Monday, July 26, 2010

Curly Weaves With Bangs

THEY FOUGHT FOR THE PEOPLE THAT COME TO POWER.

Manifesto of the Revolutionary Park, July 26, 1890.
Al Pueblo:


Patriotism obliges us to proclaim the revolution as a last resort and necessary to prevent the ruin of the country. Overthrow a constitutional government without just cause, alter the public peace and social order to replace the poll with the mob violence and build the political system, would make a real crime that we ask has national opinion. But observe and maintain a government that represents the illegality and corruption; live disenfranchised public life of a people born free; see disappearing day by day the rules, principles, guarantees of any regular government, accept the advances to the treasury, the adulteration of the coin, the squandering of the income; tolerate the usurpation of our political rights and the suppression of individual guarantees our interest to civilian life, without hope of response or improvement, because all roads are taken to deprive the people of self-government, and maintain power to the they have wrought misery of the republic, namely that workers migrate and that trade is ruined, because, with the monetization of the paper, the salary is not enough for the basic needs of life and business have been suspended and is not meet obligations, support poverty within the country and wait time for an international bankruptcy disgrace to us abroad, resigned and suffering all trusting our fate and our posterity to uncertainty and the evolution of time, without tempting the effort supreme, without making great sacrifices and demands an almost desperate plight, would consecrate impunity of abuse, accept a shameful despotism, to renounce free government and take more serious parental responsibility, because to ask foreigners could account for our behavior, since they have come to us under the aegis of a constitution that citizens have sworn and whose custody we have reserved as a privilege , which promises liberty and justice to all men in the world who come to dwell on Argentine soil.

The Revolutionary Junta does not need to tell the people of the nation and foreign nations the reasons for the revolution, chronologically detailing all the mistakes, all abuses, all crimes, all the iniquities of the current administration. The whole country is out of whack, since the Capital to Jujuy. Free institutions have disappeared from everywhere: not a republic, there is no federal system, there is no representative government, no administration, no morality. Political life has become a lucrative industry.

President of the Republic has led the way, living in the play, making the life of the princes with an outrageous contempt for the people and a failure of dignity that every day has become more irritating. Neither in Europe nor in America these days could be a government like it, the greed has been his inspiration, corruption has been his medium. Lost consciousness of many men with easy money and illegal has degraded the administration of forcing state officials to undue complacency has perverted the public and private practices that represent millions lavished favors. The same has received tips from as man of business has market in the nation, and is part of organized labor for much speculation, without entering capital or own idea, but the influence and means that the constitution put in their hands better management of the state. In four years of government has become a millionaire, and his fortune accumulated by such clumsy means is displayed on valuable goods whose acquisition was announced by the press. Their participation in the administrative business is well known, public and confessed. These has been no notion of personal delicacy, add hundreds of thousands of dollars and are reflected in deeds, because the gifts were not limited to objects of art or luxury, have reached land donated goods, the age has been reported as remuneration for official favors. You can say that he has lived off the state property and has used public funds to become its own assets. Her clientele has imitated; individuals without occupation, without capital, without industry, have depleted the state banks, have taken over public lands, negotiated concessions from railroads and ports have been paying their influence with substantial money.

In law enforcement has removed the representative system to be a unanimous Congress without difference of opinion, in which only discussed how to characterize the personal commitment, submission and passive obedience. The federal system has been mocked, the provincial governors, except for rare exceptions, are his lieutenants, are chosen, send, manage and go as they please: paid to his whim. Mendoza has changed in hours as governor and in the troubled times of anarchy. Tucumán witnessed a day of blood, engineered by the scheme to incorporate the system of political monopoly, there was no choice governor who has not been anything but a simple act of commerce. Entre Ríos, under martial law, has just received the imposition of a candidate opposed by the public. Cordoba has been the scene of impeachment government invented to throw a good man: today is a horde; overwhelmed society lives with the upheavals of the times Bustos Quiroga. Other Argentine provinces are reduced to feuds: Salta, the noble northern province has been feudalized feudalized and are also the chairman, James and Corrientes, La Rioja, Jujuy, Catamarca and San Luis. Argentina never exercised any control over most depressing or offensive to the laws of a free nation.

