New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-23
cUyTrS TNSOLENT NOTE.

struc,ions "a Minister Mont As furnished by the
Associated Press correspondent IN santiago Iuli!
in,tifcS the firm stand taken by the ADMINS
traton. It was a. undiplomanc ana offensive
q note 4, was ever written by Minister le-
snon,ible for the conduct Of foreign relations
Il orened with blunt declaration that the IN
formation upon which the references to ChIiah
affairs in the Presidents Message and Secretary
Tracy's rcpgrt were based was "crlOnc0uS ana
deliberately untrue" 1t closed with an aSsur-
ance of the final triumph of Chill n0t"lth-
Standing the intrigucs which 60 at present from
- low a source and the threats which come from
:, bich an authority" Apart from the substance
Of the dispatch, these opening and closing sen
fence, were insocnt alrontS. When Minister
Malta intima,cd that what the President and
Secretary Tracy had written was deliberately
untrue. hc cast a Wanton Slur either upon thcm
or up the diplomatic and naval lhiorhlahS
who had reported the facts to them. Nhcn'
narrower. he referred 70 =" in,rgucs from 50 low
= source" and T. the mcnaccS 81 the fTcSldehtS
Message. he emphasized the previous insult Inc
Message was exceedingly temperate IN us icIcr-
cncc :, Chill. and did not contain anything that
Guild rightly be considered menace. As Tor
low intrigue. the instructions furnish no evidence
Of it.
II Minister Montt repeated these instructions
verbatim at the state Department, 1t Is not sur
uri,ing that the President has made thorough
study of the evidence and has prepared special
Message. which j. about to be submitted 10 Ton
rrc.. Foreign Ministers who write instructions
10 their representatives in that unclIil ana IN
shifting tnno place Themselves in an attitude OF
nroy, king war. From beginning TO end there
was net a oonciliatory sentence in the dispatch
T. va, filed with point-blank dcnialS and in
situations. The refugees in the American LeSa-
ZION. according TO Minister Malta, have never
been threatened. nor the house and person of
Minister Egln received any outrage, " notwith-
Standing calculated indiScrctionN and provoca-
lions" The instructions from Washington en-
Joining neutrality and friendship according to
the same authority, have not been observed
either in the present or the past and this Is
| followed by the assumption that the concessions
made 10 Balmaceda in June and July and " every
thing concerning the Itlta the san Francisco
| in Ouintcros and the cable companies are proofs
If This. The attack on the BaltimorcS men IL
covered by a series Of dcnlalS and cya>onS ana
| by the accusation that the American Minister
was SURPRISING information respecting the
| identity of 1.-the murdcreS and other guilty
| persons
Il is evident from the correspondence Of the
Associated Press that tho publication Of those
instructions has inhamcd public feeling in Chill,
and that Minister Malta in the debates before
Congress has openly charged the American naval
officers and Minister Egan with making reports
| 70 Washington that were deliberately false, and
of engaging in intrigucs for the purpose of Great
inc trouble between the two countries. 'Thc
instructions were apparently sent in gust OF
| temper which WAS wholly unprOyokcd since tho
earliest dispatches from Washington respecting
| the Baltimore outrage were diplomatic in tone
and temperate in language. There have been
subsequent runors from Chill indicating that this
note had either been Withdrawn or modified.
Certainly it ought to have been withdrawn, for
in its original form it was clearly mpracticablc
10 conduct negotiations upon it. The publication
Of dispatch that is not only uncompromsing
but insolcnt increases materially the seriousness
of the CHILEAN complications. The full core
sp9ndcnce which will accompany the President
| MESSAGE will be awaited with anxiety by the
| American people.