Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-16
CHILDLESS FRANCE,
M. Jules Simon's Pathetic Plea
for the Wives and Mothers.
DECREASE OF THE BIRTH RATE,
The American Reciprocity Treaty is Cutting
Great Britain Out of Brazil.
Balfour's Scheme of Local Government
for ireland Finds the Tories Divided.
Roumsnia Seeking Ia Guaran-
tee of Neutrality.
DECREASE OF THE BIRTH RATE.
The High-Spirited BrazIlians.
specfal to the Gazette.


LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE chief subject of
interest this week is the unsettled
condition of Brazil. It is known
that commercial houses in this city
having Brazilian connections have for
long time been dissatisfied with the exist
ing government. The American recip-
rocity treaty has made serious inroads upon
the British trade, and there is evidently no
disposition to grant equally favorable
arrangements to England. Lord Salisbury
has intimated that it is beyond his power
to interfere in behalf of British commercial
interests. and Brazil is too big a country to
be frightened into improved trade relations
In the presence of an imposing British
feet. The social influence of the English
in Rio de Janeiro, as in all leading South
American cities, is very great, and it has
been eXerted to foment discomfort
with Fonseca's government. There has
also been some hope of restoring
the monarchy, but this hope has place in
the minds of but few who are acquainted
with Brazilian sentiment. II is well known
by those who We're in Brazil at the time the
monarchy was overthrown, not for dislike
for Dom Pedro. but for fear and
hatred of those who might follow him.
Dom Pedro's family surroundings are of the
very worst. The imperial house OF Brazil
is mixture of Coburgs and Bourbons, some
of the latter being the worst branch OF Bour-
DOnS, UndJ OF AnlOu ana the TWO SlcllleS.
Such family would not willingly be ac-
cepted as rulers by any European people
and would have still less chance with the
proud. high-spirited Brazilians. Therefore
any contemplated restoration of the mon
archy can have but little to do with the ex-
listing crisis. The facts appear to be that
congress, spurred on by foreign influences,
has at last brought the public business
to halt by refusing to perform
constitutional duties. Da Fonseca acting
more upon the precedent of a European
limited monarchy than of an American re-
public, has dissolved congress and proposes
appeals to the people, in the meantime ex-
erciSing supreme authority. The meager
dispatches received indicate extensive
opposition to his course. The
important province of Rio Grande
do Sui. which threatened secession at the
time Dom Pedro was expelled, has actually
seeded so far as the deposition of the Fon-
SEGA governor and the establishment of
provisional government at the capital can
affect secession. There is understood to be
a trial at arms in progress between Fonseca
and the new government of Rio Grande do
Sui. Meantime all is reported peaceable in
Rio de Janeiro, and there is such a rush
of business at that and other Brazilian
ports that the vessels cannot be loaded fast
enough. The finances of the country are as
vet in good condition, and the national
debt has been materially reduced in the
year following the deposition of Dom Pc
dro, and preceding the recent coup d etat.