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Having Fun in Cutemala.
Ji Story of Central American Hatred? Against
the Americans. --
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Most of the stories of Guatemala •
that have got into print of late have
horrible cruelties within prison walls,
lor of the poisoning, hanging and shoot
I ing of political prisoners,
I These tales are generally told by
I'olitical exiles, the so-called emlgra
d ° S ot G " ntemala "' ho - fl, ' eing , fr ° m
,|the wrath ot President Estrada Ca
been tales of bloodshed, of torture and
brent, have forfeited ail their prop
I erty and rights of citizenship. Having
(lost their all, they have nothing more
lo lose by telling the truth about their
country.
But not all the truth is told in these
] tales. Guatemala has its moments of
igayety, and these moments are so far
'prolonged sometimes, that much of the ]
| public debt of the republic must be
credited to the score of holiday fiestas.
At a time when the public exchequer
is too poor to pay the interest on the
national debt, too poor to pay the sal
aries of the public school teachers
and other governmental oficials, too
poor to mend the dilapidated highways
'or broken-down bridges, there is al- |
j ways money to be found lor public
[fiestas and entertainments,
j Take last year's record alone. There i
opening of the Guatemala |
Railroad in January, establishing rail
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he
was
j connections between the Atlantic and
j Pacific coasts. For this purpose special I
were invited from the
] delegations
: United States and from other coun* |
tries, all of course, at the expense of I'
jin
followed fiesta, banquets, military re
! views, halls, fireworks, picnics and ex
•hich champagne i
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After their arrival fiesta
Guatemala.
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; l urslons. at all oi
red like water. Finally, after two j
weeks of such fiests, the foreign
! guests left the country so laden with |
expensive gifts that some of the
party
extra
hemselves with
had to provide
/boxes and trunks to carry their prea
j
After that came the prolonged fiesta |
lie Central American Medical Con
Igress. Nothing whatever was accom- I
pushed for medicine or science, not
i single original contribution was re-- 1 '
Iceived, but no end of money was spent |
and !
To enliven the|
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of
again for banquets, picnics, excursions,
military reviews, halls, concerts
gala i"' i rol ' mallces ' wlth 'he »« lla l tor
rents of champagne.
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• sessions of the medicos
opera company was persuaded to
to Guatemala to give a series of per
formances for which the
an Italian
come
government
paid a subsidy of $40,000 in gold.
The medical visitors had
left the country when the time
ed for the regular mid-summer fieat
of one
scarcely
arriv
week, with a public fair, horse
races each day and an elaborate flow
festival and banquet at the end of each
week.
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One month
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his, in the middle
of September, came the four fiesta
days in celebration
of Guatemala's
Declaration of Indenpendence,
the
when
■ hole country is given up to pub
concerts,
lie
banquets.
torchlight
genera)
processions,
drunkenness.
fireworks and
it Is during this fiesta, at night time,
that the
fireworks
of the public
squares are enlivened by the co-called
toros or bulls, i. e. men bearing rude
frame-works
resembling bulls with
firecrackers ami
rockets into the dense crowd of on
lookers. •
horn8 which soot
One month after these celebrations,
always cost the
which
hundreds of thousands
government
of dollars,
"Minerviales." They are
] Estrada Cabrera's pet fiesta in honor
jof Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom.
'Then thousands of children of the
'ehool age are brought lo the capital
at the public expense and there
made to march i
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are
parades and appear
jin flower drills while the proud fathers
8e * drunk ' and the government of
,iciaIs l ,ublic ba,1< l«ets pledge
i Prysi<1, "t Cabreia as the benefactor of
country in brimming
bampagne.
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Then about Christmas time
come
,be buI1 fights when audiences of eight
and ten 'Housaml attend, and so it
goes on, year in and year out in Guate
j inala, until the expense for fiestas
| a,om * n,ns ,mo n,an >' millions. Hence
government, to meet its running
I expenses, is driven to hypthecate
Guatemala s customs receipts, and to
1 ' 11 -' } por cent advance interest as well
| as ' l ,ei oent commission, order to
/obtain a loan of 80 per cent, the hulk
! of w hich is furnished in the deterior
ated paper currency of Guatemala. Ac
cordlns lo ,b I s 01111 Guatemalan dol
lar is worth not quite six cents in our
j money.
So much for the public aspect of
| these fiests, which under the dictator
] ship of Etrada Cabrera are made to
serve the same purpose as did the
[Roman gladiator shows under Tiberius
j and Caligula,
[ Now let us see what are some prlv
jate notions of having a good time in
' Guatemala as it is today.
I It has already been mentioned that
anniversary of Guatemala's Dec
J laration of independence is celehrat
jed with universal drunkenness
[throughout the land. So is tile day
[following it, which happens lo he the
| Independence day of Mexico. So is
ihe day after that, because it is the
! Independence day of Chile, and so
[on throughout the week.
