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aEEKlNo TO ESTABLISH PEACE
IN CENTRAL AMERICA.

The coming Central American peace
conference, which VIII meet In Wash.
ington under tho official patronage of
tho United States and Mexico. aud
which VIII hnyc for it's object the 90.
Enlistment Of Prepayment peace and
possibly somc dcg.cc OF federal unity
among the five republics OF Central
America, Is to be regarded with sin.
oerc sympathy and not without hope.
II IL true that memory VIII preclude
anything Ike absolute confidence or
enthusiasm. for the record OF these
countries ior the last hundred years
10 not inspirlng to the lover OF peace
and civic psogresg Still tho many
:ailuros of tho past do not bar out
the possibility Of success now or IN
the near future. when II Is taken into
considered ion that two powerful coun.
tries have brough, about the confer
onco,
The whole story of Central America
10 the story OF broken peace pacts
and dissolved unions IT'S history
10 told briefly as follows in the cur.
rent number of a magazine:
Beginning as one kingdom under
Spain, the tlyc provinces became sep.
ayato in their act OF independence.
but Immediately thereafter sought re-
union ma Incorporation with Mexi.
60. Separation from Mexico and dis.
aoluticn of tho union followed. aud
thon wars. trnccs. declarations ANA Sc
cosslons came N swift succesalon.
salrador's appeal for II United states
protcctorate. Guatemala'S psptenslons
TO hegcmony. tho rlso and fall of the
sixth statn OF Los Altos. the patriotic
craftsmanship OF NIoraznn the afro.
cites of Carrera, the United Provinces
of the Centre of America. the Panama
Congrosr. the Central American Fed.
Grafton. tho strenuous campaign OF
narrios tho Greater Republic OF Cen.
trAl America and the United States
OF Central America, together with in.
Vulnerable othos incidents, names and
ESSAYS, have passed Into history.
leaving tho states no hotter off thnn
before, excepting on the ground that
the longest lane must have turn.
ing, and that therefore the further
those states proceed III their unhappy
way the nearer they como to the in.
evitahle turning point"
There are really strong reasons wig
there should la not only enduring
peace hut also firm and stable fed.
erai union among the Central Amcri-
San republics They are all so nearly
alike in geographical. social. political
end industrial respects. that a union
OF them would be homogeneous. Each
one BY itself is small but taken as a
whole, would form considerable of a
state Il tho representatives of the.
United States and Mexico vino take
part in tho conference. can make the
South American delegates fully ap-
preciate The thoroughly unsatisfactory
character Of their past record and
tislr present condition, and of the in
Wiling nature of their future POSSIBLE.
tiles, the work of securing perma-
aent peace shall DO moro than half
Won, They must also be made to
realize that man was not made fo-
politics. but politics were made for
man" and that political parties
should lie based upon principles
and be animated with de-
siro to serve the public. instead
of being merely conspiracies of
TIC ms to stay In and tho Outs to
Sat in. If these truths can be ham,
ipered into the south American intel,