Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-04

1904. declared it to be the richest coun-
try on the globe in natural wealth. put
Chill will leave it among the poorest: She
is taking all the rich slices. as an eplcure
carves the tit-blts from piece OF game.
She will take the guano and the nltrates,
and leave to Peru the desert and the
mountains"
"But how has Chill been able to make
such complete conquest OF Perur
s.Peru was exhausted" said MIR. Blaine,
"by her extravagant OUTLAWS on railroads,
amounting in the aggregate to more than
two hundred millions of dollars, and sac
had no navy and only disorganlzed
army"
"But did Chill have navy"
"She got irOn-clad ships from England
and material of war from the same source.
CHILEAN soldiers marched to Peru clad in
uniforms of English cloth with English
muskets on their shoulders. English
sympathy has stood behind her at every
step in her conquest, and English conf
merclal interests receive tremendous
impulse from the aggrandisement OF
Chilli"
"You have intimated that you think
there has been corresponding damage to
our own commercial interests"
81 think the result of this Peru CHILEAN
war DESTROYS American influence on the
South Pacific coast and literally wipes out
American commercial interests in that
vast region"
"Do you blame England for the re-
sults"
"To blame England would DE child
ish," said Mr. Blaine. england is al
ways bold, energetic and vigilant in
spreading her commercial power. ad-
mire her ceaseless activity, but l do not
believe in having it exercised at the ex-
pense of the United States. Especially
do dislike to see England winning great
commercial trlumphs in a field that legiti-
mately belongs to the United States, and
which the United States could readily
command if she would"
Chow will England's commercial in
terests be promoted by ChIli's victory?''
"Why, the whole business at once falls
into English hands," said Mr.. Blaine.
The export of guano and nitrate is already
nearly 100000 tons per annum, and will
rapidly increase, all from Peruvian terri
tory, and all now absorbed by Chilli. Eng
lish bankers will furnish the money,
English merchants will transact the bust
ness, English ships will carry the car
goes. Over 800 ships are already engaged
in the trade"
"Do YOU mean that all that vast COM
merce of the material of the cargoes is
transferred from the ownership of Peru
to the ownership of Chill by the proposed
settlement?''
81 do" said Mr.. Blaine, "and mean
that it is not only transferred from Peru
to Chill, but it Is to be absorbed by Eng
land to the exclusion of the United States
Chill will gain from it in TWO years more
than the entire cost of the war;
"Then you think it drives us out OF
that trader"
"Why, it is perfectly clear" said Mr..
Blaine, s'that England will absorb it as
completely as she absorbs the trade OF
Portugal or of Egypt, of Australia OF OF
Bengal"
"Were not our trade relations with
South America already very unsatisfac-
toryg"
mine in all the United States every year, y
said Mr.. Blaine, "to pay the trade bal
ance which Spanish America brings
against us annually. In other words, we
buy of them more than we sell to them
by $1O0, 200, 900 every year. 1t will he
worse hereafter. 1t was in our power
to make it vastly better"
ssDid the instructions Of Mr.. Prescott,
which you say the president approved.
contemplate war;"
"War with whom?" asked Mr.. Blaine.
"Why, with Chilli, of course"
ssThe United States surely never in
tended to make war on Chilli" said Mr..
Blaine, s.and [ can not imagine that any
one was afraid Chill would make war on
the United States. The instructions
aimed at the triumphs of peace, not OF
war"
ssSome of the New York papers pointed
out, in formidable headlines, the danger
we would be in, especially at San Fran
cisco, if Chill, in the resentment of our
policy, should declare war against u.s."
"The Chilians," said Mr.. Blaine, "are
undoubtedly brave, fighting race, but
they are less than two millions in num-
Der, and they are 1000 miles distance
from our nearest port. If, with our 80,
000,000 of people and our continental
strength we consider ourselves in any
possible or imaginary danger from Chill,
we should at once look TO our defenses.
But the whole talk of war with Chill is
very absurd. 1 scarcely have patience to
bestow word on such nonsense"
"But was not your policy new depart
ure from the conservative methods of our
country?"
"On the contrary" said Mr.. Blaine,
sit was directly in the line of our safest
precedents, laid down by our most distin-
guished and conservative secretaries of
state.''
"What precedents do you refer tor
"Why, take the latest one first, and see
the steady influence exerted by Mr.. Sc
ward to re- establish the authority of
Jaurez in Mexico. See how by the moral
power of the United States the French
were expelled, Macmillan overthrown,
and republican.government, with Jaurez
at its head, restored. 1t would not have
required as great an exertion of the NOR
al influence of the United States to save
Peru from destruction, and make Peru
and Chill both our friends"
"Were there any earlier precedents
than Mr.. Stewards Intervention in Mex
ico?"
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