Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-18
A GLIMPSE INTO BRAZIL.
No Poverty, No Enforced Idleness' ana
No Negro Problem.
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Fred Smith de Vasconce]los, forme'
lv member of the Board OF Pupnc
Works for Brazil under Dom Pedro, IS
in Chicago, and spent the greater part
of Yesterday visiting the stock wards
He resigned from the Board OF Public
Works last June to become director OF
the Minas Pastoral Company. "Minas, }"
he said when seen at the Auditorium,
Yesterday, corresponds to your Texas.
1T is the great cattle-ralslng state. AS
large as Texas? Oh, yes. Brazil Is
larger than the United States, and we
have twenty states, but our population
is but 100000 to your 60,0OO,0 GOO and
more. But immigration is increasing
steadily. Rio Grande do Sui has Ger
man population of about 100000, and
many Italians are coming also. Land is
cheap, and nobody who is willing to
work need suffer from privatlon. There
is none of that forced idleness which
you have here in your large
cities. There is no wretched IN
voluntary poverty. Nobody IS rich nor
is anybody poor. The commonest Ia
borer gets Is cents day, and lying is
cheap. Oh, the revolution? Well, it
know how quietly the slaves were
emancipated The American minister
said words about that that have become
famous in Brazil. They are something
like this: What cost our nation mill
ions in blood and treasure you have &C
complished by the strewing of flowers
That is fact. Everybody wore flowers,
and the streetswere covered with them.
But about the deposition of the Emper-
or. For four or five years the people
had seen the deterioration in the gov
eminent The administration was in
the hands of the palace clique. The
people did not like the daughter of Dom
Pedro, the Countess d Eu, neither did
they like her husband. Dom Pedro
was enfeebled by chronic illness OF
long duration, and the government was
not as we'll managed as formerly. Ev-
erybody understood that when he died
that would be the last of the monarchy.
1t was doomed. One night the military,
who are fond of Gen. FOnseca, went to
the Emperor and told him he was de-
posed. He was taken about l o'clock
the next morning and escorted to
man-Of-War and sent to Europe.
"When the people came down on the
street cars they found out that it was
no longer the Empire of Brazil, but the
Republic of Brazil, and business went
along quite as usual 1t was well the
Emperor was taken away at night, else
there might have been bloodshed. He
was offered e250,000 in lump sum, but
he has refused to recognize the provin-
cial government. After the November
electio W hen the regular government
will be vo' Tor, / think there will be a
new offer made, which believe he will
accept. He will never attempt to re-
establish the monarchy. It cannot be.
1t must disappear from civilized nations.
No throne in Europe is safe, not even
that of England, where monarchy is
firmest established. l am a monarch
list, but the people want a republic, and
it would not be patriotism to resist. |
held my position right along, as did al
most all the government officials. [
resigned only to go into business. Is it
not remarkable, this revolution Of sin
gle day? Where is there another blood
less change of government in history?
'There is one thing in America which
is unpleasant to me. You despise the
negro. You will not willingly sit with
him at the theater or at the table. In
Brazil, though the slaves were freed
since your war, no one hesltateS to
work alongside of a negro; no one is
ashamed to shake hands with a negro.
He is free to 60 anywhere so long as he
is not immodestly clad. Why not?
We believe that God has made all men
of one blood, and whether he be black,
white, or red, he has the same rights.
| don't like the way you people treat
the negro
"Wil the Brazilian Republic en-
dure?"
81 feel sure that it will. The other
South American republics are of Span
ish blood, excitable fire-and-tow. We
are Portuguese, slower, more deliber-
alive. Dom Pedro has little property
of his own, but the administration of
the Argentine Republic stole $43, 100000
in two years, Do not fear perpetual