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"Senor Tamzanian, I assure you we do not seek to bring down, or even undermine the Third Republic, as long as it maintains the democratic principals it holds so high in esteem. As for talks of an "unholy" alliance with De caviezels militia...I was not even aware they existed, and be sure, there will be no alliance with such a force so bent on imperialism."
-Comrade Armando Renin
-Comrade Armando Renin
Policies for the reaminder of term and Cabinet Change
I intend to further increase the industrial power that Chile is developing (National Focuses on craftsman) and to continue development of our Navy. If funds permit then we need to increase our Naval Bases and forifications if possible. With the departure of Santa Rosa I have decided to create a new role, that of Minister responsible for Employment. This person will ensure that our workers are treated well and that their are jobs available for all. Job Creation will be key to this role as will the propsal of Social Reform when possible within the constraints of the Upper House. In a true sprit of Bipartianship I am delighted to ask that Sergei Gogolow take up this role.
Presidente Andonie
I intend to further increase the industrial power that Chile is developing (National Focuses on craftsman) and to continue development of our Navy. If funds permit then we need to increase our Naval Bases and forifications if possible. With the departure of Santa Rosa I have decided to create a new role, that of Minister responsible for Employment. This person will ensure that our workers are treated well and that their are jobs available for all. Job Creation will be key to this role as will the propsal of Social Reform when possible within the constraints of the Upper House. In a true sprit of Bipartianship I am delighted to ask that Sergei Gogolow take up this role.
Presidente Andonie
All Unions
This war has brought more hardship to Argentina and Chile than any politician can imagine. Sons were torn from their mothers and forced to fight and die against an onslaught of Chilean imperial forces. Although our forces have been wiped out in Argentina, my guerreros de populares will continue to agitate, both in Chile and abroad, until true Communism is brought to Chile.
My Communista allies may seek peaceful integration within the Chilean government and I support their efforts. If that fails however, I will be there to bring the red cloud to Chile in a more forceful manner.
---Basilio Bautista---
This war has brought more hardship to Argentina and Chile than any politician can imagine. Sons were torn from their mothers and forced to fight and die against an onslaught of Chilean imperial forces. Although our forces have been wiped out in Argentina, my guerreros de populares will continue to agitate, both in Chile and abroad, until true Communism is brought to Chile.
My Communista allies may seek peaceful integration within the Chilean government and I support their efforts. If that fails however, I will be there to bring the red cloud to Chile in a more forceful manner.
---Basilio Bautista---
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To improve the situation for the common Chilean worker and ensure that he has a job, I will accept this offer. I will expend the utmost effort in ensuring that every Chilean of age has a job. This is a difficult task, yes, but we will never get anywhere by saying that ad infinitum. After all, the journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
I will also attempt to ensure that the worker is treated fairly. That abuse and exploitation of the worker is struck down wherever it can be found. That those who abuse the worker will be discovered and stopped.
- Sérgio Gogołów
I will also attempt to ensure that the worker is treated fairly. That abuse and exploitation of the worker is struck down wherever it can be found. That those who abuse the worker will be discovered and stopped.
- Sérgio Gogołów
This is most wonderful news from our presidente! A step forward for the working class!
- Jose Mendoza
- Jose Mendoza
*Following his resignation, Antonio de Santa Rosa, once one of Andonie's most fervent supporters (many historians believe that he viewed the young liberal as his successor), became increasingly critical of the administration.
Santa Rosa's criticism stemmed largely from two issues; the defeated revolution of Severino, where the aging minister was considered one of the most sympathetic officials to the overlooked nationales, and from what Santa Rosa considered to be the "gross mishandling of the war. Having served as a general during both Badajoz's and Romano's presidencies, he was immensely upset at the bloody defeat the Chilean forces met at Rosario, which Santa Rosa, in an article in the Aurora de Chile, condemned as a "fiasco befitting one of the most inept periods of leadership in Chilean history!"
In the period preceding his resignation, Santa Rosa became more and more involved in the antiwar movement in Chile, and on the 29th of May, 1883, his 79th birthday, the still strong-willed former president founded the Sociedad chilena de Paz (Chilean Peace Society), to better voice the growing movement.*
Exerpt from Inauguration as President of the Chilean Peace Society
...
Thank you, thank you!
