Arizona silver belt., 1891-12-19
CHILE MUST COMrLY

sued by the United States towards the Chilean government in regard to the murder and wounding ct |, s. sailors upon the streets of Valpa- raiso, that government is absolutely opposed to compliance with our de- mand for indemnity and apology, The President in emphatic language said, If Chile should still decline to aceedo 10 onr demand for reparaticn for the morl1Bg oi our sailors, he will ask
 Fess l.he war-malung power) "to es such action as may be required, !" What congress will do in the promises is foreshadowed by the rapid eonstruc- ton of new naval vessels, the Newark. Concord, Bennington and Mantonomoh, completed within the present year, and twentS.fouy war ships, of ali classes, now under construction; some of the more important vessels of that number will require about a year for their com pletion at which time we can claim naval vessels not exeellsd by any other maritime nation. Our vessels now ahoat warrants the United States in pressing upon Chile compliance with the demand, already made, which from the present aspect of affairs is not like ly to be modified.
 Chile, by reason of misrule, is vir- tually bankrupt In 1882 she had a population of 2,27I, ,9l9, more than half of whom could neither read nor write. The area of square miles be longing to piratical Chile is 256, SS7, large slice of which sho took vi ct armis from Bolivia and Peru The island of Juan Fernandez, noted as the residence of Alexander Selkirk, alias Robinson Crusoe, for four years, located about three hundred and sixty miles off the coast of Chile, is part of her posses sion and has now q population of about one hundred All her forts are well fortified and she has formidable navy, but notwithstanding her effectiveness for defense, in view of the belligerent attitude of the United States and Spain, who demand indemnity and apology for offences committed against those pow CTS, her fighting strength is greatly in sufficient. Doubling her ability to hold those powers at arms length, 1t is re- ported she has contracted with Krupp for far-reaching guns, with view of wlnging her enemies, should they ap- preach her coast, at long taw, which evidences the fact, that while whist hng through the graveyard to keep her courage mp she is not yet prepared to show the white feather.
 While that is the case, we suggest for Chils's consideration, that it is valiant flea that dare eat its breakfast on the lip of lion; and yot it seems that Chile proposes to become that in- discreet flea. When the ''cruol war is over" and the United States is consid- srirg what is best to impose upon Chile as a sscurity for the future, why not return to Bolivia and Peru tho territ5- ry wbich that buccanaar republic de- nuded them of2 Thus shorn of a major part of her present possessions she would be rendered comparatively harm less. Of course We will claim a consid- eration of what it cost the United States to bring Chile to a sense of justice.
 In thus spsakiug so confidently of results, we are moved to the conclu- Bion by the energy displayed by our government in preparing for an ag- gressive blow Uncle Sam the youth fsl Hercules of the west, has shied his oast7i into the ring and it now remains to be seen whether or not Chile will comply with his demands. A late Val paraiso dispatch conveys the iuforma- ton that Chileanians are more defiant than ever, mainly upon the belief that England and Germany will lend hand in the protection of her principal port, Valparaiso, but in that they are mis- taken, for the reason that neither of those powers will care to commit an act of balligerency against the United States which must result in deelnra- ton of war.
 'Tis trite saying, Eve never miss the water till the well goes dry" and ] the same trueism applies to our tardi- ness in the completion of the Nicaragua canal, which in the present aspect of opr relations with CbHe is vivid re- hinder of our criminal neglect in not | ayailing ourselves of the opportunity | in time of peace, of shortening the | waterway four or five thousand miles between New York and Valparaiso, where at tho latter place the United . States will soon have urgent business
 ----s-sa--sss.sss.z--a-a---
 Tho transmission of power from Mia