff
feet Of the ambitions of American ex-
pansionism or we must turn to Eu-
rope and beg aid against Americans.
Such, at least, it appears to many
statesmen and writer's of both conti-
nents.
"As rule we are not optimists, but
in the present case we do not feel our
selves in the least embarrassed by this
dilemma. Without denying that the
United States will attempt, with all
the energy and tenacity peculiar to
them, to assume in America, not alone
the hegemony which they undoubted-
Iy already possess and no one denies.
but also political and commercial pre-
dominance, we firmly believe that in
order to thwart them in such designs
it is sufficient for the American ma
ton to have a reasonable sentiment of
their own rights and independence, and
for their statesmen to be able to give
expression in systematic way to such
a feeling. 1t would be, perhaps, re-
quiring too much of peoples of so rud-
imentary a civilization and with a ma
tional conscience such as ours. that
intervention should become a reality.
here or elsewhere, and that thus the
door be thrown open for them to en-
ter. In such an emergency, or in some
similar one, our only remedy would be
to ask European aid, and that aid GER
tainly would not be disinterested and
platonic.
Against this supposed possible dan
ger we are reminded of forming alli-
ances, in imitation of Europe Union is
force, says the old proverb And to
think that this union of weakness could
possibly counterbalance and annul the
force of the United States, besides ex-
tremely doubtful and almost certainly
inefficacious. it still remains to be seen
whether, in the actual conditions of
Iatin-America or of the three prin-
cipa1 nations indicated for the forming
of an alliance, such an alliance is pos
sible.
For reasons too lengthy to give we
believe such an alliance utterly impos-
sible. And not only that, but we firm
1y belive that such an alliance would
be pregnant with harm to all those
countries, and that it would only serve
to irritate the United States against
them and by a reactionary check put
them at the mercy of European in
trigues and ambitions
TROUBLE IN TENNESSEE.