Show THE CHILIAN TROUBLES A struggle straggle for principles and ana not 9 tor for spoilt spoils y yoni jan 23 shippers in south street and many largo exporters to chili were very verv much excited by news which rca reached lied the city about noon to tho the act that the rebels were gaining ground all along the line and that president bali Bahna ceila would probably have to knock knock under at the of win P grace it co was found another atmosphere one of confidence in the government and general belief that the present revolutionary troubles would soon subside leikett like a tei tempest ripest in a teapot without doing anyone very much harm we ha bac received long oil and voluminous ti dispatches only this morning front from valparaiso mid aid a member of the firm but as they refer to our private affairs affair I 1 do not feel justified in making them public in in town however I 1 do not mind saying baying that the custom house is closed and that owing to the uncertain political situation that prevails all business is ata at a standstill the government still refu refuses sets to allow any cipher dispatches dispatch esto to pass as well AS any ally political information which hiir our commercial tele telegrams granis may contain the only news that has readied reached this country or europe relative to the alleged successes of the rebels a against ainest president balmaceda lias has conic come atia ia buenos ayres and must of course have been dispatched over the andes by bics enger and wired from corric town in western argentine pay rosario this news whenever it 1 is i s bul bad news we have learned to take c with considerable talt it ia h generally doctored to tile the disadvantage of chill chili in argentine in the press comments which I 1 have noticed the present trouble in chilli ems to ila hac e been completely misunderstood it is not a revolution after the approved fashion of south and central american revolutions lut ions 4 with which we are well acquainted it is not a struggle of two popular and self gelf seeking n chieftains for the spoils of office but a constitutional et at ruggle unlike most south americans the chillianis Chil Cliff lians pay pa very little attention to politics latterly however they have been waking up perhaps the example of their neighbors has become infectious the difficulty however afi us simply thia quite a considerable number of influential chiliano Chi lians are dissatisfied with the present electoral system which in point of fact gives giac the retiring president the appointment of his successor they hac petitioned president balmaceda to call to together other a constituent assembly to iise revise c the whole electoral system before the coming 0 election this it eams deenis s lie he refuses to do hence the trouble we have no means of knowing what the out outcome conie will be A political principle divides divide t the country yet we believe that the opponents of general Balina ceda are arc as ali and patriotic as lie we hope and believe the trouble will be arranged peacefully but we feel assured that the credit of the country and foreign capital there invested are as safe in ill the hands of one party as with willi the other |