Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-26
HERE'S A GO.
Another Flibustsring Expedition on the
Tapis
UNLESHING THE DOGS OF WAR.
The Trouble Capitalists are Making ior
Themselves, and Others. e..
VENEZUELA The OBJECTIVE POINT.

New YORK, February 25.-Ths World
this morning says: The clarion tones OF
the trumpet of war are at this moment, II
report is to be believed, awakening respon-
siye echoes in the martial breasts OF at
least one hundred hitherto peaceful New
Yorkers and of 4, 900 other American citi-
zeas scattered through various parts Of the
United States, noticeably in the South.
1t is from the window of an Office on Broad
way that the bugle call TO arms is being
sounded, and Col. Geo. W. Gibbons is said
to be at the little end Of the trumpet. He
has not yet, however, begun to make the
noise which will be made when at the con-
clusion OF q great commercial conference,
which is to be held in New York within the
next sixty days, it is found (as no doubt it
will be- that the American Government re-
fuses TO take up the war trumpet and
blow il
ON ITS OWN ACCOUNT.
II means thai American industries in Ven
ezuela must be protected by British inter
ference whether President Cleveland and
his Cabinet say so or not. 1t may not per-
haps be generally known that an American
syndicate representing at least $40, 600, 600
and headed by the well-to-do Californian
banking firm of Mackay, Flood & O'Brien,
having had its eye for many years on the
trail running bttween the Orinoco river and
the absurdly rich mining district Of Caratal,
Venezuela, Just as Jacob Sharp used to
have his eye on Broadway, attempted some
time ago to establish a steamship line be-
tween New York and the mouth Of the
Orinoco river, with a rail connection Of
400 miles the nee to Caratal.
THE DIFFICULTY
about the railroad and the semi. monthly
steamer scheme arose, SO says Colonel Glib
bons, through the objections of the British
Government, whose policy of aggrandize-
ment is clearly and plainly labeled in Ven-
zuelsn affairs. Associated with Messrs
Mackay, Flood and O'Brien in the above
mentioned proposed enterprise were such
comfortably fixed landlords as r. W. Tay-
lor, of California; George ". Roche, Of
Savannah, Ga; S B. Whitman, Peter G.
Doremus, Henry Saifke and Peter Ashton,
of New York City; Charles Bull, Of
Charleston, s. c., and several others. In
connection with the steamship and railroad
theae gentlemen also organized Land and
Emigration Company. Also those inter
ested in the scheme were Americans and
the Venzulean Government made the syn
dicate''
LARGE CONCESSIONS.
There are now 1000 Americans in the
mining district of Venezuela, many Of
them from New York, who wero sent
thither by this syndicate. They think
that the United States ought to protect
them and their interests, and if it does not
they propose TO fight. There is about $l0,-
OOO, 600 Cf New York capital invested in
Venezuela, and it isin jeopardy if England
persists in her scheme Of territorial ag-
grandizemcnt. That Col. Gibbons is sat-
isfied with the warlike outlook is abund-
antly proved by
HIS OWN STATEMENTS.
'If it were necessary" said he, Il
would raise an army of 100 900 Irishmen
in this country to resist Great Britain.
They are ready at all times to strike a
blow ut the English Government and are
heartily iD sympathy with us in this
Venezuelan movement" He says he has
recruited 5000 Americans of undoubted
courage who will proceed to Venezuela
under his leadership and take positions rs
commissioned aud nOn-cOmmissiOned
officers in the inevitable conflict with Great
Britain, and when they get there, they
will not, according to his statements, be in
4 defenseless condition, for within the past
month sixty thousand stand Of arms
IMPROVED FIREARMS
have been purchased by the California syn
dictate and shipped to Venezuela, to be
used IN the war. The syndicate, by the
way, will guarantee, so the Colonel says,
all soldiers who g from this country $50 a
month during their term of service. T.
evade the neutrality laws the army (big or
small as the case may be- will he shipped
south labelled, every mothers son OF them,
as emigrants, but their kits will consist OF
Colt revolvers and other like peaceful agri-
cultural implements.
1t must not by any means be supposed
that the Venezuelans are sitting idly by,
waiting for Col. Gibbons and his wariike
companions to arrive. If this government
refuses to interfere, All army Of Verez-
uelans, $4,000 strong, which was organ
lied and has been drilled for the past year
under the leadership Of Gen Millen, an
old soldier OF fortune and former New
York journalist, and Gen. Gordon, South
Caroliniau, late of the Confederate army,
will be put in the field to resist Great
pr;to;n,s coplamnlate6 encroanhment