Show NO OCCASION TO DISCLAIM I Is not a little humorous to note lhat In the assemblage at Home delegates who represent the Latin people of the earth pains were taken to assure a breathless world that the t congress so constituted and assembled Is not intended In-tended as a threat to other races but that its object was merely to defend the Latin world against the advance of other peoples wishing to conquer the globe To be sure there Isnt much oC a Latin world to defend though the I stalement is made that the delegates l represent the people of France Italy I Spain and Portugal the various Balkan Balk-an States and the whole of Central and anc South America representing 16r 000000 souls To think of any of these countries coun-tries or all of theta together being able to seriously threaten any other races is n bit of grotesque assumption that is calculated to provoke a smile The Central and South American States are hotbeds of brigandage in government utterly impotent to even protect themselves 1 them-selves from a thirdclass power should such a power make war upon any of them I is out of the question to think of them doing any threatening Prance is comparatively dwindling in importance import-ance and can no longer be considered a firstclass power lit to rank with Germany Russia Great Britain or the United Stales No threat from her would be very seriously regarded by either of the powers named Spain is helpless Italy is laxrl den to the point of depletion and Portugal hardly sizes up to anything but a falnt phadow of former greatness In this state of impotence the ftfsurnnce lhat the Latin congress was not meant PS n threat is much lutcd oil on a calm while in the disconnected and helpless condition that most of the socalled Latin nations arc it is idle i even to talk of defense against the worldconquering races whoso strides toward world dominion do-minion can neither be reduced In length or rapidity by anything that any Latin nation can do or indeed by anything that they unitedly could do supposing such an Impoanlble thing as union among them could be ellectod |