Show The The Triangular Contest In Venezuela and Colombia in fn Caracas the fountain Y I EnE rail head of ot government I nl and sup supposed H H posed nosed I by oU t i to bo be the we I I alarm torm vm center c of at revolutions wo woI I A have hale not taken n so lively nn In Int disturbances reported In ff t to In ln the v ne and the adjacent republic b C a ro snub me for tor may along long time tWe that We Wen u n hale beta L b U t n n i 1 contest conlest going 0 I ns on o n I u n nt t bee Between the time governmental gover C the as ns the tho Colom Colont or nr f t e them and tho the Liberals lu mu mus call ll r tl Meta tJ iter caU U themselves them I he heI HS s Immediate I II ate tM I Itter late a President Indent fir the th t h l lr of ot last year a revo in Eleb i t is lIal w a start d by l h y Gabriel GabrielI S smog I In the Interest ot of f the He II claimed li all Ills his Is the tho 1 present en ROV go td Jh ent u I not representative of ot the thep and I es of ot the time peoples people p The ThO The Clerical In power lower lowera a 1 the party of retrogression Kf I stand i tot lot the very ery things which an and Colombians i and all ull other ther native the h fought t when hen South th 6 spot Ur aln irom ten this i t they lie h rM about 90 years a ago UIO 0 Our Ourt Ourlie fought taught for Cur freedom frOl t misrule After Afler hIs Ills death from P principles hI he taught fought for tor 01 were adopt Liberals They wish to make the t r rd cd i bY country worthy to take mire place among aroon the f the progressive nations of at tho time world lorld to 10 Introduce railroads electric free trel universal education lights a while the Clericals desire de lre to etc tion on keep in a force th obsolete customs of at times limN and to prevent tho the pro of ot advanced Ideas Then again a ln the Liberals ore are now f e ln to reestablish h the tho Greater Co Coby Col l by a II unIon nf of Venezuela Co and which Bolivar ef feet la in W ad and which was dissolved about That Is the aim at al present and understanding un It is perfectly p clear elm Why h they have received aid and sympathy thY from some of o the Venezuelans lans lass The leader of the time revolutionary movement General Santos Is la now noli over M SO years old and his place has hils been taken by bl L a 11 younger man who was W II recently re ro recently In the Ihl United Stats States General Rafael He lie Is III only 41 H or j 42 years ars oM old but has lias already been prominent In to fcO engagements during the past 25 5 years ears having begun gun his cn ca career reer at the age ag of ot 16 lie He Is a n brave braveman braveman man and an accomplished lawyer hav having lag fag at one time been the tho attorney gen general general eral real of o Antic linta In n which province he owns largo large coffee estates Ills His wife and andrIx dx rIx children In Bogota or did live livo there than until recently antI and he is attached to his native nathe land by b many ninny ether tender te ties being a n patriot and an nn upright de defender tender fender of o his principles Ho lIe believes that Colombia should turn Its back up upon upon upon on the Spanish regime und anti take takei a i step forward in advanced civilization Strangely I as ns It may appear General Is a friend trl not alone alono of ot General Cipriano Castro provisional president of or this republic of at Venezuela but also of ot the presidents of ot cuador I Guate Guale Guatemala Guatemala mala and Honduras Owing to the fact that General Castro and his advisers ers are ire supposed to be friendly to the time Lib Liberals Liberals Insurrections have hae been fomented la In various arlous parts of Venezuela by b the theu u Conservative Cons or Clericals of ot Colom Colombia Colombin bin bia OTio Venezuelan lenders are also In Ia sympathy If U wo WI Vt may judo judge by their acts with time the movement making toy to ward wad a closer union unton of o time the three great republics of northern South America Ecuador Colombia end and Venezuela A glance at nt a a map of ot South Mouth America will show that the time two latter were evi evl evidently dently dentY Intended by b nature to be bo Joined in one great confederation since they have coterminous boundary lines Many of the rivers Ih rs of or Venezuela among them tho vast Orinoco have timely their rise or tributaries in Colombia tho the great mountain valleys of or tho the latter hitter run down to time the sea son across tho the former and between he tween them they control the thelIo northwest lIo not and northern coasts of the continent to which tiny pertain Co Colombia lombia sends Rends n spur of her territory Inthe In Inthe the Isthmus of Panama northward to toward toward ward 1111 Contra Central America and nud runs fardown far tur fardown down own the western meat const while Venezuela Ven zu eta cia reaches out easterly toward the theL L r I mouths of oC the tho Orinoco and tho mho Eng English I lish Iah Island of oC Trinidad along the south shores horos of at the Caribbean sea There are lirA many similarities In physical configuration ration river systems mountain