The writer of this testifes to
he feature of drunkenness, since
[September 15 of this year it was his
i misfortune to find himself in the
! open country of Guatemala riding
1 horseback
|and the capital. During that long day's
ride every man he met, whether white,
I Indian or negro, whether command
ante or common bare-t'ooted soldier,
| was reeling drunk.
j Now this is the authentic story of
| how the eommandte of Zacapa, one
[General Enrique Aris, managed to
! have a good time in his town of the
| Independence Day of Mexico,
j All that day, September 16, General
I Aris, having duly celebrated his own
national fiesia the day before, spent
| at the house of one Senor Spinola, a
| Mexican, employed as the station
j agent of the American railroad run
I ning through Zacapa, The day was
! celebrated with a champagne "break
fast,' which lasted until 10 o'clock
at night. Then the whole party left
the holtse, mounted their horses and
escorted the general to his command
aneta.
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midway between Zacapa
As they rode over v" dark road be
tween the railroad station and the
town they passed a small American
hotel, the
bar-room of which still
stood open. Some of the party reined
up their horses and proposed to have
another drink. "No," said the com
mandante, "there is plenty of drink
at my house, but just the same let
us dismount and have some fun with
this Yankee pig." ;
What followed is best told in the
language of those who were on the
spot, whose reports formed the sub
ject of much diplomatic correspond
ence, all of which is to be found
the Guatemalan records of our state
department in Washington.
General Aris," so Senor Spinola
among
testified afterward, " had been s^nfl
in? the evening at my house together
with some of his officers and friends.
It was the national holiday of
country—Mexico. At 10 in the eve
| ning we all left my house to ride to
the commandancia. As we were pass
ing by Mr. Shine's hotel, the com
inandante stopped and said, 'let up
have some fun with this American
swine.' The commandante dismounted
and went into the bar. Mr. Shine wks
ihere with a friend and a Chinese serv
ant at the bar. General Aris asked how
his place came to be open so late. Mr.
Shine said he had a night license and
turned to take it from the wall whe/e
it hung in plain view. Thereupon Gen
eral Aris struck him in the face. The
commandante's nephew followed this
up with a blow in Shine's face from
the butt of his pistol. Then all the
officers set upon Shine and the other
Americans about the place and drag
ged them to jail. During the melee
one of the commandante's men stole
the American hotel heeper's gold
watch from his pocket."
Here is the testimony of another
eye witness of this affair.
George Milliken, an American,
ployed at the railway hospital in Za
capa:
"I was standing opposite Shine's
hotel, together with Monroe Williams,
about 10:30 o'clock on the night of
September 16, when a party of of
ficers rode up, pretty dunrk. Williams
said: 'Its the commandante. We had
better get out of this and with that
he moved off. The commandante
went iuto Shine's place and the next
minute there was an awful noise and
I could hear the sound of blows and
Shine crying 'Si Senor, Si Senor.' A
Chinaman came flying out through the
door with blood running down his
face. I started to run but a soldier
ran up and struck me in the small of
my back with his rifle. I fell flat on
my face. As I lay there the other
Guatemalan officers and soldiefs'set
upon me aiwl beat me about the head
and body with their guns ai^d pistols,
'til I lost my senses.
"When I woke up 1 was lying on the
cobble stones in the courtyard of the
jail with my hair wet with clotted
blood and feeling sore all over. No
body paid any attention to my calls
for a doctor, nor would they even give
me a drink of water. I was kept there
for two days. At last Mr. Spinola
came and I was let out, because Mr.
Shine, unbeknown to me, had paid $25
for me, which they claimed as a fine.
"Afterward I went to Pureot Bar
rios to be treated by Dr. Wailes, the
American marine surgeon there. I
wanted to go to Livingston across the
bay to see th«• American consul there,
Mr. Reed, but the Guatemalan com
mandante at Puerto Barrios would not
let me go."
Evidently Mr. Reed, at his vice con
cg'av* ^across the bay in Livings
ton, near Gritish Honduras, must have
heard of the trouble there Americans
were in, for la* appears to have chart
ered a small steamer and came
Barrios. There in
Marine Hospital he
found these victims of a Guatemalan
holiday laid up in bed from the brutal
treatment they had received.
Milliken was the worst hurt, suffer
ing from a scalp wound penetrating
to the skull, and fjom concussion of
the brain besides other hurts, while
Shine had bruises and contusions nil
over his body. Shine told the Ameri
can vice consul that he did not know
my
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He was
em
to
to
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of
straight t
Hie American
in
to
what had brought this brutal attack
upon him. He said he owned a small
hotel in Zacapa with a barber shop
and bar-room. For this last he paid
a license fee of $82.50 per month with
| '• n additional license fee of $10 for
the privelegc of keeping open from
o until 11 p. m. The commandante, he
said, on that evening entered his place
at 10:30 and savagely attacked him
without any provocation on hi3 part
before he even had time to show him
his license. After that he was dragged
to jail and spent thirty-six hours
there.
Here follows Vice Consul Reed's re
port, as transmitted to the American
state department.
"I have known Simon Shine for a
number of years and can attest to his
sobriety, integrity and industry. 1
feel he is an unusually good man, who
has, by his frugality, saved up consid
erable money from which he purchas
ed his property in Zacapa.
