The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-29
4 Chat With Him 10 His Palace 1t Lima About
His Country and the FlolToe Doctrine.

Copyrighted, 1858. By Frank G. Carpente~.
IT MA Peru. April 24-Tt was in
III company with Mr.. Richard X
III Neal. the secretary OF our lega-
III ton a. Lima. that caI.ed upon
uthe president this afternoon. His
axce-ieacy had appointed ,. IN.
Ter the audience. and at that hour We en-
tered the vast, low, one-story building
which forms the White koGse and govern
meat offices OF this republic. Soldiers in
uniforms or white duck. with guns a. their
sides. guarded the doors, and as We entered
the h4il We passed by a company OF in
faniry ready for immediate action III case
OF revolution. Additional guns stood in
RACKS against the walls. and my surround
ings were those OF a fortress rather than
a country where the people are supposed
10 rule This Is. you know land OF rev.
buttons. President Pierola came in after
many months OF hard fighting and in the
houses and churches of Lima you may yet
see the marks where the cannon balls and
bullets went crashing through. For days
the president besieged the city. The OPP
posing factions had Calling guns trained
upon one another, and they swept the
streets. The dead were carried out each
morning by the CARLOAD, and there were
so many dead horses that they were not
buried, but Were covered with coal oil, and.
match having been applied. were thus
consumed. With the new president, Ptero-
la. in ana the old president, Caceres, BAN
.sneo, there was peace and a new govern
ment. and there is peace today. The pres
ent administration has been in power for
several years. II is more progressive than
any administration Peru has had for a long
period. and under 1t the country Is steadily
improving. There is an opposition marty
however, and President Pierola is too good
a soldier to sleep on his arms. He keeps
Als troops in good order, and you find
soldiers almost everywhere present
Zen Picture OF the President OF Peru
AS we went further into the palace we
passed number OF officers in uniform
ana then proceeded through one ante room
after another. until we came into the NJ
flee OF the presidents private secretary
the j. Addison Porter OF Peru This man
vas even more suave than our Mr. Porter
ne toid US that the palace the presiden,
ana himself were at my disposition and
saat his exeeiiency would receive me at
once. lie went out, and a moment later
usnered MT Neal and myself into a large
hai furnished hot unlike one of our nuh
lice reception rooms at Washington, Tn
the center OF the room as we entered
STOOD "a straight, handsome man with an
eve as bright as that OF an eagle His
features were striking, and his strong
nose ana mouth those of leader Of men.
Ills torehead was very high. and the white
eufi Whieh hung down upon IL was
twisted about after the style Of our once
American dictator, Roscoe Conklinr
"hlIe his brown whiskers We're trimmed
AFTER the fashion OF Louis Napoleon. II
Wos Nicholas Pierola, the famous South
american statesman, general patriot ana
feFoiutlonist. the president of Peru. He
IS now. judge, between fifty and sixty
years OF age. probably nearer the latter
year tnan the former. He ia about five
feet six inches in height, but his military
bearing makes him look taller He was
dressed in black broadcoth suit with n
cameo medallion upon his white
tie He stepped toward US as we came in
una SHOOK nands with me upon my pre-
sentation. lie asked me to take a seat
on sofa, and. with his own hands
brought a chair and sat down beside ma
lie chatted some time with me az "a mr..
trip, and said he was glad to have an
American journalist come to Peru "a ba
iet that ms country was not properly
known In North America. During ~.
conversation In which Secretary Nea,
acted as interpreter. his excelency re-
ierreo 10 the wonderful mineral and agri-
cuituraI possibilities of Peru. He said
that It's mineral regions had not been
carefully prospected. that its surface was
hardIy scratched. and that IL 1t had the
proper amount or capital and the right
sort OF immigration Il would he ona ~
the richest countries on the con,ina,+
Upon my asking his exceisncy4 how he
regarded the introduction of American
money. he replied that Peru would be
glad 20 welcome any Americans that
might come, and that there were MANI
safe investments here which would Weld
a profitable return. He was anxlous. ha
said. 10 see an increased trade between
the sister republics OF the United states
and Peru, and hoped that one OF the trans
isthmian canals would be- pushed 10 It's
completion with that end in view.
The Monroe Doctrine.
During the audience told his excel,
lency Of a chat | had had with Presden,
Mckinley just before leaving Washing
ton, in which our president stated his
anxiety that the two continents should