Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-23
CHILTS REVOLT
British Greed the Main Cause
Of the InSurrectiOn.
The Rebels Backed by Nitrate
Traders and Spectators

Because the Chilian Government VIII
| Not Submit to Their Dictation--Th,
British Minister the Only Foreign Rep
resentative who Favors Recognizing
the Insurgents.
| WASHINGTON, March 23-Hon, A
NJ, Stoteldo, one Of the Oldest and bes
informed South American diplomatist,
here, says that in his opinion the Chiliar
insurTection can be traced to English
traders and spectators He says:
"They are powerful, and for a long
time have had preponderant influence
in the commerce of Chill, in the mine,
and manufactures, extending not only
to the chief industries of the country
but likewise to the ruling powers, and
even to congress and to the administra
ton of public affairs. They have been
allowed to do this because of their largr
and powerful interests accumulate
while working in the common interest
Of the National welfare.
They did much to give the country
life and to bring about important com.
mercial development, but their influence
as now eXerted conflicts with the dignity
and indepen lence of the nation, ana it is
Inconsistent with free commercial and
political intercourse with other nations.
President Balmaceda has refused con
cessions amounting to a monopoly of the
nitrate trade undertaken by powerful
English syndicate of capitalists, and en-
bracing likewise the Peruvian grant to
Montro Brothers and the Sarapsca rail
road, both of which gigantic enter
prises have come to an end on the fail
ure of their projectors to comply with
the conditions under which the conces-
sions were granted.
"As soon as the administration of
President Palmacsda took bold stand
toward getting I'D of the obnoxious
tutelage of these traders and specua-
tors, taeir friends have tried to place
every pos IhS Shindrance in the way of
his administration Congress seems to
have been influenced to the extent Of
opposing every cabinet under President
Bailnaceda, and went as far as to pro-
pose to place him under one of their
own dictation or else precipitate the
country into the present armed condi.
ton in which it is involved by refus-
ing the necessary appropriation and
appointing a committee which appears
now at the head of the PRESENT
rebellion waging an informal lawless
war on board of some of the National
vessels, after having failed in their at
tempt to shake the loyalty of the army
They tried to seize the nitrate works Of
Iquique and Pisagua, which being un-
fortified ports, have been reduced after
a short siege. The government troops
at Iqui lue had to eyacuate the place
without resistance, but the police force,
under their chief, Col. Soto, and hand
full of volunteers, opposed their landing,
and this is what has been called a great
battle and triumph for the rebels.
The affair of 1surrender of Pisa
qua is disgrace to the faction. A flag
of truce was displayed to attract and
deceive the commander of the garrison,
who advanced to meet the flag and was
shot and killed. He was not caught
mapping, as reported by leading New
York paper.
THE government has the good will of
the people in this struggle. About
10000 veterans are kept ready for an
emergency at Santiago, the capital
Over 1000 cover the strategic points of
the Maule and the southern coast be-
sides 10000 or more atconvenient places
in the north. Volunteers are constantly
rendering their services at the enlist
ment head quarters, and only veterans
of the previous war and young able
bodied men are accepted.
There is a surplus of cash in the
Gillian treasury and $4,000, 900 in sill
yer bars as reserve. The government
pays punctually and well the civil and
military lists. The large number of
laborers left idle by the suspension Of
the nitrate works at Tarapaca have been
conveyed to the gricultural fields of the
south, where they are renumeratively
employed.
"The C. ops are better than ever this
year, due to the timely influx of these
laborers from the northern establish
ments, closed at present on account Of
the conflict. The rebel vessels are kept
doing as much harm as they can along
the extensive coast and disturbing all
the ports they visit. Coluimbo, Cal lera
and other towns have suffered their oc-
casonal descent9, but they nave been
unable so far to secure a seat for any
kind of organized government from
which to ask for recognition as belliger-
ents At the capital all the representa-
tives of foreign governments met and
came to the conclusion that the relelS
are not by any international rule or
usage entitled to be recognized as bel
ligerents. The British minister was the
only dissentient. The German empire
seems to have already acted upon this
principle, and has forbidden the sending
of any war supplies to the Chilian
rebels.
"The monetary crisis in VALPARAISO
has been avoided by the loan of l2,00),-
600 to the National and Valparaiso
banks. which under the pressure of a
general run of depositors would ordi-
narily have succumbed with disastrous
consequences to the country.
"The Edwards bank had been closed
and sealed by the government the day
previous to the run, awaiting the in
yestigation gong on about a revolution
ary correspondence which appears to
have been operated under the interme-
diate address of Don Carlos Leon.
Breaking Up the Cigarette Eyi'.
WASHINGTON. March %. In the police
court. Friday. the first case was called
up under the new law which prevents
the sale of cigarettes to boys under six
teen years of age. The judge notified
all tohaceo-dealers that he will impose
the strictest pepalties for violations of