Arizona republican., 1900-10-09

All Latin America. including Mexico. l is to be represented in this congress at the Spanish capital next month. Por- tugal. prompted by the dread of seeing her still vast colonial possessions share the fate Of those of the ne:s nboring kingdom of Spain. has ben quite as
 active in the organizat: Dn of the con- gress as the latter nation. while Italy and France do not attempt to conceal
 tEe sympathy they entertain fer the o6
 jects which this pan-Latin union has n view. IF aed. France. which has al ways cc:--idered herself to be the lead CT of the Latin races. may yet endeavo
 to put hel elf at the head of the ---ove-
 meHt.
 There VII '-o ~-9~y who. calling to
 mind the cr1s-r..ons and jealousi $
 of the various republics in South Amer iga, and of France. Spain. Italy and Por-
 tugal in Europe will be disposed to re-
 gard the project of a pan-Latin union as altogether Utopian. But Napoleon ! III and several of the most experienced statesmen of Europe made the same mistake. when. in 1870. they relied upon the contentious and jealousies of the , various states of Germany, and. above all. upon their common hatred of Prus-
 Sll. 10 SldHu III lll6 way bI dllS tpii1tt i ted action The differences that en-
 bitter the nations among the various i South African republics are not bit more acute than those that existed in 1 1870 and for that matter still prevail, among many of the states of the fed
 eration known as the German empire.
 In spite of tne perpetual quarrels among the Latin repub i,s-
 qUarre.s which have done SO much to
 retard the progress and development of ! the central and southern parts of this
 western hemisphere-a certain radical i community of sentiment exists This i was made apparent at the time of the
 war between the United States and ! Spain. when the sympa,hies of the pco
 pie of Southern and Central America
 were Wiul the Hidalgoes rather than,
 with Uncle sam. In certain South 1 American cities. indeed. subscriptions
 were organized for the avowed object
 of providing the government at MadriI
 with sufficient funds to purchase CT
 construct war ships for use against the
 United States.
 Nor is there ground for much sur
 prise that popular sentiment in Central
 and South America should have been with Spain rather than with the United
 States in the war of two years ago.
 Gratitude is not exactly a Latin virtue.
 And from the Rio Granie to Cape Horn the white population is wholly of Span | ish and Portuguese origin 'That popu- lation is possessed of all the racial
 prejudices. traits of character and moral as well as physical peculiariti7s of the people in yhe Iberian peninsula.
 Caste and lineage still play great roe in Central and south America, ani 5 there are few families of any social inl- portance which dJ not love to dwell on . their relationship with the great hous $ l Of the aristocracy in the mother coun- try. These people, when setting foot on Spanish soil. resume the title inner ited from their ancestors which they . are debarred from using on this side of l the Atlantic. Indeed many of the r.ch families of Mexico. Chili and khe Ar genuine Republic divide their time be- tween Madrid and their homes in the s New World
 2 The ties between the mother country and the Latin republics of the western :. hemisphere are all the stronger because they are not administrative or in any sense due to ,ompu.son. but based only on kinsmanship and on community If ideas. characteristics. prejud:,es an l 7 origin.
 While it is doubtful whether the con ) gress at Madrid next month will sue r ceed at once in binding all the nations
 represented therein to a hard and fast , alliance. it may be regarded as certain
 that it will pave the way for such a 2 union when some external danger . drives the Latin states of American to-
 her. in q r11u u- of ar | pose, for instance, that the United I States should consider it necessary tc [ use force to put in force its views with p regard to the interocean canal; or. let 7 us conceive Uncle Sam. in pursuance of F the Monroe doctrine. intervening t. | prevent Brazil or the Argentine Repub . lie from ceding or selling territory to r a European power: or. again let lis r picture to ourselves the United States < interfering in one of these Latin Amari 2 can states to obtain indemnity for the 7 maltrea tment Cf some foreign me.C ha lt < say German trader-With the oD- . j2ct of averting armed European inter- } VentiOn. Any one of these things.
 which are quite within the bounds of
 possibility. would be sufficient to create I wave of sentiment throughout Latin . America and, extending to Latin Eu- P rope, that might bring about the un- 2 ion. until that time merely latent. of . all the Latin races on both sides of the Atlantic. in precisely the same way r that Napoleon HTS declaration of war against the king of Prussia brought all ; Germany into line against France. As the London Spectator remarked in
 May last, when Secretary Roots mIz-
 interpreted speech in New York had
 given rise to an impression abroad that
 Uncle Sam was about to arm himself
 with the idea of enforcing the Monroe
 doctrine to the extent of exercising the same amount of tutelage over Latin
 America as Eng'and demanded over the
 South American republics before the Transvaal war. it depends upon the
 United States whether this pan-Latin . union ever becomes an important fac { tor in international politics.
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