The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-09-02


| wants to go down there and make a
fortune can do so If he will work as
hard as he would in his own country.
The native people are naturally lazy.
having no reason to work hard. since
the country supplies everything tina,
they need with little effort But the
American going there and working as
hard. as he would here gets rich
quickly.
Colombia comprises little less
than 100000 square miles, or about
twice the size of Texas, and is ire
mendously fertile. Take the Cauca
Valley for instance; everything will
grow there that one in temperate
climate, or sem-tropical climate,
could wish, and the temperature all
the year around averages 76. The av.
erage highest is "a, and the average
lowest is Ga. Our plantation is 300
feet above the sea. The principal pro.
ducts of the valley are sugar, coffee.
cattle and cocoa 1t would be good
thing for the country, and for Ameri.
cans, if the latter would go down
there and develop the land with
American capital.
The people do not like Americans
Every day they like them less. They
are frightened at them first on ac.
count of the Panama steal, and per.
haps on that account more than on
any other. Also the habits and Gus.
toms of the Americans are very diff.
ferent. The natives do not like to be
hustled. They like to go on peacefully,
making their living as they have al
ways done, and as their fathers have
done, and they are tremendously pa.
triotic and have the idea, rightly or
wrongly, that there is fixed inten
ton on the part of the United States
to sometime annex The country. Also
the majority of the Americans who go
there are of the rougher, adventurous
sort, and they know very little of our
better people here.
THE natives are pretty intelligent
and can see as far into mile post
as the Americans can. They are a
kindly, hospitable, honest people who
can be trusted. Since | have been
there, which is since was born
there have been three or four revolu
tons, but Americans and foreigners
in general are never molested in
these was. oreign property is sacred
"A great deal of the business of the
country is in the hands of the Ger
mans. but contrary to the belief OF
many people do not think that Ger.
many has any idea of colonizing
there. The United States, however,
has almost half of the business of the
country. In 1909 the United States
had over ten million dollars of the
twenty-six million total foreign trade
OF the coffee exports of the republic
about G7 per cent. went to the United
States. and nearly all the bananas,
hides, rubber and ivory nuts were di.
vided between the United States and
Europe Most Of the tobacco went to
Germany. The principal imports are
flour. lard, petroleum, cotton goods,
hardware from the United States
potatoes and sugar from Germany;
cotton textiles from Great Britain.
The country needs railroads more
than anything else just now, and
roads of any kind.
"The present government is all
right There are good, honest men at
the head of It, and there is always
money in the treasury. The outlook
for the future is good, and with the
building of the canal we shall know
the country better. One of the things
that keep the country peaceful is the
fear that if there was fighting there
would be a splitting mp of the coun.
try and the United States would in
tervene. New York World.
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