Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — AN INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY. [ARTICLE]

AN INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY.

for a Road Through Central America and the Isthmus. A Washington dispatch says: There is a movement on foot now—and the panAmerican Congress is mafic the field of agitation—to build a continuous railroad system beginning at the southermost point of Mexico reached by rail from the United States through Central America and the isthmus and running well down into South America. Mexico will take care of her share of the enterprise and the South American States involved will take pare of theirs. In Central America, however, the governments are too poor to do anything except cede large tracts of land. They look to see our Congress supply the money by giving the government’s guarantee to the bonds issued, on the strength of the whole scheme being engineered by American financiers and statesmen. •