The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-11-10
REVOLUTION.

ances. that Holland has not closed the
port OF Curacao e The export Of arms
III : manner that meets With his salts
faction. and be Winds up . long;
harang,ule with : demand for '.satisfac-
:tion"-which he Is about to obtain.
Down south revolution is a bust
ness, as much as the raising of sheep
h In Montana. OF course it is not .
legitimate commercial pursuit, this
matter Of breeding war, but nearly
everything in that section is tinctured
with brigandage. and loot runs riot in
the mind OF man.
Castro is the product Of rebellion,
for he organized an army and rode
into power on q wave Of blood. He
has since maintained his position by
force OF arms.
Revolutions have been organized
against him, but he has hunted down.
and put to death the men who seek
his presidential scalp.
The result is that rebelliously in
clined individuals md it more salu-
brious and less dangerous to take up
their abode on another shore, from
which they may organize q plot to
overthrow the republic which seems
to he suffering from combination Of
swelled headedness and advanced gas
tritis.
Quickly seizing on this point, the
Dutch have declared that in the future
there will be no han on the importa-
ton and expectation Of fire arms from
the port of Curacao. Literally inter
preted, this means that the revolu-
tionists may purchase arms in any
portion Of the world,and use the port
OF Curacao as a depot in which to
store them. There is no objection to
shipping them-hence they may take
them out when they please.
While there are three Dutch ships
Of war there, the officers in charge
will have glass eyes, for all they will
be able to see, regardless Of what they
might hear.
1t is all very nice, and a made-to-
order revolution may be incubated on
Dutch soil, and put to sea whenever
it pleases-and perhaps-purely a Co
incident, the Dutch feet might put
to sea at the same time, and what
business would it be of the officers, II
the revolutions should effect a land
Ing onHthes Venezuelan coast while the
ships Of the Netherlands make q DEM
onstration against the port Of La
Guayra;? . 5
Indeed, the door is wide open now.
All the freebooters and hlibusters,
the fevolutienists and men with ambt-
ticn to rule In the place where Castro
holds sway, may md q haven in Curar
Gao, under the protection Of the Dutch
! nag, free from molestation. Surely
this is an advantage never possessed
by any OF Castro'e enemies hereto
fore.
For. plainly. they viii have the
backing Of the Dutch government. and
IL they should happen to run short OF
ammunitioa. It is possible that the
Holland will leave some out over night,
and 1t will not be the fault Of a revo-
,mtionist. who is hard put, II he should
happen ,toSstunable. over a keg OF pow.
der and annex himself to It.
From this distance, It would seem
that the Dutch doctors are about 70
inoculate VeneEuela with the virus Of
discomfort, with the intention Of
throwing the country into a spasm Of
war. aud keep It in that condition
while the piratcal rule Of Caste CON
tinues. g
MUST KEEP OUT or SALOONS.
Out In Portland, an order has been
issued from the offices of the Harrt-
mar railroads that In the future men
who frequent saloons win not be EN-
ployed BY those lines.
No matter what the pretext II q man
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