41 and expansion have developed in the United States in a gigantic manner, and are already irresistible. We cannot do otherwise than prepare our baggage and purchase our ticket for that wonderful voyage over the ocean of history and civilization to the cities of the United States favorably situated on the stream, travelling also in railway trains and steamships, thus contributing with some of our strength to the irresistible, supreme evolution. At any rate, we ought to be an atom of that universal spirit which is developing before our vision, satellites of that great system, docile as the planets, but retaining our centrifugal power that the equilibrium may be sustained and a return to chaos averted. We must all join the ranks and march along to the tune of the grand law.
In this manner the nations of Central America have a clear and safe road, to come within the sphere of the Colossus, while maintaining at the same time their individual independence. May it thus attract us, like the sun by its bulk, but without attempting to deprive us of the right of life, the movement of rotation.
Such mutual obedience to the universal law settles the conflict and saves the independence of Central America.
The giant is also under the unavoidable obligation of lending his strength to his weaker brothers, in accordance with equity and justice, in order to contribute to the creation of new American states, powerful and free, as prophesied by Monroe when he proclaimed his celebrated doctrine; and as it may be assumed Taft and Knox desire with reference to Nicaragua. This work would be imperishable; furthermore, regarding evolution in the United States from this high point of view, such work