The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-14
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Uncle SANS Physical (srcatness-A Bitter
right In Prospect-Pro COST OF the
NicArssuAn Canal Report Of the Com
WASHINGTON. Feb. Ia Special lone
OF the great difficulties In the way OF set
Element OF the boundary dispute between
Great Britain and Vsnezuela is the fact
that the authorities of British Guiana
have issued mining permits TO several
hundred gold hunting companies within
the disputed district This Information
comes from high official sources and may
be relied upon as accurate and important.
Under these British grants large sums OF
money have been Invested by the queens
ksubJects, and they have in many cases de-
keloped walk and promising properties.
The statesmen at London feel that they
cannot abandon these miners 10 their fate.
If arbitration should vest tile to the min
ing region In Venezuela the claims might
be inyalidated While Venezuela might
agree sc respect all mining grants given
by Guiana the miners themselves object
most decidedly TO being transferred to
Venezuelan jurisdiction. They know what
that means and are sure that in the end
they would be practically deprived of the
fruits of their labors and investments This
Is the real stumbling block in the way of
settlement.
An Itching Palm.
l have it on good authority that Great
Britain careSlittle about the remainder of
the disputed territory. 1t Is in large part
worthless laph- Soihe fit might be con-
verified into prosperous cofSee plantations,
but IL is the mining region that gisSs the
trouble. When Lord Salisbury talks OF
10000 British subjects who might be COM
PEELED to leave the queens 9ominions as a
result of the arbitration verdict, he means
mining companies and their employees,
not farmers and permanent settlers, though
it will be observed Lord Salisbury does not
say so. 1t is said there are in the disputed
territory very few farmers or other home
steaders, leaving out the miners 1t will
also be noticed that late cablegrams from
London confirm the accuracy oS che state
ment made recently in these dispatches TO
the effect that the Venezuelan government
has sent a confidential agen\ ITO London TO
treat with tho foreign Office for settlement
of all the points of the quarrel, including
arbitration, the Uruan incident and the
resumption of diplomatic relations be-
tween the two countries.
We Are the Peoplei
That this is great country probably ev-
cry American realizes, but 1t remaA Sd for
new congressman from VirginN Mr.
Otey, in recent speech on the silve. lues-
tion TO put the vastness OF the United States
and of the state of Texas in particular be-
fore us in new and most interesting way
I'm my old bullet riddled, cavalry ridden,
battle SCARED state, said Mr.. ORGY, 1--WE
have more miles of electric railway than
England and France together, more than
all Europe, excepting Germany. Start a
:, silver dollar on a straight line from the
northwest corner to the southeast corner
Texas, and it will travel distance a.
reat as from Chicago to Boston. That
cate alone can support 90, 900, 600 people.
On 1866 900 square miles 1t can raise all
be Food products Of the country; on 10, Z
10 square miles il wonld produce the 12, :
~. 900 bales OF cotton for the worlds sup
1Iy and have territory a. large as the
State Of New York left for a cattle ranch
H}ter deducting all Of the desert land. No
country presents such field for internal
commerce Fifty millions In Texas, and
population would not be as dense as it Is
(iermany Place them In New Mexico,
not as dense as In Belgium. In the Da-
kotas, not as dense as In England We
have over one-hal Of all the fresh water
on the globe Let a silver dollar start up
the Mississippi river and then up the Mis-
souri, river, and lt VIII lind duty to per-
form on q navigable stream for distance
equal to the distance from New York to
ConStantinople, on each side Of which