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Show . I - I'- SPANISH AMERICA. ' Secretary Boot made a good impression in Bio, said what he had to say, gave a reception on his ship, the Columbia, to all the dignitaries of Brazil, and then sailed away south. But one monarchial paper there declared that the Secretary had no more generous gen-erous ideas than to want to make Brazil a colony of the United States. Now, we may conclude that the particular editor who published that statement was not unlike one or two editors whom we have in mind he simply wanted to be mean and he did not care whether in gratifying his desire he told the truth or not, for in the sense which he meant to convey, he lied shamefully. In another sense we would be glad to see the influence of our country having its effect on Brazil. We would like to see some of our railroad rail-road kings combine, go down there, build some roads through that '" country, plant some sngar lands, and rubber trees, subdue some of the splendid forests, open up and work some of the mines ; open a way for their countrymen to go there and build towns, cultivate culti-vate fields, work mines and infuse into that region some of the energy of the Northland; all the time standing by the republic, upholding and strengthening strengthen-ing it until at last their influence would be something some-thing which the natives would be glad to lean upon and the redemption of the great land would begin in earnest. But it is true that now all Spanish America is fighting a little shy of the United States. They look upon us a little as all the members of the happy family in the menagerie, the fox, the lynx, the lamb and the dog look upon the lion. He is friendly enough, but they would give $30 to be positively insured in-sured against him. |