Show PRESIDENT CASTRO That President Castro of Venezuela in cn in his own w wy is a 8 dais daisy An American company was doing well down there on a charter He ordered his courts to dispose of the business No summons was served on the defendants the whole thing was confiscated p and when the government asked him to arbitrate that matter he lie fell back on his dignity and declared d L he would not go behind his own courts Some months ago he granted a concession to an English match L company to make matches in Venezuela and to enjoy a monopoly of the sale thereof The company erected its buildings and began operations The Thu i company prosper prospered d. d A strike occurred In order it ii L is said to protect the company's pr property lan Inn troops invested the building and soon the plant plan by the help of the strikers was being operated f for fn r tHe lc benefit of Castro A French cable company had a post ost at La Guaya Castro charged that the I company was was being operated h by the thc aid of the rebels He lie cu cut t the wires vires sent the cable out of the country and nd made it impossible for the French minister to tc remain Now I the only way to send cable dispatches S out of the country is by bj ship and Castro I c collects toll Jo on eY every ry message In the same wa way by the means we have haye described above he lie took in the New York Y rk and Bermuda Asphaltum company This y m- m pa had paid V Venezuela ela for the ori it Castro annulled the wh whole le business Tie lie B now that h he is alone all aU the world is against I him but he does not care he is going to Venezuela against the maintain combined world if necessary It seems seems to us that if the plague does not ct pet get him or Ol some boa constrictor or some quiet assas assassin m. m that it will be necessary of one these days to s 's o down u go and make a fin finish sh of hi him i although his country is hardly h worth the trouble Some Sonic years ago Great Olat Britain made a great name by br sending an a army m into the heart head of Abyssinia to release an Englishman who had been insulted and imprisoned by the thc k bla-k bullying bullring king Icing of that country Great Britain Britan lid did that as a notice to barbarians in general that her citizens could not be bo abused with impunity anywhere anywhere any any- where around this big world But Castro has had ten years' years swing in Venezuela H 11 He has abused d everybody e that he lie wanted to he has robbed everybody every every- hoJ hod body that had anything worth taking and ho he aP still I to be getting along It i is the theory of some people that a government is bound to protect its citizens from maltreatment in foreign lands but that it cannot interfere with any bu business iness relation It Itis Itis Itis is true the thc government cannot interfere and make something pa pay which the tho companies fail to make p py but it is right for a government to protect its citizens from being insulted and it seems to us it is right for forit I it to tu protect them from front being robbed 01 Ot course we wedo wedo wedo do not want any trouble with Spanish America iZ ii we can help it but the whole world knows that hat the average Spanish American does not respect a 1 thing on earth ex except ept force He lie has Ims no conscience no DO principle he is about as worthless a n creature as walks this old earth It seems to us the quickest way to fix Mr MiS Castro would be to make a bargain with about old Texans who understand the Spanish American America n characters character first rate give them a contract and let them go down and settle Mr I r. r Castro |