ranges and am particularly In the tile locations of ot their thell and Bogota Both cities arc are elevated ela ted high above the sea this city of ot Caracas being situated nt lit an nn elevation of o feet Ceet and Bogota capital of ot Colombia at lit feet which 1 I Is the altitude of oC the highest spur of at atthe the cordillera separating Caracas from tram the tho sea seo Both Doth cities titles Caracas especially re rejoice rejoice joice Jolce In the climate of oC perpetual sum summer summer mer umer hut but while this city Is Ir quite ac accessible now by means of ot a u railway from the tho port of or La only five fhe miles away awny as liS tho the crow crony cro tiles files but 25 2 miles by II rail Bogota can only be reach reached ed by b a lung long Journey by river rail and anti horseback And yet et the tho vast ast valley villi ey or tableland In la which both are arc situated will It Is thought some seine time be traversed trav traversed creed by a 11 railway uniting the two cap San square u uV V j si Y Yr r i ii U Um m a aI aI I I r milli I TJ I I Hals Itale now BO so widely separated bringing the almost unknown ulterior interior with Its Ita Immense forests of o valuable woods and unexploited 1 areas of ot precious metals in communication with tho Caribbean sea sen and consequently in touch with the United States Stales Sta teB Bogota was 1111 founded In 1828 l S and Cn Ca racal In 1507 1567 15 1 and us as bout both possess po sells great gr ut I natural tur attractions and a n quaint old oM ol world architecture they are oro worth trav traveling traveling eling cling many mallY days to visit Bach republic lie lic line has about tho time same sante area of halt half a mm million II ns square miles with th hundreds of or miles mile 9 of or valuable coast line but while o bit In Colombia there Is III n population of o oi i about in Venezuela there is not 1 I 4 A 4 Venezuelan Soldiers C CiL Jit i iU w iL 3 4 1 1 i irp rp E I 4 4 1 y v vy I y I I 1 f ki kiI vi r r J Rat eI J i i J r 9 r rt t p r ss ssI m I a at r I r t 4 y rl l 1 t N r r t h e C o Io Vc i e Boundary iry lime Ime castro President of Venezuela r t t much more moro than thon half halt that number of or Inhabitants Historically they have 1110 been united since the proclamation of ot Independence by the congresses es of both I republics about 90 50 years ago and Inti as us to population the time component parts lire are the same anent In both consisting of oC native In III dlana people of at Spanish descent and ot of o othe the mixed classes resulting from a un unIon j ion fen of the ten I e two to roces Spanish Sn ia Ish of o course In Is the tho ruling language In both publics It The political Institution are the time same and nine tho the proclivity ty for tor forr r raising the revolutionary standard on a n nt the slightest t provocation As each party is striving for t I Irle pie pic and Invoking the aid of at I on that plea plen it Is IB difficult to detect ny I line lino of cleavage along which for Ign sympathy run As s a 11 country countr foremost among oman the enlightened na nations lions of ot time the world two rit thin United l 1 Stat 7 ought aught to sympathize with time the th Liberal but regarding Its duty to un wt exist n government which has bus not Invoked ed for foreign or eign old aid or manifested Its Inability to suppress rebellion thu time United States 3 must frown Crown upon tho the revolutionists This will account for the rumor preva prevalent prevalent lent hero here that the United States Stales INV goy cement has sent warships war to prate protect t the time property and lives ofUs of Its citizen resident In Colon and Panama and will explain Its action In advance If It it should demand ris ds on a II former occa ocea occasion OC Il lion sion at Colon that tho the revolutionists retire from Crom tho limo cities titles at nt the termini of ot the time Panama railway Ill II 11 Y National Inter Interests eats ests must be bo safeguarded It Is 19 recognized recognized and International obligations re respected respected It Is well known that we have ha had hall several little revolutions since the Ares pres present pre enl emit executive of this republic General Cipriano Castro came to power tuo t o years ears ago by tho the same Hamo old process Wedo WP WI WIdo do not consider him by hyun any means Irm ly I seated In to time the presidential chair end as na his sympathies nee lire avowedly with the Liberals It Is la thought ho he has hl s aspi aspirations aspirations rations as chief executive of or the tho great greater er or should It ever eventuate Bear In mind minI that It h Is I a triangular ur 01 r quadrangular contest that IB is J raging paging between the tho Liberals of If Colombia and line their Conservative government arid anti be between between between tween the Conservatives COll of Venezuela and their Liberal government with u II possibility of oC a II mix up between lJ the th respective parties of or both republics and you have th the so far faruch as such uch a n peculiar state of ot affairs can be explained in a n nutshell Wl MARTIN Caracas Venezuela |