The daily gazette., 1882-01-30

nix. 0LAkNEb OAr1OMAOAs--~AA AA~ /
ex-secretary Of State, and most promi-
nent candidate for the Presidency Of
the Republican party. has mot, It
seems, been very successful I'm giving
satisfaction TO his party In his attempt
at diplomacy through the Office Of
Secretary of State Of the United States.
The stalwarts allege that Mr., Blains's
interference In the war between Chile
and Peru and Bolivia was. calculated
to create difficulty between Chile and
the UAited States, and that BY the
change Of Mr.. Blaine's policy by his
successor, Mr.. Frelinghuysen, he saved
this government from . war that
might have proved very disastrous 70
our commerce, since Blaine's policy OF
uniting all the South American gov
ernments into one confederacy COM
bined against the governments Of
Europe was well calculated to induce
the governments of Europe to lend
aid to Chile. This looks plausible.
Besides Mr.. Blaine was taking an en-
tirely new policy, going out Of the well
established course of the United States,
which, adopting the well understood
doctrine, since the days Of Washing
ton, of avoiding ''entangllng alliances"
with other nations, has always kept
out of the quarrels Of its neighbors,
and should not now foollshly be in
volved in difficulty betwesn Chile and
Peru. Mr.. Blaine's project ofcombin-
ing the South American governments
against European monarchles looks
very well or paper, and is very apt at
first view to find favor with some Of
the best people of our country who are
strongly patriotic. But 1t is danger
GUS thing to undertake, and We are
surprised that man 80 wise and
skillful as Mr.. Blaine has heretofore
shown himself to be should have en-
tered upon it, at q time, too, when
there was 80 little show Of success. 1t
might be good thing for the South
American governments but that Ia
even doubtful, should they all have
agreed to it. There are ten or twelve
separate and distinct governments all
more or less influenced by the govern
ments of Europe, and Mr.. Blaine
would find it very difficult to get them
all to entertain his views on this mat>
ter. Whether it would be wise or not
for them to combine is = great ques-
tion. Whether such combination
would not lead TO more wars and
difficulties than they have among
emselves-whether it would not
give one or more of these petty gov
ernments better opportunity to cem-
bine and subject others Of them.-
Brazil, for instance, being an Empire,
might very reasonably object to the
formation of great republic, and join
England and France and Spain in q
raid upon our commerce. Or, If the
governments had agreed upon a
confederation of States whether
they would not be moro likely quar-
rel among themselves and thus bring
difficulty apon the whole. These
governments are. frequently changing,
AS they appear upon most of the maps
Of South America are, Brazil, Bolivia,
Chile, Argentine Republic, Paraguay,
United States of Colombia, New
Grenada, Venezuela, Ecuador, Gui.
ana, Uruguay and Patagonia. To-
gether they would form quite for
midable republic, having a population
of about 25,000,00 to 30,000,0 900.
But it would be an almost an utter
impessibility for such excitable peO-
pie as compose these governments to
combine and continue to live together
for any length of time, and Mr..
Blaine's brilliant conception and most
logical and plausible arguments could
not make the people believe In bis
new policy after they once take it up
for consideration.