[Footnote: Just As This
Goes To Press The Newspapers Announce That The Brazilian Government
Has Appropriated $10,000 Towards The Expenses Of An Expedition Into
The Interior, Under The Leadership Of Henry Savage Landor, The English
Explorer.]
Brazil's federal capital, Rio de Janeiro, stands on the finest harbor
of the world, in which float ships from all nations.
Proudest among
these crafts are the large Brazilian gunboats. "It is a curious
anomaly," says the Scientific American, "that the most powerful
Dreadnought afloat should belong to a South American republic, but it
cannot be denied that the Minas Geraes is entitled to that
distinction." This is one of the vessels that mutinied in 1910.
Brazil is a strange republic. Fanatical, where the Bible is burned in
the public plaza whenever introduced, yet, where the most obscene
prints are publicly offered for sale in the stores. Where it is a
"mortal sin" to listen to the Protestant missionary, and not a sin
to break the whole Decalogue. Backward - where the villagers are tied
to a post and whipped by the priest when they do not please him.
Progressive - in the cities where religion has been relegated to women
and children and priests.
Did I write the word religion? Senhor Ruy Barbosa, the most
conspicuous representative of South America at the last Hague
Conference, and a candidate for the Presidency of Brazil, wrote of
it: "Romanism is not a religion, but a political organization, the
most vicious, the most unscrupulous, and the most destructive of all
political systems.
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