The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1911-02-10
Uncle Sans Troubles

ot Ecuador, at their capi'a' city
have lust rose in indignation againt
their own president because he was
considering proposition to lease
10 the United States the Galapagos
Islands, several hundred miles west
Of Ecuador, far out in the Pac'nc'
which the authorities at Washing'o"
wanted to lease as naval stat'oh'
as one of the outlying defehses OF
ot,he Panama Canal. Our govern
ment was standing sponsor tor a
loau by J. P. Morgan and o'ne'
American financiers to enable Hon
du,as to treat with some OF he'
creditors and the Honduran Con-
orsss refused to ratify the agree
msnt And now comes new ana
,nt appeals to us from President
= ma, to guard our frontier more
o.rsfn,,v with the hope of prevent
ina insurrectos from getting muni-
tions Of war from our side OF the
line and also to head off Americans
who want to join the rebels.
Here are some issues which are
giving a little concernto the govern
.ment at,wasnington. Also Washing
ton is annoyed by the etreatment eR'en
ded by the government of Colombia
,o pr Mendoza, the former pfeSf-
den, of our protege, the Republic OF
Panama. The people of Bosota'
,colomb,a,s capital, made a hostile
osmonstrat,on when Mendoza ar
rived there to endeavor to negotiate
a bour Diary treaty. Recalling the
tho secession of Panama from Co.
,lombia in 1903, they denounced
Mendoza and mis- countrymen as
traitors, and called some nA''
names 10 United for recogning Pan
anna as an independent nation anu
for guaranteeing its independence
He was boycotted by hotels anu
hack drivers. and the women OF the
city drew their skirts aside "heH
they met him on the street Anu
American residents aud visitors In
.RoSgota were m ade to feel the effects
of tColombia's resentment me
boundary treaty, meanwhile, re-
,msins "in the air." but the toy
government at Panama still lives.
.Manifestly, however, the Mexican
,episode is that which is receiving
most attention at Washington. Our
Government has been accused by the
leaders of the insurrectos III undue
favor for the Mexican authorizes
They declare that we are going far'
ther than our obligations as neu
trail demand. From many points
in the West troops are being rushed
NV ms toward the Rio GSande, to1
prevent the insurgents from getting
o;d in men or munitions of war,
from our side. In this exlgcncy the
people or the United States can moi
help feeling surprise at the feeble
ness of the DIaz government "A
few hundred poorly armed and
badly organized insurgents navel
maintained themselves for Se%eIal
months in the State of Chihuahua,
and have beaten all the troops "hlchil
have been sent.againt them. IheieiI
us a real rebellion in that LOCALITY.
The success of the insurrectos is not
due so much 10 their numbers as Il
ds to the app&Gent weakness OF the
Mexican authorities. Although, on
paper, having an army OF 10000
men. the goverum mt has found IL
self, in an important part OF the re-
public, defied and be2Aen'by a hano-
ful of gnerrillas. The success win
which the corporal's guard of insur-
rectos have roamed the country ana
have bsffl I'd or beaten the Aex'can
troops indicates that Gen. Disz has
lost the vigor of his earlier days.
and also shows that the feeling
against him among his people Is
more widespread ano intense ihan
the world had imagined. Has the
man of blood and iron abdicateof-
Globe Democrat.