Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-02-02
0UEEREST SOUTH AMERICA.
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BUSINESS WAYS ARE ODD AND |
NATIVE TEMPERAMENT oDDER.
Only in the Remote interior, Where
News Travels Slowly, is There |
Found a Feeling of Love, Gratitude !
and Respect for the United States.
E. t. Tucker, Socialist candidate |
for Delegate to Congress from Okla |
homa in 1900, has been in South Am |
efican countries nearly year exam |
ming mining properties for syndi- |
cate in the United States. Writing |
lately from Antofagasta. Chile, to q |
friend in Oklahoma, he said:
What Cape Town was to the Dutch |
South African republics this Chilean |
seaport is to Bo.ivia-her jailer and |
toll collector. Every pound of ore
shipped to Europe or the United
States must pass through a Cnil61
custom hodse, and now that1
points of ingress are clos8l
plague all the -four, rice
coal and oil consumed Fay
tribute to the tol Zee this
whole coast for y Bolivia S
and a formidG one gunboat
Never Bravely the yellow.
redl : nag of that mountain
when the high admiral
Fo rnanoo11urac Of h -
%'wire from the capital, 700
Iaway.
HBut one day vast deposits of nj
PIRATE were discovered in tae desert
that lies along the coast. Then, as
now, the Bolivian was willing to ac-
cept the ownership of the new ele-
ment of wealth, but he could not risk
his money in its development nor
would he stake nis life in its defence
when the Chilean came to take it
from him. OF the part played BY Boil
Was navy in the war that ensued
many ridiculous stories are told.
"One is that soon after the out
break of hostilities the Bolivian gun
boat captured a Chilean vessel of 55
tons burden The Bolivian admiral
was so notified by wire and asked for
instructions as to the disposition of
Unload the So tons and sell the boat
On land the Bolivian army ran away,
leaving the nitrate beds in possession
of the Chileans. No treaty of peace
has been signed since the war. The
Bolivian looks upon the Chilean
as thief and a robber, while the
Chilean despises the Bolivian for
coward and ignoramus.
"Only in the remote interior of
the country, where news travels
slowly, and traditions of Washington
and Lafayette still exist, is there
found a feeling of love, gratitude or
respect for the United States.
THE United States flag is seldom
seen in South American waters. Near /
ly all information respecting the Uni |
ted States filters through English and |
German channels before reaching the |
people of these countries, and, as |
might be expected, our reputation suf |
lSlo SOIHGWudI Ut lLS udHuS Oh our
English and German cousins
Il took the stage for Ouro, 100 miles |
to the south, recently, and left in
snow storm Besides the driver and !
an Indian Tunner, whip in hand, there |
were on the stage man, his wife |
and IN Indian girl from the Argentine |
frontier; Bolivian Senator going
from horne, g. Bolivian mining en-
gineer on his way to Potosi; two |
Spaniards from Barcelona, who con-
tinuously bemoaned the lost greatness
at Spain; Turkish traveller from |
Beyrout, Syria; an American engineer
from New Jersey, and myself, repre-
sentatiyes of four continents.
When we passed out of the La Paz
valley, the air was a fog cloud, and
snow was several inches deep. In
dian burro drivers were padding
along, as usual, in bare feet. Only
their necks and ears were wrapped
more snugly than commonly For $50 I
miles. by stage and rail, we were
never lower than 1900 feet altitude.
Only the table land of Thibet rises
higher than this bleak, barren Boil
Wan mess.
The ground is titled by means of
two bulls yoked together by piece of
timber tied with rawhide to their
horns. To this is attached a long
pole and crooked stick called a pIow
that gouges up the soil. When Egypt
was young this system of agricultural
soil agitati.l was hodry with age
"At the tin mining town of Ouro
the smell of the coal smoke was, to the
like letter from home.
AS tin is worth about twice as much
rs copper, and as Bolivia is one of the
few tin-producfng countries of the
world. it was no surprise to learn that
several fortunes had been taken out
If the ground here. The owners of
many of the best mines here, and at
Corocoro as well, acquired them by
marriage with the Indian women who
owned the ground originally.
'In the nitrate district rain never
,alls, and water is brought in iron
pipes from a river $50 miles away
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