Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
Brazil in Revolution.

Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Cuba-now
indeed abroad in the Latin American
land. Events in the republic of the Dom
Pedros have not yet reached the stage
of imminent overthrow of the govern
ment at Rio de Janeiro, but the great
Southern states of Rio Grande do Sui,
Minas Geraes and Parahyba appear to
be firmly in revolutionary hands, in
GLIDING the important harbor city of
Porto Allegro.
A portion {: the Brazilian Navy is re-
ported to have gone over to the insur-
gents, while troops in the rebelling
states are undergoing mobilization for a
formal march against the seat of fed
eral power in the North, including the
various state governments lying between
'BraziIs Dixie and Rio de Janerio. Out
going dispatches are undergoing severe
censorship, with the result that conflict
ing news is emanating from border
countries, principally Uruguay.
That the revolutionary pot is boil
ing in Brazil is certain. That it can
easily boil over, with transcendent con-
sequences, seems just as sure. President
Washington Luis government, at whose
abolition the southern revolutionaries
aim, is evidently determined, like
President Machado's regime at Havana,
to fight for its life. The Brazilian
Congress, at Senior Luis instigation,
yesterday voted $4,000, 900 to suppress
revolt in Rio Grande do Sui and Minas
Geraes. This defense appropriation
was decreed on the heels of a congress
sional enactment declaring a state of
siege in the States afiame with rebellion.
Between them, Rio Grande do Sui,
half the population of Brazil. That is
q circumstance by itself which portrays
the enormity and gravity of the crisis.
The cause of Brazil's troubles is not
far to seek. AS elsewhere in South
America, where revolution has recent
ly reared its head, economic distress is
the match which lit the fires of re-
volt In Cuba, it is sugar that lies
at the bottom of the revolutionary cup.
In Brazil, coffee fills it. The cele-
brated coffee defense" or "vaIoriza-
ton" plan. by which the Rio govern
ment has sought in recent years to re-
strict production and maintain prices,
has not achieved the expected results.
Financially and industrially, Brazil is
hard hit. Anti-government plotters,
ambitious militarists, and political NAL
contents thrive on economic unrest.
They are taking advantage of its ex-
istence in Brazil
Civil war in a neighboring land,
where North and South clash, cannot
fail TO conjure up sad memories in
the United States. Northern political
Brazilian affairs. Against its perpet-
uation the South is now in uprising
Ties Of trade and sentiment unite us
very closely to the Brazilian people
They made President-elect Hoover's
visit to Rio early in 1929 the occasion
for demonstrating their desire for con-
tinued comradeship with the Colossus
of the North President-elect Prestes,
who visited Washington this year, left
behind everywhere the happiest impress
sion. For all these reasons we in the
United States trust that the Brazilians
may resolve their difficulties and ami
mosities without bloodshed and with
out enduring hurt to the sources OF
welfare in the Amazonian Republic
whose vast reaches exceed in area even
those Of Uncle Sans wide open spaces