Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-31
PAN. AMERICANISM

the United States age reaching
out for far-distant foreign markets
while the greatest foreign markets in
the world are at the very doors of the
republic, awaiting the development of
the mercantile marine, the extension
of railroads ,and the settlement on a
square deal basis of the rates problem.
These are the markets Of America,
South as well as North. and the mem
ory of a Republican statesman is as
sociated with definite effort to at
tract the attention of the American
people to these desirable markets and
propose governmental ways and means
of solving the economic, diplomatic,
tariff and transportation problems,
the solution of which would weld the
North and South American continents
in the greatest commercial solidarity
in the world-Pan-Amer
This would improve conditions in the
North American republic as well as
in the sister republics. The United
States would find near at nand a con-
stant source of supply of many raw
materials of the greatest manufac-
turing Importance, for instance fibrous
fabrics, wool and green hides, which
latter would emaneipate the leather
industry of the United States and pro-
vide cheap shoes for the children of
the poor in the wintry east. The other
American countries could and should
and would be glad to replace with the
square-deal manufactures of our
northern mills the ahoddy products of
Germany, which truly are made to
sell"
Mr.. Blaine was absolutely right when
he said that other things being equal
and politics both at home and abroad
eliminated Pan-Americanism would
bring about the greatest success in
the history of the United States, and
would give the western hemisphere
such indisputable. supremacy over the
eastern that world politics could be
shaped at Washington instead of Ber-
lin, and an era Of perpetual CONNER
cial peace could be establshed-the
reign of commercial peace TO which
sanguine political students looked for
ward SO hopefully they named it in
advance the Pax Americana.
What has become of the doctrine of
the Pax Americana? Are huge mill
tary and naval supplies being voted in
order to enforce 1t? Strange indeed
it is that James G. Blaine's jingo pol
icy survives and flourishes, while al
most forgotten is his peace policy, the
fruit of his later life, and of long
conferences with Andrew Carnegie,
who, whatever may be his CONNER
cial failings 1--WE all have faiIings), is
certainly most strenuous advocate
Of international peace.
Instead of spending millions of dol
lars on the development of over-sea
commerce, and allowing foreign pow
ers to usurp the markets at our doors,
it would be wise to begin to think
again OF the United States as the
leading and predominant American
power instead of merely as a ''world
power With our prosperity assured,
with our house of dominion founded
on a rock, our country could not fail
to be a world power, because its very
as the principal PAN
American power would make it SO
formidable it would be world power
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Latin America is talking consolida-
ton, and North America should give
heed. The Andes tunnel will bring
South American consolidation within
the sphere Of practical operation. 1t is
almost certain to be followed by uni
hcation, and the republic of North
America will find itself struggling com
mercially with it's most formidable
rival, the United States of Central
and South America.
Germany and France are well aware
of the tendency Of the times. and are
running a neck and neck race for mar
Eets, while the United Kingdom, which
is also a South American power, is to
a certain extents cutting out the
French, but is stin steadily underbid
and undersold by the Germans. And
the United States2
our country is hammering at the
gates of China, pickering with Japan,
fortifylng Hawaii and the Philippines,
and talking about the coming strug-
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While we are struggling for the mar
kets Of the orient, the kaiser's we'll
trained consular army will peacefully
possess itself of the commerce of Cen
traI and South America from the Mex
lean line to Cape Horn.
The unifcation of Mexico, Central
America and South America, with a
population of over 60,o00.OOO, will pro-
duce a confederation invincible on its
own ground, and with aggressive pos
sibiIities of imrneasurable import. Uni
fication viii be made possible and
easily practicable by THE ANDES
TUNNEL, which provides material
focal point, a rallying center, which
Latin-A America has hitherto lacked.
The United states should set about
the work of taking It's rightful place
in the southern markets, and should
wrest supremacy from Germany be
fore the markets are glutted with
cheap articles made in Germany"
This result cannot be accomplished
without intelligent effort. In the first