Show Tin MEXICAN CONITDKUATION The project to lemma confederation of all tho Cential American Stales with Mexico is i a good one and is doubllcss the only stay out of the slough of revolution revolu-tion and rufllanism that has submerged all of law and order over existing in nny of them Since the foolish attempt of President Harriot of Guatemala to establish estab-lish a Dictatorship over thus Central American States nnd in the outset of which ho lost his life various plans have been hatched for tho centralization of power in that country and all have failed The commerce of tho United States is now reaching out to find a foothold foot-hold in those Central States but the protection pro-tection to life and properly is so small or altogether wanting that the undertaking has oftcncd been abandoned after n great loss and this suffering of various indignities indigni-ties by the adventurous men who went lucre Now howov tluuern ill lions of hotter things if such a confederation of interests can ho attained as outlined above The United States holds railroad rail-road communication through tho heart of Mexico and in a fmv years civiliration law and order will follow in tlio wako uf the railroad just as it has done in our western country and commerce will then bo on nn unassailable basis and men will bo protected in transit and their ventures will ho fruitful of good to the country With Irmly established anil regular communication with the interior of Mexico and the central government of tho whole country centered hero a stream of immigration would seek that country strong enough to defend itself for the time being and nnlil thus varied < interests located there could develop the country nnd bring it under subjection to the law While the control of affairs is in tho hands of petty states nnd then Governors no pooling of ndvnntnges could ho had but with a grand central point fiom which to radiate thus aims of the law and I the increased support it would have from the I great range of annexed an-nexed tcnilory something like order could bn maintained and men with the money and neivo to do it would 1 bo protected pro-tected in their efforts to develop the country m well known to contain illimitable illim-itable riches in the slmpo of mines The confcdcintion would also strengthen the present railrouls running across tho country and push them to completion something that can never bo effected ns matters now stand Thus piesent great and annoying diversity of the maritime antI customs laws of the various States would then he uniform and some approximate ap-proximate estimate could ho formed of tho dilliculties nnd expenses to be met and overcome in a ventme for trade There aro hundreds of men on both coasts of tho United Stales who would embark at once in the task of settling in and developing the mineral resources of Central America if they could depend upon being protected in their undertaking undertak-ing and thoconsumalion of thin proposed confederation of the States with Mexico is the only apparent method by which Mich protection can bo obtained |