Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-17
Trouble il Brazil

III Trouble IN Brazil
Brazilshas been so free from any serious militsr!y
DISTINGUISHES for a long time that. news that tho cit
les Of Rio Janeiro. Nictheroy and Petropoliss ha.e
been declared in a state of insDrrection $50 re.
main until March 81, comes as a surprise. This
step has been taken. 1t is reported, as a means q.
preventing trouble which may result from the re-.
cent insurrection in the state of Coara. where the
Situation is reported to he. .becoming worse.
The American press. from. the tone of its editor
iaIs, shows that 1t plainly was nnprepared for the
= news from the South American republic. The
Scranton Times says:
Brazil has been looked upon as representing q
stability of government approaching that Of our own.
The progress Of the country in the arts, sciences
and commerce has made it one of the last places
In tSonth America to look for rebellion. Martial
law has been declared In three states The seat
OF the trouble is In Pernambuc0. Cerea and Para,
all important s%centers and thickly populated. II
seems to be almost entirely confined to these dis
tricts, which dispels the fear that 1t might have any
underlying cause. The circumstances Indicate that
y racial differences are behind the %Outburst, rather
than dissatisfaction with fundamental republican
principles. There is a disposition among some OF
the irreconcilab'es to return to. the imperial form OF
government. " 1t is just possible that re.
cent REPORTS of the i'll health of President Marshal
Hcrmesade Fanseca have some hearings on the ap.
p~arently precipitate proclamation of a state Of siege.
President de Fonseca was elected in 1910, and his
term @of Office expires this year. Because of his ill
health, it was reported a movement was recently
started to induce him TO resign. De Fonseca has
been regarded as something of a dictator, and has
served his country in every military capacity
The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph is sure that
the regret in the United States over affairs in Brazil
yRllsE4hee general and comments as follows:
tho g~nidnnoot.nf n u.aCooco;on ~ ohln yam.
ss~effvatiye statesmen that country has come: to oc.
cupy a place of wholesome leadership among the
nations Of Latin America. The example of peace
and prosperity set by Brazil, Argentina and Chile
unquestionably exerted a b~enefcent influence upon
the less stable nations along the Pacific Coast and
Caribbean Sea-. For many years Brazil has given
her disturbed %neighb0rs an exhibition of %constitu-
tionala orderliness which cannot fail to. lose its value
If the present armed uprising is not suppressed
Immediately. Americans will hope for d speedy
return of recognized authority in Brazil"
The Providence Evening Tribune rather attributes
much Ct the trouble in Brazil to the appropriately
Of President dc Fanseca which, It says. has been
emphasized by social acts and executive weakness.
'Ihc airsS thing that caused criticism" says the
TriAare,.sswas lAs marriage a. few months after hts
FIRST w!fe-d:ed,t 10 q young woman of twenty-seven
years. AZ Fonseca at that time was sixty-three he
was severely condemned by a part of the public.
Since the spring of 1910 FOnseca has had, respective.
sly. to deal with rebellion in the State Of Amazonas,
armed clashes with Argentina and q grave mntiny
in the navy. The trouble in Amazonas showed how
unstable were the regular military forces OF the
Government. The regularly elected Governor was
deposed by the opposition party, with the aid OF
the national troops. Fonseca interfered and forced
the regular Governor into position again.
THE mutiny aboard the 2O,O0O.ton dreadnought,
NIinoc. NE o,I on1s Co. EHr1o 81 uo.5f. (. .o,1 A. -
lack Of discipline. The dSSexs.. *totalling$ fifteen hun.
dred, consist mainly OF men of black races. with
a few leaders. chosen from among their own, num-
Der. they drove out the commanders, operated the
great ships successfully, controlled the wireless,
:manevuvred the guns and forced the Government to
amnesty acts and to order changes in naval routine,
one of which was the disuse of the cat-oninetails,
with which stubborn sailors had been f0gged. The
mutiny and the rebellion in Amazonas showed that
the fabric of military and naval Government was
exceedingly rotten.
FOR this reason the optimistic reports which the
Brazilian Foreign Office is sending out may be we'll
doubted. Grave happenings are possible in Erazil.
The present disturbance shows how unstable the
republics Of South and Central America really are.
Brazil, with an area larger than continental United
States, exclusive of Alaska. and with great cities,
a splendid navy, schools, commerce and all the
developments OF modern growth, is in fact, In the
grip Of a rebellion as menacing-i ii SO far as pres.
ent information indicates---as. that recently Witnessed
in Peru! s:fajs
lndiscrin inmate criticism Of railroads comes to I
pause for ;serious thought when even a remote pos.
sibility Of! putting any of them entirely out Of bus.
mess suggests itself.
The Iowa proposal that the governor and chief
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