The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-09-19
Unrest in South America.
(New York Herald Tribune.) )

(New York Herald Tribune)
 Successful revolutions in Bolivia and Peru and
 rumblngs of political revolt in Argentina and Brazil demonstrate a condition of widespread unrest in South America The Bolivian overthrow, nearly bloodless and apparently hardly disturbing to the
 country's tranquility, clearly political in origin. But the with which President Sles
 seated in quarrel largely personal turning the official prominence given to an imported German
 military organizer, undoubtedly had its power of
 suggestion in neighboring countries, where dissat-
 isfaction with political and economic conditions went
 much deeper.
 i President Leguia of Peru had to contend with the animosty of the old landed aristocracy, to which he had long been odous as bourgeois and la moderniSt. The Peruvian army leaders were luke warm to him because he not of their class, Hard times had also overtaken Peru, taxes were heavy and enthusiasm for the Leguia program lof extensive public improvements waning With
 all his prestige and his achievements progress
 sve statesmen, the three-term dictator" busted
 from his post almost as abruptly and casually as Siles had been
 In Argentina Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, the seventy seven year-old leader of the Radical Party, who in
 the last Presidential election put to rout coalition Iof the Conservatives and the anti-Irigoyen Radi- calls has slipped back tremendously. This silent and self contained statesmen former schoomaster,
 has been unwilling to share responsibility and power with others. His policy of non-co-operaton has led to administrative deadlock. Many offices have
 been left thrilled and the President has quarreled continually with Congress He is also accused of having intervened arbitrarily in the operations of the State governments. Above all the general economic depression has hit Argentina hard and political antagonisms have been inflamed by busi- hess distresses Irigoyen, the former idol of the Argentine masses, is depending machine iguns to defend himself against violence and isination.
 The demonstrations in Rio Grande do Sul prob ably little to tranquility in the rest of Brazil This extreme Southern State is chemically turbu- lent but too far removed from the center of Bra zlian activities to disturb them unduly The trou- be reported there may be just local ebullition, significant only by coincidence of popular uneasi- ness in South American countries whose exports have been curtailed in amount and have fallen sharply in price because of sackenng world de- lmand for them.
 Business depression armed Leguia's enemies with ia weapon before which he powerless It may lcompel Irigoyen to quit, at least to out lof his strange isolation It will perhaps get the nerves of other South American Presidents for most lof them realize that revoutionist movement with lreal economic annoyances behind it is far more formidable than any purely political or military conspiracy could be- Dictators dictators ride
 uneasy when the specter of hard times rides behind them. Under such circumstances strong man" may come to the front and think that he is going far on his merit. But he is merely the beneficiary of the sort of underlying economic grievance which makes boom times for the dema- Igogue and the revolutionist.