Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-02

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even TO the exteut of holding possession of
the capital for one day, the scenes in Paris
during the commune could not hold candle
to the atrocities that would be perpetrated
-lS then III the sacred but often abused
name of liberty. With all these horrors
environing him and the friends who yet
remain faithful, il is no wonder that Bal
Maceda Is sick at heart. He Is by no means
Z The Monster OF Cruelty which certain
! ignorant newspapers of the United States
have represented him III big type sud glow
ing headline 10 be. On the contrary, he IS
an exceedingly mild-mauncred, well-eGu
Gated ana pearC-loviug gentleman, who
has lived all ais life among these people.
lhe is now ii the neighborhood OF forty
years old, and has never before been az
cused of more arrogance or cruelty than Is
the natural heritage of the native CHILEAN
whose dollars, even, bear the character
iStic motto, ''pOr raZon de fuerLa.' The
present struggle is not of his seeking, for
certainly nothing could be more detrimental
TO his personal interests; and So far from
prosecuting honest citizens. as has been al
legged, il is evidently his policy TO make 10
new enemies. But this gigantic rebellion
he must put down if possible, though such
ghastly scenes as that enacted in the plaza
on the last day of May,
OCCUR AGAIN AND AGAIN.
1t should be remembered that Chilians do
not fight like Northern soldiers They are
q Veugful lot, and cruel as grim death when
once aroused by taste OF blood; and the,
fact of being on one side or the other of
This unholy conflict has not changed their
natures. The government troops. so far,
have committed fewer atrocities than those
Of the rebels, principally, no doubt, from
lack of opportunity, bat the history of all
past wars in which Chill has figured veto
an +.af1.
worthy of Sepoys, cutting the Threats ofthe
wounded torturiug prisoners dishonoring
women, burning and Sacklng cities, and
wautOnly numbering the helpless and unof-
feuding. In this latest struggle il prOba-
bly, wants only the opportunity of
victory III any engagement 10 prove that
one side can be as barbarOUSlE cruel as the
other. Civilized soldiers would stand small
chance in battle with Chilians, and VIII
Go well 10 remain at a respectful distance
from the terrible curVOs, or crooked knives
made 10 fit human throat and sharpened
on the inner Slde-WniCh every GILLIAN SOL
der carries. South Americans must in
dulge in their little advertisements OfTcvolu-
ton now and then. 1t is born in the blood
and bred in the bone; and as Chill has not
had war in several years, some preteXt
must soon have served for getting up one,
ii not that seized upon by the disafccted
congressman.
BY the way, the information ~ concern
ing these affairs which is beng iuduSrri-
ously disseminated III the United States by
rebel emiSsarieS, is a standing Joke among
the American and English residents of Val
paraiso and Santiago. Whenever a northern
mail comes down bringing newspapers.
they collect In clubroOmS and private par
lors TO read the alleged nevS-generallv
with hearty laugh, and sometimes with not
little Indignation. 1t IS well known that
.f,--,y Il
United StdteS-Sone as authorized agents
to seek assistance for the insurgent cause.
and others who aae simply renegades. their
dOings here having made absence desirable.
both for themselves and the country they
have left. These gentry seem TO b.
inVentin2 blood-curdling tales worthy of
Rider Haggard's Imagination. concerning
Balmaceda'S ''despotism," the tOrturing OF
captives, Imprisonment and ill-treatment of
ladies', beheading Of prominent citizens and
other direful stories, most OF which are
UTTERLY WITHOUT FOUNDATION ~ FACT.
One can readily understand how desire
runs high for war news from this PARKWAY
country, and that every item is eagerly
gObbled by entcrplTsing reporters; but il is
difficult to conceive how intelligent news
mongers expect to get any reliable and IN
biased accounts from the rebels themselves,
or from the emissaries who have been dis
patched to sue for northern help and SYM
patty. The Federal government has sent
no spokesman to represent its cause; and
Hereford but one side of the story, and
that garbled and distorted one. is being
promulgated TO any extent in the United
States.
To-day read column account in a prom
inent New York journal. which mixes
things up in a most surprising manner and
contains more misstatements than are often
allowed to appear unchallenged in a rep
utable ne Ispaper. For example. it attriD-
uted the bombardment Of Iquique to Balna-
ceda's forces, when it is well known that in
those earlier days Of the war poor Balma-
ceda had not single war vessel to bless
himself with, the CHILEAN navy having been
among the first TO espCuse the rebel cause.
1t was the insurgents who BON barded
lquique, and succeeded in capturing 1t.
after enormous loss of life ana property,
the shrewd leaders having bent all their
powers at the beginning Of the conflict to-
ward securing that particular port, as II
gave them control Of the valuable nitrate
deposits which furnish them with funds to
goes on to state that Balmaceda ''instigated
and is perpetuating'' the contest, when all
the world is aware-or ought TO be-that
this war, which means
Ruin TO BALMACEDa
whatever may be its outcome, was insti-s
gated by political faction in congress, VIII
finally entered into armed rebellion agai1f
the constitutional government and DE
keeping it up. partly in hope Of being abe
to serve their own ambitious ends, anlaIso
because to let go at this iupcture yYsuld De
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