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Show The congress finally retaliated by refining re-fining to make appropriations, whereupon where-upon the president seized the treasury, took control of the revenues and made hir.j-.olf a dictator. The congretsional-ists congretsional-ists then appealed to tho arbitrament of arms. They sucurad the adhesion oi the navy and made themselves masters of the northern proviuces where tho great nitrate deposits are located. Tho president' party retained control over the greater part of the country, including tho food producing sections. An impassable range of mountains moun-tains separated the opposing forces, but when their preparations had beer, completed com-pleted the eotigresMonalists Bailed southward and elTeetei a landing in the heart of the enemy's country. Tho recent re-cent battle followed, and the contest seems to have been decided against the dictator. I'nder tbe'B oircnmsMncPs, tho senti-rotn senti-rotn of tho people of the United States must bo thai of congratulation. congratula-tion. Hut the people of Chile, if they would be secure in a republican form of government ami if t!ry would have the friendship of the United States, must remomber in their triumph from whence the influence emanated that precipitated their troubles. Chile has long been siibxsrvieDt to England and haa steadily turned a cold shoulder to this country. English trade ond liuan-cial liuan-cial interests in that country are very large, and the Chiilcan government has always catered to them. The revolutionists revolu-tionists should cut loose from the old idea and swing the country into line with this. Republican institutions will novor bo safe under English intrigue, and if tho spirit of republicanism ia to be fostered tho country must bring itself it-self into to, ;ch with the great republic of the nations. THIS WAR OVKIt. The dispatchos today iudicato that tho Chilean war is practically at an end. Tho news is to the effect that Bai.ma-ckda's Bai.ma-ckda's troops have been utterly defeated, de-feated, that Valparaiso has been surrendered, sur-rendered, that Ii .a i.mai 'eda is a fugitive and that tho people of the country so lately under the control of the government govern-ment party are hailing the revolution. ! The result is not surprising thoufh the cause of the revolutionists seemed to bo very desperate in the light of the dispatches of the earlior part of the week. But justice was on the side of the junta. Its troops took tho initiative and their inspiration of valor arising' from the consciousness of the justness of their cause made them more than a match for the superior numbers oi the enemy. The defeat of Balmaceda will be welcome news to the lovers of liberty in every part of the world. He was a dictator, a cruel and merciless tyrant, aud his defeat is a triumph for republican principles. prin-ciples. The history of the contest shows that the government cause was unsouud and that it was necessary that the revolution should occur. The Chilean congress and President Balmaceda Balma-ceda got into a wrangle. The president refused to sanction anything that the congress did, insisting on running tho covernment on autocratic principles. |