Show I TUB AilEKICAN IDEA 1 In oar dispatches yesterday a statement t state-ment was made to the effect thai I tha-i a paper fmfalished in St Louis known t as the Commcrtio del Yale prints a j letter from rUa correspondent fca the City of Mexico which says the T reei t dents QEd ezprraldeaia el theOentral 4t f I American Tepublics ere in solemn consultation t con-sultation with a view of bringing abont J a nnioa of ttie five Central American republics viz Guatemala Saa Salvador Salva-dor Honduras Nicaragua t aeid Costa Rica After the anion of these petty republics into a confederacy the ultimate j ulti-mate intention appears to oc to ann Ij t the hole toMexico I There can be no question bnt what the modem tendency political governments t t gov-ernments is to form great State systems 1 sys-tems The days of Email independent I ij kingdoms cities and republics appear to numbered There was a time and 1 not yery far remote from the present wken the t greatest part of Europe was i divided Into petty independent f kingdoms king-doms or dukedoms enfl free cilice Tfcose political lures bare now become well cxgberased fbomonr maps r asthose petty kingdoms and free cities 11 have been merged into vast empires j Germany for instanceis an example i Austria Is ctrathcr rise territory in I tko oUthectern part < ot Europe is aa exception mod those petty kingdoms I Roamunia Servi Montenegro and I Bulgaria pieced as they tare one under I I thetprotecUoc TurJcey another under Ii I that of Russia and mother under t Acetriaand4 on ares constant men I are to the peace of Earppc t r This work of forming great State systems haeprevailedc recent years ° not only rope i bat in America > well The separate < < British American provinces have been formed in to s great i confederacy end now it appears that + I the pettyrepcbhcs of Central America r desire to do likewise In connection with this modem t I tendency iagevernmeni to form great State sv eais the American will be I pleased to note the triumph Off i of-f r our own system of government more or less modified of course under the cvaricdcircumstances of different t nations of people but nevertheless the same principle forming the basis of I her confederacies lUroughout tliatis whether inthe massuxg of petty kingdoms r king-doms and frec cities intoan empire as Cennany or the collecting of number i num-ber of separate provinces AS in the casa of > C3nada or of small republics as is nor roposedjnth the republics of Central Cen-tral Am erica the principle of allowing t seaaratecommunities with distinct lo t cAlInterests tobe sovereign in the management man-agement of those affairs which concern themselves alone and then each former petty kingdom province and republic I surrendering somuch of its power to a central organization to be known as the i general governmentcreating for its ipbere fa whiaH to operate4nd giring1 to it sabsoluteebqrerergnty Inits largest it pliers as theesp ctiTC Statesorsmaller divisions have in their spheres is the grand principle on which they are f f ill built And that principle is the Amen t can idea ot government l 1 tl Morecs vtheathe smaller States J andkiapctoms shallhaVe ome < eitbex r a formed tinlo new asd largerJ oyerii eplli Ulcerporated Porated into larger gov S ecnments alreaJy existing as intercourse t inter-course shell become more general as jit t a undoubtedly and the interests of t all States ail be more closely bound together until hel1niliah race shall be > i cJme one race with merely separate i 1 local interests we may loot for a further i fur-ther triumpa of the American idea of I government En the establishment of a t j great international Congress of the fl world composed of representatives from all the great powers of the earth t each of which will surrender to I I this central government of the world sufficient of their t powers t + to mite it fits wreresgo Lin lthe I internajoaalisphere l ssigned t e Itylris i the respective empires kingdoms and I t l t republics shall be in their respective tf spheres Than may it not transpire a that that era of peace on earth and r good will to man of which both angels t 1j and men have sang that phtlanthro pists have dscoined of and prophets1 foretoldwhen the spears shall be turned into pruning hooks and swords Jilt plowshares hall be realized 7 and I the nations learn Waro wore |