"For cruel and blood-thirsty meth
ods Governor Aris has a reputation
equalled by few, not only in Zacapa,
but in other places where he has gov
erned.
"This Aris has a habit of splashing
with his whip across the ices
passers-by in Zacapa, who don't raise
their hats to him when he goes riding
up the street. .
"This governor is known to be of
a very vindictive character. Once he
gets down upon a person, he will ruin
that person, of worse yet, have him
killed in some trumped up brawl. Once
a person has incurred his displeasure
there is nothing left for that
but to move out of the
Jurisdiction.
"Heretofore the governor has con
fined his cruelty to bis
ic
to
as
a
of
person
governor's
own unfor
•V
tunate countrymen, but now that he
has turned 6n our people, he ought
to be made to understand that he can
not pound, bruise and torture our peo
ple just for the fun of the thing."
. This sounds like pretty vigorous
language, but unfortunately it was not
followed up by correspondingly vig
orous action on the part of our Ameri
can legation at the capital. At all
events nothing was done about the
matter for a long time.
Meanwhile the consequences of hav
ing dared to make an official
plaint followed thick
com
and fast for
Shine.
from him to Vice Consul Reed, trans
mitted by the American consulate in
Guatemala to the state department in
Washington:
"I have closed my place of business
in Zapaca and have a watchman guard
ing the place,
profitable business in Zacapa, all of
which is ruined now. People are afraid
to enter my establishment lest they
displease the commandante and be lia
ble to illtreatment from him. As it is
a patrol of soldiers comes every
hour of the day and evening to in
spect my place. As I am at any mo
ment sybject to the governor's anger
and resentment I must close my busi
ness and abandon my home.
"In fact, I am afraid to live in Za
capa now, as I am sure General Aris
will make it his business to ruin
and to do personal violence, or he may
order some of his emissaries to mur
der me. When I went down to Puerto
Barrios to have my wounds dressed
and to see my consul, one of the gov
ernor's men followed me all the way
from Zacapa to Barrios."
Matters went from bad to worse
for Shine, and still nothing happened.
Finally he grew desperate and wrote
a personal letter to President Roose
velt. A copy of this letter was shown
to the writer sometime
when he was at Zacapa.
bulk of it:
Witnes the following 1 letter
I was doing a very
now
me
afterwards
Here Is the
"1 write this letter to let you know
that I have been all beat up by the
Governor of the Department of Za
capa, General Enriqtte Aris. He, him
self, struck me. At the same time two
other Americans were nearly clubbed
to death by pistols that were in the
hands of the friends of General Aris.
"On the night of September 16, Gen
eral Aris and his body guard rode up
to my place, got off their horses and
came in. There were some words and
I answered as best I could in Spanish.
All I said was 'Si Senor.' Whereupon
the governor hit me a hard blow
the face with his fist. His nephew,
who stood behind him, reached over
and hit me on the head with ills re
volver a heavy 44. Ai this a number
of them closed on me and
on
began
pounding me. Someone snatched my
gold watch from my pocket, it had
cost me $:
They carried me off to
jail, pounding me ail the way, and kept
me there all night. The next day 1
was let. out.
Another American, George Milliken,
was standing outside of my place, and
the governor's friend? beat him with
their revolvers until he
was nearly
Also they pounded
in the hospital,
to Jelly the race of Mum
another American
standee
e Williams,
who was a by
"Please, Mr. President, ean't
order our man-of-war now at Puerto
Cortez to come over here to investi
gate the beating up of American citi
zens. Then Guatemala will have to do
nte justice and I will be sure of get
ting the same good treatment that
you
Guutciimlteuaiifi get in our country.
This is my ri^hr. as a citizens and that
all I ask.
Mr. President please
protect us. We have no one to look to
but you."
When this letter reached Mr. Roose
velt something happened. Telegraph
ic inquiries and replies flashed back
and forth between the state depart
ment and the American legation at
Guatemala.
Sands, American
charge d'affairs at that time called
upon Mr. Kent, the American consul
general in Guatemala to probe thin
matter to the bottom. All Americans
involved were
Mr.
summoned to Guate
mala City and their depositions
taken.
were
The charge d'affairs went to
the minister of foreign affairs , Don
Juan Barrios, now in Washington, and
the consul general was summoned be
fore the Guatemalan president.
The upshot of it all was that Gen
eral Aris was deposed from his
ernorship and was recalled to Guate
mala City, where Be came to his death
soon afterward in a tavern brawl at
the hands of bravos believed to be in
the pay of Estrada Cabrera.
The Guatemalan government agreed
to pay $5,000 each to Messrs. Shine
and Milliken, the American citizens
who have been maltreated.
Thus ended Ihe characteristic little
piece of Guatemalan diversion. The
drollest thing about it is that all the
residents of Zaoapa, natives and for
eigners, are now mourning over the
loss of Governor Aris. He was a Jiound,
as they admit, but with ail his faults
he was a thousand time to be
ferred to the human blood hounds of
a governor who came, after him and is
there now.
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