Show THE STUDENTS SOCIETY Instructor Willnnt Croxalls Address on the Brazilian Kevolntion This was the subject an address before the students society of the Latterday Saintbcollege Friday evening by Instructor Instruc-tor Willard CroxalL The revolution in Brazil which began on the Htb of November of last year surprised sur-prised the world at large To tOo people of the United States cur South American friend Brazil bad been moving on in the even tenor of her way with very few apparent ap-parent prospects of cuanging her government govern-ment But within her borders ever since the Dom Pedros have worn tho purple there has commenced continued and w a may say consummated a l3trong republican feeling A foreigner making his homo with h us must to prosper in business make friends and gain admittance into society conform to American sympathies and tendencies ten-dencies Likewise with 15jzil surrounded on every band for many > rs try republics Tae influence was irresibtialo ana we may bay sItu had to conform to it Such statements as tho following have been uttered enthusiastically by members of legislative bodies in Brazil oflate years Where monarchy falls in agony liberty springs up from the seeds scattered in the fruulul sob i Even Dom Pedro himself whose peaceful peace-ful acquicseuco to the change is mysterums is reported to have said to a prominent ro publican not long since Sets maisrepub cb lel1DO quo VCces I am more of a republican re-publican than you11 It is well known that ho in his visit to the United Stues centennial exhibition in i laid and his contemporaneous travel through tue counry was not oblivious to schools colleges government institutions manufactories aud these things which make a prosperous nation He carried u copy of the declaration of independence ae and it was wcl tauutcJ Dom PeJro has manifested himself liberal lib-eral and democratic in his views and actions ac-tions during his loitynino years reign To say that ho aided tho revolution con sciously is to > speak of something wo do not know that ho has educated tho people to it in many ways is apparent len Out of tho nolilcbt ambitions of the mon arch was his deMie to effect the freeing of tao biaves within his domain This was a problem deep and very hard for him Slavery baa had its growth for scores of years there until 3bSo when ory his povcr ho put an end to thoslavo trade Ho took the first important step toward s emancipation lu usa Tne uccree was that all children born of slave parents hence forth should be free but must serve them the-m ters of their mothers until twentyone years of age The Emperor undoubtedly spent many hours on his pillow at night brooding overtime over-time problem Interwoven with the very heart of tho agricultural system it was seemingly inextricable To be deprived of his slaves 1 x man would bo thrown from luxury ease and wealth into comparative poverty and dejection Soinured to this easy life we know ho must have been loth to part with his human chattels I A bill was passed in 18t > 3 providing for I the gradual freeing of the slaves on a plan of compensation from time government to i the slave holders In 18S there were 700 000 slaves in Brazil valued at 5000001100 I By ISSs the number was reduced by duiiO J I on the basis of compensation Early in i this year Dom Pedro fell ill and to recruit his I btrcngthsailed to Europe itsvny from the ii caro of Scale His daughter Isabella installed in-stalled as regent became iinpatientover the slow process of freeing the serfs and in accord i ac-cord with this feeling signed a proclamation i proclama-tion declaring complete emancipation and repealing all previous laws ou the subject How thousands of slave holders felt when thus dtprivedof their slaves without tOe privilege of rpmuneration from the rhgcganses all aq lmaglnd effii v fihdh Mhir llibstcause l of thd rbedtrth elution for although the indiyjduals thus stripped of their bondsmen Weed jSifti republicans I 1 re-publicans at neart they quiciuy stucco with I 1 tem as a matter of vengeance in thelato crisis Isabellas hand controlled the pen that I k did this york of liberation She also has a dissolute unscrupulous husband Wo n1JCd dot yypndca that wit1t tho prospects rf Isalieltajis tjuetii IhSvilably associated with and mCacnccd by her husband the massQfthftpaofiledesireda change of guy eminent On the 17th of November lSS9 I at 3 1 pm the republican manifesto was handed to Dom Pedro The world wonder at the implicit i concession of the Emperor Ho simply said lhat he would sail for Portugal the next day but with deep solicitude for the welfare of his own dear country and people left behind Three months have witnessed the provisional pro-visional government Waat may happen in i tho futuro with respect to tho United States of Brazil many may surmise but no ono knows The republic came as quietly as the tropical airs along the seacoast sea-coast change at the appearance of the sun in the morninc from tire land breeze to the ono blowing from the sea For this is It among revolutions notably eminent |