Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-11
ENGLAND'S GROWL
Over the All-American lnterna.
tional Congress.
INTERVIEWS WITH THE DELEGATES

They Are Not Losing any Sleep on Ac-
count OF European HostiIity-The South
ern Republics Looking to Their Own
Interests and Not Controlled by Over
the-Sea Infiuence-British Schemes i'm
VenezueIa-yisit to Yale College.
New YORK Oct. 1.-THE Herald's Wor-
cester correspondent says: al interviewed
the South American delegates Wednesday
on the persistent attacks made by European,
and especially English. papers on this inter
national congress- Not one of the gentle
men considered the utterances OF the hostile
journals to have any weight, at any rate
with themselves
Senior Jeronimo z slaya, of Honduras, said:
"The government of Honduras has taken the
liveliest interest in this congress, and has
gone into it with high hopes. We desire to
develop the natural resources of or coun-
tries We are very near to the United States,
and have better means of communication
with it than we have with Europe This Is
a matter simply of commercial interests. We
have already several North American COM
panies dealing with us, and we may find it
more advantageous to trade still more ex-
tensivelv with the United States"
Senior Jacinto Castellanos one of the dele
gates from Salvador, said: "Oh, we are not
20 be influenced in the least by what the
British ami other journals say OF u.s. We
naturally desire to bs prosperous and rich,
aud therefore this conference with the
United States should not b. considered an
attack upon England or any other Euro
pean counirvn
Senior y. Bolct Peraza, delrgate from Ven-
ezuela, said: "All the powers of Europe are
interested in increasing their commerce and
in op- ming up markets by conquest and
placing their productions, which are very
large They see that this con,rass will re-
duce some of their markets, and that the op-
portunities will Toe transferred to the United
States, The political interests in Anne RIGA
and in the United States have developed
favorable policy toward other peoples on
this continent, whereas the Europeans have
not Your people have inspired us with
feeling of confidence, which Europeans have
not
britain Not at All ScrupuIous.
Il desire To impress this point upon your
readers--that the English are now on the
banks of the Orinoco that they have a part
OF our mining territory and that they want
to have the navigation of that river. We
are at the mouth Of the gate to those coun-
tries in South America, and we lead to the
Amazon and other great rivers. Columbia,
Ecuador, all are exposed if we open this
gate TO the European powers. We believe
that England is not at all scrupulous about
taking possession of land. She pretends to
have some such right in our country, and if
she were allowed to carry out her projects
it would endanger all the other South Amer
lean countries This congress will be a bar
rier to all such purposes That is the reason
England is attacking us
Other Delegates Views.
Senior Alberto Mn, oa Uruguay, said:
The English have one-third of our COM
merce If the United States can do better
for us we are not obliged to go on trading
with England. The attacks made by the
English press on the congress are out of
place, and are not warranted"
Senior F. c. c. Zsgarra, the delegate
from Peru, said: I'VE have come together
with the most friendly feelings We have
no other object but to enlarge our markets
and keep them open 10 fruitful competition
1t is not fair for Europeans TO attack us
This conference does not mean an inter
ference with present engagements
Senior }. G. Do Amarol Valentea of Bra
I'll, said that the European press ought to
wait until the congress did something before
criticising 1t.