Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-12
South American Republics in
Dread of Being Absorbed
by the United States.
HINT AT A DEEP SCHEME
Clerical and British Papers Working
to Encourage Hatred for the United
States in Southern Countries
Curtis Under Suspicious.

City of Mexico, Sept. 11.-Private adj
vices received here from Brazil show
that the government there has been
greatly influenced by the accounts re-
garding an alleged secret understand
ing between the Bolivian and the Uni
ter States governments by which the
latter power was TO take over the terri
tory on the upper Amazon claimed by
Bolivia, region rich in rubber.
1t is alleged in Rio de Janeiro that
American naval officers have reconnoi-
tered and roughly surveyed the region
and sent their secret reports to Wash
ington. 1t was first charged that
Charles Page Bryan, United States
minister to Brazil, was party to the
agreement with Bolivia, but it is now
said that the Bolivian secret agent,
named Uthoff, made the agreement
with the United States consul at Para.
There is some doubt about this, but
such is the belief of the Brazilian news
papers and people, and the Argentine
press has begun, instigated by Euro
pean residents, to set up the cry that
the COLOSSUS of the North" is moving
southwark and intends to control and
ultimately to annex all South America.
So diligent has been the propaganda
of this story that the newspapers in
Mexoco of the clerical stripe have talk
en- it up editorially, predicting the alb
sorption OF all this. hemisphere by 'sthe
greedy and land-hungry Americans,
who are acquiring lands in Brazil jand
Peru and who will soon be able tb af-
ford the Washington government a
preteXt for attempting to- overthrow
the South American governments.
The Buenos Ayres StanaNi, controll-
ed by British subjects. asserts that
President Roca's 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 generally
have given their organs in Latin Amer
lea the hint to publish articles design
ed to embitter South and Central
America against the United States and
itS pSoPiS ohd DiCdh up luG
sentiment in favor of pan-American.
ism, which is greatly dreaded by Euro
pean commercial interests SO strongly
intrenched in South America, while
American interests have few newspa-
per champions and defenders. 1t is
shrewdly calculated that by persistent
newspaper attacks on the United
States the Americans can be gotten in
to high disfavor and that concessions
will be refused them.
The journey of William E. Curtis,
| formerly of the bureau of American
republics, to Peru and Bolivia is re-
ported TO be in the nature of secret
| mission for his government. There is
profoundly suspicious sentiment de-
veloping in Latin America regarding
the designs of the United States, whose
power is dreaded and whose administra-
ton is accused of cherishing imperial
istic projects on this continent.
The remarkable unani,nity of the
Mexican clerical sheets and the South
American journals Of nj! classes in deal
ing with this matter makes it clear
that il is prearranged campaign with
a view TO exciting i'll will against the
Americans Of the great republic Of
| North America.