The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-29


And finally the foolish Dutch made {
trade with the English for little ole
Manhattan Island, and got thu
Colony of SURNAME IN exchange
The English thought they had made
o. fine bargain-but that Boston Tes
Party started some other row and
then the English lost tho little old
| Manhattan Island-but tue Dutct
still have the Colony OF Surname
and wished they could let go of !
and they have dar0ned and cussei
the doctrine Of Mr.. Monroe to a
| fare-ye well many time, for but
| for that obstacle rley would have
! sold out lock. stock and barrel. ths
whole damned colony, with it's
niggers, Carib Indians, fever swanps
snakes and bowling balloons to the
Arst conner for cash.
Loves The Fever s,~amps.
please don't take my cussing of
the colony literally. l 1--we the old
fever swamp, niggers, snakes,
bowling balloons and a few hundred
more interesting accessories all In
cluded. And mean it. Paramaribo
is trying to be civilized. It looks
almost human. It has a gas works
and cathedral and an office Of the
French (dayti- Martinique) Gable
company. 1t has a governors white
house and q fort-dating back to the
days Of the Big Wind or the Buc-
cancers. It has a market and it has
bank. It is populated by 10000
niggers, running from SCOT to sepia
in the shades, about 1910 Chinese
who run all the sC-called grocery
stores, about as many Javanese, a
lot Of Portuguese, some French, some
Spaniards, about 1000 Hindoos, 300
Germans (of the Moravian brother
hood, who, while converting the
heather, did not fail to got a double
lead pipe cinch on all the real bust
ness that can be done in the town
and colony) a few b!arsted English
men, by Jove, old top. a handful Of
Americans-if you can call Jew
from Chicago, born in Kiev or Irku-
tsk, and an Irishman from Denver,
born in Tralee, together with a
Saxon-born American like myself
Americans, and it las a couple Of
hundred Dutchmen, of course. We
say this "of course" with a sigh Of
resignation-it's a Dutch colony and
we suppose the Dutch must have
some place in the general order Of
things-it can't be nelped~-we make
excuses for the colony as hest as we
can-but there arc the Dutch-it
can't be helped. They are some Of
the accessories" aoUve limited at
Some Of them-for there are 9TH
ers. Don't fear-there is a lot more
to that junk OF tropics than you ever
dreamed of.
The Javanese and the coolies are
contract laborers. Loaned by the
Dutch and English governments to
the planters of this colony-inden-
tured out. They are picturesque and
course-yet they battle ev-
cry day-as every one must do in |
the tropics-and Trey bathe-men
and women alike-without much |
regard for privacy-did say with
out much? Let me change that to |
1eportees from French Guiana |
scum of all France. Until France got |
economical they used to ray to the
Dutch police so gui ders for every
convict-and the policce got
rich for a while-but now, since |
some deputy in Paris cut the ap-
out Of the pork barrel |
whatever it's French equivalI- |
ent may be-we have the uIurderers |
oaohes, cut-throats and the French |
scum generally. in our nldst-that |
Is to say: if we see him first, in |
The bush we kill him on sight, for
Il we do not he will kill US, to get |
1ur clothes--to change for his con-
yict clothes-for after all the fugi- |
i've doesn't know that the Dutch |
policeman has lost all interest in |
him, since he ceased to have q mon |
sy-value to the sal Dutch (invari- |
ably black3 policeman.
/ said to a very fine Dutch gentle |
nan-who was fine and a gentle /
nan, because his mother had been a |
Tavanese woman of Surabaya where |
lis father was a tradHr-one glorious
moonlight night-southerr cross in
he heavens-broad CLASSY river be-
ow our veranda, a delicious ocean
1reeze blowing in from the Atlantic !
good, real Egyptian cigarets send
ng up oriental incense, ice clinking /
n tall glasses Of lime squash at our
the strains OF wonderful !
1iolin music came our way from
he nearby "Kino" (Cin arhatograph
1.-THE fellow who plays
hat violin must BIZ q great artist
% which my friend answered per
maps, but what I do know is that he
8 an escaped convict from Cayenne
who had killed his mother with ar
axe"
"And we have tie bush Niger
he real Congo niger pure I'M
sdulterated descendant OF the run
away slave, who escaped from his
Dutch masters into the 'mpenetrable
push and there liver his African life
and lives it tod&y-Voodoo-h
JAILED ObeahCongo- lingo, Congo
dances and customs and all.
"TaIkee- TaIkee" Language.
sand we have 'Taikee-T alkee'. It