Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-15
Tho Guatemala Star Newspaper Enter
prise In Sister Republic.

pr1Se III sister Republic.
i The Journal is in receipt of copy Of th,
Guatemala Star. the weekly English edition
of La Estrells De Guatemala,7 published a
Guatemala, Central America by J. H. Hol
lander, editor and proprietor. The Star is
four page sheet, l21ls inches, and is printet
in coarse type apparently long primer. The
subscription price is $500 per annum. The
issue before US bears the date Sept. l5tt
and contains az gift to its subscribers fms
Autograph portrait of Manuel Lisandro Bar
illas the President of the Republic.
The opening article is an editorial on the
Republics Natal day the 18th of September
1921. In this article which opens with thai
famous sentence from Livy: "Ciritas ca
auten in libertate est postta, qua stat rtri5H.
mon CT atteno arbitrio pendent.
The State alone is free which rest. upon
its own strength and depends not upon the ar.
bitrary will of another"
In this article the editor sketches in a
brief but vivid manner the birth Of Guate,
malian freedom. He says:
Guatemala has had her three hundred
| years of slavery and bondage. Those three
hundred years bore their fruit, much of it
bitter and worthless, and little of it good and
reproductive. So, with its self-consuming
bitter and worthless fruit, serving to recu-
perate the good fruit by reinvigorating the
soil wherefrom it sprung. the latter accumla-
ted force and energy sufficient to become
self-sustaining and self-asserting in its pow
er after the three centuries of v&ssalage were
| over. So it was that Guatemala severed its
bonds on the 10th of September, 1921, and
regenerated into q nation Free and Indepen-
dent, assuming for its emblem the "Quetzal,"
| the bird who might well exclaim with that
great American orator of revolutionary
fame, Patrick Henry, were 1t gifted with the
power of speech, "Give me Liberty or give
me Death"
Equal to the 4th of July and the 10th of
September of her sister republics, the United
States and Mexico respectively, the celebra-
ton of today's anniversary ranks as the first
holiday in the annals of the republic, and
proper steps have been taken to duly cele-
brate the same.
And what IL Guatemala today?
nation that is respected AS such by all
the world, and as in the case of the United
States with England, so is Guatemala with
her mother country SPAIN and, notwith-
standing the bitter feelings engendered
through the struggle for independence, there
exists no firmer friendship for Guatemala
than that BIO rne by Spain towards her weaned
and self sustaining child"
The Star contains interesting news depart
ments for Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia,
Chill and Ecuador. Among other news
items we notice the statement that or the
goth of August Senior Don Francisco Lain
fiesto left Guatemala by the Pacific mail
steamer Grenada en- route to Washington via
New York, to assume his duties as minister
plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary TO
the United States. The following article
upon immigration in the United States is of
interest as showing how our sister American
Republics view this question. 1t says:
1.-The United States of America is suffering
from an overdose of immigration. Ever
since its Inauguration as an Independent
government, immigration has been invited,
and in some sections large inducements have
at different times been offered TO intending
settlers. So long as this resulted in the i'm
migration of people of foreign lands, who
brought brain and muscle, intelligence and
industry, thrift and honesty, it was a very
desirable policy, and worthy of all commend |
alton. That policy raised America to the |
high place she fills as a nation. 1t made her
waste places to blossom as garden. 1t |
increased her population. 1t opened up
thousands upon thousands-aye, millions
of acres of fertile lands and brought their
products into the markets of the world. 1t
added to her wealth, and to her intelligence.
1t gave to America broad and cosmopolitan
character. All this immigration did, and it
was good.
Yet there il darker side. This cordial
welcoming of the people Of Over-crowded |
Europe was imposed upon. Emigration of
the able bodied, and the self-sustaning and |
the intelligent was discouraged and frowned |
upon by the European governments
In place of these the hospitals, the
aims houses, the jals, the penitenti-
aries were opened and deluge of the lame,
the sick, the infrm, the aged, the loafer, the
ncorrigible and the criminal was flooded |
upon the country. This was undesirable &C
QUESTION, and the natural result followed. |
The United states protested against being |
the asylum for Europe's infrm, and as a
penal colony for her criminals. 1t was a
home with ever open doors for Europe's |
deserving, but was decidedly opposed to
being made dumping ground for her un-
desirables.
To this end laws were passed prohibiting |
the landing of paupers, and those likely to
become a charge upon the nation, or any
one of the States. But notwithstanding the |
law, or rather in spite of it, ways have been
devised to defeat its purposes. Agencies |
have been formed to sweep out of Europe |
and into America the most undesirable part |
of the foreign population"
The typographical appearance of the Star |
is excellent, its ARTICLES are we'll written and |
and speaks we'll for the ma
ton and city which it represe nts.