The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-03
BRAZIL AS A REPUBLIC.
Dom Pedro's Great Empire on the
Verge of Revolution.
From the Washington Post

From the WASHINGTON Post,
There is stopping at Wizards one of those
men who have made the name of yankee"
synonymous the wide world over for pluck,
enterprise, and perseverance. He is Capt.
Benjamin D. Manton, United States Consul
at Colonia, Uruguay. He has very we'll
set figure, just above middle height, griz-
zled mustache and goatee. a complexion
bronzed by years of exposure at sea and be-
meath hospitable sun. He is a native Of
| Rhode Island. At the breaking out of the
war he was in command of one of the largest
| and finest clipper ships, the Messenger. sail
| ing out of New York harbor in the Mel
bourne and China trade. At the request of
Gov. Sprague he took command of union
gunboat and served under Dupont and Far
ragut. After the war he went to Uruguay,
where, for nineteen years, he has been consul.
Mr., Manton brings to Washington a
most imrortant piece of news He predicts
the breaking up of the great empire of
Brazil. Its affairs" be says, "are in
precarious state. The emancipation of the
slaves was merely a sop thrown by Princess
Isabella, the regenta, to the liberals. The
six southern provinces, really the strength
of the empire, are ripe for revolt and q re-
public. They only await the death of Dom
Pedro. when they will split the empire, and
Il pI6olu6Hb Will iuiO ONci DiuHtl.
Consul Mauton says that Uruguay is
prosperous, thriving, and growing. "But
the Argentine Republic" he says. lis the
wonder of the world With population of
only about 1000, 900 she has an immigration
OF 100000 year-Italians from
the northern provinces, Basques from
the south of France, and Germans
The latter control the principal commerce.
An immigrant becomes citizen the day he
Ia pda If ha vvig1ag and - fraa t0 cpip.,iafc
The huge areas of Patagonia, fertile whore
it was once imagined was desert are fill
ing ND rapidly. Thousands of miles Of rail
roads are, being laid IN every direction.
Very soon Valparaiso and Buenos Ayres
will be connected by rail- The foreign pop
ulation is industrious and law abiding
There are no labor troubles. The free land
apsorbs all the surplus as soon as it arrives.
Wheat grows wonderfully. Fifty thousand
carcasses of sheep month go in refrigera-
tor ships to Europe, making the passage in
twenty -eigat days or less. There is a tre-
mendous land boom on. Buenos Ayres has
over 500, 600 AID will have 1000 600 people
in less than five years. We have built a
city of $4,000 inhabitants in less than four
years. Towns spring up by magic Mines
are being developed in the west, and even
in Terra del Fucgo, and every one is making
money.
Have you all modern conveniencesw
"Oh, yes introduced the telephone into
the republic. 1t is far more popular aud
the service better and cheaper than in
America. Why, / have three different tel
ephones, each superior to the Bell.
Your American telephone service is
miserable. l shall take back an electric
light plant with me when / return"
do you see many American vessels7"
81 should say not. am full of anger at
the way America is treating her opportuni-
ties. As many steamers enter the Platte as
enter the harbor of New York. Yet the
American flag is scarcely ever seen. The
Argentine republic has been holGing out q
magn fcent offer TO subsidize an American
line, but never a bit OF encouragement from
America. The map OF the world il un-
known in the United States. A Chinese
wall of exclusion is being built around it.
The markets of the world would be at its
feet IL il would throw down the tariff we'll.
The Argentine Republic would gladly buy
American goods il she could havo advalI-
tageous opportunity. She sends hides in
free now. Let her send in wool for your
wooden manufacturers free, and she will
buy your wooler goods in return. Cutlery.
cotton goods, shoes, locomotives and a
thousand articles would DO bought IL there
were reciprocal advantages. Here is tar
if bill passed by the house which Is step
in tho right direction, but IL is blocked III
the senate for political reasons alone
was talking with John Wn1amaxer, the
Philadelphia merchant, who cnme over on
the City of New York with me, on
the subject. we ought tobaye free wool.
said he 70 me, then we could compete wit
Z gland In all the cheaper grades VI wooden