Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-21

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WILMINGTON. rHURSDAY. JAN. ~.
Where the Danger Lies.
The people of the United States are wont |
10 congratulate themselves that they
too intelligent too sturdy, and too con
servative to rush senselessly into difficulty.
Doubtless they are, il they could be
aroused TO think and to concentrate the
force Of their opinions. But the danger
lies in the fact that while the great mass of |
the people close their eyes and refuse to
TIE believe themselves in peril their rulers
lie may take their impressions from the
clamors of the adventurous and irresponsi- |
BILE who hope to find i'll confusion the for |
~ tune which they are unwilling to seek by |
honest industry. 1t is disheartenng to
Don, ,shose who try to believe in progress, |
~and to discover in the actions Of men
some evidence that the principles
of Christianity are not without
influence, to read in the press the daily
reports that come from Washington as to
the spirit and temper in which our public |
0FFlc men approach the present situation with
cover ground of reconciliation which
the two countries may meet, they talk of
nothing but war and of the money this
r,, government can spend and the number Of
men 1t can put into the field. Do the plain
people of the country who, out of their
slender earnings in the workshop or on
the farm, pay the taxes; do the wives and
p mothers whose husbands and children
may be called into the field do these great
classes, who constitute the bulk OF the
population, approve such conduct2 1t is
impossible to believe that they can.-Neo
York Esesiag Post
and conscientious of every shade
of party sentiment the foregoing words
of admonition, from the New York
Eoeniag Post, in relation to the attitude
of the President of the United States
towards the republic of Chill. Under
invitation issued by President Cleveland
-. ~ March 1899, the Pan-Amercsn Congress
A. ,,,,ses b assembled in Washington two years
I German, sago, presided over by the Secretary of
rice thec fee.e, Mr.. Blaine and alliance OF all
Canada aall pun republics of North and South
neeu IN 's +h merica proclaimed upon the basis
rr we'd 1fTeciprocity and mutual good will and
tsu ascw community Of interests social political
/ las the hon and commercial. All resort to war was
hour of o. denounced and arbitration as a means
nparatiye of settling all international difficulties
.nese aiirinc was solemnly agreed upon, mot by
5 th We Chilli, it is true, but that would not war
RI essavaews rant great nation in treating her diff
iournaeau, ferenty from the asserting republics)
d although and, while the echo of these promises
le Oh vcaa has hardly died away, we hear the roll
- 80 of the drum and noisy notes of
After 81. preparation for bloody and costly
9 approx conflict with South American state
i've e II, as there is some reason to suppose
'rng the bellicose spirit of the administration
e. ~ is influenced by desire to distract
NJ r., public attention from the record of the
9 conn Billion Dollar Congress, and the
TRENT Vaccinations of Minister Egan, there is
ittee t& extraordinary reason for the exercise of
a ueA great temperance of Judgment at the
cts prjsent time. Assuming that there is
The c. me Alison for irritation against the Chilians
nder si ZEE nerally, afford to await the
,trodg the facltcome of the Judicial investigation
,a Y given uow in progress at Valparaiso There
ther That dei no sound reason for taking exception
aysf THEs some have done with bitterness, to
ge Mheae secrecy OF the preliminary proceed
.uths o. Wahgs. Making allowance for difference
' hy seSS u the criminal systems of different
Nv the necountries, it does not appear that
Ale West the investigation was conducted very
lmt striki differently from what it would have
ast play been in our own country. If party of
lof I'm Gillian sailors had landed in one Of our
iai 80 cleles anu peen SCI upon by a MOB
gath of rowdies maltreated and some Of
Neal SIM disc them killed. what would have been the
MonI its regular course of proceedings here
late last rs First, the police would have been called
scene O. IN upon to hunt down the ringleaders of
hangini So the mob, and, after their apprehension
brotne the charges against them would have
Pea1 been inquired into by a grand jury, in
Hi, secret session, precisely as at Valparaiso,
lie and if that grand jury insisted upon
If examining the witnesses in the regular
"a way and refused to allow a committee
of Gillian officers to be present--as
would most probably have been the
case-we should think the Gillian
government people or press unreason-
able in making this refusal cause al
IAN n complaint-and we should say, in reply
thereto, as we did to the Italian govern.
ment, that we propose to run our own
courts in our own way Very well; lei
us accord other nations the same priy
lege.
Is This investigation has been concluded
~ indictments have been found agains
some of the ringleaders and they arr
to be tried in open court, wher,
both sides will be heard. Such being the
case we should not be too hasty to jumI
I'D at conclusions derived entirely from
hearing one side only. Only few day
ago the papers published accounts Of
"free fight" in the London docks, til
contending parties being Prussian anC
a English Sailors resulting in yer,
serious, If not mortal injury, ben,
inflicted one Of the combat
ants. Yet nobody looks for Til
to be made the subject !
international correspondence. Tie polio
courts will deal with the matter and III
Gillian courts will probably deal iust
with the assailants Of the Baltimore
crew. At any rate, 1t is tooearly for til
Americans TO assume, in advance of til
trial, that the courts will not dea
rightly So that, until it has been mad
manifest that justice has not been don't
by the communication of the results 4
the trial through the proper oiicia
channels the tJnited States rovarp M,