Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-26
In GOD HE TRUSTS.
Balmaceda Poses as a Perse-
cuted Patriot.
He Writes a Message Anent the
Revolution.
The Rebellion Declared to Be Con-
fined to the Navy.
Popular sympathy with the Government.
Insurgent Conquests Described as
of no Consequence.
Associated Press Dispatches.

New York, May 25.-The Chilean
minister has received copy of the mes
sage of President Balmaceda to the
Chilean congress, which convened April
Goth last. In this he discusses the re-
bellion OF the navy, which he speaks Of
az without precedent in the naval his
tory of Chile.
He says during the period of three
months since the beginning of the revo-
luton, there is not an instance of sim
gle popular outbreak in favor of the
movement, whose power is act
ually confined to the ocean.
The fleet has been unable to
keep steadilyeor occupy any portion oi
the territory containing any dense pop
ulationy and in order to do anything
they had to lombard the ports of the
north and set on fire towns unfortified,
operating against the cosmopolitan pop
ulation OF Tarapaca, and using hostilities
of character worse than any OF those
employed during the conquest of Chile.
The provinces of the north are
separated from the rest of the
country by the ocean, upon which
the rebel fleet stood, and by
vast deserts. The revolutionists sue
ceeded in seizing them, after several
bloody combats. Their fleet has not had
sufficient strength to upset the lawful
government, but it has shown enough to
disturb public order, and that its leaders
possess the courage necessary to sacri-
flee the lives of children and spread mis-
fortunes and evils through the country.
Speaking of his policy as president,
Balmaceda says he tried to give the Ma
tional party participation in affairs. in
proposition that could not incite
jealousy and resistance. "The Nationals
refused to reader me their assistance,
although their cooperation was Imposed
by the clearest political sense. A strug-
gle then ragged between the majority in
congress and the executive power, and l
thought it my duty to close congress
in the hope that short period of re-
fection and calm wo uld bring the
groups Of the coalition TO fair and rea-
sonahle terms. Unfortunately, the evil
had been done, and we have now to
stand the deplorable consequences.
~ was bound to assume all the neces-
headed by an armed majority of con-
kIt6cf 0CAi' u ROat ooOf fSt oiAAS P1thSCA0S1
and the institutions of the country.
"The license Of the Chilean press has
been carried in our day to extremes
never before reached in any other part
of the world. Not only the government
and public men, but society and even
families have been carried in u tempest
of political passion. think the law
must keep sacred the right and liberty
of every one to publish his opinions;
but there must not be other offenses of
the press than those so qualified by the
penal CODE"
''Few governments have had to meet
more unmerited aggressions or moregrat-
uitous inculpations than those with which
this has been assailed; but / have not
on that ground lost the serenity of my
spirit nor the perfect tranquility of my
conscience. / have every confidence in
the God who presides over the destinies
of nations"