Arizona republican., 1904-01-07
THE BACKWARD, TURBULENT
 REPUBLICS. Perhaps Argentina and Chile May
 Gather Them In.

1 When one remembers that full cen l tury will soon have run since the emancipation of the former colonies of
 Spain on this continent from the moth
 CT country and one considers the poor use that most of them have made of i their opportunities one cannot but feel discouraged as to the future of most
 of the states of Latin America | The pity of it. for one cannot know | the people of Spanish America with i out esteeming them and feeling indig- nation when one sees the absurd and grotesquc misrepresentations of them
 to which the press of the United States and other countries give currency ut | times like the present; just now of i course. appYopos of the Panama queS- 1 tion
 ! The faults of the Latin Americans
 are in fact the congregations of their VirtUes-they may have too much heart. l They are unsuited to grapple with the ! eXigencies of a hard, ulitarian, un- 1 feeling age. They are dominated by i sentiment.
 ] There was Colombia dallying with 1 the canal treaty, utterly failing to re- alize the momentious nature of tho question which it had before it and [ illldliN ItJtCIllS lIe tOilNeDllOll WllIl- out taking the trouble to inform the
 world as to it's actual in- 1 tentions nj the matter And while a weighty question of this nature was thus being tried with. the legislature | of Bogota was spending it's time in 1 framing a decree whereby Jorge Isaacs.
 the author of that idyllic and beaqti7, ful portrayal of Colombian life .''Magiar was declared a favorite son of the | fatheriand. This is not the conduct Of practical men, of men possessing the qualifications for survival in the strug- | gle for existence. Modern nations must be made of sterner stuff.
 1 MT. Commissioner Pepper, who ap- parently for the nonce has forgotten | all about the Pan-American railway
 and who arrived at Colon, with genuine 1 journalistic instinct, just about the
 time of the proclamation of the repub | lie, gives a roseate picture of the
 conditions in the infant state. One would think that millennium was
 about to dawn on the narrow neck of
 land adjoining the Americans. i Yet MT. Peppers letter shows that
 while the Panamenos are finding vehement fault with the past misgov- i ernment of the Colombians they are ! themselves demonstrating the same | lack of aptitude for the serious busi- ness of administration. While the peo- | pie of republiquita are parading the streets, throwing their hats into the air shouting themselves hoarse, and living in a very delirium of greatness, destined alas! to be of short duration their legislature is passing decrees and proclamations declaring Dr. Amador a favorite son of Panama, ordering that | his portrat be Dainted and similar tom foolery
 Mexico. Chile and Argentina at present form the trio of Spanish Am
 erican republices that demonstrate an
 aptitude to meet the eXegencies of the
 survival of the Attest. Taking to heart
 the lessons of the past and of the
 present, those nations. it can be con fdently expected, will persevere in the
 road of peace. progress and good gov ernment. and not allow their destinies
 to be again controlled by impulsive military dictators, i'll qualified for the labor of efficient civil administration. : In Mexico the admirable admipistra-
 tion of General Diaz will be the stan dard for all future time.
 What is to become of the turbulent
 and backward republics of South Am | erica is a serious problem. Had it not
 been for the ample aegis of the Monroe Doctrine some of these republics would
 ere this have been partitioned among
 the cOlOnizing nations of Europe. The
 most acceptable solution for the sur
 vival of the Latin American type would
 be the absorption of some of the minor republics in question by their more progressive neighbors, so that there
 should be only three or at most four
 great and stable states in the south
 half of this continent-Argentina
 Chile, Brazil and Peru.-MeXican Her
 aid.
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 They are telling of an AtchiSoa, wo-
 man who Goes all the work for her husband and seven children, who took