The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-16

dies out, President Jorge Mont6 .,, sn4 iba
quietly work for himself the scheino Ol''''
was death to Balmaceda. c,,o,,;sh
Left to themselves the llIlo S1ie;Iia,1s
mixture of men that we call Chiiia aas
would calmly mark time while lne i09 ~
of the procession marched by then, q IL
is the infusion of English, irish ~. I bae
man life, ambition and vitality tll"' slite
pushed the true Chilians ahead III 49, o,,
of themselves. 1t is the impetus 800. iodd
by the northern races that mas so oi and
the Spanish mongrel off his ieeV ''il''
made him dizzy as to his heao. ho,oos-
Look at the names of their loi IL
Arturo Pratt-Doesn't that so pn,.,,a 10
Arthur Pratt, an Englishman? bernalu 1
O'Higgins, Bernard O'Higgins, a descent !,
ant of kings in tsthe ould counUhIy:
Patricio Lynch, Patrick Lynch, on ln1. =
takably French-Celtic at least aa'
tells the story. What is wortny VI ~
miration in Chill or in her history coiio'
from England or Ireland, pu,;s,,
Valparaiso is more or less an Ehgli isal
settlement. 1t is built on uHree LIS III
which of course have their own opta,I1ad
names. But they are known bne m W. ~ ~
over by English and American sailois al
the ''Fore, Main and Mizzen Iops. anu
the rest of the city is grouped a I
these tops in a manner nauticaiiy Gu
tistic For instance, Calle oan = uo.n
would from it's position pc calleu
inc .Jibboom street. And the street on
which is the Prefecture DE Folcla is
naturally termed "The Brig
In 1879 Chill by her war with Peru ana
Bolivia gained the two districts OF TARA
paca and Antofogasta including the
desert of Atacama where are such I'M
mense mines of nitrate OF soda. Berofe
the nitrate was discovered this strip lying
between the three countries was con-
sidered worthless and was claimed by
none of them. Immediately that IL De-
came valuable, the three tumbled over
one another to get it; and Chin was the
fortunate one because she was the strong
est. This territory furnishes half the
revenue of the country in time OF peace,
and dnring the late unpleasantness 1t
furnished the sinews of war to the Junta
and made revolution possible.
Chill also gobbled the greater part OF
Peru's guano islands and would have
absorbed the whole country, had not
Uncle Sam put his arm around the bleed
ing body Of Peru and told Chill to keep
off.
Small wonder that they hate us since
we woke them SO suddenly from :, the
dream OF conquest that was sWellnS
heads to such ieonine proportions. BUT
in few year after the PERUVIAN war,
the Chilians began to forget their rude
awakening and began also to treat Amer.
cans half decently. They might have
become fully reconciled to us II Minister
of hmm aT,1t5u
creditable alike to himself and the
country which he represented, had not
baked them of revenge on their now
tract from the courage OF the Chilenos.
They fight like devils! They do not fear
death. But they are inclined to light
more fercely after the battle when their
victims are powerless, and for deeds OF
the most devilish cruelty. look through
the history of the Peruvian war and this
last Revolution.
They are particularly Jealous OF the
term American" which Uncle Samuel
has appropriated to himself, and are very
careful to refer to a citizen of the United
States as a "North American" They
say; ''Nosotros somos los Anericdnos. :"
We are the Americans. We have taken
large territory from the Argetine on the
south We have done the same to our
neighbors on the north. We will soon
become the masters of South America,
and then look out for us in the United
State?' 1t sounds much like the dream
of the crockery peddler in the Arabian
Nights, but they really believe the desti-
ny of Chill to be Universal Dominion.
Iasked one gentleman how he pro-
posed to attack us. He answered that
they would lombard San Francisco.
Capture it. Land and march across the
country to New York, taking Chicago on
the way. Perhaps they might succeed if
they were careful not to get run over by
the railroad cars.
The Chilian people seem to have no
proper idea of the size and Importance
of the United States. 1t is natural for
them to think Chill as large as our own
country. For have they not about as
much sea coast? Not having any inland
country themselves, they cannot realize
that we have an immense one. No
doubt many of them believe New York
has no other excuse for being than that
it is the sea port for Chicago, and San
Francisco may figure in their minds as