35 sheltered vales of Central America where the farmer hand is so sadly needed.
This would be a method of conquest and expansion never dreamt of in past ages. Could anything grander and at the same time more practical be desired? Would this be a Utopia. From the various important points on that great railway, branches built by each Central American republic would run, thus extending the system and increasing the commercial, industrial and political relations of these countries. The United States would own the spinal column of such an organism, while the Central American countries would possess the other members, arteries and veins. The day would not be far distant when the pulsations and sentiments of the new organism would create the soul of a great North American entity reaching from the Canal to the borders of Canada, and, perhaps. through future treaties withi England, it may yet stretch northward to the pole.
This is not a dream. The millions of people in the United States require occupation and seek it eagerly, with machines that level mountains, carve out tunnels under hills and waters, and build bridges; they march; they fly; they navigate from one end of the land to the other bearing civilization on the prow of the vessel and light upon the flag that flutters from their masts.
The diplomatic ministers of the United States could aid us in the selection of men for the arduous task of government; but this benign influence should not be exercised except by North Americans of irreproachable