Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL. [ARTICLE]

REVOLUTION IN BRAZIL.

Tha Monarchy Overthrown and a Bepah- | lie Betebliahed—The Ministry Kaitgs. Reports reached this country Friday evening that a revolution had taken place in Brazil. Later advices confirm the report- The revolution aims at the overthrow of the government and the proclaj matron of a republic. The army supports j the movement. A provisional government . has been established, including Sonora Da F&nseca and Benjamin Constant. Among the dispatches received, but not yet officially confirmed, is one.that Baron Ladario, the Minister of Marine, has been killed. Telegrams from New York give the ; same information. Four or five coffee j firms received cablegrams from Rio JaneiI ro confirming the news, the one to Charles IR. Flint & Co. reading: “Revolution has broken out here. The Brazilian army is in control. Ministry has resigned. One r member shot. The revolution is for the purpose of forming a republic.” The Brazilian minister said, Friday evening, that he had received information from his government with regard to the reported revolution in Brazil, but that he had received from a third party intelligence of the same purport as that contained in the cable message to Charles R. Flint & Co., of New York. The minister said that since he had left Brazil, in July last, he had heard considerable about the great strength of the Republican party in Brazil, but that, in his opinion, its strength was greatlv overrated in this country. At the last election, which was perfectly free and open, only a few Republicans were returned. While it was possible that great changes had taken place in the affairs of Brazil in the last three or four months, he did not think it at all probable that the situation had taken the turn indicated by the cablegram. There might, he thought, have been some ministerial trouble which had given rise to the reports of a revolution.

A dispatch was received at the State Department, Friday afternoon, from Con-sul-general Dockery, at Rio de Janeiro, announcing the outbreak of revolution against the Brazilian government,and that the Minister of Marine had been killed. Dispatches from Rio de Janeiro concerning the revolutionary outbreak assert that a movement in favor of a Republican form of government has l’ecently been strongly fomented, and is the sole cause of the rising. The announcement is made in the cipher cables already at hand that the Brazilian Ministers have tendered their resignations, and that the situation is controlled by the army. The New York Coffee Exchange closed Friday afternoon with coffee strong at 15.46 c hid, only a few moments before the dispatches were received. The new coffee crop in Brazil is almost ready to be har vested, and the supply on the market there is consequently limited. If a revolution has broken out and the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Santos are blockaded, 75 per cent, of the coffee supply of this country will be off. This will be productive of very serious consequences throughout the country. When a confirmation of the report is received at the exchange, Saturday from London, there is likely to be an heard-of scene on the floor.” The blockading of Brazilian ports attending a revolution iu that country will result in the cutting off of more than three, fourths of the entire India rubber supply of this country, and compel the shutting down of nearly all the immense rubbergoods manufacturing concerns in the United States, as the supply on hand at present is not sufficient to last two weeks. In speaking of the possible consequences of the revolution upon American trade, one of the best known merchants in the city, who imports largely from Brazil, said Friday night that they might be serious. “The trade in coffee, osugar and India rubber,” he said, “will be the principal interests affected. The total importation of coffee to the United States is 60,ooo,ooffbAga,:of^ from Brazil. It is easy to see, without extended comment, what effect the cut ting off of such an amount of coffee would have. Ido not think there is more than a three-months’ supply in the United States at present. With regard to rubber it might be even more serious. Thirteenfifteenths of the total importation comes from Brazil. There is at present not more than enough here to last one month, so that should the revolution last longer than that time the effect would be serious, indeed, to those industries depending upon the rubber supply. With sugar it is of course, not so bad, as we import only one-tenth of our supply from Brazil. Still, the absence of that amonnt would influence prices throughout the oountry.”