Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-14


Harvard education, who has been heels
over head in the muddle from its inception.
He says he escaped in United States
| war vessel-a good while before fighting
actually began. Certainly this young man
does not merit lionization in Goods coun-
try'' for having taken advantage of his half
citizenship and intimate knowledge Of the
United States to smuggle out of it arms to
his fellow-p patriots, thereby involving his
native land in wretcbed piece of business.
Gen. Canto, the military leader of the in
surgent forceS-a man. who, for cause. was
dismissed il disgrace from the regular
army of Chile-is presumably actuateu as
much by desire to be revenged upon the
government and an ambition to reinstate
himself in public favor, as from motives
Of pure patriotism, and when the great bat
tie comes off. if the rebels win the day, YOU
may hear how his private Vengeance has
been wreaked upon those who were late his
brother-ofticers by shameful mutilation of
their dead bodies and the burning of prop
erty by his soldiers. i am sorry to say that
things are looking extremely dark, just now,
for the government party, and its friends
are filed with sad forebOdlngS. None know
better than the Chilians themselves how
impossible il is to rely with certainty upon
this
TURBULENT, UNSTABLE AND HOT HEADED
race. They are as liable to undergo a total
the wind is TO veer. They may be on one
side of vital question in the morning and
on the other side at night, Swayed by some
caprice or mirage of the Imagination. or
more likely, by the overweening Jealousy
that possesses every one of them, and the
ambition 10 shi above his fellows that IS
bred IN the bone of the true Chileno. An
unfortunate state of pickering and jealousy
has arisen among Balmaceda's generals,
who are each mOrtally offended because they
cannot supercede the other, and it is greatly
TO be feared that when the critical juncture
comes these wrong-headed patriots Will
bring about disastrous consequences by
failing TO sustain each others movements.
A graver reason for forebOding lies in the
knowledge that Il large amount of arms and
ammunition has lately come to the inSur-
gents from their emissarieS i'll the United
States, despite the farce OF the ltata affair
rifles of the latest pattern, and plenty of
them. The government soldiers, though
far mbering the insurgents, are
poorly armed, and not nearly so well Off
Cered as are the latter with the assistance
of their better-posted and coOler-headed
Anglo-Saxon friends Should it prove that
those guns, in the hands of wreckless ad-
venturerS and INSCRIPTIONS politicians, are
the means of overtnrowing the long-estab
lished government which has made Chill
the most prosperous of South American
countries. lIlt OlutE 'SlSltT TtDuDllC Will
have no reason to be proud of IL.
am creditably informed that private let
tiers from rebels in the north of Chile to
their friends in the South. state that,
elated by possession of the new guns and
news of disaffection among Balmaceda'S
officers, they have determined to make
bold strike for the taking of the cam
either by way of Valparaiso or T. '..-
ano) almost Immediately. befOra ! .., rest
dents new war vessel can arrive. Under
the circumstances they are confident of
victory, and it is not at all improDa ole that
their hopes will be realized. Which ever
army comes off victorious, its triumphal
return march through the streets of every
city will be greeted with boundless enthuS-
iasm and shouts of viva Chile from the
populace, which cares very little upon
whose banners victory perches, so that the
war is ended.
Should the insurgents win, lea nobody i'm
aCine that peace and quiet will be re-
stored to unhappy Chill; for their suprenl-
acy viii be but the beginning Of troubles.
The Congressional party is composed of al
most as many diverse elements as there are
men in il, and each has strong will OF his
own. They have never been united except
upon one point-the overthrow OF the es-
tablished government This accomplished,
the old questions viii Immediately come up
and their conflicting idioSyncracieS. begin
to assert themselves again. The country
will lapse back from the liberalism she was
so many years in attaining into the hands
of the priesthood, and
\ STATE OF ANARCHY
will continue. generations after all the pres
ent actors III the drama have gone to glory
or to the other place. You do not believe
it, Well. wait and see whether my predic-
tions are verified but don I base your opin-
ti,-ol, ha CiIaI IF
interested parties.
II was in the vain effort to please all the
diverse wings of the party which elected
him, five years ago, that Balmaceda
changed his cabinet so many times nine
times within three years; but he never
could succeed in suitlng two factions of
them at the same time, nor could any other
mortal man. If they get chance to rule,
each wing, rendered more arrogant and ag
gressive by recent triumphs, will insist
upon its own particular way. Having once
broken through that flexible document, the
constitution, its provisions will be made to
bear any sort OF construction. President
will follow president in rapid succession,
and the already ruined country will proceed
to the bOwwows al an expeditions pace.
A well-kuown Washington gentleman,
who has been travelling in Chilli. recently
expressed some opinions width are of
value as coming from an intelligent and
disinterested source. Says he: "Hither-
to l have not dared TO write freely, owing
to the opening of all letters at Iquiqui.
The rebels are dependent entirely upon the
United States and Bolivia for provisions.
and ] am sorry to say that loads of hay,
-four and other supplies are continually COM
ing down to them from San Francisco. We
ought not TO foster this opposition party
They represent elements totally antagonis-
Tic to our notions of a republic; they are
the opponents of plutocracy, of British CAPT
tai and French customs; they are the enc
mics of commercial relations with us; they
oppose social progress, education among
the masses, popular representation and
freedom IN religious matters. The scatter
Drained youth of Santiago-thoSe who have
been saturated with the eloquence of the
young club lawyer who has has deigned to
visit the smaller cafes and harangue them,
the aristocratic families of the old regime
and al the priest-controlled women are in
sympathy with the rebellion. The masses
the middle and lower classes, those whom
republicaniSm is most likely to benefit
are with Balmaceda. / have told you how
intimately we are identified with this strug-
gle. both as to our institutions and future
commerce. Every day it grows more GER
tain to my mind that such is a true applica-
ton of the conflict to us that we ought TO
us that we ought to do all in our power to
uphold the hands of Balmaceda.
One of the main causes of disafection
against the president is that for many years
he has been leading spirit of the Liberal
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