The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-23
BLAINE'S REPLY SENT.
1T SHOULD EFFECTUALLY SET
TIE THE TROUBLE.

Mr.. Blaine's reply to Marquis Rudints
note of April , has been transmitted to
the Italian Government. 1t is dig
niied and yet caustic reply to a demand
that had in it too much bravado to be
read with patience in this country. The
question is discussed from the standpoint
of people indignant at the gratuitous
bumptiousness of a friendly nation,
manifeSting q DIES re to be fair, but ex
hibiting not the slightest inclination to
apologize. In effect Blaine takes the
Italian Ministry up, shakes it. and then
with a show of iron-handed courtesy
shoves it out of the way
Mr.. Websters correspondence as to the
Spanish riots in New Orleans, which is
quoted in the reply, was memorable, but
Mr.. Webster all through his dispatches
expressed an honest desire that the
peaceful relations existing between the
United States and Spain might not be
disturbed. There is an entire absence OF
any such wish or expression in the reply
to the Italian Government. The opinion
is universal that the Italian Premier =
served fully the castigatiOn he receives,
vet it is doubtful if any two great
nations not Immediately contemplating
war ever before entered upon such a
fusillade of absurd and unreasonable
demands on the one hand and of
caustic irony and derisve courtesy on
the other hand, as appear in this CORE
spondence. Imperiali's opening and GU
riOuS soft SaWder, in addressing the Sec
rotary of State as "Your EXcellency"
almost overShadowS the admission he
Immediately afterward makes that Ba
ron Fava was not recalled, as the Baron
himself gave out originally, but was
simply absent con leave. This gives
Blaine q chance to get back at Imperial
and address him as full "charge
d 'affaires, instead OF being simply the
officer left Gin charge Of current bust
ness" as was SO sedulousIy stated at the
outset Of the trouble.
The Italian Government has not sus-
pended diplomatic relations by recalling
it's Minister though for home effect it
has proclaimed that it has done so. The
next and even more important point
made is the showing from the exact Ian
guage of Rudini's original dispatch how
widely different his two demands-the
one sent out from Rome and the one
now anSWered-Were. incidentally, Mr..
Blaine gets in a sarcastic alluSiOn to
Baron Fava's English His quotation
ington has not given the Baron greater
familiarity with the language than he
seems to have with the institutions of
the country. Noting the different terms
employed in the dispatch which he is
answering from those used in the dis
patch previously received, he says his de-
partment "has no desire to change" the
language of the original dispatch of
March "a, which was delivered to him in
person by Baron Fava, Transcribed in
English Then he quotes that dispatch
with it's assertion of a right ito demand
and obtain the punishm mt of the MUIR
derers and an indemnity for their vic
Tins" Then follows this extraordinary
sentence, which the Secretary of State
merciessly quotes: 81 would add that
the public opinion in Italy is justly
impatient, and if concrete provisions
were not at once taken l should
lind myself in the painful necas-
sity O. showing openly our dissatis &C
ton by recalling the Minister of his Maj
esty from d country where he is unable
to obtain Justice" Mr.. 3 aine, of course,
cannot resist contrasting the original
demand with tho subsequent cable dis
patch stating that "'ihe government of
Italy has asked nothing but the prompt
institution Of judicial proceedings
through the regular channels" He does
not say that the italian government has
failed to carry out its threat of recalling
the Minister. but he addresses hisa reply
to Imperiali as charge d'atfaires, " show
ing that he takes cOgniZance OF the fact,
and then he proceeds to analyZe other
portions of the Italian Minister second
dispatch
It seems that the summary as given
out from Rome. in violation of ali diplO-
matte usage, was correct in stating that
Rudini assumed the Secretary of State
had promised indemnity for the families
of the victims Mr. Blaine shows that
he had only recognized the "principe or
indemnity" to those who had suffered in
violation of treaty obligations. Finally,
he puts it that if any of the persons
killed by the mob in New Orleans were
really "Italian subjects who were resi-
dent or domiciled in that city, agreeably
to our treaty with Italy and not in vio-
lation of our immigration laws, and who
were abiding in the peace Of the United
States and obeying the laws thereof,
impossible conditions for the Italian
Government to ShOW-then, in case the
State authorities ad failed to prop
erly protect them, the president would
under such circumstances feel that
a case was established that should
be submitted to the consideration
of Congress. Only this and nothing
more. 1t is very strongly suspected that
the preliminary abstract of the report
prepared by United States District At
torney Grant, of New Orleans, will dis
close that all the men killed except two
or three were naturaliZed citizens, and
that these two or three were Italian ban
dit; who had come here in violation of
our naturalization laws, and for whom the
Italian Government has therefore bright
of reclamation. This correspondence
will leave the Rudini ministry in a criti-
cal position before its own people. but it
is generally conceded here that the
italian Government has brought the
situation upon itself by bluff and buster
and iingoism. What effect the publica-
tion of this correspondence may have
upon the critical, threatening attitude
of several of the European powers to
each other, including those in alliance
with Italy, is a fruitful theme for on
lecture The much ia lked- Of letter viii