Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1913-03-15
WARNS ALL EUROPE.
italian Paper Declares Linking
of Americas Is Menace.
Foreign Nations Are Urged to Con-
slider the Growing Power OF United
States Over Peoples Of tho
Hemlsphere.

Rome.-That American Dollar Di.
plomacy." working hand In hand with
the great private financial interests Of
the United States In the commercial
development of South and Central
America. is creating the most serious
problem facing the entire world to-
day. is the declaration of II Popolo
Romano. the official organ OF the Ital-
Ian government.
In leading article, in which gen.
uine note of alarm is sounded, tho
paper declares that the continuation
Of this American policy means the In
evitable formation OF gigantic COM
mercial federation OF the three Amer
lcas in which the United States would
naturally play the. predominating
part.
while Europe is laboring with all
its power to resolve the problem Of
the Balkan adjustment. on which de-
pends In q large measure the entire
continental peace, and while to In.
sure for ourselves the benefits OF in
ternal tranquility we are compelled
to spend our best forces In military
preparations, the younger United
States, on which the grave problems
that harass Europe do not fall, gives
itself to works of growth. OF expan-
sion and of development of the means
OF communication and transportation
between the republics of the conti-
nent. and to create that union. which
in time will be obliged to constitute
itself as the Great American Fedora
ton, under the auspices of the Unit.
ed States of North America.
Toward the carrying out Of this
conception, in both it's political and
economical aspects. the gigantic un-
dertaking of the Panama canal.
which will shortly be opened to the
commerce OF the world, and the pro
iect of railroad to connect the con-
On it's way to completion--will play
most important part
I'm addition. there has recently
been created, under the initiative of a
powerful banking syndicate. a com
pany for putting into direct and rapid
communication the republics OF Bra
Sll Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia.
Coupled then with the navigation
Of the Panama canal, II will be an
easy matter for the United States to
come into close commercial as well
as political contact with the republics
Of the south by means of the grea,
cailways, already under construction
which will link up the two continents
What Is the end toward which this
tenacious work on the part of the
United States is leading? II lie an
end that can be seen with the naked
aye. While the United States binds
more closely together with Its ties of
steel the two parts of the continent.
and at the same time asserts more
strongly than ever Its predominating
economical and commercial influence
In the two Americas. 1t ia to be easily
seen that the United States wishes
only to exclude from the Americas
the governments of Europe, and to ex
ercise on the entire American CONT
nent monopoly for it's own profit.
This in fact today creates the
most serious problem that is now fac
ing Europe. which has In Central and
South America not only a glorious ira
dition and record OF European civiliza-
ton, but also, gigantic interests com
mercially and economically
"At the present moment this is not
an immediate danger, but 1t would
nevertheless be well for European d.
plomacy to begin to occupy itself with
the problem--a problem that, at least
according to our point OF view. Is
vastly more important than that OF
the present one of the Balkans"