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COAST CITIES Of COLOMBIA DON’T ATTRACTfiv Roger W* Babsonr BAHRAKQUJLLA, Colombia,March 31-—“It takes all fchuh; of people to make a world,” evcry traveler In Colombia soon discovers, but—unfortunately. fbi* Colombia—-she first shows tho traveler her worst people, reserving her best for those who visit the interiors.The inhabitants along the Pacific coast arc negroes, wholly wit It A lit ambition. They live in huts such as your boy might build in your, back yard.Thc-Vis Ambitious, Bill— :The population of Cartegena. ; Santa Marta and even Barranqmlla runs frodi 70 percent to SO percent negro, •The negroes are a mixture with Europeans, so they arc more intelligent than they appear. Many have considerable literary ability.These negroes have a great desire to lie lawyers, doctors, politicians and newspaper men.To employ one ol them to lift your trunk is a difficult proposition, but they will write poetry for you by the yard.‘ Xot tho Had Volks.AltUo the casual travel or to the coast of Colombia sees only negroes and Indians, these are not the real people of the country. To knew the real people of Colombia, one must go fo the- interior. Here are found j a strong and able race of men, most I of whom are as white as any family ! of KTrw. Yorkers.Tliesc arc the people whom we do .not knew, hut whom we have greatly cftended. ■Whether, or not the United Statestreated ‘Colombia fairly in connection with the Panama canal, may be a debatable question.Bui unless wo somehow square omselves with them we wilt some tlay suffer for what the Roosevelt administration • did in 1303.
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Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Sun, Apr 02, 1916
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