Show ECUADOR UriON the nicaraguan trouble is i scarcely settled w when hea news comes of another of the spanish american republics having serious difficulty in this ease the cause is an internal dispute in hi which a large party in ecuador is desirous ol 01 overthrowing the present tiou on the ground that it hiss has exceeded its constitutional powers and has baa been oppress oppressive iva to the people the particular incident which to la supposed to have caused the revolt in ia the sale of the largest war vessel to japao japan thereby hereby depriving tue the navy of I 1 it to only cruiser for we the people of ecuador to complain of oppression beyond the usual custom means that they are orely pressed indeed the coun country tory is i under control of a republic but not suon suca a one as the people of the united states know it to is true that goat the chief officers of nf the government are elected by popular vote of a certain olau the buman Cath catholics olios none but roman catholic can vote wane these must be 21 years of age agenor or 18 it if married must be able to read and write and must possess an income of about a year even these electors may be excluded from the voting books by the party in power for misconduct of the administration is judge is bauso for disfranchisement the uw use of this power and she be oppressive taxes laid on the people for the support rapport of the state church furnish the reason for general dissatisfaction ecuador la Is not a large country nor la in it thickly inhabited its ita area outside of the portions of territory claimed by peru and colombia to la about double that of utah it lies across the equator and but for its ita uplands would be classed among the torrido torrid regions glona re it it 19 essentially the country of mountains moun and volcanoes there are in it twenty two mountain peaks whose summits extend above the zone aone of perpetual snows for the most of its inhabitants it to is a temperate almost a cold land where snows and glaciers on the he mountain summits sparkle beneath the sun sui at its zenith its people are mild and submissive and every thing is to in the control of the catholic priests strangers are not always welcome hence the efforts of english companies particularly to colonize have not been successful owing to the boycott established by the natives at the command of their re legious instructors even when travelers come to visit the interior the priest or magistrate appoints a certain number of indians to carry their baggage the stages being always arranged beforehand this indicates the condition ot of the people they have a government which from an american point of view to Is a republic only in name under these circumstances it to is bm bar natural to expect in view of the spirit which seems to be working among all peoples and in every land for a greater measure of popular liberty and toleration that ecuador will ex perie peri oce ence a series of revolutions of a more or liss lies sanguinary nature until the country Is opened up to that free dom of thought and action which la in characteristic of modern enlighten ment and which will branst its people into a more thorough exercise of their free agency in n matters religious and political |