The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-11
Reports That We Intend to Annex
ALI South America.
EXCITEMENT IN BRAZIL
SET UP CRY AGAINST COLOSSUS
OF THE NORTH
Sentiment.of Some Countries Strong
ly Against the North American
Republic, Which Tt Is. Claimed
Has Secret Understanding With
Bolivia.

! Mexico City, Mex, Sept. 1O.-Private
! advices received from Brazil show that
the government here has been greatly
/ influenced by the accounts regarding
the alleged. secret understanding be-
tween the Bolivian and the United
States governments by which the latter
power was to take over the territory
on the upper Amazon claimed by Bo-
livia, a region rich in rubber. 1t is
alleged in Rio de Janeiro that Ameri-
can naval officers have reeonnoitered
and roughly surveyed the region and
sent their secret reports to Washing
| ton.
1t first charged that Mr.. Bryan,
United States minister to Brazil. was a
party to the agreement with BOLIVIA,
but it is now said that the Bolivian Sc
cret agent named Uthoff, made the
agreement with the United States con-
sui at Para. There is some doubt about
this but such is the belief of the Bra
lillian newspapers and people and the
Argentine press has begun, instigated
by European residents to set up the
cry that the colossus of the north is
moving southwark and intends, to, con-
troll and ultimately annex all South
America and so diligent has been the
propaganda of this story that the
newspapers in Mexico of the clerical
stripe, have taken it up editorially, pre-
dieting the absorption of all this heni-
sphere by the greedy and land hungry
Americans, who are acquiring lands in
Brazil and Peru and who will soon be
able to afford the Washington govern
ment. a pretext for attempting to over
throw the South American govern
ments.
Defense Against Yankees.
The Buenos Ayres Standard, con-
trolled by British subjects, asserts that
President Roca's visit to Brazil was to
consult with the president of that coun-
try with a view to mutual defense
against the Yankees.
There is no doubt that the Spanish
and European governments generally
have given their organs in Latin Amer
lea the hint to publish articles designed
to embitter South and Central America
against the United States and its peo
pie and break up the growing senti-
ment in favor of pan-Amerfcanism,
which is greatly dreaded by European
commercial interests so strongly en-
trenched in South America, where
American interests have few newspa-
per champions and defenders. 1t is
shrewdly calculated by persistent news
paper attacks on the United States that
the Americans can be gotten into high
ulSIdVor, anu lHdt coHcesSloHS Will pe
refused them.
The journey of William McElroy Cur
tbs, formerly of the bureau of American
republics to Peru and Bolivia, is re-
ported to be in the nature of a secret
mission for, his government. There is
a profoundly suspicious sentiment de-
velopfng in Latin-American circles re-
garding the designs of the United
States, whose power is dreaded and
whose administration is accused of
cherishing imperialistie projects on this
continent.
The remarkable unanimity of the
Mexican clerical sheets and the South
American journels of all classes, in
dealing with this matter, makes it clear
that it is a prearranged campaign with
a view to exciting i'll will against the
Americans of the great republic of
North America.