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Show Bit (' li 1 WASTED SYMPATHY. EH '! i For tlie firs me n history the Democracy Hffi II n I seem to be getting interested in a Central Amer- Kp If in I lean revolution, and are already beginning to dis- Hpf$I I ' m 1 cuss "The Isthmus Steal." So far, only, by treaty, W n I i HA I a e better right of Avay across "the narrow B; M nm I neck of land between two oceans" as the old ge- B J ) "J I ographies used to describe it, has been ob- B' 1 i F 1 I tained, and we believe the time is coming when Hi Hi jjja I the country will be sorry it has that much, for it 3i is a place to be despised and dreaded. As for the 111 people, they are not entitled to have as much j jl consideration as are the savages on reservations j j 9 in this country, for those savages can in three Hjjj 1 1 I generations be made good citizens, but those mon- B I j ' 'l grels on the Isthmus are beyond regeneration. B if j)! Democratic sympathy will be wasted on them 1 j' ;i j for a reason. That is that no one has wronged Blf if them or ever intends to wrong them. SI ( ' I As to the revolution there, why, revolutions HI i I 1 in Central America are like football in the United Ul i 1 1 i HI illill m States, just as much a craze and less dangerous. II if 111 I - |