Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-12
ARSON CITY,:


ter 10 Jantn, represented AZ the Court
.hs Governments Of Holland. Peru and
Hawaii. His term % Of, hav:nG cCa-
sell, he flas rec iyei from all these Gov
eruments cordial letters - THINKS. In
addition, he has hsea kn'sE."i hy the
kim; Of Holland AMI Sweden. The
DEGREES % those tao ;aoEa-ehs ana the
in-i-;.it are Lar- in tie possession OF
Mr.. y long E;-,sisri'7r E;sraici b
TIE .S,cr,,5e..tD i.sccTi.
There are sou.o vcsy interesting and
srasiryErs facts hating = NJ, II Longs
services III behalf al the D2.c,l Goy,Ei-
-aeat which a. net CIT = place here.
Those fasls. il. t:-,f, a-c substantially IS
follows:
Holland, as i, Generally known, IS one
Ct the most cpU,el;t e nations Stiii it
carries 81 cuo-mou.; public ieb,. The
reason OF this Debt : found. not in ti.e
necessities Of T.. Government, but il
or,le- that the Datcl people my have,
s: hand. place where their surplus
means Il.y id = safe Investment. Tie
Government, il otl.er word, b1-roTs
the Loa. .ru.s Of tiie Tao.'e an3 pays
.he.l a certain nate Of ia,--5zt - lie -
sic Of the sane. I: LsrI ~, teen, that
II order 10 enable .is,.t % meet these
self-impozeji obligations. .Ae Ds.ieil GOV
e-aaeIt ensasas II t-..:e VII :,t--z PEG
PIES. Tais roiicy l., I'm = distinctive
feature Of The government OF TIE Neither
lands for several ccGio.zss. II nCrsl-
ance Of these cc!n---- le;si Tertu-ss tie
Dutc.. AID japanese C,vsr.:rcelsts haze
Lao dealings with on another, dating
back fox mere than two hundred years.
In fac: tic nctch were :2e first EGEo.22-
ans to have any dealings with Japan.
IN the course OF years, Japan (the Gov
eminent OF which country is essentially
natriarchal in Its relationship to all
branches of business amongst its peo-
p.e) got largely in debt 10 Holland. For
scores of years these debts accumulate ted
and became further ant further removed
from any satisfactory settlement; and
they probably never would have been
settled but for Mr. belongs efforts in
obtaining : comparison Of accounts and
squarins of tie books. Belongs in
terpos;tion was brorght about by
direct request of the Dutch Min
is.er, sanctioned, Of course, by tie home
government. This Ambassador, in an
interview with Nr. nrLong, upon the
eve Of his departure for Rome
Ito which court LIE had been then
but inst appoiateD told DeLong
tina. 1t was the request Of the Neither
lands Government ;h-t lie snoU.u act
for them until new minister could be
appointed. After some demurr:nS, Mr..
belong consented to serve; but it was
only after having committed himself
pas. recall, that he knew what tremen-
dous undertakins-that Of settling these
long outstanding differences-had been
imposed upon Lin. lie found, as he
relates, that the Dutci. Embassy had an
enormous pile Of old, tiIne-stainst docu
,neIts to be examined and digested, and
that the japanese government had a no
less formidable heap of those dry me-
meE;oes Of credit system which dated
back through two dreary centuries. Bat
It was belongs disregard for the
rlouldy forms OF diplomacy that Was
wanted; for tie Dutch Embassy had
Witnessed his energy AMI audacity AMI
estimated it 1t its true value. Finding
himself in for it," DeLong was not
the man 10 desert the field. lie made
s.raisItway to the resilence-n0t the
oftice-oi the Japanese Minister OF FL
nance, and laid his business before him.
That fuuct;onary held up his hands in
horror; for these claims had been the
nightmare of generations Of Japanese
statesmen. But DeLong Was NOT at 4
loss for an Argument. He represented
to the minister that these claims, If they
ware held by ore of the frst-class pow
ers, such IS England CT France or tie
United States. could he collected by a
more forceful process than could be en-
ployei By so weak government as
Holland; and that therefore it was
matter of honor that they should be set
tied with as little delay as possible.
Stimulated with ;his view of the matter,
tins Minister of Finance gave his instant