The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-02

will be disappointed, but, like his illus
trious uncle, he has been shrewd enough
to place large sums of money in the
United States and Europe to soften tho
exile which may be his lot.
The inside facts of the present trouble
arc these: Barrios does not want to fight.
He would gladly make a complete surren-
der to MeXico's demands If the surrender
would not Instantly result in revolution,
which would cause his overthrow. There
is strong revolutionary party in Guate-
mala, numbering among its adherents the
followers of the late General Barrundia,
killed by Guatemalan authorities on a
steamship in the port of San Jose Aug. %,
1880. In Salvador are the friends of the
Ezetas, who conducted ono successful rev.
olutIon, in which they thoroughly whipped
Guatemala. They have lately been in
Mexico, where they laid the wires for the
present trouble.
Barrios was in this dilemma: If be ac-
coded to Diaz' demands he would be over
thrown; If he refused he would have to
fight Mexico, with the Ezetas keeping
Salvador from aiding him. Tho Ezeta
party would come to the top in either con-
tingency in both Salvador and Guatemala,
and Diaz would see to it that they are
made strong enough to stay on top.
Tho remainder of the programme is
some years away, but it includes the abb
sorption of Salvador and Guatemala by
Mexico. Tho large planters, the railway
builders, the merchants in both Salvador
and Guatemala quietly but heartily favor
annexation, for they know annexation
will put an end to revolution and hasten
the material development of both states.
The coffee packing season is just closing.
A splendid crop has been harvested and
by tho middle of February it will have
been turned into cash. The coffee crop
once out of the way, the turmoil will be-
gin, and the Spanish American fire once
started, it is impossible TO predict where
or when it will end.
There is n revolutionary party in every
Spanish-American country, and the I'M
usual Spanish-Amcrican administration
is SO worthless and corrupt 1t is only
question OF time when the revolutionary
party in each Will become strong enough
TO make successful fight and permit tho
people to have q new set of governmental
robbers. The trouble will undoubtedly
extend TO tho isthmus, Costa RIGA alone
being even partially safe. Colombia has
n strong revolutionary party, which
tIOuDlc unlcSS the mouth OF inc
Magdalena river is opened, so that the
port of Baranqualla may have n fair
show in competition with Carthagena.
Tho most interesting development, how
ever, is confidently looked for in Cuba.
The home rule party has demanded GER
tain reforms from tho Spanish cortez.
The cortez is interested in keeping the
present Office holding Cuban bureaucracy
In power, and will not grant the radical
reforms demanded. Two influential Gu
bans were in Washington recently. They
SAID that if the demands were not granted
before the end of March, all Cuba would
unite in n revolution which would DO for
independence, and would be successful.
These men have had communication with
or connection with the so-called Cuban
revolutionists who hang around New
York, Tampa and Key West. and who arc
more interested in Smuggling than Cuban
politics. They represent the largo plant
ers and business men of Cuba, who hith-
erto have held aloof from revolutionary
movements, and TO whom no revolution
can be a success.