Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-11
FALL OF BALMACEDA.
Fannie B. Ward Still Holds That He
Was a Patriot, but Misguided.
ENGLAND's PART IN THE TROUBLE.
The Three Days Celebration Which Is Re-
quired of All by Law.
CHANGES A SINGLE YEAR HAS MADE
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE p1spATcH.l

turned to the haunts of man, we learn that
during those weeks of journeying in the
wilderness, surrounded by unconquerable
Indians, our lives have been more secure
than if we had remained in any city OF
Chile, where war has been rampant in its
worst form-that of brother against brother
attended by mob rule, incendiary confa-
grations, rapine and murders innumerable.
The kilograms, which brought you the main
facts of rebel victories, have told you none
of the grim particulars. 1 want to impress
upon my friends in the distant North
that in forming their judgment of this
Chilean controversy few things should be
left out of account.
In the first place, remember that the fac
tion now dominating Chile controls all tele-
graphic and cable communication with the
outer world, and therefore no accounts un-
favorable to themselves are being sent
abroad. On the contrary, their paid dis
seminators of alleged news" have scrupu-
lously omitted any allusion to the court
martials that invariably end in murder, con-
fscations of the property OF many private
individuals whose only crime was that of
having remained loyal to the government,
countless assassinations, and carte blanche
to pillage and destroy.
CELEBRATION OF BALMACEDA's DEATH.
A mark of the civilization of any land is
the treatment of conquered foe. A fair
sample of the ENERGY" that prevailed in
Chile was shown in the illumination of
their homes and other demonstrations of
Joy by the powers that now be, when the
,-b
certainly could do no more harm, lay dead
in the capital city, having taken his own
life in the main hope of saving from further
persecution his few faithful friends, and in
the wholesale dispensing of free whisky for
the purpose of melting the irresponsible
riff-raf to ghoulish celebration of that sad
occasion.
Remember, the end is not yet. Impartial
history will by and by render a different ac-
count of these stirring events; and then
poor Bslmaceda, now suffering the worlds
contumely, will be written down as one who,
though perhaps misguided, held the inter
ests of his country nearer at heart than does
the priest-controlled faction that defeated
him, assisted by English brains and capital
of mercenary purposes. The hostile feel
ing toward Americans, industriously
fostered by interested Britons, grows more
farce and the action of the United States
Government in not sooner recognizing the
rebels. If it were not for those alleged
causes, others would be trumped up to suit
the occasion equally well.
THE GREED OF THE BRrToN.
The fact is, as one with half an eye
should see, that our English cousins are
making too much money out of this far
away corner of the globe to willingly share
any portion of 1t with Americans. In the
q country on which he can lay hands or
gain foothold by 'hook or by crook" the
thrifty Briton stands without an equal-as
witness in Baja California, Belize, the
Mosquito Coast and other sections of the
Western hemisphere.
To an "inside observer" it seems strange
that the world is slow to understand the
secret animus of the present confict-the
last struggle of the Church of Rome to re-
gain its lost power, allied in its desperation
with few English capitalists, whose in
terest is not in Chilean patriotism or re-
ligion, but in Chilean nitrate or other ar
ticles of commerce. And it is amusing to
note how some excited journals call upon
the President of the United States and his
Cabinet to tremble in their shoes because of
the hostile attitude assumed toward them
by this puny and unstable Republic. Uncle
Samuel is still abund, ntly able to take care
of his own in any part OF the world, and in
time even this arrogant "Junta' may come
TO undersi and that its favor of disfavor is a
matter of profound indifference to the citi-
.ens of Goods country"
THEY CELEBRATE BY LAW.
In spite of his conceit, there is something
i,,t tba otrin of tba
Jhilean-.houghi it consists in killing every
body who disagrees with him, if he can.
While we, as a nation, have grown some
what ashamed of our old-fashioned Fourth
If July, and the Declaration of Independ-
.nce to which we are indebted for existence
s remembered for little more than the butt
of professional jokers, the true Chilean will
,ut the throat of any man who refuses to
celebrate with him the 18th of September.
There is a law in the land requiring every
house to have a flagstaff, and every flag
staff to hang out the national banner by day
and a lantern by night on all anniversaries
of the Republic. Chilean vanity goes still
further, and insists that all the schools
must use text books by native authors; all
the bands must play the music of native
and visiting opera and concert
singers must introduce the songs of the
~
though there is nowhere a more discordant
and unruly people-nowhere so much mur-
der and other serious crimes-yet the cruel
soldier and the hunted bandit, the naughty
Ion and the patient peon are one in their
ove of country, and their firm conviction
hat it is the mightiest on the face of the
Earth.
CHILE'S THREE EIGHTEENA
In the Spanish language Diez ocho (ten |
md eight) means 1s, and among Chilenos |
he words have special reference to their |
rational independence, which was declared |
September Is, in the year 1918. The finest |
residence street in proud old Santiago, the |
,ity of palaces, is named the calle (street) |
If Diez Y ocho. All over the land there are |
Oiez v ocho plazas, Diez y ocho saloons, |
and estates, and many chill |
lren, male and female, who were so un-
ortunate as to be born near that patriotic
late, are burdened with the three cabalistic
words for front name. AT this festive
ime of year the law compels people to paint
heir houses, to clean the streets and to
urbish up things generally, both inside and
'ut. Every woman in Chile must have q
lew gown for the Diez ocho, and in the
natter of bonnets, it is to the creme de Ia
rene of Santiago what Easter Sunday is to
ociety bellies of the North. Flags stream
ng over every doorway transform the
treets into long vistas of bunting-the
eautiful Chilean banner, with its single
7hite star on blue ground, and two stripes,
ne white, one red, interspcrsed by the
olors of foreign officials. Even the cook in
ur house has felt the contagion Of reform,
nd this morning found her industriously
ushing the dirt from the middle of the
itchen floor into the corners.
THE RICH AND POOR AKIKE.
Though the people are poorer than ever
his year, it will. be great day-or rather a