| Show A MESSAGE FROM CHILE IF president Balma balmaceda oeds is the good and just man which some of our own citizens who claim to know thet the facts represent him to be chile can boast of a famous lot pt of romancers if on the contrary there to is a particle of truth in some of the horrifying tales of human torture that come from his bis camp he and his government ought to be outlawed by every nation making a pretense of being civilized the government that resorts to such shocking cruelties cruel ties as those charged to his officials for any purpose of state whatsoever forfeits without condition all claim to recognition from the civili civilization of this period they should regard him simply as an incorrigible savage on the warpath karpath war path and should take measures to squelch him as quickly as aa possible we have at hand an alleged inter view with one of the victims suspected by Balma cedas officers of being in complicity atwith the revolutionary party the man according to his own story was thought to be in communication with other suspects whom the officers wished to secure and to force a confession from him helas cracked wracked and aad beaten with lashes until the brute who operation concluded he was too near a dead man to realize the pain of the tortures all this the victim claims was done under the immediate direction of the government ministry such storie eslas sas these have been filling the columns of chilean papers ever since the struggle gid with balmaceda begen began there may not be a word of truth in them but there to is nothing in the situation as demonstrated thus far to contradict them it is a great pity that his men in their eagerness to punish his secret foes had not jumped onto some such american citizen as editor cutting of mexican prison fame the furore that would have surely followed might have been the means of making peace the funniest thing about the affair la Is that some dare devil has not foud his way into the communion of these alleged warrior barbarians and created an international complication it will have to be done before we shall know whether Balmac balmaceda eds is deserving of succor or belligerence from the n nations V ono of chome whon oftie is soliciting assistance |
