Enclosure No. in Despatch No. 610f February 28, 1911.
LA CAMPAÑA.
1911.
Guatemala City, February 25. Leading Editorial. PATRIOT IS The peril draws nearer. each day, each hour, each minute shortens by just so much the term of our independence.
The American eagle soars in the blue above us ready at any moment to swoop down upon our weak Country and with beak and powerful talons possess itself of us for all time.
The great iron hand of Yankeedom already grips our shoulder and its enormous weight paralyzes movement; it needs to tighten the grasp but little to crush out our life. man with a little bird in his hand asked the oracle if it was alive or dead and was told in reply that it was dead or alive, as he wished.
If the Yankees should ask a similar question re garding us they might well receive the same reply.
But is it necessary for Central Americans to accept such a situation?
Has our debasement proceeded so far that for a mess of pottage we must sell our Liberty wathe noblest, greatest, most sacred gift of Man!
The nations of Europe protest against the fortification of Panamá and Colon; they believe with reason that altor