The Press., 1892-01-28

foreign adventalrer. "---Mr. Egan, who was appointed minister to Chili, is ar Ameri- can citizen, not a foreigner. It. Is possi- ble that he was born abroad we are not sure of that but so was Carl Schurz, whom The Springfield Republican would hardly think of calling..a ''foreign adven- turer. {. ~ The. Republican doesn't. agree with Mir. Egan's politics, and it does agree with MT. 1Schurz's. Is that a reason for be-slobbering the latter with adulation, and insulting MT. Eganp
 "We misunderstood her life and death struggie''and "took.her'patriots to be'reb- els."-Did.we? Those who have follow ed the courselof our government in the matter Iknow that Eve never tried, as Q government, to understand the cause at all, becausesit.was..none of our business that we simply ined.our. diplomat ic relations with theAexisting, the actual, the de. .facto government, so long as that government was all that, and that we in- yst els, as soon as they established their gov- ernment. And it is about as clear as any thing can be under the sun that we couldn't have done anything else with fairness or;even common. ..decency. What should we have thought if in 1861 Eng land and France and Germanyshad trans ferred their..ministers from Washington to Richmond, hadstreated the Jeff Davis government as the government of the United States, and had refused to treat with President Lincoln and Secretary Seward and the senate of the United States? Such conduct on their part would have been no whit less pardonable than 1t would have been for us to inter- fere in similar way with the Chilian im- broglio.
 But tour admiral! brought himself un- der suspicion of giving information to the usurper, ,"-the "usurper" being the con- additionally elected president of Chili. Inasmuch as the admiral did not give any information to anybody,-has said that he didn't, and has proved that he didn't,
 this Is not, perhaps, worth further com- ment, except to call attention to the spir- it it illustrates.
 "Our legation has been a refuge for men who tried to destroy their country's government. Well, in view of the ad- missions of the victorious congressional party that scores of their friends were sheltered and given refuge from Balma- ceda in that legation while Balmaceda was in power, as dozens of Balmacedists have since been given refuge now that the junta is in power, common fairness would lead common men to the immediate in- ference that the legations hospitalities and humanities were impartial. Certain 'ly 1t is the grossest and meanest kind of unfairness to complain of one act and not mention the other.
 But arbitration" Why not resort to 'arbitration2 The Republican knows that, when the Pan-American congress was sit- ting, this very question came up, and that Chilli alone of all the important members of that congress declined to agree to ar- tbitration, came very near breaking up the congress over this question, and stood out till the last, finally compelling the matter to be left undecided and in statu quo.
 While this government and all the civ Iilized governments of the two continents were willing to agree to a' continental pact against war and in favor of arbitra- \ ton in allcases, Chili refused and forbade
 the pact. Nevertheless, even now, there
 is no reason to doubt that this govern |niQnt ~pulds g1adly submit the matter to GAIlL SIIlz aElmit there is' sonietklne ID sr6ltraSs; ma vim HI f6Fs that tcourse. But 1t takes two to make a
 bargain and two to arbitFate. One man can't do it all alone, nor can one govern
 ment.
 {; Why can't these mugwumps be half as
 fair to their own country and their own
 countrymen as they are to foreign coun- tries and foreign nations?