Rock Island daily Argus., 1892-01-25

| uue TO those crimes. - nese men nave not
only been sheltered and protected at the
house and at the legation of our minister
| resident at Santiago for several months.
against the protest of the existing govern
ment, but they are finally removed and
peaeeably transported by land from Santi-
ago to Valparaiso, and there placed on
war vessel of the United States, to be
safely transported by the authority of our
government beyond the jurisdiction of the
| country whose laws they have violated.
Put Yourself in His Place.
Suppose that during the late civil war
| in this country the English or the French
minister at Washington had given shelter
| and protection to Jefferson Davis, to Jacob
| Thompson, 20 General Early or General
| Beauregard, how long would the house or
| person of that minister been respected?
| To submit the question is to evoke the
answer" Mr.. Henderson then quoted
! from Secretary Fish in 1915, and from
| Webster, Seward, Marcy and Bayard, all
| repudiating the doctrine and practice of
| asylum, and then said: 1--WE have no
right to interfere with the civil policy OF
| other nations and to make the houses of
| our representatives abroad harbor for
offenders against their laws is an insult
to them far greater than the action of I'M
authorized mobs can possibly be to us.
Italy is Still awaiting.
"One year ago, when Italy demanded i'm
| mediate apology for the killing of her citi-
zens by the New Orlean mob our secretary
said that he would not be hurried or bull
lied into an apology until the facts were
known. That deed is yet without apology,
without indemnity and without pledges for
the future. In seeming fear that the re-
suit of judicial trials in authorized courts
will he disappointing to our pride we rush
to a mock trial at Vallejo, where there is
no test of the truth, no cross-examination,
no sanctions OF an oath, no rules Of prac,
tice, no public fear or danger of the penal,
ties of perjury"
An odiOus Reflection.
If we had to go to war with every
nation the blood Of whose citizens stains
our soil from mob violence. no full years
of peace would bless our land. Chill re-
pudiates all governmental responsibility
for the mob of last October. She claims
that it was the sudden and unlicensed out
break of drunken men on both sides. She
proposes TO establish this fact under the
dae administration of her laws, and asks
for time TO furnish the evidence Shall
our pride forbid us to wait?
As to ihe Recall of Egan.
As to the right of Chill to ask for Min
ister Egan's recall. and that such request
would endanger peaceful relations between
the two countries, General Henderson said:
~ls 1t possible that we have reached such
position OF naughty arrogance that we
sha! insist upon imposing our choice of
ministers upon foreign nations? This IS
right which we have exercised from the
foundation of the government. General
Washington, while president. demanded
OF France the recall of ldmund GeRest.
Ne have since demanded t.,e acall of a
lniti>,cr from Spain and very recently one
from England
Correcting the Ex-senator.
There is one point in the above in which
the ex-senator speaks without the record
" soon as the news of the mob violence at
New Orleans was received the president
c;tDicd TO Italy n telegram of most earnest
regret and horror at the occurrence 1t
was fall enough in those respects to be
considered a frank apology. SO far Chill
has expressed 10 regret officially. II is
said that the Chilian government is in
trouble with its own people. who are op-
posed to any hack-dowu in the matter 1t
VIII also be remembered thaJ ParkerSon.
who led the New Orleans mob. was invited
to and made a Fourth of July speech in
Illinois, while Mayor Shakespeare. who
did nothing TO prevent mob law, was lion
lied at "a notable convention uor long
since
What Chilli 1Iay DO.
As to the recall Of Egan this government
has right To know the reasons which
render him unacceptable to the govern
meut Of that country, and If it were the
purpose 10 recall him they could probably
be asked But If Chilli wants To have him
leave the country she viii have TO do as
this country did with LORD Sackville-