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(Copyright. 1912, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
A.NAMA CITY. Panama. I have
Just had an Interview with the
president of the republic of
Panama. His name is Pablo
Arosemena, and he baa now
been in office almost four
years. According to the Panama con
stitution the president serves for only
four years, and he is not eligible to suc
ceed himself, the .constitution providing
that no man can be a candidate for the
presidency who has been president within
six months of the presidential election.
Br. Arosemena tried to. avoid this provi
sion by taking a six months' leave of
absence last spring and allowing his
henchmen to run' tho administration in
his stead. However, after Secretary
Knox's visit this was found not popular
with the United States, and the president
gave up the hope of a second term and
came back into office. The country is
now in the throes of a presidential cam
paign, although the new president will
not be elected or Inaugurated for some
time to come.
.A Talk with Arosemena.
I met President Arosemena in the Isth
mian White House, or, as It is known
here, the Government Palace. This is a
big, white, two-story building of .Spanish
architecture, j It surrounds a .patio'- filled
with palm trees, in the center of which
is a pond where huge -turtles roll over
and over and splash about in 'the water.
I found soldiers on "guard as I entered ,
h nnlara with the American minister.
Mr. H. Percival Dodge, and we saw nWe
soldiers at the wide stone stairway to
tha second floor . " At the top of the'stalr
way we waited until our cards were sent
in, and a moment later were; ushered into
the long narrow parlor which forms the
audience room of the mansion. This par
lor is furnished strangely for this land
of the tropics. The floor is covered with
a warm velvet carpet, the windows are
veiled in hot-looking curtains, and the
gold plated furniture is upholstered and
mirror in a frame, of gold and over, the
windows hang lambrequins from gold
frames.
We. waited but a few minutes, when the
president entered. He is a lean, dark
faced, black-eyed man of medium height,
and he weighs, I should; judge, about 150
pounds, light He is seventy-four years
old, but is still m his prime. When" the
minister introduced me' I was surprised
to hear the president address me in
English. He Fpeaks that tongue lluentiy
and it was tot English that our conver
satibn was held. The 'first part of it
related to the political situation, and I
asked as to whether there was any. dan
ger of a revolution. In case .the admin
istration candidate should be defeated.
Ko Revolutions for ' Latin America.
"There will be no revolution here,'r said
President Arosemena. ; ''and ' the day .'of
revolution is fast passing away as far
as the whole of Latin America is con
cerned. As for . we , Panahaniaris, we
have given up such-foolishness, and we
expect to have no revolutions for all time
to come. I think the same will be- the
case at no distant Hate throughout South
America. It is already so with Peru and
Chile. We have now; no revolutions in
Argentina and Brazil, and It will soon
be so in Colombia and. Venezuela." . ' .
"How about Central America?"-1 asked.
"That eventually will be. the case with
Central America, although I cannot1 say
when. The people of some of those
countries have had so many revolutions
the revolution habit, and it win oe some
me before a condition of permanent
theless. Central America is improving, al
though the . several republics composing
it are not so free as ours. We Panaman
ians have more liberty of speech. For
Instance, my enemies call me a tyrant
and I make no reply. If one should de
nounce certain of the presidents of the
republic north of us, he might hear from
bis denunciation in no favorable way."
The Panama of the Fatare.
The conversation her turned to the
Panama republic and its prospects, and
President Arosemena said:
"I am enthusiastic over the future of
Panama. It Is the baby of the nations,
the youngest of all of the republics. It,
is still In its swaddling clothes, and is
Just beginning to, grow. Look at what
we are doing! Take the city of Panama.
It had only 12,000 people nine years ago,
and it has now 35,000. It will have 50,000
as soon as the canal is completed. Colon,
at the other side of the isthmus, had
5.000 population when you make your
eal with the French. It has 17,000 now.
and we have other towns which have
greatly increased."
"But will not this population drop when
we stop our work On the canal?" I asked
"I think not," replied the president.
! "Colonel Goethals says the United States
may have to keep soldiers here to the
number of 10,000, and also that It will
take 2,500 additional employes to run the
canal.' These people will spend a great
deal. Then we shall have the tourist
travel, which is already coming by thou
sands. That will steadily increase. It will
give us a stream of travelers passing
through and dropping dollars into
Panama and Colon. Why, take your
own people! All of you Americans will
certainly want to come to see the canal.
There are ninety millions Of you, and
even at as low as a dollar Apiece, that
would give us $90,000,000 to start with. If
you should spend $10 apiece the amount
would soon reach a billion."
