If the republics of Spanish America, thus summoned into independent existence, have not contributed the weight thus vaunted, the growing power of the United States is ample to compensate deficiencies on this continent.
Sumner argues that the growing power of the United States can compensate for the shortcomings of newly independent Spanish American republics.
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