Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-03-15

How Latin Americana Regard the "Anglos
saxon Ogre" Of the North.

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How Latin-Amerieans Regard the "Ansle.
| saxon Ogre" Of the North.
| Correspondents Of The Evening Star. 3
| MoxrEvIpEo, URUGUAY, February 4. 1882.
In the United States during the recent ex-
element over the Chilean question" thers
has been great deal Of talk about the help the
| United States would receive frum some Of the
South American states who are not friendly to
Chile, but by reading the following article.
which appeared yesterday morning in III
Razon, the leading Journal Of the government
party in Montevideo, the readers of The STAR
may see that the great republic Of the north"
would fnd little sympathy among the neutral
South Americans, who look upon the great
| thriving government of the United States ~
| IAN Angio-Saxon ogre that is christening 70
engulf the prosperity of the Latin races OF the
south" The following ID q translation OF the
article as it appeared in the Spanish newspaper
! and gives a very fair idea Of the popular
| opinion on the subject in the neutral states:
1.-The public attention OF the lilo de 10 Plata
has been drawn to the intricate international
| tween Chile and the United States. This ques.
ton concerns us deeply as members OF the
| same American-Spanish family, and, judging
from the violent character Of the kilograms.
the arrogant position Of the United States
amounts TO diminution of the prcrogatfyes
CURED. The result is that the United States,
formerly considered the protector of the indie
Pendence Of the people in the new continent,
nave m sde such an abuse Of strong diplomatic
power toward these people In Chile rs there is
no parallel example even among the European
nations; Notwithstanding the difference OF in
situations and the greater frequency OF con-
hicts on account of the number of Europeans
permanent and transient that have made their
MONIES among us-but in each instance pre-
serving their original nationality.
The violent conduct Of the United States
might be explained II II were evident that
justice was on her side. 1t Is true that the noe
of Senior Malta, the Chilean minister OF foreign
affairs. was incomprehensibly imprudent and
naughty when such delicate interests were at
stake with such powerful nation AS the United
States. The vanity arising from Chile victories
in her recent wars and q certain rudeness nan
| ifested by her in her intercourse with neigh
boring nations appears to have given her di-
plomacy too warlike . character, and in this
case to have given rise TO a gruve international
| question out OF what might otherwise have been
only question Of government policy. -
But whatever the faults of the Chilean d.
plomacy and however serious may have been
! the attack on the Baltimore's Sailors the Quilted
States could not have thought that these
| crimes were even protected--much Less caused
| by the Chilean authority. 1t might he that
some petty local authorities. such as those at
| Valparaiso either aided or abetted the attacks
| of the mob. and in this case a severe punish
ment might have been demanded without even
making it q question OF satisfaction from nation
| to nation.
| Moreover, the United States ought to have
known that in the luminosity Of the populace
toward the Baltimores sailors there was only
reflected the imprudcnt conduct of the Ameri-
| can minister. who abused the right OF asylum,
| and. above all, the fact that the American
squadron was accused Of spying over the move
ments of the revolutionary invading army in
| favor OF Balmaceda.
| I'm the face of this accumulation Of facts be-
fore people torn by strife it is not hard to
explain how a collision might take place be-
tween the Chilean populace ami the arrogant
American sailors. Had this collision not &C.
| Cured Chile might well have considered her
self the in jurPd party and the demand for re-
dress might have been well made by her, as to
her was due the reparation- The United
| States should have acted only when it was evil
| dent that the Chilean authorities we're excited
or that Chilean justice would fail to punish the
offenders. They should have demanded only
the immediate recall Of the insolent note OF
4 Minister Malta. the terms of which the Chiieans
were disposed to retract from the first.
1t viii be bad precedent to establish il
| the violence which the sailors of one nation
| have been subjected to within the territorial
| Jurisdiction Of another can be made into the
material for an international. remOnstrAnce,
and that, too, before the territorial authorities
have exhausted their researches in the case or
have denied justice.
! "And in this respect We are inclined to think
| there is some error in the kilograms which
| affirm that the United States exacts that the
| trial Ok the Baltimore affair be submitted to
the judgment Of the Supreme Court at WASH
l ington, and that Chile consents to such an i'm
| famous request. We understand that the Amer.
leans seek to give to TINS affair an international
character. and for that reason wish to withdraw
| it from the jurisdiction Of the ordinary Grim
inal courts OF Santiago but it is hard 10 believe
| in such an act Of Yankee stubbOrnness--or that
the Chileans. 30 uutamed and brave, will sub
| init to such an ignominious and degrading pro-
ceeding. Never has the honor OF the South
Aaerican people been SO abused. But might
| makes right. and the law Of the strong must
be received"
THE FEELING TOWARD CHILE.
And after giving the Chilean side Of the con-
troversy and expounding the injured inno-
| cence of Chile, the newspaper editor satisfied
the local prejudice Of all the South American
| states against Chile by a parting fling ut
Chile:
Chile, arraigned in this affair as the victim
| Of international arrogance, after having been
for some time the nation that imposed the
same law of coercion on others-has appealed
to arbitration-she being the only South Amer
lean nation who repelied it as n previous meas
ure to declaration Of war with Peru, when oh.
mockery of destiny. the United States not two
years since proposed this measure as Q pledge
OF good ceiling.
probably if the government Of Santiago
had asked for arbitration in milder terms the
government Of Washington would not have
answered with its recent negative. All South
Americans ought to regret that the former
opinions of Chile and her arbitrary conduct
| in her relations with Peru and Bolivia, and her
| arrangements OF the boundary with the Argon-
tine Republic, hurt her good name SO much
that the sympGthies of the world in the present
| question are not with her, and that her protest
before the nations--in case 1t was necessary to
| make it-would lose much OF its force, and they
could say that she was wounded with the same
| arms which she had recently used berseIf. and
| that in no way should she dissent from the
stand she took in regard to tho congress Of
| 1889.
The comp ulsion that the United States has
| exercised over Chile serves them as a severe
lesson al d proves that in international affairs,
as well social affairs. the advantage Of
| strength is transitory-esp especially among the
small-and that those that profit by experience
| will not regret it. Nations relatively as weak
! as the Latin race Of America know that their
interests are to aid amiable settlements, and
! especiallv arbitration Ii ia now eyiaent tho