The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-27
REPUBLICS OF SOUTH
ARE BADLY Mixed
Liberals Are Trying to Gain
Control Of All.
CAUSE OF REVOLUTIONS
DETERMINED TO WIFE OUT THE
CONSERVATIVE PARTIES.

/ colon, Colombia, Friday. Aug
2s Cvia kingston. Jamaica, Aug
i26).-The censorship here prevents
Ithe transmission Of political news
Tor news unfavorable to the gov
eminent. The revolt Of the lib
eral Colombian rebels, now two years
Oid. lately assumed a more serious as
pect by the liberals concentration on
/ the isthmus To is believed that they
are contemplating aggressive action.
/ Consequently uueasiDess prevails at
( Panama the liberal objective. hich
was nearly captured a year ago. II
/ e. not believed that the rebels viii mo-
/ lest the r-ilroad or interrupt traffic.
y The recent rebel raids along the rail-
road amounted TO bIoodless raiding and
! tue robbery Of Chinese stOrekeepers,
! 81 hich the presence Of few govern
/ meat troops apparently stopped There
I is "a report that the government IS
/ tri1gJHg troops to protect the istnmus
THIS N51 be- difficult without exposing
/ t. rebel attacks the pOlnLs whence they
l are taken. Tie area of the revolt IS
: extensive.
a noticeable. distinguishing feature
/ o. the feVo.ut5o- ~ the actual. moral
I support the liberals are receiving from
! Venezuela. Ecuador ami Nicaragua, in
which countries liberal governments
/ prevail COlombia's conservative gov
eumsnt is not popular with the gov
I ernments of the countries mentioned,
I bur is popular with the revolutionary
Clements in the same countries.
The situation can be likened TO dis
rupted federation. composed of Nene-
zuaIa Ecuador. Colombia and Near
aqua. in which liberal and conservative
/ partisans are helping each other ana
I iatr' suing together But being separ-
ate nations. the political and armed
liut-igues s-reaten international trouble.
/ it is reported that the conservative re-
volt in Venezuela against President
Castro is receiving actual support from
the Colombian cOnservatiF Near
agua's threatened revolution will prob
ably be similarly aided on the occasion
arising.
Complications Are Threatened.
The conditions eve ground for the
reports of actual or threatened inter
national complications between the
countries mentioned, in which the lib
erals are genera.iy opposed TO COlOm-
bias conservative administration
whose prophesied downfall is accom-
panied by talk Of a federation or con-
solidaton of some or all OF the cOUn-
tries mentioned. under the title Of
Grand Colombia %
The Colombian government is in
straits financially. At present forty Co
LON ian paper dollars are equivalent in
value 10 one gold collar. The govern
ment is printing paper money indis-
criminately, latSly establishing heavy
export duties payaDle in gold, and sold
mOnCpOlies and privileges CT all kinds,
ali of which has greatly injured com
merce-
The conditions in the interior are bad.
The government is well supplied with
ammunition, and this week unsucCess-
fully attempted to become possessed Of
shipments of the same 10 Ecuador and
Nicaragua in transit over the Panama
railroad.
The rebels on the isthmus are ham
pered by lack of arms and ammuni-
ton. and are reported TO be awaiting
the arrival of shipments and The pres
elce in the field of certain leaders be
fo-e commencing activI..es on the 18TH
mus.
General Alban. governor Of Panama,
who was recently or Vted eXtraordl-
nary civil and militaT on both
sides of the isthmus, &c absent at
Savanilla. He is supposed - be bring
ing troops for the protection Of the
fsthmus. he lately invited a number
of friends a. Panama to his house, put
a guard at the door and forced his
guests to contribute literally to the
before releasing them A
Colombian holding mOnopolies under
the conservatives is being forced to
contribute literally to the payment OF
the police of the isthmus.
Movement Wen Supported.
The liberal revolutionary movement I
in Colombia is well supported through /
out the country, and II Is generally !
believed that it will eventually succeed I
Tho government has about 800 soldiers /
on the isthmus while the whole arTus 1
amounts to from 25.000 to $4,000 men,
The NamOuna, now called the Cen I
eraI Pinzon. is useless because she /
lacks a crew The natives seem in /
capable of properly handling her The I
loss of the gunboat Lapopa- the re- /
mainder OF whose crew is now reported !
safe, was a blow to the government, /
which now has only two small gun I
boats on the Atlantic and three on the /
Pacific The interior communication, !
traffic and transportation are bad. es- I
pecially between the isthmus and the /
rest of the country.
General Adams absence causes un- (
easiness in government circles His I
mowers give him unrestricted sway over 3
the isthmus and the lack of cOmmu- /
nicati0n with Bogota. the capital, rem
ders him more independent of the gov
eminent. The arrival of American war
ships Is expected. The impression pre-
walls that in case of trouble the United
States viii Interfere
The governments decree. dated July
is. revives the talk of the possibility of
q forced loan from the foreigners in
colombia. The decree shows the gov
-rnment's severe financial extremity.
FRANCE WILL BE NEUTRAL