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Show i ' lv iS7 ' - - - jj-S, MAnnon or d (( wvm roT f t'L j-lIElJ X3 row people In thin country roallie the magnitude of the nmlill ion of l'r Maul Caalro of Veneiurla. nil ambition In which ha la aupportcd lir hi own party In tha country of which h I tha chief executive and hgr a Urn and active parly In Colombia anil F.cuador. It la nothing lese Hum I ho re-erecting of tha old republic, of Colombia formed by HI moil llolivar, tha Uboratur. which consleled of tha countrlea now known aa Vcnctttoln. P.cu.idor and Colombia. That accomplished. It would bi a logl-eel logl-eel tcp In tha advancement of hi ambition am-bition to aeek to add to tha recon-I recon-I stmrtrd nation Peru and llollvla, a i Bolivar sought to do, and In which ha j almoat succeeded, being for a cnnaldnr- j abla tlma not only president of Colum- j bla. but tha arbiter of tha arfnlra of ' thoaa two nations. ThU would mean tha formation, In place of five weak. '' dlacordant. belligerent and turbulent eountrlca, of a nation with a popula- , (Ion of between thirteen and fourteen ' mllllona and an area nearly aa largo an I thlt nf tha United Slate. excluiv of A oska. It would ha larger than tha Rusalun j aniplra In Europe, larger by about i 1.0U0.0O0 equnre mllea than tha Herman ! and Aualrlan empire or tha republic of Prance, aud nearly two-thlrda tha ale of Europe. In population It would ba equal to European Turkey, tha kingdom king-dom of Rervla and Houmanla and tha principality of nuliarla taken together. It bounilarlaa would ba almoat coin-etdent coin-etdent with tha territory reigned over by tha Incaa and their tributary prlncea t tha height of Hi power of tha undent un-dent Peruvian empire. It would have a coait line of 6,1(00 nil lea, of which I.0U0 are on the Atlantic and the Caribbean Carib-bean en anil the remainder on the Pa-olflc. Pa-olflc. Venriiiela alone haa a count line of 1. 000 mllea, with tlilrty-two natural harbora and fifty baya. The rebuilt nation would ba tha third power on the Wealern continent In point of area and population, the United States belli! be-lli! the Itrat and II' Mil the aecond. The natural r w 'it -aa aa yet (level-pad (level-pad hardly at "M, of tha lamia com-prled com-prled within the boundnrlea of Hie 1 contemplated Yepuhllr are Imuiemie and varied and under a stable government tha nation would be one which would ' afford opptirtunltlea for the working ut of Hie beet dcatlnloa of the l-allii race In the Wintern World, and would be a power at rung enough to defy f'ir- ' sign aggression from any Kuropeau luarter whatHoever. The projected i pan-American rallwny would run through the heart of till nntlon, and, with II branch llnea, would connect with the 1'ai'IHc ocean on (lie wen and the Caribbean ea on the nurth. thu hastening the material and eoclul development of the country and vaatly Increaalng Ita commercial Importance. It will be aeen that It la with no mean ambition that President Castro la credited. At prcKctit the agitation for a union of the aepuriited nation liwg not umoiiut to a cutlmenl within the domain of prurtleal polltleH. except In Veiu'iuela, Colof hlu und Kcumlor. (n Columbia and on the bonlera of Vcneiueln and F.cuu.lor actual DkIiIIiiu 4 la going on for the accomplishment of Ilia acbeino of reunion. 'I'tin Liberal parties In these three countrle arc i,n''ed n r.n attempt to bring t tin i l j..e nf union to an iiccoiupMhIhvI fe, u-. J Piemdent Cuxtro baa iiMido ' ; .'.fle'f I bo bead of the movement. lUad In the Hiiht of Hie kucwUli:, aeeinlngly C5r.f".w.t slure of affulr lu . Colombia and Veneiuela becomea more couiprebeniillile. For a long tlma w have been reading dUpatcliea frum ; South America lulling of Invantou of 1 ! ' Colombian territory by troop from Kcoador and Venezuela and of Hie violation vio-lation of the territory of ltieno repun-Ilea repun-Ilea by the troop of Colombia. Tli newa bn been really a record of the atnnd whlrh la being Hindu by the Conservative Con-servative party of Colombia egaliial the I.ltiernl of the other two nulloiia. Kc-uador, Kc-uador, lielng a anuill nntlon anil the government aeeinlngly having the Liberal Lib-eral better In hnnd than they are In the other two rouutrlea, baa ao fi r managed to keep from becoming embroiled em-broiled In actual war; hut under the lead of C'natro the Liberal of Veneiue- la have made common cnuee with their brethren of Colombia again! the Con-ervatlve. Con-ervatlve. who opiaiaeil the Uiilon and a atate of war extat between the two nation. Hhould Caalro. with the aid of the Colombian Uberala, aucceed In overthrowing the exlatlng government of Colombia, the union I Inevitable, and Kcumlor would come Into the fed- ernuoii (1110-117, euv ut.i llollvar'a time. After that It will be time enough to talk about Peru and llollvla. At prea ent arnilea ara marcning and uikiic are being fought for the unification of tha alntea which llollvar freed from the SpanUh yoke and formed Into a nation which he fondly hoped ahould flourUh and be forever a monument to hla memory a landmark of hla fnnie hut which fell lo pleeee upon hla death. Caatro, In aeeklng to re-eatabllnh the great nation of Hollvnr, may be like the dog In the fable, and In graaplng at the vlalnn of what he dealree may loae the aubatanca of that which ht haa; tor hla enemlea are niimeroue and ara not Idle. At prenent, however, he aeema to hold Venezuela with a firm hand, the flrmeat which haa been at the helm of atale alnce (human Illanco left the country to Ita fate and became be-came fat. eiiplue and politically impotent im-potent amid the pleasure of ParlaUu life. Caalro haa great energy, great ambition ambi-tion and cannot be denied consider able ability 01 a certain win. iu pontile pon-tile and war hi career ha been adven-turou. adven-turou. and when he auddenly tiecame a political factor hla rle to power win rapid. He came to the preeldency ajf Veneiuel by fire and aword, and 9 hoi. la hi power In a manner which would not be tolerated In many conn, trio. |