i .i'V y 'ill.. X'" St' V, ,S , ,i 'f Cjpnono - , , 1 . ' ' ' (5 ' 5 , ii modern dayst-ghen.. place to;tcapitalutst that endeav runners supporting of arms . r. . fr "i i f-it X r"V'$ 1 y-ys. iV ' I L' . ' . S f I IvT lV ' ' ( ' A t" " l" ill. W f' r -v "O - vr . ': - r-) : : -VI iri'AA pHZ boundless lflrf?:? its untutored people have .tlndging. the. work of Castro it must 1 7 -- H ' .ited that financiers might enhance -hforoien that when Bolivar wrested T v ," " 7"-', ' ,v v;,"rr ..--'" w, , --7; yenezueta from, the aommton or opatn, ; the cuptdtty of foreign adventurers. ; . pltance with atcepted contracts. ninety-nine per cent, of its inhabitants were ' . The Jwaggertng buccaneers of old have, , . ,Jor .M."" ."o his t predecessors, the tlunredin the din-kesi detths' of slaver and or, as ata their ,more heroic tore .dentally quite a-number of corporations, bs with which he endowe , to f inveigle: alien 'governments- into - the- throat and is choking .it, arid them into -' bulk of their descendants have their depredatory schemes by force something approaching order land decency; efort to fit themselves for self n , , . , Meanwhile he has restored internal I, despotism is the only alternative to ;, - DxV:- ' " ' V ' "N'S . ' than mtter-oMact episode in, con ..'Folly Kt to . the influence that the daily pa- x f - 4 V- r v A .temp6raneoiistory:..-vv-,....A'-.; pert exercise orer thepoblie,'he it liberal to. de I Xk Ii ' i He is today the riddle of American , gree with those that support his cause; but should 1 . l I'V f ' vX)) II ' ' Vl r reOUblicS.'- and 'the C0mDlexit40f kil thev for l mnmnnt m n iinklA th mrmluli nf V' 'i.!' X IV.,.'',, l I ! :...- , ' ' t PORTLAND, t. ' v vs..,,., - -""N. . - W x7 , 'j i X ' ' l "' ; . y?4'. , A j: . i i i A ; 1 IT: . ; " J. V Casfro This greed for ol J has been the most - potent factor'in maintaining the' i 5oib Jmerica 'in lati -almost' uninter - rw ctfrwwj; o conspiracy; revolution and ;fivi7 w. hThe bravery and political ignor - 'present - President ofVeneuelAyCipriano CaS- a peace,f thrown r the -mantle- of- ob - livion as well as may be over a fro- tricidalc.past, and upheld, -single r. . handed against the great Powers of patriotic despot, who can maintain the peace . the world, a flag that at one time ' so essential Jojhwelj 'art tof their country - . . ' floated' over the greater :pdrtion of "is preferable -to government by a horde of - 7 American continent. ' I corrupt and greedy , officials. .The' following Indeed,rCastr6isoneoftheisa;sketch of the life, aims and idiosyncrasies-- ' r 'rf'ewl finally remarkable: men 4hat' of thepresent chief who has forced himself the tropical regions of 7 the new upon their choice 'iLyli'-'i By Henry N. Hall 3 J ' VTTl IPKIANO CASTRO w ft little ' ' i i mln iittm fltfA TAd Tnlll" " . i.. , ,Vt hose power is not to be meas- . i uibu uj iiki.' u mwij v how he fought his way up from a lone " , . pulperia on the slopes of the Andes to-. .. the Presidenoy of Veneeuela reads more . line a irgena on nge oi' cuitbuj character is tucn tnat.oniy by a close- range study of hfil acts, and ambitionk can his curiously warped mentality-be properly understood. V i ' .i V - '. z"3, ' ' It would not be difficult to draw a "SV :lX ORJiGON, ' SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST w"lsV-V,-k -:tU... ;W 4 U low.- , ii to 4' V' ' .W -.ii x , x i r f r r fb .pT'f -Ai - world have produced) and though political s of: administration; statemen -acknowledge his diplomatic skill, and even hlf bitterest ene- . . - w" trw". ignorance,- They neither, understood nor d them. And as the made little government, political anarchy. w, . -v The best class of Venezuelans recognize, therefore, that the iron hand of a sincere and ; pafallel between Castro and Napoleon. v.Tbe Ven- A iowly He ia alike ignorant o fear and) -.A t I 1 J . (PI U restraint,' equally Biuooorn ana inrewa. ''inrougo' out hie career he haa been Berrod by fate to an ; exient mat aunosc warrants nis oit-repeaiea aaser- - tion that; he is a man of Destiny. Ilia attitude to- wtrd the press and toward the fair sex are exactly those of the Oorsican adTenturer, whom, curiously. , enoufrn, ne . resembles, even in sise. . ..laudation, he unrelentingly suppresses them. " 1 ; In his' retreats at Los Teques and JIaracay. the diversions of , Castro from the caret of state are .nt "och as would appeal . to Mrs. Grundy; , and 'though he never abuses the gifts of Bacchus, he is " aroent devotee of lerpsichore, and worships at ! . the. shrine of Venus with untiring fervor. Castro combines the cunning of a savage with the. sjrorlici ty ofachi Id . t.he.dli:on: c,, . quering enthusiasm- of a Christian martyr , , with the sensuality of a Roman Emperor; the ; ' Unspeakable bravery of a Samurai with . , ; . (CONTINUED ON INSIDE PAOE) 'ifn$Qi ' TT, il .a- ,AXtr! I I '. 26, 1906 '9 , " . - -1 - I s A 11 1 ; - . . , :jHa '4 -A 7 A f -V- V: :: - 6 T 1 "T J: I I." 1 '. - '..'.- -i...:..-!.Jt: . . . . ...... i f . - - W ,...... , . ... ; - v... ' , , . 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