The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-05

position to that gentleman,s pretensions at
critical luncture when the short-lived
president attempted TO dissolve congress-
In reply to q hint that If these banished
naval and military officers were really
guilty Of conspiracy they deserve punish
ment be said: ITO begin with, then, Peix-
otto should be the very first 10 suffer.
While trusted officer of the late emperor,
ne was the head conspirator, in secret
against the empire; afterwards he con-
spired against his leader, Dora Fonseca,
whom he had sworn to sustain; and
thirdly, notwithstanding the solemn oaths
of his high office he is conepiring against
the people for his own selfish ends" Some
twenty
FAMILIES OF THE ExILEs
have accompanied their husbands and
fathers to far distant Amazonia, as many
noble Russian women have chosen to fol-
low their loved ones to Siberia and share
their perils and priy8tions Among them
are gray-haired old ladies, young matrons
with babies in their arms, blooming girls,
children, nurses and servants most OF
them bearing the indetnable but unmis-
taxable marks Of culture. wealth ana re-
fnement, for these exiles are not from the
ranks Of the Hoipolloi, but from the creme
oe Ia creme Of Brazilian aristocracy. The
thing that seems to rankle most in the
minds of the older men, particularly the
military and naval officers of high rank, is
what they consider the GROWING insult
and depreciation OF being sent away under
the guard OF 6 lot Of small boys. Besides
twenty-three cadets from the military
school Of Dom Pedro II. and fifteen OIL
GERS, the highest Of whom has the rank of
second lieutenant the prisoners are guard
ed by l40 younger lads, all in their early
teens, who strut about with surprising
display of shirt cuff, gilt braid and "a little
brief authority"
Such grizzled veterans as Field Marshal
BarrotIo, the hero OF q hundred hard
fought battles, would infinitely prefer
military execution 10 this humiliation and
the living grave yard TO which they are
being consigned. Had they been guilty Of
any real offense, such as seeking to origin
ate conspiracy against the dictator, q
more honorable ana easy death might have
been their portion. But they have made
DO attempt at inssigRung Revolutionary is
simply that the usurper breads their
wealth and influence: and not daring TO
give them the opportunity Of legal defense
In open trial, by court martial or other
wise, he hurries them of in the darkness
Of night, TO perish by inches in the desert.
The cable dispatches which have probably
conveyed news of this outrage to the
world, must not be depended upon to give
anything like true version OF the affair,
because all such communications are under
Peixotto's most rigid censorship. and not
word goes over the wires detrimental to
the interests of the usurper, who bids fair
TO out-ozar the Car of all the Russias in his
arbitrary DEGREES.
SHAM REPUBLIC.
No truer words were ever spoken than
those by Senior Jose Carvalho to the repre-
sentative of the United States at Para,
when he said: 'Our people have no proper
conception Of repub bic. First, Ie nave
no political education; second, we have
not even republican ideas; third, we have
not enough patriotism; forth, there is LOO
much personality and mercenary feeling;
fifth, am q naval officer myself but con-
tend that the military and navy should be
subordinate to the civil There is no dis
cipline in our army and navy. All our
troubles come from this source, and will
continue until we reduce the army to
peace footing, as it is with the army OF the
United States of North America, and then
put the belllgerents over on the
frontier. They are the ones who should be
sent TO the deserts Of the Amazonia instead
OF those on board the Pernambuco.n
These present troubles appear to have
put a permanent damper upon that curious
Brazilian colonization scheme about which
we heard so much a few months ago, which
sent an Official notice of its organization to
the bureau of American republics at Wash
ingtou, D. c. 1t was named the Com
pannia Nova Era Rural dos Brazil" and
professed to have capital of $25 900, 900,
furnished by few Rio Janerio capitalists
and bankers aud brokers in Europe. Their
avowed object was to established twenty
agricultural colonies upon the public lands
OF Brazil, given free Of cost by the govern
ment; to construct railway lines for plac-
ing these settlements IN communication
with each other and with their respective
markets.; TO carry out various engineering
works. mining operations and the manu-
facture Of sugar, brick, tile lime and other
articles for export as well as for local con-
sumption.
The "Cempannia'' further proposed to
select five thousand families in Europe
mot a word was said about the United
States) consisting of skilled Agricultural
lists and mechanics, and to transport them
free of cost To Brazil, where they would
find houses all ready prepared for their
occupany and tools and implements fur
nished gratis for their use; these picked
colonists to be divided in villages and
scattered over the several public estates as
q nucleus for the everyday emigrants who
might be induced TO follow them later on.
The scheme was 30 well thought of at one
time in Brazil that the federal and several
state governments offered guarantee of
per cent. interest on one third of the
capital invested. But like many other
laudable enterprises for the development of
the new republic if not dead, it sleepeth
in this dies infaustus Of
POLITICAL ANARCHY.
Brazil's new constitution, which was
closely copied after that Of the United
States is funny reading by the light of its
present application. Ii provides that there
shall be absolute and unquestioned free
dom Of the press and speech and con-
science, no conferment of title, no titled
classes, aud no laws of entail or attainder.
Congress TO be composed Of house of rep
resentatIves and a Senate, both to be
chosen by the popular vote: the president
10 be selected by an electoral college,
with representation based on that for CON
gressmen, the people to choose the electors
of the college. The president to serve SIX
years (Eot six months as in the case OF
Fonseca), and TO be ineligible for re-elec-
ton for ten years after election for his
term. Congress to have much the same
legislative powers exercised by our own,
but no more certainly not TO the extent of
deposing presidents; the president To be
directly responsible TO the people, and the
cabinet to nobody but the executive
FANNIE b. WARD.