| Show FEDLKITION OF NATIONS KITED SavTli THAT HAVE coin IMO nxisTiscn SJSCE 177IJ Tlieru are some dales called to attention by recent events which are destined to bu memorable in different dif-ferent parts of the Western Hemisphere Hemis-phere In 1776 Use United States of America nero formed In 1S24 the United States of Mexico Mex-ico came Into olllclal being In 1SG1 the country which had been called Xev Granada took the name of the United Stales of Columbia Colum-bia In ISO Venezuela became the United Stales of Venezuela lulSS9jlL one hundred years after the people of Paris had over thrown the Hostile the republicans of Brasll abolished the empire dc tliroiiid their Emperor Dom Pedro with very little violence of any kind and established a republic called the United states of lirazll The year 1559 may also be memorable I memor-able for tho federation of the republics repub-lics of Central America and their union Into a republic which will be I called the United States of Central America A Congress or Diet of the Central A Y i American Republics silting I at the I city of San Salvador has formally signed Iact of Un1ollalll instrument instru-ment C3rre iondlng with the Articles Arti-cles of Confederation under which the United States of America were first organized and has submitted this compact to the governments of I the live Central American Republics Repub-lics Guatemala Salvador Honduras Hondu-ras Nicaragua and Cato Idea This Instrument has wo believe been ratified by three of the I States named Guatemala Salvador and Honduras and COb Rica is supjosed to bti ready to enter I the Union It Nicaragua also will do TO The Congtt will assembly In i August 1S > 90 at Tegulelpa the I capital of Honduras to choose by lot a president for one year from i h f neol among the presidents ot tine new republic I I According to this compact the presidency of the Central American Republic will pass by rotation from State to Stale year by year during ten years but at tho end of that period a constituent convention lO assemble to form as our con1 I vention did in 17S7 a more perfect iAn i union An American journal referring I to the tendency to federation and consolidation which Is one of the features of modern political > life predicts that some day there will be In the Western Hemisphere but two i countries the United States of Xorth America and the United States of South America II This may Indeed be the case come time in the future but it is likely to be a somewhat distant future I fu-ture And jet It Is quite possible that It may be realized long before the realization the event which has been a favorite dream of European Euro-pean repdiblicansthe United Slates of Europe Youttit ann pension |
