Show PenPictnres of Barrios In his woik Manuel Gonzales and his Government in a chapter treating of Mexicos brush with Guatemala L Queveda Zubieta draws the following vigorous sketch of Rufino Barrios the President of Guatemala There was in the tiny neighboring republic of Guatemala a supreme chief lord of lives and lucre and he was called Rufino Barrios He was an Indian a stockman and brutal who fed on raw meat lie was a terrible pugilist and a fighter of men a conscienceless violator and tormentor of women He was president presi-dent and executioner more savage than Soloque Cettewayo or the Mahdi He ground under his feet all opposition and outdid in brutality all his petty chiefs and sultans Barrios was a singular personage I person-age He was built and adapted to lead a tribe of redskins and brandish the glistening tomahawk Notwithstanding by an aberration of fortune he arrived at the chief magistracy of an American republic I re-public with a constitution a congress I and a court of justice I To find his second self it is not necessary to search past and present history one must create a new tyrant out of a futile imagination Search the jails of earth choose the most depraved de-praved prisoner the most beastly violator of law with curses on his lips in his thought the deepest shadows in his breath the most deadly rancor in his soul execrations against man nature society so-ciety and Godand you have Barrios Make him king president chief of millions mil-lions of men delivered for his plastic hand the fashioning of his worst passions In company of one Barrundio his so two called minister of war Barrios for dominated 1200000 Guatemalans yeats to foretell when his and it was impossible dictatorship of assassination public whippings whip-pings violations of home and honor of sackings and martyrdom would cease |