Big; HoteU to Be Bnilt.
"But can you accommodate the crowd?"
"Yes. ' We shall have big hotels for the
tourists," said Dr. ArOsemena, "and the
tourist travel will bring in a great deal.
Paris gets a thousand million francs
every year out of tourists, and Switzer
land feeds fat noon them. There Is no
reason why we should not do likewise."
"Do yon not think that the Americans
will have cities of their own here?"
Very, likely so.' There will probably be
a great business city at Balboa, but that
will be In the swamps, and while it will
contain" the warehouses and great stores,
it will, hardly be fit for the hotels and
the ""; residences. Panama will be the
Brooklyn, the residence quarter, and we
shall have street cars which will go back
and forth in five minutes. The people
of. Balboa will do their business there and
come to Panama for the night"
Chances for Money Making.
"But has Panama nothing elsa but ho
tels to offer to the world?"
"It has a great deal more," said the
president "The Panama republic is one
of the ; richest countries In the tropics.
and by modern sanitation the most of It
can be made one of the most healthy.
It Is now open to settlement and we will
do what we can to encourage the estab
lishment of small farms and farmers. We
are offering land In tracts of fifty hec
tares, "or about 217 acres, at a little over
20 cents an acre, and 200 . hectares at a
still less price per acre. AS the amount
of land goes up, the price goes down, and
we ara' doing everything we can to en
courage development We have been
building roads hi many of the provinces,
and we now have in the neighborhood of
600 miles of roads and over sixty-one new
bridges." ;
"But . tell me something about your
lands,. Mr. President," said. L "What can
you raise on them?" ,
1 "We can raise all sorts of tropical
fruits. ; We have good lands for coffee
and -cacao. Coffee plantations are being
set .out in some places, and cacao land
is in demand in the country about Bocas
del Toro. .. There are Immense banan.
estates there. The United Fruit company
owns thousands of acres, and it ships
millions of bunches of bananas a year.
The most of that fruit goes to the United
States. We have also good soil for rub
ber, and rubber plantations are being set
out by Americans and others. Some' of
the ex-employes of the canal have rubber
estates which are already in bearing.
- A Stock Country. .
"We have also large areas of fine graz
ing land," continued President Arose
mena. "The climate ia such that the cat
tle can feed out-of-doors all the year
round, ; and we have three varieties of
rich grass's to. fatten them.- Take the
province of Chlriqui in. the northern part
of the republic. There is a region there
known as the Divila country, which has
many square miles of plains covered with
grass which is dotted here and there
with groves..
"The country is well watered, but there
are no swamps, although It rains almost
daily for about eight months of the year.
Still the rains are short and for the most
of tho time the weather is clear. That
land is splendid for cattle and It has
more stock than all the rest of the republic-.
It has already a number of large
ranches and there is room for many
more. I doubt whether we have more
than 50,000 or 100,000 bead of stock in
Panama now, whereas I have teen it
estimated that our lands would sustain
8,000,000 head. When the canal is com
pleted there will be a great demand for
meat from the ships passing through, and
it ought to be supplied by the Isthmus.
It seems to me there should be a great
deal of money In cattle raising. As It is
now lean cattle may be purchased at from
$15 to 120 a head. After they have been
grazed for six months they will bring $30
and upward."
Ral Estate at Panama.
"What opportunities have you outside
of farming?"
"There is a great deal of money to be
made in real estate." said the oresldent.
With the completion of the canal there
is cure to be a demand for farm lands
and plantations of various kinds. There
. Is a steady rise of real estate values also
both at Panama and Colon. I have prop
erty here which is worth ten times what
I paid for it a few years ago, and I have
put up a building at Colon which cost me
only $7,000 a,id which has been netting
me $700 per month in rents. : That prop
erty is now paying for the building every
year. I know of buildings here in Pan
ama which are doing as well. Rents are
exceedingly high and we have a number
of men who have grown rich out of their
real estate deals. We have several mil
lionaires and some 'of them have incomes
of over $50,000 a year. The Panamanian
mlntster at Washington receives some
thing like $3,000 per month from his reai
estate investments, and I venture that
M. Espinoza of this city does equally
well." ;
Banks Which Pay Dividends.
"And then there is a great deal of
money in banking," continued the presi
dent. "You can loan here all the money
you have on good security, at 8 or 9
per cent. The old rate of interest used
to be 24 per cent, but we have cut that
down by establishing our national bank.
wnicn makes loans on real estate at 7
per cent, and on Jewelry and other col
lateral at per cent That bank has a
million and a half capital, and its net
profits last year were $90,000. The other
banks make more."
