Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-09-03

the southeast corner of Union
Square. New York city. hit the home
of about every revolution soutl, of
the thrteth parallel.
For revolution making IS one of
the extensive yet little understood in.
dustries OF Manhattan II is. I'm IA
way, almost rs picturesque rs putting
on Casino musical comedy 1t Is
rs moving ms mounting Il Broadway
melodrama. i|it it remains. marx
you. very serious business. quite
us serious as making trousers and
shirts and tan boots in the rival fac
tories, one block below. For without
the, periodic revolt Of the patriot. e
south of the Guatemalan frontier.
there would be neither occupation
nor commerce nor charm in life a
Republic of the caloric zone. once
possessed of n stable Government aud
Il clearly defined boundary line. has
nothing left to live for; it stagnatcs.
II delnquesccs; ii pcrishcs OF mani
ton. 1t can't listen to the pradu
band ana play Billiards all day, and
1t soon gets tired Of bull fights and
cockpits. 1t has to fight with some
body. So when nothing else is left
1t goes for the Gringoes. Ii makes
AoNN7 anu i'iuSNS w pay INS lOItlBU
debts. 1t plays dog i'm the manger to
the capitalist from the north. The
only way I'm going to ret n mining
concession out of this government"
growled lean jowed Boston promo
ter TO me on tropical piazza. lis to
mosey up into those mountains and
make noise like n revolution"
They may be only opera bourfc rev.
M
To be prepared for. So one unprc-
ten,ious corner of New York city
serves us the busy dressing room for
these gay and dashing theatricnlitics
Yet their stage circles magniffccntly
out from the torpid Iaguna de Ia
Madre to the most southerly coral
reef and in rooted custom house OF
the turquoise Caribbean.
About as far as you could toss Il
ripe mango from the aforementioned
Union Square there stands one partic-
ular and special hotel. II Is n quite
modest looking hotel. and is Obvious
ly Spanish-American. Card games
are eternally going on ut little round
tables. placid tobacco smoke IS for
ever curling up to the ceiling, and
much sweet vino Is drunk from tall
shanked glasses. Yet IL is within the
four walls of this garlic haunted hos
telry that the highest grade of South
and Central American revolution Is
manufactured-no picayune forty
manned shooting up of n banana
farm, or the inconseQuental bombing
OF presidential barouche: but the
actual. all wool and a yard wide type
with so many thousand second hand
rifles, and such and such n predetcr-
mined army mobilization. and divers
and sundry duly prepared official pro
clamations-beantifn worded ora
tons that might stand rs models for
all soldiers and patriots of the fu-
ture.
The Initial Plunge.
The first step, tho initial plunge.
IL not impressive. is Mt least inter
esting; for, like all great move
ments. It must begin with money
Before and above all things there
must he funds of some sort some
thing to represent the shows of war
1t takes more than oratory to dress
stage four hundred miles from wing
to wing. SO the first move to be
made is to purchase. rent. borrow.
purloin, or patch up decrepid bank
note plate or two. and perhaps con
pie of coin dies.
The plates are essential; the dies
are matter OF taste and circum-
stance Then the new national cur.
reDcy is quietly struck off. IT is the
first efflorescence of the government
to lie. 1t amounts. let us say, TO one
hundred million. two hundred million
even three hundred million. dollars.
The figures are not important. so
long rs the plate. which has to he
paid for in real money. does not wear
out or The whole printing fall into tho
hands of the central offce-as han.
pened so recently with Captain Royn.
ton and his half million of counter.
felt hnndredpeso Colombian notes.
The paper itself Is cheap enough. and
few million extra can always be
run off and slowed away in some
14lh street cellar, pending events.
There Is Il method in the madness
OF this paper money making, for II
gives the humblest upholder of tile
cause something to work for i'm earn.
est He hasn't made good-and he
knows it--iintil he has made his new
money good. He is not fighting ia
put King on throne or new
President into the chair. He is fight
ing 10 nave his eighteen months OF
paper-paid back wages made into lie
gal tender. 1t leaves him rather in
terested rs to inst whose OK is gor
ed; for when the revoutionists have
won their first battle. and invaded
the capital, and captured the outlying
cares and surrounded the band stand
ana sent the President Chat was re
treating oratorlcally yet tactfully III
INTO the mountains this long fondlct
paner money may even be worth one
haif or one per cent. of its face value
when The custom house ana the car
tei and the city clnb have been storm
ed and taken. 1t may inmn to one o