Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-04
BRAZILIAN IRONCLAD.

course, with no chance to make any defense
WHY THE ARRESTS WERE MADE.
To quote Senior Carvalho's own words to the
United States consul, he said: 'sYou know that
neither Deodora Fonseca nor the present vice.
Florisnns Peixotto, was elected BY the people.
Our provisional congress appointed them to
serve only until such time ~ arrangements
could be perfected for proper election BY the
people, and now that Fonseca is out we think
that the question of his successor should be left
to the people and the place not pre-empted, az
one might say, by vice to fill out the unex-
pired term. II is believed that congress will
pass laws authorizing such an election There
is generally q motive for every act, and one
need not look far to discover what prompts the
present governments to arrest members Of con-
gress who are opposed to his usurpation, or to
Danish men who may be able, in reputable
way, 10 exercise an influence on the voters who
are to be sent to congress"
1t is well knowD that Senior Carvalho can
not be influenced by any intrigue with Da
Fonsecas friends. for not long ago he took per-
sonal command Of . gun boat in opposition to
that gentlenan's pretensions at 3 critical
juncture, when the short-lived president at
tempted to dissolve congress. In reply to hint
that IL these banished naval and military Off
GERS are really guilty of conspiracy they deserve
punishment, he said: ''To begin with, then,
Peixotto should be the very first to suffer-
While trusted officer of the late emperor he
was the head conspirator in secret, against the
empire; afterward he conspired against his
leader. Deodora Fonseca, whom he had sworn to
sustain; and, thirdly, notwithstanding the
solemn oaths Of his high Office, he is conspiring
against the people for his own selfish ends"
FAMILIES OF THE ExILKs.
Some twenty families of the exiles have &C
companied their husbands and fathers to far
distant Amazonia as many noble Russian women
have chosen to follow their loved ones to Siberia
and share their perils and privstions. Among
them are gray-haired old ladies'. young matrons
with babies in their arms, blooming girls, chill
dren, nurses and servants-most of them bear
ing the indefinable but unmistakable marks of
culture, wealth and refinement, for these exiles
are not from the ranks of the hoipolloi, but from
the creme de la creme of Brazilian aristocracy.
The thing that seems to rankie most in the
minds Of the older men, particularly the mill
tary and naval officers of high rank, Is what
they consider the browning insult and
degradation Of being sent away I'M
der the guard of a lot Of small bows.
Besides twenty-three cadets from the military
school OF Dom Pedro III and fifteen officers, the
highest OF whom has the rank of second lieu
tenant, the prisoners are guarded. by 140
younger lads, all in their early teens who strut
about with surprising display of shirt cuffs.
gilt braid and "a little brief authority" Such
grizzled veterans as Field Marshal Barretto
the hero of hundred hard-fought battles,
would infinitely prefer military execution TO
this humiliation and the living graveyard to
which they are being consigned. Had they
been guilty of any real offense, such as seeking
to originate a conspiracy against the dictator,
more honorable and easy death might have been
their portion. But they have made no attempt
at instigating revolution. II 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 off in the darkness Of the
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
Ike true version OF the affair. because all such
communications are under Peixotto's most
rigid censorship. and not q word goes over the
wires detrimental to the interests of the usurper
who bids fair to out-czar the Car of ell the Rus
sias in his arbitrary DEGREES.
NO PROPER CONCEPTION OF A REPUBLIC
No truer words were ever spoken than those
by Senior Jose Carvslho to the representative
Of the United States at Para when he said:
"Our people have no proper conception Of
republic. First, we have political educa-
tlon; second, we have not even republican ideas;
third, we have not enough patriotism: fourth,
there 10 too much personality and mercenary
feeling; fifth, 1 am q naval officer myself, but
contend that the military and navy should be
subordinate to the civil There is no discipline
IN our army and navy. All our troubles come
from this source and will continue until we re-
duce the army to peace footing, as it is with
the army of the United States Of North America,
and then put the belhgerent over on the FROM
tier. They are the ones who should be sent to
the deserts OF the Amazonia instead of those on
board the Pernambuco"