The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-08
LITTLE REPUBLIC
 GETS ITS BACK UP
Indignation Expressed By Newspapers In Venezuela Over the Incident of Breaking Open United States Mails and the Demand for Preparation By Uncle sam-Castros
 Personal Organ Makes Bitter Attack on Roosevelt.

When she returned a few days later all of Caracas jumped to the conclusion that al least the American question had come to a crisis, but it was d false alarm. as the Tacoma sailed away after it was ascertained that the plague was not bu- bonic.
 castros Illumination.
 On the day following the publication of the diplomatic correspondence regard ing the violation of the mail pouches of the United States steamship Tacoma, President Castros official organ, Fl Con- stitucional published an editorial accus- ing President Roosevelt of searching for light incidents out of which to creat a conflict with Venezuela" and of having premeditated plan"
 It says:
 'Is it possible that Minister Russell could have written his note to our foreign office without having a preconeeived and premeditated intention? To attribute Q simple act, without responsibility by the postoffice in LaGuaira, intentions which do not exist. and to prejudice the act as serious for the government of the United States is to have a premeditated plan which ought not to originate. be- cause 1t cannot, from the actual Ameri- can minister in Caracas, ". w. Russell.
 From where then can originate the idea of searching for slight incidents to create g conflict with Venezuela from the chief of this legation, who Is called the Secretary of State in Washington, and who in turn, cannot but be under the direct influence of President Roosevet?"
 Saying that 1t is high time for the American nations to know President Roosevelts real ambition, whether that Of friend or dictator, the editorial con- tinues:
 
 Roosevelt's Inspiration.
 'If the inspiration of Roosevelt Presi- dent of the United States, against the traditions which impose the union of the American people among themselves. has as a baseis the abdication of territorial sovereignty of these people or the nullity of their codes, just because of the preten sions of few cities. who don't and can not represent the will of the American people, it is then high time that this hor- rible truth be known. and that the people of the new world know whether in the government of the United States they have a friend or caprlcious dictator. If the first, Venezuela Is the most respect full of all to the dictates of honor and friendship; if the second, it should be known once for all that Venezuela as- stunned the paternity of it's sovereignty. and at this late day it has not conceived
  any form or consideration"
 profound sensation has been caused in Caracas by this article, for it is Presi- dent Castro who speaks. Between the lines it is easy to see that the relations mast ..s9w he strained alp,ost to she break ing point.
 Saying that it will be necessary to con quer Venezuela if the decisions of it's courts are not respected, the article closed as follows:
 "The question thus being placed on it's true footing 1t is not warships or can non that can bring an honorable solution before the eyes of the civilized world, before American traditions or even before the code so many times misnterpreted, which is called the Monroe doctrine The dilemma resolved itself thus:
 Either the United States will respect or support the decision of the interna- tional tribunals and those of the tribunals of Venezuela, or it will raise up once for all the flag of conquest in America Then it will be that the people of the new world will know what the position is that that they will have to occupy in the pres ent and in the future."