Show Opinion of John JEedmon NEW Yom Nov 16A reporter called this morning at the consulategeneral of Brazil Se or Salvador da Mendoca consul con-sul general who resides at Washington most of the time could not be seen Sub Chancellor John CRedmon who knows theBrazilian political situation well gave his personal opinion of the matter He said the revolution can hardly be anything more than a riot between the military and marines or rather a bloody encounter between I be-tween the students of tho military and naval schools who have always been very jealous of each other and seize every opportunity op-portunity to fight among themselves What confirms him in this opinion is the shooting the minister of the navy It snot s-not admissable that the revolution tending to the oveithrow of the imperial government govern-ment took place in Nov emberj hardly a mouth after the general election which tool place in October and resulted in an overwhelming and peaceful victory of the Liberals over the Ultras The new minister and new parliament had a majority of threefourths of the total vote in the count and you must not think tho liberals means republicans it doesnt in Brazil no more than in England and tho Emperor he said was the first liberal The republicans are in the minority Moreover the new ministry is composed of the ablest men in Brazil the premier espe bialy Se or Alfonso Celso being a statesman states-man of the highest order and not a man to yieldto voters and stop without fighting Now Took at the origin of the dispatches not one pfficial One comes from Rio to a New York rubber firm others from London to coffee firms This fact becomes suspicious at this time of the year I looks strongly like acoup dr bourse intended to raise the prices of rubber and coffee From private letters I know the coffee crop to be short this year The production to be reduced one half so it seems to be a pretty good time to wire such news to Now York doesnt it |