The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-22
rHE VENEZUELAN INYAsIoM.
objection Of q native VINO Sees His
Country MADE EidieuiOhs.


To THE EpiToR OF TRE Sun Str A. q
| Venezuelan. feel ashamed 70 zee my eoun-
! try become the Laughing stock OF the civil
| lEed world. we're II not for the opportunity
offered 10 explain the real reason Of our world
! wide ridioule would rather have the matter
I drop into tho bottomless depths OF oblivion.
A. a climax, We have now a Venezuelan,
the so-called Colonel. Juan Bautista Lamedo,
| q poor, honest artisan. who has become crazy
enough 70 menace the United States with
Venezuelan invasion Of $1,000 men. walking
all the way from Caracas 10 New orleansl
This poor man Lamedo IL only hopeless.
victim Of the lunacy propa gated In Venezuela
by the arch -madman Castro. could mention
numerous instances Of equal, or similar
cases Of mental arrangement. due In part 70
nervous super-tension, could / dispose OF un-
limited space In your columns.
Asa madman, Castro dehed the combined
heetA OF England, Germany and Italy. the
blookading Powers In 1908. He was saved by
the diplomatic Intervention Of the United
States from the merited punishment the for
eign countries should have administered TO
him Mad was Castro when he attacked the
foreign interests In Venezuela, becoming
bitter enemy OF Germany by boycotting the
German railway OF England. by his perseou-
ton Of the La Guayra and Caracas Railway,
the La 0uayra breakwater and the Mining
and Railway Company OF Tucacas: Of France,
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cause their wires keep the world Informed
Of his thousand and one follies and OF the
United States ARainst which he has turned.
forgetting that the United States was HE
only helping friend in past need.
This madness this olimaK-reaching Wild
cat policy has not been limited 20 foreign
interests but has worked desply into the in
ternsl affairs by creating numberiess and
ruinous monopolies by restricting TIE liberty
Of tho press and OF speech. b. keeping thou
sands OF important men 10 dirty impossible
dungeons, where they die or become crazy
from pain; by robbing planters Of their prop
erty. by imposing unbearable taxes on in
dustries and by trebling the customs duties.
running foreign and domestic commerce.
This permanent example OF lunacy, that
looks for and creates sympathetic atmos-
pierre has spread widely around him; thence
a Lamedo who. from the counter Of his eating
house invades the United states. thence an
other lamedo they become a olass) calls
Castro a NAPOLEON here In New YORK not
far from Blackwells Island: thence a Vene-
zuelan Consul afiicted with the nightmare
Of flibustering expeditions, his head full Of
Venezuelan men -of-war, bristlinR with power.
Of bls master; thence an oficiai ne9spaper
In Caracas assertin that Castro he's raised
Venezuela 70 the standard Of a Power OF the
hrst magnitude (Oh, immortal names OF Ger
Now for the friEhtful army Of Lamedo's
SO,VuO men. DuTlnk the last ItNOluLlOht tne
strongest ever seen in Vehezuela, Castro had
1000 men In Oriente routed in GuHnaguana.
5000 men in CoTo and BorQuisimeto, also
routed; and for the last conflict, when Castro
had lost eiRht-tenths Of the country, he con-
centrated 5000 men in La Victoria, from
where, after three days fighting the revolu-
tionists retired for lack OF ammunition and
competent leadership.
This Lamedo, who owns a restaurant.
called the Niagara. In Caraoas, must be treat
ing himself 20 his own cooking, and should
not wonder that the poor man suffers from
mortifynR, mdeous indigestons that make
him see so easily the conquest OF the United
States with an army Is swollen as his own
head.
You will notice that do not call the Vene-
Euelan army sons OF Bolivar. like Mr.. Lame
do, for the reason that our patriotic lberator
has been forgotten In Venezuela. outshone.
eclipsed by Castro's fame. or, what 10 more
probable, by the intentional policy Of the
dictator. When Mr. LQmedo, the .werlike
restauTateuT, mentions the name OF Bolivar,
he perhaps means that coin OF ours called
bolivar, worth about 10 cents, or one peseta,
and perhaps he has already fixed at 80. 900
the number Of them he expects to obtain
from Castro by his optimist views and his
confidence in the military genius OF the world
famed lunatic. VENEZUELAN EXILE.
NV XnuU March N