Today, we have formed a coalition of many Chileans, liberals, conservatives, nationalists, socialists, communists, monarchists, and apatheticists, with the hopes that we can banish this great travesty of humanity, war.
Now, before I get started, I express my feelings on this subject, if only to give context to my views. I served for over a decade as the General of the North, and served in the fields and the hills of Argentina, and saw many thousands of good men, on both sides, brutally killed. From the moment that war ended, I have felt an immense aversion to war, and have always sought to avoid it. I have only advocated a violent course of action during the tyranny of Cesar Roseno, and even then, I was working with allies within that Empire to defeat it peacefully. Only a few years ago, I twice averted a war with Brazil, thanks in large part to my allies in the Congreso seeing the foolishness of such a move.
And on this last war, I initially abstained, but seeing that there was an... undercurrent, a movement beginning to surge from the lines of factories, from the fields of farms, from the beds of military hospitals, from the souls and minds of thousands of noble Chileans, many of my former comrades-in-arms! That movement was an opposition to war, to reckless, imperialistic conflict, and a love for peace. This realization finally persuaded me to vote according to my conscience on these military matters, rather than tow the line that had been dominating Chile with a dark pervasiveness.
Today, however, with the founding of this organization, the voice of Chileans opposed to war will be amplified, and will echo across the jungles, the fields, from the Andes themselves, in straight into the heart of great nation, Santiago, where our venerable seat of Republicanism lies. For decades, the voices of reason, of peace, have been ignored, mocked, and silenced; but no more!
Today, and for as long as I live, and as long as the lives of men who value life, peace, prosperity, and freedom continue, that voice, that desire, that great wish of peace, will not fade away into obscurity.
Today, the people of Chile will have Peace!
((On a side note, I vote proportional representation...
And I felt it was about time for me to make a wall of text post here...
))
Santa Rosa's criticism stemmed largely from two issues; the defeated revolution of Severino, where the aging minister was considered one of the most sympathetic officials to the overlooked nationales, and from what Santa Rosa considered to be the "gross mishandling of the war. Having served as a general during both Badajoz's and Romano's presidencies, he was immensely upset at the bloody defeat the Chilean forces met at Rosario, which Santa Rosa, in an article in the Aurora de Chile, condemned as a "fiasco befitting one of the most inept periods of leadership in Chilean history!"
In the period preceding his resignation, Santa Rosa became more and more involved in the antiwar movement in Chile, and on the 29th of May, 1883, his 79th birthday, the still strong-willed former president founded the Sociedad chilena de Paz (Chilean Peace Society), to better voice the growing movement.*
Exerpt from Inauguration as President of the Chilean Peace Society
...
Thank you, thank you!
Today, we have formed a coalition of many Chileans, liberals, conservatives, nationalists, socialists, communists, monarchists, and apatheticists, with the hopes that we can banish this great travesty of humanity, war.
Now, before I get started, I express my feelings on this subject, if only to give context to my views. I served for over a decade as the General of the North, and served in the fields and the hills of Argentina, and saw many thousands of good men, on both sides, brutally killed. From the moment that war ended, I have felt an immense aversion to war, and have always sought to avoid it. I have only advocated a violent course of action during the tyranny of Cesar Roseno, and even then, I was working with allies within that Empire to defeat it peacefully. Only a few years ago, I twice averted a war with Brazil, thanks in large part to my allies in the Congreso seeing the foolishness of such a move.
And on this last war, I initially abstained, but seeing that there was an... undercurrent, a movement beginning to surge from the lines of factories, from the fields of farms, from the beds of military hospitals, from the souls and minds of thousands of noble Chileans, many of my former comrades-in-arms! That movement was an opposition to war, to reckless, imperialistic conflict, and a love for peace. This realization finally persuaded me to vote according to my conscience on these military matters, rather than tow the line that had been dominating Chile with a dark pervasiveness.
Today, however, with the founding of this organization, the voice of Chileans opposed to war will be amplified, and will echo across the jungles, the fields, from the Andes themselves, in straight into the heart of great nation, Santiago, where our venerable seat of Republicanism lies. For decades, the voices of reason, of peace, have been ignored, mocked, and silenced; but no more!
Today, and for as long as I live, and as long as the lives of men who value life, peace, prosperity, and freedom continue, that voice, that desire, that great wish of peace, will not fade away into obscurity.
Today, the people of Chile will have Peace!
