Excerpt from Memorial Address to President Harding Fourth. That notwithstanding the foregoing, and in spite of the careful concealment made by Chile of its true aims in the beginning, it is today indubitable that those aims were always those of despoiling Peru of the territory of Tarapaca to consummate the monopoly of the saltpetre and of the guano of which it had already despoiled Bolivia, and that for this reason the war had no admissible and confessable aim in the light of the international law of South America. Fifth. That in the case contemplated in the next preced ing paragraph the belligerent which wins the war has none of the rights which the laws of war grant to the winner and the loser has the right of recovering that which it has lost as soon as the pressure of force cease. Sixth. That the right to which the next two preceding paragraphs refer would be lost to Peru if in the exercise of full liberty and under the flag of that great country, it should settle its affairs with Chile without including among them that of Tarapaca, and we the natives of Tarapaca would lose forever the never-abandoned hope of being restored to the Peruvian Motherland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.