Word: brazilians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brien, L. S., opened for the affirmative. He declared that all arguments directed against the advisability of government by a democracy in Brazil were invalid; because in becoming a republic, Brazil did not necessarily become a democratic republic. The bloodlines of the late revolution shows that the Brazilians acted from deliberate conviction. Brazil has been gradually educated up to a republican form of government, for the monarchy was so limited as to be little less than a republic. The change has met with approval everywhere. There has been almost no flurry in Brazilian goods. Lastly, the republic was inevitable...
...negative side of the question was closed by R. W. Hale, '92. He declared that the statements of his opponents were not correct. It was not true that Brazilian credit was unshaken by the revolution. The masses in Brazil are still little civilized. This was provided for under the old government by a very limited system of suffrage, but it is proposed by the revolutionists to make the suffrage universal. The leaders of the revolt have treated the capital in a very partial manner, and there is great danger that Brazil will split up into several different governments...
...Willeston Seminary nine is said to include a Brazilian manager, a Siamese short-stop, a Chinese left-fielder, and a hired catcher...