The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-08
PAPER CAUSED
BIC SENSATION
CASTRo'S OFFICIAL ORGAN AT
CARAcAc PRINTED EDITORIAL
AGAINST ROOSEVELT.
PREMEDITATED PLANS
Made BY President to Create Conflict
With Notwithstanding For
Light Incidents. Says
Article.

I
1.-THE day following the publication ol
1.-The diplomatic correspondence regard
ling the violation of the mail pouches
iof the g. S. s. Tacoma, President
Castrc's official organ, III Constitu-
itional, published an editorial accusing
president Roosevelt of searching for
light incidents, out of which to create
IA conflict with Venezuela" and OF hav-
ing a "premeditated plan"
1t says 1T is possible that Min
lister Russell could have written his
note to our foreign Office without
having preconceived and premeditated
| intentions to attribute to the simple
act, without responsibility to the post
office in La Guaira, intentions which
do not exist and to prejudice the act
as serious for the government of the
| United States, is to have preme.
litated plan which ought not to orig
mate because it cannot, from the
actual American minister In Caracas
| w w Russell.
From where then can originate the
idea tf searching for slight incidents
to create conflict with Venezuela?
From the chief of this legation, who is
called the secretary of state In Wash
ington and who IN turn, cannot but
be under the direct influence OF Pres
ident Roosevelt
Saying that 1t is high time for Am
erican nations TO know Roosevelts
real ambition whether that of friend
or dictator, the editorial continues:
IF the inspiration of Roosevelt
president Of the United States, against
Ithe tradition which imposes the union
of the American people among them
selves, has as a basis the abdication
of the territorial sovereignty of these
people, or nullily their codes, just
because of the pretentions of few
citizens who did not, and cannot re.
Port the will of the American people
ii is then high time that this hor.
rible truth be known and the people
of the New World know whether in
the government of the United States
they have a friend or capricious die
tator
IF first, Venezuela Is the most re.
spectful of all to the dictates of honor
and friendship, If second it should he
known once for all that Venezuela as
sumed the paternity of It's sovereignty
and at this late day it has not con
ceved the crime of traitor to forego
it under any form or consideration"
A profound sensation was caused
In Caracas by this article for II Is
Castro who speaks. Between the lines
1t is easy to see that relations must
now be strained almost to the break.
iaG point
Saying it will be necessary to con.
|quer Venezuela If the decisions of the
arbitration court are not respected
the article closed as follows:
THE question thus being placed on
its true footing it is not warships or
cannon that can bring an honorable
solution before the eyes of the civil
lied world, before the American tradi
tions or even before that code So
many times misinterpreted which Is
called the Monroe doctrine. The dilem
ma resolves itself thus: Either the
United States will respect and sup.
port the decision of mixed information.
al tribunals and those of the tribun
ais 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 they will
have to occupy in the present and in
the future"