The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-11
OUR CHILEAN LETTER

CoNoEPcIoN DE CHILE, Sept 5th, 1871
Especial correspondence Of The HERALD
Returned to the haunts of man, we learn
that during those weeks of journeying in
the wilderness, surrounded by unconquer-
able Indians our lives have been more Sc
cure than had we stayed in any city Of
Chile, where war has been rampant in its
worst form-that of brother against
brother-attended by mob rule, incendiary
coufagrations, rapine and murders in
Vulnerable. The kilograms, which brought
you the main facts of rebel victories, have
told you none of the grim particulars. l
want to impress upon my friends in the
distant north that in forming their judg-
ment of this Chilean controversy few
things should not be left out of account.
In the first place, remember that the fac
zion now dominating Chile controls all
Geographic anG cable communication with
the outer worlo, and therefore no accounts
unfavorable to themselves are being sent
abroad. On the contrary, their paid dlssem-
inators of alleged news" have scrupulously
omitted any allusion to the court-martials
that Invariably end in murder, confscation
of the property of many private individu-
ais whose only crime was that of having
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less assassinations aud carte blanche 20 pill
lage ard destroy which is known to have
been given in several instances by the tri-
umphant leaders TO their blood craZed fol-
lowers. They speak, instead, of "the mer-
ciful policy of the victors"-and even while
riots were raging in the cities, and unpar-
alleled atrocities being hourly committed,
declared that
PEACE AND ORDER HAVE BEEN RESTORED"
A mark of the civilization of any land is
its treatment OF q conquered foe. A fair
sample of the mercy that prevails in
Chile was shown in the illumination of
their homes and other demonstrations of
10y by the powers that now be when the
deposed and conquered ex-President, who
certainly could do no more harm, lay dead
in the capital city, having taken his own
life in the vain hope of saving from further
persecution his few faithful friends and
/ in the wholesale dispensing OF free whisky
for the purpose of melting the irresponsi-
Bile riff-raff 10 ahoullsh celebration of that
! sad occasion.
| @ Remember, the end is not yet. Impair
tial history will by and by render differ
eut account of these stirring events and
then poor Balmaceda, now suffering the
worlds contumely, will be written down
as one who, though perhaps misguided,
! held the interests of his country nearer at
heart than does the priest-controlled fac
| ton which defeated him, assisted by En-
| glish brains and capital for mercenary pur-
poses. The hostile feeling toward Amer
leans, industriously fostered by interested
Britons, grows more and more bitter in
Chile, with the ltata farce and the action
of the United States government in not
sooner recognizing the rebels for present
excuse. If it were not for those alleged
causes, others would be trumped up to suit
the occasion equally we'll. The fact Is. as
one with half an eye should see, that oul
English cousins are
MAKING TOO MUCH MONEY
out of this ar-away corner of the globe Il
willingly share any portion of it with