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Show Tho Ecuadorian authorities, having invited bids for the cleaning up of 1 Guyaquil, the most pest-ridden port in the world, where yellow fever is constant, con-stant, is trying to rule out American bids for the job of cleaning, although this country has set tho pace for sanitation sani-tation for the world, in its groat work on tho Isthmus. Ecuador movos for the cleaning up of its great port only becauso civilized countries notifiod it that ships clearing from Guyaquil would not bo allowed to dock elsewhere unless tho city were cleaned up. This projudico against tho United States la only ono manifestation of the distrust of this country by tho Latin American Ameri-can stales, which do not know wbat is good for them, or, knowing, aro stubbornly stub-bornly rpfiolved not to do it. |