financial order in the disasters, abuses, scandals, are counted in days. Clandestine broadcasts have been made to the National Bank pays dividends false, because speculators had cornered official actions and the crisis struck before they could collect the booty. The savings of workers and trade deposits have been distributed with lavish hand in the circle of favorites to have speculated in the millions and have lived in the splendor without disclosing the purpose of fulfilling its obligations ever. Public debt has tripled to paper titles have been agreed, without necessity, gold titles, greatly increasing the obligations of the country abroad have given the speculation over fifty million gold pesos had been the sale of public funds from banks guaranteed, and today the nation is not a single coin and is obliged to Gold service over eighty million shares issued for that purpose, were sold nationwide railroads to reduce public debt, and made the sale price was wasted, were sold the works of sanitation, and amid the shadows around this scandal with no name, people only see that has been tied up for half a century, the yoke of a foreign company, which will sell health price of gold: the guarantor bank has discredited the spurious emissions, the paper currency is depreciated at hundred percent and increases circulation and thirty-five million illegal issue, which is legalized, and a hundred million , masquerading under the name of mortgage bonds, but they are real paper money, because they force settling debts, when the misery begins life with expensive taxes on gold, and having caused the most intense crisis that has memory in our history has been about to deliver fragments of sovereignty for a new loan, which also would have squandered, as has squandered all the wealth of State.

This brief review of the grievances that the people of the nation has suffered, is far from complete. To give an exact idea would be necessary to formulate a detailed and meticulous indictment of public and private crimes committed against the head of State institutions, against the welfare and honor of the Argentines. The people will make it one day and asked his punishment, not that one can not rule the republic without responsibility and without honor.

know and measure the responsibility we hold to the people of the Nation, we thought about the sacrifices that requires a movement that compromises the public peace and the life of many of our citizens, but the board of illustrious patriots of the great men of good men of all social classes, from all parties, the close vote of all the oppressed provinces, and even the feeling of foreign residents, we pushes the action and know that public opinion and cheers bless our efforts, whatever the sacrifices he demands.

The revolutionary movement of this day is not the work of a political party. Essentially popular and impersonal, does not obey or respond to the ambitions of a circle or any public man. Overthrew the government not to separate men and replace them in the command, overthrew him to return to town so that people reconstitute it on the basis of the national will and the dignity of other times, destroying the oligarchy ominous strangers who disgraced themselves and strangers to the institutions of the republic. The only author of this revolution, this movement without a leader, profoundly national, long, eagerly awaited, is the people of Buenos Aires who, true to its traditions, history plays in a new development longingly awaited regenerative all provinces.

The national army with the people share the glories of this day, his arms are raised to guarantee the performance of institutions. The Argentine soldier is today, as always, defending people, the strongest column of the constitution, the solid guarantee of peace and freedom of the republic. The Constitution is the supreme law of the Nation, is much like the flag, and the Argentine soldier to let her die without giving his arm, claiming passive obedience, would not be an armed citizenry of a free people, but the instrument or accomplice a despotic ruler. The army does not stain your flag or military honor, or bravery, or his fame, with a riot of barracks. His soldiers, officers and their managers have had to cooperate and have cooperated in this movement, because the people's cause is the cause of all, is the cause of citizens and the army, because the country is in danger of dying and because it is necessary to save her from disaster. His speech will contain the anarchy, prevent disorders, will ensure peace. That is its constitutional mission and the task is not obscure, inglorious, urban gendarmerie serve to stifle civil liberties.

The period of revolution will be temporary and brief, not last but the time required to organize the country's constitution. The revolutionary government preside over the election so that no suspicion is raised and the national will that has been caught, subdued and disappointed. Elected to the supreme command of the nation will be the citizen holding a majority of votes in elections peaceful, free, and only be excluded as candidates for members of the revolutionary government, the country spontaneously offer this guarantee of impartiality and purity of its purposes.


For the Revolutionary Leandro N. Alem, Aristobulo del Valle, Mariano Demaria, Mariano Goyena, Juan Jose Romero, Lucio V. López

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