Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-11-19
AFFEiRS IN BRAZIL.


Information from Semi Official Sources or
the Condition of Affairs i'm Erazil-Re.
ports via British Sources O0lored by
commercial Jealousy-The Attitude OF
Rio GRANGE Do Sui Explained.
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The bureau Oh
American republics announces that il
has from semi-official sources the fol.
| lowing information in regard to the
| present condition of affairs in Brazil
The telegraphic and other news
which comes from or via London is
often entirely false and generally dis
torted and magnified. British jealousy
OF the increasing influence of the
United States in Brazil, and the fear OF
losing commercial supremacy in that
country SO long and so proftably main
tanned under the empire, are the
motives which inspire the false and
alarming dispatches concerning politi-
cal disturbances in Brazil.
The Brazilian government denies of
hcialiy and absolutely the existence
OF any secession movement in Brazil,
and declares that outside of Rio Grande
do Sui there is no conflict or disturb
ance of the public peace. In the state
just mentioned, the most southern in
Brazil and bordering on Uruguay and
the Argentine republic, the situation is
peculiar and needs some special expla-
nation. When the revolution of No
vember, 1889, substituted the republic
for the empire, the state of Rio Grande
do Sui accepted the new form of gov
eminent quite as readily and with
as little disturbance as any other;
but on the organization Of the
state government party lines were
closely drawn and party feeling
warmly aroused between the repub-
Hcans, on the one hand. and the adher-
ents of the deposed leader, Silveira
Martins, on the other. Forcible re-
sistance was offered to the installation
OF the governor-elect. who was the cam
didate of the republicans. The armed
intervention of the federal government
was necessary to overcome this resist
anea; but the feeling of opposition ma
turally remained, and was perhaps in
tensified by federal interference.
telegram of the Brazilian minister
of foreign affairs at Rio de Janeiro, to
the minister here explains the disturb
ance in Rio Grande as an outbreak of
the struggle between the parties men
toned, and denies any movement
toward secession. Without positive in
formation it is impossible to state the
attitude of each party towards the
president of the republic in his troubles
with the congress recently dissolved,
but it is reasonable to suppose that the
governor of Rio Grande do Sui would
support the power which assured the
office to which he had been chosen.
The position of Rio Grands do Sui as
an independent state, in consequence
of a successful movement for secession,
would be extremely difficult and full of
peril, between the mother country and
Uruguay, with which country she has
been in continual disputes, and whose
people are of different and almost
hostile race. Between them ancient
jealousies and chickering's have never
become extinct. The position of the
state would have been precisely that of
Texas, should she attempt to maintain
an independent existence between the
United States and Mexico.
About one-third of the population Of
Rio Grande Do Sui is of German de-
scent, of whom perhaps $4,000 have not
yet been naturalized.