Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1889 — COMPLAINTS FROM BEAZIL. [ARTICLE]

COMPLAINTS FROM BEAZIL.

Strange Result* Repartee from the Abolition of Slavery. Washington correspondence of Chicago Inter Ocean: Henry Clay Armstrong, consul general at Bio de Janeiro. in his last report to the Department • of State, makes some observations on 1 effects of abolishing Slavery in Brazil. Mr. Armstrong's residence in Georgia \ may have given a darker hue to the ! picture than the facte warrant. He , says: “On the 13th of last May slav- | ary was abolished in this empire. To obtain a correct idea of this measure it would bo necessary to travel in the interior of the country, examine carefully the state of affairs in different loi ealities and have full and frank intercourse with the people. Not having had an opportunity to make so thorough an investigation, I can only say that the chief results at present apparent are the loss of a considerable part of the last coffee crop (estimated at about one-third of the whole), the deteriorated Quality of the coffee sent to the market, the scarcity and high price of provisions, the lack of adequate labor on the plantations for the proper culture and gathering of. the next crep of coffee and other products, the uncertainty of obtaining labor in the future, and in consequence of all this a great increase of the discontent that previously existed to some degree 'among the people. When the abolition of slavery was declared the planters had begun to gather their coffee, and the freedmen, with some exceptions, seem to have continued in this labor either on the plantations of their former masters or on those of other planters. It is generally admitted, howevor, that their work was much less efficient, so that notwithstanding the additional labor of a largo number ©f newly arrived immigrants a great deal of coffee was lost, and the greater part of that sent to market was so improperly bandied as to be of inferior quality. Of the present crop, the highest grade of coffee (unwashed) which has come to market in sufficient quantities to be mentioned in the quotations of prices, is that known as medium first, which is usually quoted at 30 to 40 per cent less than that known as superior and fine.

Some efforts were made by the government and Parliament for the relief of the persons who lost most heavily by the abolition of slavery to allay the discontent thereby occasioned. A bill was passed by the Chamber of Deputies authorizing the government to charter banks fur lending money on plantations. These banks were to have a total capital not exceed ing $16,500,000, and were to be allowed to issue negotiable mortgage bonds with 5 per cent interest guaranteed by the government to the amount of $16,500,000. This bill was passed by the Chamber of Deputies too late in the session for the Senate to take any action thereon. A bill for the repressisn of idleness Was also introduced in the Chamber of Deputies, but its discussion was not concluded. A bill for compensating the owners of the emancipated slaves was rejected by the Senate, but the friends of the measure do not consider the rejection aj final. After some month's d-day the government mado an agreement with one of the banks of this oitv by which the latter was to lend the planters of the provinces of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, 'Mi’Pas Geracs and Espirito Santo the maximum sum of $6,600,000 at six per cent, interest. Half of the money required for this purposo was to bo lent without interest, by the government to the bank. Similar contracts were made for lending money to plantors in the northern provinces of the empire. Bom in Hard Luck. “I don’t s’posa it’s any use,” said the hungry matt, mournfully, sidling up beside the well dressed man, “for me to ask you far a little assistance inward gettin’ a bite to eat?” "Not the least bit in the world,” . said the-'Othl3r lm¥u7 che«Trl uUy . “I s’pose not,” continued the hungry man, a tinge of sarcasm coming into hi« tone of voice and blanding in a fine mezzotint quality with th * Jotvmaic Strain. "T s’pose not." And iETs time he spoke reflectively- wDwtiTt no Johnstown sufferer, 1 ain’t, airi I don’t know nothin’ about Johnstown, so I Can’t tell no straight story. I ain’t sever been to Seattle, an’ so I can’t pose as bein’ burnt out I ain’t even a 15 ri id wood minor. I ain’t. Es twuz any of them I wouldn't be a askin’ for a little somethin’to get a bite o’vitties... I’d be a we'arin’ good secondhand close an*-; a nesktto an’ a shirt that splits down the front and back both. Mcbbe I’d have a collar and cuffs with buttons into ’em. Anyway, I’d be a spewlin’ redief nrinny an’ a catin’ regular. Rut I ain’t none o’ them. IVlong right hyar. an’ I ain’t h'v.l no job for a year. I’m buste# ’Cimse it's raywt: faulty!, am. an’ I ain’t got no show to kick ovtfr the bad distribution o’ ti© rwlief money at all. A 1 the luck comes tor people on the o ffside, an'a man right hy#r at'homo has ter eat out o’ slop barrels an' sleep <toal holes, an’ git. moved on an* not have no close to speak of. It's mighty hard, an’ 1 just wisht some o' th >-c tires or fihods w somethin' wonliTsort,or come ray way one*. I ain’t had no Uric since I Wu/. er kid, I ain’t," and he .atnbVtd hwajr, broken in .spirits, htingry, footscra and ragged. -Oiiien-c-n Melt.

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