Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-13

II went to enrich as romantic band
as ever cut It's way to fortune.
SIN It IS sad commentary on the
rough path that Is prepared In this
world for the righteous that the very
fact that the kings Of Acre sought to
increase their substance by honest
trade should have led to their undoing.
but so II was. Had they been content
70 sit in sloth and seize what money
they could bv virtue Of their dictator
ship they might have been left in prac.
teal peace for years For revolutions
and proclaimed republics and dictator
ships spring up throughout South
Africa like mushrooms.
But prosperity brought envy down
upon Acre. Settlers began 10 pour In.
Most of them did not know what kind
of republic this was, and less cared.
One government Is much like another
there, It IS Ike the saying about rum,
only turned around. there are poor ones
and poorer ones. but there "ain't any
good governments.
The intimation that somebody was
actually making money aroused all the
national pride Of Bolivia. Brazil and
Peru. Soldiers began 10 move. The
Old boundary disputes all came up with
new light on them
Now, II Is matter OF almost
year to move troops into that country
from many points of It's confines
Troops from Peru and Bolivia had to
take ship at the Pacific coast. 20 north
to the lsthmus of Panama, cross It,
take ship again and go south, and then
finally make their way up the Amazon
country. That required much time. The
kings of Acre sat tight and fastened
only In their amassng of honest
wealth. They knew that when the
troops arrived the game would be fin
ished
What happened after those troops did
come+after months and more months
of weary marching and swimming and
canoeing and climbing-reads dlspirit-
ingly and tediously like catalogue
Some Of the kings Of Acre "lit out. +"
The baseball players departure was
sudden. He had reasons. He had more
than 100000 banked safely in civilized
banks, Many OF his comrades doubt
less a.e tramps today, as they began.
II is the way OF Rurltanians. Some or
the kings elected to stay and fight.
Several Of them found II fatal Others
went to prison stu others have kept
II up ever since, and they change from,
directors and president to fugitiyes ana
back again so often and so suddenly
that It would be quite impossible to
trace their careers.
For instance, one director. the Ital-
ian Parraviclnl, fed before the Bolivian
troops While they were chasing him
another body of Bolivian soldiery en-
tered Puerto Acre and established
headquarters there. While they Were
III the act of settling down for a rest.
a Brazilian engineer, Gentil NorbCrto.
proclaimed a new republic right under
thelr noses He imprisoned the 30.
llVlan officers and went on TO spread
the glad news While he was away the
two officers so worked on the mercrrial
population with manifestoes Ga favor
lie Lain method of warfare) that Nor
perto mad TO return and release them.
Later the Bolivians abandoned Puerto
acre 'on account of the climate"
Ihey needed no weather prophet TO tell
them II was going to be hot
III the meanwhile another body OF
BollVian trcps had been advancing
from another direction. Suddenly they
met not N0rberto, but a brand new
dictator, or rather three, for Hipollto
Moreira, Edmonds Bastus and Col
Alexandrlno GIL had formed a trium,
yirate Then fighting began afresh
Troops began TO move in again. And
while they We're In the midst OF f.
Manuel tclicio, crdelly defined as a
highwayman, proclaimed himself dicta-
tor.
Last year general peace was ear.
rived at" Then there was comuorativ.
quiet although there never was a time
when some kind OF a revolution wa,
not ON foot. But with the news that
the Bolivian government had granted
rights to the American syndicate. all
the troubles bid fair TO begin agan.
II there Is TO be any money made down
there Bolivia, Peru and Brazil all
want II. Brazil threatens all kinds Of
things now II the American conces-
sion stands. To an extent Brazil has
the upper hand, because at present the