The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27
Swettenham Is the Joseph Porter
 ofsKng Edwards Civil Service : nAeeAnp ueeAnr
Used To Like Americans.

dollars a head be made for a Jamaican's going to work upon the Panama Ca l nal.
 Used To Like Americans, Ihere was a time when Swettenham was not sd prejudiced against Ameri- l cans-especially American capital Ihat was when he was in British Guiana Here is what friendly Eng fish writer said of him:
 There were rich gold fields there. put they were almost inaccessible. He LOOK all possible steps to improve means of communication with the in- terior and laughed at the foolish pre- 1udiee which had kept American capi- taI from coming in, while British capi- | tal held off, afraid to venture in. He encouraged American capitalists to in- vest their money in the colony. He blew up huge rocks in the falls and the rapids which rendered safe the pass age up the great rivers which had been Iraught with imminent danger to life, restored many of the old roads which mad Tailed into desuetude and stirred up public opinion into firm belief in the colony's future. It was solely due to his energy, his initiative, and his broad and liberal policy, towards Amer tcan investors. that large company of New York capitalists was formed and IS now operating the largest and finest equipped gold mine in the three GuIa- naS''
 There was also time when Swet- tenham was not so insistent upon pre- serving red tapein connection with re- iiei "ork' says the same English writ CT:
 When the news of the Martinique cataclysm reached British Guiana the Legislature was not sitting and its members were scattered all over the hundred thousand square miles of the colony. SWettenham did not hesitate an instant. He chartered a steamer lying in port. bought the entire cargo or an American flour boat. dispatched It with letter of credit on the col ony Tor $1o,000 to the suffering people VI rort de France-and then summon gu the LSs slsIature. The native element M the legislature, ever sticklers for procedure, condemned his action as il- legal without their previous consent. and threatened to refuse to ratify it or 10 authorize payment Very, well. gentlemen. as you will. But I will not break faith with these poor sufferers 'n Martinique and St. Vincent. I will pay 1t myself. and I am confident that II will be placed to my credit in ther gratitude. And, Gentlemen, I have no intention of altering my decision. It Will be from the people of British Guiana all the same The native ele- nent abandoned its opposition, and the bill was paid"
 Diplomacy of the BIudgeOn. isles Swettenham has accomplished
 With all his disagreeable character- something. His work among the Ma lays in the Straits Settlements has been commended by his government and he was successful in British Guiana. the population of which is mostly black But these facts need not be related to snow that the governor of Jamaica has not been accustomed to deal with en- frightened peoples. His conduct fol- lowing the earthquake disaster at Kingston proved that. Perhaps the English government knows its man and on account of this knowledge has nm to posts where sociability and df- plomacy were demanded. The gover- noT's diplomacy is not even on the plane of the diplomacy of the "big sticky It is the diplomacy of the bludgeon
 It wouldn't be fair to conclude A sketch of Swettenham without giving his record from the British point of View tthat 1t, before the Kingston in- cidenD. A writer who prepared sketch of the Governor week before his snub to Admiral Davis says that the crucial test in Swettenham's career came some fourteen years ago when, with his brother, Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham, as Governor in Chief, he went to the Straits Settlements as Co., lonial Secretary. It was well known that he had been assigned to tough job, and the English ciYfl service world predicted that he would fail and drop into significance. But with the aid of his brother, he fooled them. At that time the Straits Settlements were a burden financially, and in ever other sense, but the Swettenhams changed all that.
 "Master of Warriors"
 Ii was a hard task to persuade the natives to work but bludgeon diplom- acy accomplished what nothing else world To set the example they inn ported labor from the neighboring British states, set about road making,