inevitable operation of the irresistible law of the attraction of gravity between two bodies, shall cause the smaller to fall into the greater body.

And thus, after the lapse of more than a century, since the Revolution of 1776 by the Thirteen other American Colonies, the great FOURTEENTH COLONY, which then turned a deaf ear to the most pressing entreaties to join the new confederation, will have fulfilled its manifest destiny-vastly greater, too, in territory, in population and in wealth. A million American farmers have settled upon the wheat fields of Western Canada within a few years; much more than a million of the most intelligent, enterprising Canadians have sought homes and fortunes in the United States, and the vast cotton-milling industry of New England is largely supplied with labour from the same source; the enormous and rapidly increasing interchange of commerce tends to a final wiping out of all restrictions, and the lingering feeling of loyalty to the Crown, while troublesome to deal with, must, in the end, disappear, and be replaced by the same friendly sentiments we ourselves entertain for our grand old Father-land.

And this must happen the sooner, from the fact that the nearly uninhabited, as well as uninhabitable, wilderness of rocky wastes and almost valueless scrub thickets, extending for hundreds of miles around the desolate northern shores of the Great Lakes, has cut this slender fringe of Canadians into two parts, so widely separated and having local interests so divergent, that neither can strongly support the other, even if disposed to attempt it, in efforts to defeat or delay their admission as members of the great Federal Union!

But the problem of assimilating 8,000,000 or 10,000,

000 Caucasians, most nearly related to ourselves, will be trifling in comparison with the dangers and difficulties which would arise out of the annexations of Mexico and Central America, with their vast mongrel populations, speaking only foreign tongues, and which—with the exception of the intelligent, purely Spanish element, embracing, unfortunately, less than ten per cent of the whole population-can neither be assimilated nor amalgamated by us, any more than can the Negro.

The British Possessions, therefore, will present no Race Problems, while the annexations of the whole of Mexico and the Central American States would instantly add another to that which already afflicts us, and increase, by so much the more, the perils and the difficulties which must follow whenever we conferred citizenship upon their combined millions of inferior, alien races.

For, ultimately, it is to be feared, we, probably, would repeat the fatal error we committed when the delusive rights of the franchise, with its very real dangers, were actually forced upon the unfortunate Negro, who could neither assert nor defend them-and, also, bestow upon the nineteen millions of mongrel populations, even more ignorant, in great part, than the Negro, equally illusive, dangerous rights of suffrage, and which, of course, as in the case of the Negro, would have to be taken from them, excepting only the intelligent Spanish element, which, with our own influx of "carpet-baggers"—who would hasten there in vast numbers from every part of the United States, to hold the offices and other good things would govern the new possessions!

But it is far more dangerous to future peaceful conditions to take away from a people such rights once granted, than simply to have withheld them. In any case, the

natives, who already fear and hate us as it is, could hardly be expected to entertain more friendly sentiments after being subjugated.

As representation in our House of Representatives, and in the Electoral College, is based simply upon population, and not upon the numbers of the element actually exercising the rights of suffrage, we would see a repetition, upon a far greater scale, of the present smouldering feeling of resentment between the people of the North and the South over the representation enjoyed by the latter, based upon the disfranchised coloured population, whereby two Southern white votes balance three Northern votes.

And this issue over the Negro representation is far from being settled; we have simply postponed the evil day; and as to the Race Issue itself, we are drifting, in the vague hope that it "will settle itself," as it is so often expressed-but, how, and in what manner, is by no means

clear.

The present political divisions or States in Mexico number 27, and there are 5 in Central America, 32 States in all; whether admitted into our Union as 32 States, or as 16 States, they would be entitled, also, to two United States Senators each-enough, in any case, to cause further strife and bitterness over minority overrepresentation, and, perhaps, to hold the balance of power in the Congress.

The great danger in the annexation of Mexico, in its entirety, is not to Mexico, as it would really be far better off because of it, but to the stability and permanence of our present form of government in the United States.

DISINTEGRATION is the evil to which the Monroe Doctrine thus invites us; and it may yet prove a two

edged sword for us, in the cynical meaning we have adopted in its application to the rights and the needs of other peoples for breathing room in this Hemisphere.

We have closed the New World to the Old, but the United States must yet answer, definitively, before the enlightened intelligence of the nations, the question of its right to deny to others "a place in the sun" in this Hemisphere, as it now ventures to do only because it has the power to enforce its will. For let the fact be plainly stated: Europe is, in reality, well-nigh helpless against the AMERICAN PERIL!

As to Great Britain and Germany the time is already arrived when war with us would mean starvation and national ruin in their commerce and industries, through the very simple process of cutting off supplies of wheat and cotton, without which they cannot exist. To state the question in concrete form: The Continent of South America has an estimated area of 7,700,000 square miles, and about 44,000,000 inhabitants by the last census returns, or only 5.7 persons to the square mile. Perhaps 25 per cent of the population, including the foreign immigration, say 11,000,000, are educated and intelligent: 75 per cent, or the remaining 33,000,000, are but slightly removed from semi-barbarism, and possess no voice whatever in the actual government of any of their so-called Republics.

The native elements are simply incapable of developing even a tenth part of their vast, unused territories, or, excepting the small, intelligent fraction of the population, of making a better use of them than were the Indians whom we have not hesitated to thrust out of our own path to establish ourselves in North America; 65,000,000 Germans are crowded upon 211,000 square miles, and

37,000,000 Italians upon 99,000 square miles, that is to say, there are 308 Germans and 373 Italians to the square mile, struggling to live.

To such enlightened peoples, and to all others, the Monroe Doctrine proclaims that the Continent of South America is reserved to the absolute ownership and political domination that less than 6 natives to the square mile-three-fourths of whom are not of the Caucasian Race but mongrels of a low type-may be able to exercise.

A new and ominous extension of our present attitude of Over-Lord in the affairs of the nations of the Western Hemisphere has been foreshadowed in a recent address at Mobile, by our chief executive, to the delegates of the Latin Republics, wherein it was proclaimed that he opposed the granting of concessions to foreigners by their governments, and that it was the mission of the United States to free those governments from foreign domination that might be thus acquired. This, despite the fact that the Latin governments themselves might be willing to pay liberally for foreign capital, as was once the case with ourselves in our own times of need.

Such an assumption, however, of the right to visé contracts between the Latin Americans and Europeans is in nowise different from that our government has long exercised over the contracts of our own tribal Indians with other persons, and may, naturally, be expected to apply to the Indians and others in Latin America. No stronger proof of our own conviction that such peoples are incapable of governing themselves could be asked. Having still before us the fearful consequences of the attempt to establish Negro domination over a part of our own people, is an added stigma to be cast upon the Monroe Doctrine by making it the instrument of im