The San Francisco call., 1899-09-11
REPUBLICS FEAR
ANNEXA ION
South America Greatly
Perturbed.
MEXICO ALSO ALARMED
DISTRUSTFUL OF THE PROG
RESS OF AMERICA.
Newspapers of the Southern Coun-
tries Warn the People Against
Absorption by the United
States.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 10.-Private ad
vices received from Brazil show that the
Government here has been greatly in
fiuenced by the accounts regarding the
alleged secret understanding between the
Bolivian and the United States Govern
ments by which the latter power was to
take over the territory on the upper
Amazon claimed by Bolivia, region rich
in rubber. 1t is alleged in Rio de Janeiro
that American naval officers have recon-
gion and sent their secret reports to
Washington. 1t is first charged that Mr..
Bryan, United States Minister to Brazil
was party to the agreement with Bo-
livia, but 1t is now said that the Bolivian
secret agent, named Uthoff, made the
agreement with the United States Consul
a Para. There is some doubt about this,
but such is the belief of the Brazilian
newspapers and people, and the Argen-
tine press, has begun, instigated by Euro
pean residents, to set up the cry that the
colossus of the north is moving south
ward and intends to control and ulti-
mately annex all South America, and so
dtligent has been the propaganda OF this
story that the newspapers in Mexico of
the clerical stripe have taken it up edi-
torially, predicting the absorption of all
this hemisphere by the greedy and land
lands lands in Brazil and Peru, and who will
soon be able to afford the Washington
Government preteXt for attempting to
overthrow the South American Govern
ments.
The Buenos Ayres Standard, controlled
h% British subjects, asserts that Presi-
dent Rocas visit to Brazil was to consult
with the President of that country with
a view to, mutual defense against the
Yankees. There is no doubt that the
Spanish and European Governments gen
orally have given their organs in Latin
America the hint to publish articles de-
signed to embitter South and Central
America against the United States and
its people and break up the growing senti-
ment in favor of Pan-AmericanisTn which
is greatly dreaded by European CONNER
cial interests so strongly intrenched in
South America, where American inter-
ests have few newspaper champions and
defenders. 1t is shrewdly calculated that
by persistent newspaper attacks on the
United States that the Americans can be
got into high disfavor, and that con-
cessions will be refused them
The journey of William McElroy Cur
tbs, formerly of the Bureau of American
Republics, to Peru and Bolivia is report
ed to be in the nature of a, secret mission
for his Government. There is profound
ly suspicious sentiment developing in
Latin-American circles regarding the de-
signs of the United States, whose power
is dreaded and whose administration is
accused of cherishing imperialistic pro-
jects on this continent. The remarkable
unanimity of the Mexican clerical sheets
and the South American journals of all
classes in dealing with this matter makes
it clear that it is a prearranged cam
paign with a view to exciting ill-will
against the Americans of the great repub
lie of North America.