The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-08-05
Gun AMERICAN LETTER.
iHtosshsiHI Points for riawA,iaa
Readers.
SAN Francisco, July %.

SAN FRANCISCO, July %.
There il not much of special in.
terest to write about. This great
country is enjoying the blessings of
peace aud moderately average pros
perity, while other countries are
either distracted by war or COM
PEELED to maintain armies which are
more exhaustive of the peoples
wealth than a decisive campaign
would probably be. Our sensation
al news-mongers, however, have
been doing their best to get up
war scare, by exaggeratipg every
triiling incident connected with the
Behring Sea question, and when
these could not he so twisted then
supplying the defect by manufac
turing the needed paper thunder.
Of class with the imaginary Beh
ring Sea naval demonstration ny
England and piratical fleet of We
torian sealers, is the Lower Cali
fornla annexation sensation. When
the facts in the latter case are sep.
arated from the fiction there will
not be single peg left on which TO
hang q sensation. But competing
newspapers must live. This is the
epoch of sensational journalism and
the paper which does not supply
the unwholesome demand for sensa-
tons will soon drop out of sight.
Most OPPORTUNITY comes a real
war on American soil, hostilities
having been begun by Guatemala
and San Salvador. You were in
formed of the situation in Central
America by the Australia's mail.
Since then it appears that q Guste-
malian force crossed the frontier
and was repulsed by the San Saliva
dor troops. Reinforcements have
been ordered to the front, and
Honduras Is sending an army to
support Guatemala, while Mexico,
which has an unsettled boundary
| question with its southern ncighhor,
has massed an army on the frontier
and threatens to invade Guatemala
if it proceeds TO extremities with
San Salvador. In the south and
west, Nicaragua and Costa Rica as
sures San Salvador of their moral and
material support, but they cannot
march their troops TO the scene of
action under four or six weeks, so
that al the outset San Salvador must
depend upon its own forces. Qua
temala has sent a special envoy to
Washington to protest against Mex
lean Intervention, and San Salvador
likewise appeals TO Uncle Sam
against Guatemala. The latter
stands upon the treaty of confeder-
alton which the new Salvador Gov
crnnent repudiates. The former
wants TO compel the consolidation
OF the five Central American repub.
lies into one Government after the
pattern of the United States of
Columbia in South America. II
would undoubtedly be an improve
ment if the unlfcation of Central
America could be carried ont peace
fully. Permanence cannot be looked
for should force prevail. 1t is
amusing, however, TO see how soon
the mercurial peoples Of so called
Latin America forget their pledge
to submit all international disputes
to arbitration. Mr.. Blaine has had
two striking examples of the futility
OF his efforts to promote reciprocity
with the Latin American States and
to induce them to accept and abide
by the principles of the Peace So
ciety in the fiscal policy of our own
Congress and the fratricidal war in
which Central America has embark
ed. Nevertheless Guatemala has a
big public works loan on the Lon
don market and it is likely to be
subscribed on good terms. English
capital takes greater risks apparent
iy in the revolutionary countries of
America than it was prepared to
take in revolutionary Hawaii il one
may judge by the heavy discount
and expense Of floating the little
Hawaiian loan in London. Even
reputation has few terrors to the
capitalists Of England ON American
soil, north or south.
WORK ATTEMPTED By CONGRESS.
| Congress has been attempting to
work in the sweltering heat of Wash.
ington and business has been gotten
J through after fashion in their