The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-12
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Civilized soldiers would stand small chance
in battle with Chilians, and will do well to
remain 1t Q respectful distance from the
terrible curuos, or crooked knives
MADE TO FIT HUMAN THROAT
and sharpened on the inner side--which
every Chiliau soldier carries. South
Americans must indulge in their little
advertisements of revolution now and then.
1t is ''born in the blood and bred In the
bone;" and a. Chill has not had war In
several years, some pretext must soon have
served for getting up Que, if not that seized
upon by the disaffected congressman.
BY the way, the information 90 concern
ing these affairs which 10 being industri-
ously disseminated in the United States
oy rebel emissarles, 10 q standing joke
among the American and English residents
of Valparaiso and Santiago. Whenever a
northern mail comes down bringing news
papers. they collect in club-rooms and pri-
vate parlors to read the alleged news-gen-
orally with many hearty laugh, and some
times with not little Indignation 1t Is
well known that number OF Chllian rebels
have gone to the United States-some as
authorized agents to seek assistance for the
insurgent cause and others who are simply
renegades, their doings here having made
absence desirable, both for themselves and
the country they have left. These gentry
seem to be inventinR blood curdling tales
worthy OF Rider Haggard's Imagination
concerning BalmacedG's ''despctism," the
torturinR Of captives, Imprisonment and
i'll treatment Of ladies, beheadiug Of promi-
nent citizens and other direful stories,
most OF which are utterly without founda-
ton in fact.
One can readily understand how desire
runs high over war news from this far
away country. and that every item IS
eagerly gobbled by enterprising reporters;
butt is difficult to conceive how intelligent
news-mongers expect to get any reliable
and unbiased
ACCOUNTS FROM THE REBELS THEMSELVES,
or from the emissaries who have been dis
patched to sue for northern help and SYM
pathy. The federal government has sent
no spokesman to represent its cause. and
therefore but one side of the story, and that
a garbled and distorted one, is being pro-
mulgated in the United States.
To-day l read column account IN q
prominent New York journal which mixes
things up in Q most surprising manner and
contains more mis- statements than are Of
ten allowed to appear unchallenged in re-
putable ne wspaper. For example, 1t attri-
buted the bombardment Of Iquique TO Bal
maceda's forces, when it is well known
that in those earlier days OF the war poor
Balmaceda had not a single war vessel 10
bless himself with, the Gillian navy hav-
ing been among the first TO espouse the
rebel cause. 1t was the insurgents who
bombarded Iquique, and succeeded in cap
turing it, after enormous loss OF life and
property, the shrew6 leaders having bent
all their powers at the beginning OF the
conflict toward securing that particular port
as it gave them control Of the valuable nj
trate deposits which furnish them with
funds TO carry on the war. The same wise
article goes on to state that Ballnaceda
'instigated and is perpetuetiLg" the con-
tes:, when all the world is aware-or ought
to be-that this war, which means ruin to
Balmaceda whatever way be its outcome,
was instigated 0y a political faction in
congress, who finally entered into armed
rebellion against the constitutional govern
ment and are keeping it up, partly in hope
of being able to serve their own ambitious
ends, and also because to let go at this
juncture would be as disastrous to them
selves as TO the man who is
ATTEMPTING TO THROTTLE LION.
parcoual safety now lies in retaining