Evening star., 1927-08-23
Little Hope of Incas Gaining
Better Conditions FOreseen

| News points out, land the record Of
cruel oppression has continued down
to modern times. Regrettable as is
their rebellion and deplorable as are
| the maSsacreS and bloodShed which
| must attend it. the hope may be en-
| tertained that the white rulers will re-
store peace on a basis of greater con-
| sideration for the welfare of these
people" The Saginaw Daily News
| feels also that sympathy for Il revolt
| like that cannot be withheld by people
having regard for justice" and sug-
gests, THAT they have revolted is but
natural, for it is still presumably true
that the worm will turn"
From another point of view. the
Reno Evening Gazette argues that
there ought to be no question of
where the sympathies of enlightened
peoples should be in the Bolivian con-
fiict,' for, as that paper views the
situation: '"They should sustain the
whites. 1t is the white men of Bo.
livia who have developed their noun
famous country. to the extent that it
has been, and there is no proof that
would be accepted by average men or
women, let alone courts or historians,
that the Indians have been defrauded
or mistreated." The Albany Evening
News is convinced that these Indians
cannot prevail against the white man."
and then asks, Have the reds finally
succeeded in an appeal for the de-
scendants OF the red men of a once
mighty empire to .recapture what once
belonged to their ancestors?"
GA flash in the pan, set off by agi-
tators with ulterior motives" is the
nXn i,,Is
ph1a Public Ledger, while the Chicago
Tribune is impressed by the picture
of a promised Communist revolt.
with its methods of ruthless slaughter
insured by the primitive nature of
savages." and predicts that the course
OF events will be watched with some
anxiety" The Boston Transcript sees
the demonstration as IAN echo of the
events in Mexico" and concludes that
in spite of all the dreams that may
be dreamed of restoration of the
Inca Empire, the success of such a
rebellion as that which has been at
tempted at Potosi and thereabout
would mean nothing less than a pro-
letarian revolution"
The nation which steps in to re-
store order will be called a meddler.'
according to the Oakland Tribune.
~AAN JSS' - ehAS wal SOeS OH WIFI tHt
proud and fatalist Incas, armed with
sllng-shots and clubs, battling the wen
armed soldiers, there will be an ap-
palling shedding of brave blood,
decimation of an ancient tribe" The
kansas City Journal-Post finds that
there does not seem to be even pre-
text under which the United States
can intervene and stop the massacre
ana adds that ''if one should be found.
tne pan-American critics of the United
states would be quick as ever in see
ing devilish plan for American dom
nation"
"A war of determination, not pleas
ing to contemplate. is no doubt now
IN progress, says the Louisville Cou-
rler-Journal. which believes that the
odds are ''in favor of less than a third
of the population" The Waterbury >.
Republican states that lit is undoubt-
edly true that the dream of re-estab-
lishlng the ancient empire is at the
back of the leaders heads"
The Brooklyn Eagle AYERS that "few
thinkers will attribute any disturbance
to any propag ga nda from Moscow" but
the New York Herald Tribune con-
cludes that IF one could believe that
the Bolivian descendants of the Incas
were really interpenetrated with the
doctrines of Marx, it would be a strik-
ing case of reversion to type. for no
state ever existed so per
feet as that described in Prescott's
jeweled prose"