Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1913 — WARNS ALL EUROPE [ARTICLE]

WARNS ALL EUROPE

Italian Paper Declares Linking of Americas is Menace.

Foreign Nations Are Urged to Consider the Growing Power of United States Over Peoples of ths Hemisphere.

Rome.—That American "Dollar Diplomacy,” working hand in hand with the great private financial Interests of the United States in the commercial development of South and Central America, is creating the most serious problem facing the entire world today, is the declaration of II Popolo Romano, the official organ of the Italian government In a leading article, in which a genuine note of aland is sounded, the paper declares that the continuation of this American policy means the inevitable formation of a gigantic commercial federation of the three Americas in which the United States would naturally play the predominating part

“While Europe is laboring with all its power to resolve the problem of the Balkan adjustment, on which depends in a large measure the' entire continental peace, and while to insure for ourselves the benefits of internal tranquillity we are compelled to spend our best forces in military preparations, the younger » United States, on which the grave problems that harass Europe* do not fall, gives itself to works of growth, of expansion and of development of the means of communication and transportation between the republics of the continent, and to create that union, which in time will be obliged to constitute itself as the Great American Federation, und?r the auspices of the United States of North America. ’

“Toward the carrying out of this conception, in both its political and economical aspects, the gigantic undertaking of the Panama canal, which will shortly be opened to the commerce of the world, and the project of a railroad to connect the continents —a project which is already on Its way to completion—will play a most important part "In addition, there has recently been created, under the initiative of a powerful banking syndicate, a company for putting into direct and rapid communication the republics of Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia. “Coupled then with the navigation of the Panama canal, It will be an easy matter for the United States to come Into close commercial as well as political contact with the republics of the south by means of the great railways, already under construction, which will link up the two contlnenta

“What la the end toward which thia tenacious work on the part of the United States la leading? It la an end that can be Been with the naked eye. While the United Statee binds more closely together with Its ties of steel the two parts of the continent, and at the same time asserts more strongly than ever its predominating economical and commercial influence in the two Americas, it is to be easily seen that the United States wishes only to exclude from the Americas the governments of Europe, and to exercise on the entire American continent a monopoly for its own profit “This in fact today creates the most serious problem that Is now facing Europe, which has In Central and South America not only a glorious tradition and record of European civilisation. but also gigantic Interests commercially and economically. “At the present moment this Is not tn immediate danger, but It would nevertheless be well for European diplomacy to begin to occupy Itself with the problem—a problem that, at least according to our point of view, is vastly more Important than that of the present one of the Balkans. ’