The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-29

A correspondent writes the Tsk7rsph
concerning the Chilean difficulty:
TIE Baitsrzors us1 were ~ Chile in TIE PSF
forEEnos % c1ty - order q ths-r EoTe-1-
raszf. All willie wearing TIE uuiso-1 zna3s
and eoEaEazdSs 70 - wo-n ~ f5s govern
rasat u the rzs:s1 Esstes- IN law IL wa nDt
tie ssiior BIT rs flag q this e01otry tat Wss
snsults1, imprisoned, stat uDoa aid dragged =
tie ulre an guitars d Chile
4. does not make the slightest difference
whether these persons assaulted were IN
uniform Or rot, there Is 10 special pro.sc-
ton for foreigners who enter the United
States voluntarily, whether they are In
uniform OF not: whether they are soldiers
or sailors; they have 10 more rights, no
more protection than any other class Of
foreigners; they have exactly what our
laws give them. OF eo1rse foreign minis
ters hare special inmznisles and pro-
lection in al countries. but outside 81 for
eign ministers a. foreigners. whether in
Uniform or not. have exactly the sane pro-
lection, neither more nor less. which Is
accorded 10 al American citizens.
The captain or crew Of sn American naval
vessel who 60 ashore al Valparaiso. either
for amusement or 70 buy slI!p's stores. are
not foreign ministers" they are in
Law when they 20 ashore exactly IN
the condition Of al other for
eigners who voluntarily 90 ashore
j; q mob had storned the American legs-
ton and assaulted our Minister Egzn
e. Valparaiso, that would be. one
thing, the u2obbing Of ID American sailor,
whether be IS in uniform or not, IN Vslpa-
raise. 10 another thing. Does anybody
imagine that if boat crew from az Arneri-
can gunboai wss mobbed il Liverpool, or
Bremen. or Ezvrs that orr government
would get anything except what the Eng
hsh courts gave Haynsu-legal prosecu-
ton Of the ASSISTANTS and 81 expression Of
regrei7
To expect more than this would be 70
count upon what we would never get and
never would have the inpudence 70 ask.
The United States would answer q de-
mand for reparation from England, France
or Germany, IN case a naval crew was
beaten by New York mob, by reference
TO tie courts Of New York and by an e1-
courts OF New York breaking down, as did
those OF Louisiana. by recommendation
TO congress that indemnity be paid be-
cause Of the failure of local justice.
The Telegraph ought 10 tell its CORE
spondent that when President Cleveland
recommended the payment Of the Chinese
indemnity to congress, Secretary Bayard
China nothing in shape OF indemnity, bnt
since an outrage had been committed. for
which the local courts Of Wyoming either
could no. or would not make amends, the
secretary recommended the payment OF
indemnity as grstuity 20 China, just as
Mr. Blaine might recommend the pay
Tnent Of indemnity 10 Italy as gratuity,
since the courts Of Louisians would not
even inGict the assassins.
Chile is exactly II the same situation q.
All other sovereign states; she viii give
"a iap neither more nor less - our sailors
than the remedy Of her courts which are
open 10 ell foreign visitors. This is al in
Law that England, France or Germany
would give Is. and ali the United States
would give Chile were the situation re-
versed and a Chilean naval crew mobbed
81 New York. TIE American sailors we're
by their own confession ashore ION lib
erty" and drunk II was an ARRAY be-
tween drunken sailors and the mob. and
IL IS merely question for the courts TO
settle as 70 the responsibility Tor the as
sgult and the punishment Of the parties
who indicted Il.
IN no Official sense is the flag OF any
country "lnsui;ed, imprisoned, spa, upon
and dragged n the mire, when party Of
drunken sailors are assaulted by the mob
OF foreign city, any more thar the tag
Of China was insuited because = mob
of white miners murdered a number Of
Chinese a. Rock Springs, Wyoming;
o. the flag Of Italy assaulted
when the New Orleans mob nassacred the
Mahs. The Chilean government NAV
urge their congress to DO as Cleveland did
in the case Of the Chinese, and as Blaine
may do IN the case OF the Italians. paw In
demnity not under law bat as gratuity.
but If Chile makes the same plea that
Palmerston made when Austria asked
reparation and explanation for the Hav-
naB mob, Chile viii do exactly wha; We
would DO II the case was reversed and
Chile's OK had been gored by our bull.
lt is merely question Of fact, law and
precedent, and does not call for eraptv. in
solsnt. arrogant assertion OF the part Of
ignorant self-safHcisncv