The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-05

ranny. But it was debased none the les.
by horrid practices. which relate back [,
poor Tupac Amaru and forward events
that are soon 10 occur in the great domair
beyond the sea. The French soldiers cap
tured in battle were subjected 70 the mos
. revolving cruelties. The horrors Of the pr
son ships in which they were confined can
hardly be imagined. People who sympa-
thized with the natural aspiration of the
Spaniards had a revulscion Of feeling
when they came near the dreadful atroc-
ties Of those years Of war and anarchy.
PrIsonres were hung up by the wrists and
roasted over slow fires. They were placed
between planks and saHn in two as
though they We're logs. We can see the
good Jugde up there in the Cordilleras
smilign blandly as he looksfar across up
on the scene and hear him softly saying:
These are my people. How homeike it
all is, and comfortable. and edifying"
Strange things, however, are happening
right beneath mis- feet After the depart
ure of the king to his prison at Bayonne
the colonials evinCe a certain spirit of 10y
atty. Much as they may complain of the
Spaniards there is pride in them that re-
sents the passage of the French into the
peninsula, and the coming of King Joseph
| Bonaparte. Napoleon's brother, 10 Mad
rid. They look with suspicion on the min
listers who have seemed to favor Napole-
! on's schemes, and they are equally doubt
/ full about a patriotic cortes which assem-
| bles at Cadiz in 1910 They are in truth
| loyal to Ferndinad. or at least they are
/ loud in their professions of loyalty. And
during his exile hey Will swear allegiance
! TO no one else. 50 they assembled what
| they called juntas gubernatiras, the places
and times of meeting being: Caracas,
April Is, 1903: La Paz, July Is, 1909; Quito,
August g. 1909: Buenos Ayres, May %,
1910; BogOta, May %, 1910; Santiago, Sep
TENDER 1910. In their inception these jun
tas were not exactly revolutionary, but
revolution seeking independence broke out
at Dolores, Mexico, September Is, 1910. and
there was an insurrection in upper Peru
still earlier.
1t is plain that the anarchy across the
this hemisphere. Who and what is a
veceroy?" Is he a Corts man, or d King
Joseph man, or King Ferdinand man?
Why should we Americans submit to these
fellows anyway" These are questions
that are bound to be asked even though
they shock Judge Areche up there on the
heights now smiling less blandly than be
fore. But there is hope for him, since
in theanswers there is blood-bleod and
more blood, though Ferdinand is in exile
and a Corts of liberal doctrinaries is max
ing laws and framing a constitution. Note
the dates. Ferdinand arrives in BayoGne, (
France, on April %, s1So8. He does not re-
turn to Spain until March a, 1914. The /
liberal constitution is promulgated on I
March 70, 1912. Bur it is Spanish liberalism |
liberal only to Spain, and fully as disas- |
trous to the colonies as absoluusm. To (
show what II really means in the Western /
world, here IS a chronicle of some of the /
events that took place in South America /
and Mexico during the years from 1910 /
to 1914 inclusive.
In 1910, a Spanish butcher, named Goye- !
neche, comes down from Peru toward the /
Argentine. offering peace with one hand /
while he stabs with the other ~ Huaqui /
he defeats the troops from Buenos Ayres |
under DIR. Costello, and afterwards perpe- /
trates innumerable atrocities.
In Mexico General TruiilIo encourages a
mission from the patriot Hidalgo which
approaches under flag of truce. and
when it is near, orders his men to fire,
and thus have every one of its members
murdered. After deceiving 5000 Indians
and entrapping them, General Calleji puts
them all 10 the sword. One Spanish com
mander gives public and official praise
TO a dragon who in pursuing the insur-
gents had a brother, who knelt to him to
beg his life. which he took with his own
hands" Still another commander of the
same Spanish taste and temperament rec
ommeuds a sergeant "as deserving the
rank Of an officer, for amongst other gal
liant actions. he killed one Of his own
who, making himself known. re
ceived for answer that he 0he sergeanD /
knew no nephew among Insurgents
These were deeds to warm the good
Arches heart and to make his bosom
swell with pride of race. But as Yet he
has surveyed only part of the territory
and there are other good things to come
while the liberal cortes is still expOstulat-
ing and growing eloquent upon the rights
~ man over there in Spain Trouble has
broken cut in almost every district Of the
Spanish American domnions. and the
diminishing IS going on with great vigor.
while the names Of BOLIVIA, San Martin,
O'Higgins and other patriots are becom-
ng known. though the day Of their tri-
1mph is not at hand. On July .. 1872. the
-ity Of Caracas in Venezuela capi-ulates
o the Spanish General Montverde. There
; an undertaking on his part that the
ives, property and persons Of citizens
shall be held sacred, that there shall be
general amnesty. But Immediately he
arrests every colonial OF rank in the coun-
~ on whom he can lay hands. and sends
most Of them II the loathsorae dungeons
+ Ia Guavra and Puerto Cabelio. where
many 81 them perish from suGcca-ion
y disease The brave General Miranda
with whom the stipuIatons were made.
6 loaded with chains and sent across 70
liberal prison In Cadiz. where ne perishas
nisarabiy
Fmulous 81 he conduct ot Mo1tsverde
sueta exposes his prisoners - The FIRE ~ ?
he patriots and has them thrown into :
o1toons AZ night. where ff-y arssu9o-
sted Another % these savsges e. named
,uv He arrests 81 people or the charge
sa- they are dlsarectei ard when be
ears ~ the approach OF the enemy. he
as IN Of hem s1o, down without trial. "
III would XIII the others. too. u time
-s-e not pressing Bu, the man after
Judge Arecaa's own soul "a n murderer "
am>I Doves. WIZ actually de7opuiates "
country i9o miles n extent and slauEa- =
s-s the officers and men xho cspstu-s-a =
, him 9: Valencia, though hs taE swo-a !,
sfo-e the altar and during the nost SOL .