The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-01-23
The Press ON War With Chill.
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From the Philadelphia Ledger
These clamorers for war against Chill forget
how strongly our Government is committed
10 anpeal 10 arbitration before going to war,
| and especially to resort to that peaceful and
civilized method of settling international dis
mites and grievances before engaging in war
| like hostilities with any independent nation
on the American Continent. They forget
| this, or treat it as if it were a mere transient
piece of sentiment, to be set aside by the
| United States whenever 1t suits our will to do
so. They overlook the fact that the Geneva
| Tribunal of Arbitration lifted the United
States to the loftiest plane among the nations
of the world, and they forget that the course
we then took and the example we then set
we are bound to observe in our own contro-
yersial intercourse with all nations. They
Danish from their memories all thought of
the recent International Congress of Ameri-
can Natons--the Pan-American Congress
one of the foremost purposes of which, and
one of its most meritorious outcomes, was the
proposed agreement that all the nations Of
the continent should, before going to war,
one with the other, make earnest endeavor to
adjust their disputes by arbitration.
From the Nec York Herald.
Our Washington dispatches give clear
insight into the CHILEAN situation. The Presl-
dent is bent on war and relies upon the Chill
an correspondence which will soon be made
public to inhame the country and cause Con-
rress to declare war. Fortunately there is "a
prospect that this shrewd political game will
be blocked. If Chill cannot be made to see
her duty in this matter England and Spain. it
is said, have intmated that they are willing
to act as arbitrators. There is no reason why
Chill should not apologize. The Chilians,
however, are a brave and proud race and they
unaueslionably believe that the Baltimore
assault was street row for which they are
not responsible and for which they should
not be expected to apologize. 1t pleases the
Harrison administration to believe that the
Baltimore incident was an intentional insult
to this government and an outrage for which
reparation should be made. The facts, there
fore, of this Baltimore incident are clearly
all that there is in dispute and form proper
subject for arbitration. The honor OF both
governments would be preserved by arbitra-
ton.
From tie Baltimore SIM.
What fine things a war would do can be
Judged from the harvest the tariff lords of
Pennsylvania are reaping out of the more or
less artificial situation as respects Chill.
Every mothers son of them would have a
contract to supply iron or steel or something
nut high by the tariff. The prolongatlon of
the scare is riches to them. All the old
hangers on are proftting by the alleged neces,
sity of refitting old abandoned monitors, old
smooth bores and old stock generally. War
would destroy some thousands of lives and
cost some hundreds of millions, but there
are people whom it would pay.
From Tie Nec York World.
Fortunately the issue of peace or war is
not left to excited blusterers to decide. We
have Congress in winch the sober civiliza-
ton of the country is represented, and Con
gress will take plenty of time to consider be
fore authorizing resort to the barbaric
methods of war in "A case which it is our duty,
as overwhelmingly the stronger nation, to
settle peacefully Our national honor is not
of so frail a texture that it must be guarded
by the bullying of weaker states.