The Republic of Brazil, area 3,218,991 square miles; population 21,461,000 (there is a great European immigration); revenue, about £18,000,000 a year. The Republic of Chili, area 2474 square miles; population about 4,500,000; revenue about £1,400,000 a year. The Republic of Ecuador, area 116,000 square miles; population about 1,400,000; revenue about £1,400,000. The Republic of Uruguay, area 72,210 square miles; population 1,042,668; revenue about £5,000,000. The Republic of Venezuela, area 393,870 square miles; revenue about £2,000,000. The Republic of Paraguay, area 98,000 square miles; population about 650,000. The Republic of Mexico, area 767,000 square miles; population about 14,000,000. The total of populations is between 50,000,000 and 60,000,000. These peoples have the possibility--but as yet only the possibility--of organising appreciable naval power, and are possessed now of a military power, not altogether contemptible, and equal to the task at most points of holding the land against a European or Asiatic invader, if that invader had to face the United States' naval power also. Presuming their peaceable acceptance of a plan to embrace them in the ambit of an American Imperial system--a system which would still leave them with their local liberties,--there is no doubt at all that they could add enormously to the strength of the United States. Presuming, on the other hand, a determined plan on their part to form among themselves a grand Federal League, and to aim at a Latin-American Empire, they might make some counterbalance to the power of the United States on the American continent and in the Pacific. Neither contingency seems immediately likely. These Latin-American peoples have not yet shown any genius for self-government. They produce revolutionary heroes, but not statesmen. Among themselves they quarrel bitterly, and a Latin-American Confederation does not seem to be possible. On the other hand, Latin America is jealous of the United States: resents, whilst it accepts the benefits of, the Monroe doctrine, and would take as a danger signal any action hostile to the Mexican Republic which the Anglo-Celtic Republic should be forced to take. Any attempt on the part of the United States to "force the pace" in regard to Latin America would saddle her with half a dozen annoying wars.