((On a side note, I vote proportional representation...
And I felt it was about time for me to make a wall of text post here...
))
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((What?
Seriously, what? Is that supposed to be some bread, eggs, milk, squick list or? I don't get it.
Also, he can't be that young can he? I expect him to be over 80 and should probably have kicked the bucket a long time ago.))
((I think he means people who don't really care about politics (beyond pacifism, obviously).))
((I agree, you guys are way to old. Most people did not live to be in their 80's during the late 1800's.))
((Their characters are protected by the fact that their creators are too lazy to come up with new characters. ))
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((Well, I wanted even people who wouldn't care (apathetic people) to even voice their support for such an organisation, and since everything else ended in -ists, I felt that a made up combining apathetic with -ists would be fine... I made up a word, deal with it (I feel like Lewis Carroll )
And, yep, he's not eighty yet; born 1804, and it's 1883, so 79 is right. But don't worry, he'll be dead soon enough (in about five years...) and in my defence, the guy would have to be pretty fit, serving as a general, a mayor, a resistance leader, president, minister, journalist, and minister again. But, yeah, I'm fairly lazy (and somewhat attached) to him.))
(I feel like Lewis Carroll )And, yep, he's not eighty yet; born 1804, and it's 1883, so 79 is right. But don't worry, he'll be dead soon enough (in about five years...) and in my defence, the guy would have to be pretty fit, serving as a general, a mayor, a resistance leader, president, minister, journalist, and minister again. But, yeah, I'm fairly lazy (and somewhat attached) to him.))
\((Their characters are protected by the fact that their creators are too lazy to come up with new characters.
((I feel this may have more truth to it then you intended.))
"I am not the type of person who uses the saying ' What did i say?' but the war was devastating. And for what did the Chileans fight for? They fought and died for, so that we could conquere for no rational reason. It is too late now, but it is not too late to create changes in the political system which can prevent such things from happending again. I wish to prose a bill, which has the goal to increase the number of votes in the Congreso that is needed for such a declaration to go through. A small majority is not a justification for war, which is why I propose a bill that demands at least 2/3 of the votes in order for war to be declared. This bill i wish to call Bill of Declaration will be able to secure that a broad support is needed for an eventual war to be started, otherwise we may face the same amount of death and unneccesary pain. I hope that my fellow Republicanos, Liberales and especially the Socialists and Communistas will support me in such a bill that can secure peace."
- Romano, Minister of the Treasury
- Romano, Minister of the Treasury
Minister Romano's bill has my complete support, and I urge all members of all parties to vote in favour of it! War should not and cannot be taken lightly, and I that only a super majority vote would justify even contemplating war.
I to must support Romano's bill. It is perfectly reasonable for such a majority to be required for war. Perhaps we could have avoided this if such a law had been in place.
-General De Vasces
-General De Vasces
"I urge all members of the CCP to vote in favor of this bill! It will hamper the ability of reactionaries to commit Imperialistic acts, as well as save millions of lives from meeting unfortunate ends!"
-Comrade Armando Renin
-Comrade Armando Renin
((I thought TH said the declaration of war went through with a 2/3 vote? If this bill was in effect then we would've declared war on Argentina anyways.))
Dear Congreso,
I completely support Senor Santa Rosa in his valiant attempt to bring the term "peace" back into the vocabulary of our Chilean representatives in the Congreso. This great man has gone above and beyond the call of duty and, while our political ideologies are very far from one another, I hope rising politicians and generals will look to this man for inspiration as I do. Truly, Senor Santa Rosa, you have weathered the darkest storms and have led our nation to prosper in the face of opposition. I also support the Bill of Declaration and I hope my fellow Communista's that aren't agitating abroad will do their best to get this bill passed. With regards (to some),
--Basilio Bautista--
I completely support Senor Santa Rosa in his valiant attempt to bring the term "peace" back into the vocabulary of our Chilean representatives in the Congreso. This great man has gone above and beyond the call of duty and, while our political ideologies are very far from one another, I hope rising politicians and generals will look to this man for inspiration as I do. Truly, Senor Santa Rosa, you have weathered the darkest storms and have led our nation to prosper in the face of opposition. I also support the Bill of Declaration and I hope my fellow Communista's that aren't agitating abroad will do their best to get this bill passed. With regards (to some),
--Basilio Bautista--