"What is Panama doing to open up
the interior of the country?"
'Not as much as we could wish," re
plied the president. "We have some
roads and we expect to build more. We
have had plans for railroads, but the
time is not yet ripe to build them. All
that will come, and in the end we shall
be a thickly populated land."
Gold and Pearls.
"How about your mines?"
"We have some gold mines working
right here in the central part of the
Isthmus, and there are others at Darien.
We know that we have copper and other
minerals, but the country has not been
thoroughly prospected."
"How about your pearl fisheries?"
They have produced a great deal in
the past, but we have not been taking
care of them and they do not yield
what they did I have been Interested
in pearls myself, : and my father sold
one pearl for $4,500. It weighed twenty
three carats, and was of a beautiful
shape and fine color. That pearl would
bring $10,006 today, I think if we should
let the pearl fisheries lie still for a while
and keep a closed season for fishing that
we might make that a profitable in
dustry." i"How about the hidden gold of Pan
ama? It to said that you have islands
near your coasts where the treasures
of the Incas . are buried and also that
there is gold under Old Panama?"
"That is the stuff that dreams are
made of," replied the president. "Many
have hunted for those treasures, and
have never found them. We have now
made a road to Old Panama, and it Is
probable that something may be dis
covered there."
Panama and American Trade.
"Tell me something about your trade
with the United States."
"We are buying more of you than of
any other nation, and the trade steadily
increases. It might pay your merchants
to establish a great warehouse here tor
the display of American goods. There
will be a continuous stream of merchants
passing through ; the canal, - and that
house could take orders for both North
and South America. As It Is now, our
foreign commerce amounts to $11,000,000,
per year, and of that about $5,750,000
goes to the United States. Next to you,
our chief consumer is Great Britian, and
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Education and Sanitation.
"Are you doing much In education?"
"We are preparing the way. We have
established some schools, and have a
large number o students abroad to be
prepared for teachers. We have some
girls studying for that purpose in Bel
gium, and we have also scholarships in
Chile, which I arranged for during my
trip there last year. We have also built
a national educational institute here at
a cost of about $800,000."
"How about the health of the Isthmus?"
Do you think that the sanitation meth
ods which we are using here at 'Panama
could be extended to the whole coun
try' "Not as an entirety." said the presi
dent. "It would be too expensive. Never
theless, you have done a great deal tor
the cities of Panama and Colon. In
deed the sanitary commission Is the most
absolute ruler we have. Every one has
to obey it and the men who come In on
the 6hlps, no matter whether they be
presidents of other countries, American
ministers or our own officials, are kept
in quarantine for three days if they come
from any port that Is even suspected of
fever or contagious disease. We did not
like the sanitation methods at first, and
many of the people objected to having
their houses inspected. That has all
passed away now and we are congratu
latlng ourselves on our new streets with
good water and freedom from disease.'
Panama Will Stay Independent.
"What are to be the future relation
of Panama and the United States ?"
"I hope they will, always remain two
sister republics." .
"Is there any chance that Panama will
be annexed to the United States?"
"I do not see any possibility of that a
present" said Dr. Arosemena. "We are
glad to have you as our great and good
friend, and we want to work along with
you as far as we can. I believe that
our people would prefer to be inde
pendent"
At this point I rose to go, but the presl
dent asked me to wait a moment and
have some refreshments. A moment later
a servant brought in a tray of chsm
pagna and we drank to the health of
our respective countries as we said gooa-
bye. ,
The Next President of Panama.
As to who the next president of Pan
am will be, this is not sure. The election
will take place about a week after this
letter is published. Such elections are
held upon Sunday, and this one Is set for
the second Sunday in July. There are
two candidates, one of whom might be
called the administration candidate. Thi
is Pedro Dlas, formerly governor of Pan
ama and quite recently treasurer-general
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is Dr. Bellsarlo Porras. the former min
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during his candidacy, and his enemies
have resorted to all sorts of tricks t6 pre
vent his nomination and election. Among
these was the theft of some notes and
official papers from the Panama legation
at Washington. The notes contained the
rough draft of the policies he expected
to follow out as president, which included
a reorganisation of the police, with an!
American at the head. They were pub
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Injure the Porras party in the campaign
In addition to this the men who stole
his papers planned to bring suit against
Porras for allowing his papers to be
stolen. It was claimed that they were a
part of the public records, and that no
officer of the republic should allow the
records to be taken away.
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