San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-11-01
BLAINE,S APOLOGY.

connection with Minister MINERS
speech, when he presented his Gre
dentials to the president Of Costa
RIGA some sixty days since, the Ex-
press says:
"James G.. Blaine is enough of q
brilliant statesman to know that we
cannot afford rupture with Mexico.
Consequently he apologies for the
ill advised remarks OF the American
minister to Costa Rica. Consequently,
he once more demonstrates that his
head is several times larger than the
ordinary mans. American interests
have so grown of late in Mexico, that
warning upon that country would be
pretty much like warning upon our
selves.'
All this is very true, but it is also
true that MINERS speech was parti-
cularly we'll calculated to smooth over
troubles between Nicaragua and Cos
ia Rica and the event proves him q
very keen diplomat. So much has
been said concerning this speech that
it is in place to reproduce so much of
it as refers to Mexico and upon which
Mexico based her protest to the state
department at Washington. After
presenting the good wishes of the
United States and favorably COM
mentlng on the progress everywhere
observable in Central America Mr..
Miner said:
above all, however, is to be COM
mended the spirit of the compromise
and honorable adjustment inspiring
the republics Of Central America to
friendly settlement of all their differ
ences. Peace has triumphs greater
than war, and it is gratifying to see
the hot blood of the conquestadores,
like that,o my own countrymen, is
cooling and becoming disposed to
obey the dictates of reason and chris
tian forbearance, rather than follow
the promptings of enthusiasm. There
is no better established principle of
ethics than that one person or nation
should yield some of his or its precon-
ceived opinions in consideration of
the others yielding some of theirs in
return. In fact all free government
Is the result of such mutual conces-
sions. The constitution of my cOun-
try, that great charter of human lib
erty, is but an aggregation of con-
f1icting opinions. 1t is gratifying to
know that the same spirit of compro-
mise, blended with patriotic desire
for your cOuntry's honor and prosper
ity, pervades Central America, es-
pecially Costa RIGA. My country being
interested In the prosperity and
welfare of her American neighbor,
and wishing only friendly relations
and commercial in tercOurse with them
would be pleased to see union of all
the Central American States. In un-
ion there is strength. Enlightened
liberty can best be maintained by join
ing of human efforts for the protection
of human rights. Already your most
Northern State is about to be deprived
of considerab BILE portion of her terri
tory on nice question of boundary,
and Costa RIGA may not always be ex-
empt from the ambitious advances of
her Southern neighbors. The Central
American States being of common
ancestry, having common destiny,
and speaking the same language, have
q splendid future. United they will
stand, divided they may fall"
This reference to Northern Cen trail
State, which gave offence to Mexico,
was to Guatemala which was deprived
of considerable slice of her territory
by Mexico. 1t was a small matter to
base remonstrance on. but having
been made it was wise in Mr.. Blaine
to make courteous reply disavowing
all intention of giving offence.
THE speakership contest in the
next house narrows down to Reed,
Mckinley and Cannon of Illinois.
Burrows and Henderson can hardly
be said to be in the race, and 1t is
really contest between the east and
the west. Reed will have the most
votes at the beginning but Mckinley
is the second choice of more mem ers
than Reed and the west which sup
ports Cannon would sooner give its
strength to Ohio than to Maine. If
the forces of Reed and Mckinley are
too evenly balanced to permit either
to win Cannon will be very certain to
receive the position as the compro.
mise candidate holding balance of
power. He ! as been making a very
vigorous canvas tor some months and
may not have been working i'm vain.
Either one of the three will make a