The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-13

perfect pest of disease. 1t is. in fact. said
that the bad odors and filth in the harbors
and inner bays there create and greatly
add TO the epidemics.
CREWS DECIMATED EY FEvERS.
There have been times in Santos and
Rio when dozens of vessels have been ly-
ing idle for months waiting to fill up the
ranks of crews that have been decimated
by the fevers. Many instances have oc-
Cured. especially in Santos, where captains.
officers and all the crew have been cleaned
out. Captain Baker and Captain Crossman,
who are going down, have regularly for
years past visited these ports, and If they
have been at all observant they must real
lie all the risks being taken by the men
who are e~nlisting for that service. They
should remember that it is a very different
matter going down on clean American mer-
chant ships, which remain in the harbor
but a few days, and going there on a ship
owned and controlled by Braziiians. They
may be detained there for months, and
there will probably be no hesitancy in or
dering them ashore If their services can
be better utilized there than on board their
ships.
9TH best thing that could happen to the
Americans who go down would be to be
blown to atoms by the torpedoes of Mello
at once. 1t is hardly probable, however,
that any such good fortune shall befall
them, for it has been clearly shown that the
Brazl1ans Keep up a fire at one another
day after day for weeks at a time and
only by the merest accident do they ever do
any damage. In my opinion three or four
hundred trained and courageous Americans
could go down to Brazil and capture not
only one side but both sides taking part in
the conflict The American will go in for
business. while the Brazilians on their side
will probably wage their customary sleepy
and bloodlesS warfare. In all the conflicts
which they have had during recent years
they have scarcely ever sacrificed a life.
The little feet fitted out here, therefore,
promises to be a host in itself for the GOV
SO greatly valued that they will undoubtedly
be compelled 10 remain in the country after
once entering il. Will not these men forfeit
all right TO protection from the government
OF the United States after once enlisting to
fight for a foreign power? If they expect
any consideration or appreciation from the
Brazilians they will find themselves sadly
mistaken. Everybody in the army and navy
and civil service of Brazil seems to be
actuated by the pettiest kind of jealousies
and personal selfishness. Therein lies the
cause of the whole present trouble, and II
really will not matter very much to the
republic of Brazil as to which side might
win the day in the present struggle.
~Peixoto is I1doubtediy an. autocratic
as the executive or a moribund village IN
any other country than Brazil. He was
placed in power merely on account OF bNng
a leading general in an army that had never
seen any service. His spokesman, Ruy Bar
bosa, is a man whose patriotism consists IN
looking after the spoils of office. He was
one of the leaders in the bloodless insur-
rection which resulted in the deposition and
exile of Dom Pedro. He then became Sec
rotary of the Treasury under the reckless
and corrupt administration of Marshal da
Fonseca. AS Secretary of the Treasury
Barbosa gathered around him a lot of adj
venturers, a set of mountebanks and BAN
ditti, who started wildcat banks and COM
panios. carried on a series OF unrivaled ana
unprecedented financial operations TO such
an extent that business in Rio became a
daily and laughable display of opera bouffe
financiering.. Mayrinck came into power,
and, as the head of the new national bank
and through Ruy BarbOsa, he was led to is
sue hundreds of millions of dollars of new
money Within six months noaTlX a num-
dred more new banks appeared on the scene
with no other business than to play, like
so many dummies, into the hands of the ma
tiOnal bank and a horde of these adven-
turers, who created hundreds, nay, thou
Brazil show that new companies were
foated with a financial capitalization of
about eight hundred million OF dollars. Con-
sentative men stood aloof ana looked on
with abject horror and prepared themselves
for the crash that was inevitabie.
LIVED LIKE PRINCES.
For a time, however, Mayrinck and 9TH
ers whose credit prior 70 the advent of
Barbosa was on a par with that of a 'vag'
In this country seemed to roll in wealth
and luxuries. They reared palaces and
equipped them in the most sumptuous man
ner, employed retinues of servants, rode
the t~horoughfares of the town in equip
ages and generally lived on a scale of royal
splendor. Mayrinck, who was the arch
schemer of this select coterie of govern
ment plunderers, had a palatial office,
where he ruled as the Jay Gould of the new
order of things which had been effected In
Brazil through his Napoleonic operations
I'm finance, and he was daily in conSulta-
ton with Barbosa, who is now posing as
the great reformer. anxious to depose PelX-
OTTO, who. on account of his misdeeds, has
declared against him.
IF Mello succeeds this man will undoubt-
eddy come to the front again. If Peixoto
retains power officials of his own inner cir
Gle of friends will continue TO keep the COM
years to come. The only hope for the coun7
try is in the aScendency of some man who
succeeds in forcing himself to the front by
virtue of pure patriotism and who will Gre
ate an era of political reform and purifi-
cation in the Republic OF Brazil. The old
Emperor, Dom Pedro, was known TO be q
republican at heart, and it was undoubt-
eddy his intention to bring to the front the
best men In the country, so that a repIp-
lie could eventually be started auspiciously.
The most corrupt element among the poll
ticians of Brazil, however, prevented the
realization of the honest intentions and de-
sires of this noble ruler. Since that time
capable and honest men have stood no
show in the councils of the country; it has
simply been a fight between the army and
navy. Barbosa and his crowd of politicians
were with the army as long as that side
everything in sight. Now that their little
game is at an end, and Mayrinck has been
placed in a madhouse, while the others are
In jail, they have gone over TO the navy.
Il could go on and say a great deal
more: in fact, volumes could be written
upon TINS SUBJECT, out Il Qlu not mtenu TO
talk at all. and was impelled to do so only
by a feeling of keen solicitation on account
of the fate in store for so many. hundreds
of my countrymen who are enlisting for
service underAthe Brazilian flag. They are
d. probably urged by a delusive hope OF finally
%settl;ro IN the country and having a better
ch@nca sLan at home. The opportunities
tfs-a g. they will find out, by no means
cSo,r s,~t,. ate with the risks they are rum
ling uEsre is mora competition in thai
co 81. between bright. active young men
from all parts of the world than can be
found anywhere in the United States. Any
man who has not sufficient intelligence 10
make his way here at home, certainly can
never succeed in accomplishing anything in
Brazil. Salaries there, on account of the
very much lower than In the United States,
while living is a great deal higher. AL
the necessaries of life are taxed to such an
extent that to live in any way d~ecently
will cost four times what ii does in New
York. which is the most expensive place
in this country to live in. In Brazil TIE rate
of compensation for work is kept lowered
on account of so many going out there
from England, France and Germany and
other Ovsrcrowded countries. I hope thai
all the good men who are going on this ex-
petition will become informed of what is
ahead Of them and fully realize all the ter
rible risks they are going to take before
engaging in a thanklesS task. Their only
reward, even if successful I'm getting there
will be the dissolution and disappointment
of their cherished hopes"
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