Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-31
.310D COMMON SENSE
,..,s fo be Possessed by at Least One
Chilean Newspaper.
r DEPRECATES MATTA'S NOTE
...,.--s the Whole Line Of Action Taken
- rrs IN the Yankee Question"
Gold Gard Given Egan
bv the Refugees.

@--,--r,.o. Chile, December 3O.--It
,---srs-sl opinion Of American naval
So. and others familiar with the
--.s,- that there is not ship in the
r,sr navy fully available for war
,-.-,.ss AN OF the vessels received
t,.,-a during the war and very little
zen done since then 70 repair them.
-sft +, said that the machinery OF all
lem. including the ESmeralds and
anne. is IN very bad condition.
,T-f,tpr Egau has been presented by
s- -sfurees who have been living In
-,r,,r an the American Legation for
Pm months past, with handsome gold
..-5 which is said 70 be the most artiS-
.- e7str of the kind ever made in the
glotry.
T5s following inscription appears in
.,a center;
.T5 Mr.. Patrick Egan, Minister Of
cha United States, in Chile: In testi-
Inv ef eternal gratitude for the gem
-.grs asylum given under the protection
y tss lag Of the great Republic, which
.-rb1Fzes the most noble sentiments Of
--rsuity and civilization.
Ar article appeared two days ago in
IN prm0cruciG, a paper which was re-
-s-t.v established in Santiago, and the
..-s Of the article is entirely different
,-1r anything which has been published
IN scy other newspaper In Santiago or
Valparaiso.
The following is an extract:
Unfortunately we are not IN posses
,rg OF slI the data with which il is
-seessary to judge and snalyze the diff
b-art features Of the Yankee QueS-
ION. and we can form our opinion only
90 the expression gained by reading the
teICmatic documents recently pub
sLai.
The matter Of greatest Importance is,
55r1tless, that relating TO the cOntro-
7srsy over the attack on the Baltimore
g.lors. It Is useless TO deny that this
l7air was extremely greyious. Though
. IS said IL was the result Of drunken
-s,s, owing TO the locality IN which IL
v.urred, the truth is that two Ameri-
can Seauen were killed and twelve or
b.rteen others wounded. Perhaps
Valparaiso does not remember anything
z such magnitude and with such re-
suits.
But Notwithstanding this an easy
and simple solution was offered. We
DO not think that the Government at
desired anything more than
q 1rompt and expeditions judicial inves-
.sstion, so that the guilty might be
-1rished, and that there might be an
niemnity and expression Of regret from
he Chilean Government for an accident
quite foreign 70 its will.
We don't believe, either, that our
government would have denied a just
l,sfaction. But unhappily the di-
-1uacy has not been in accord with
his proposition, and the want OF
.alkness and the expression OF views
E.,-e meditated, have disturbed the
.-rguT settlement Of an affair which
.grat TO have been arranged satisfac-
.o-..y already.
"But in the train Of stupidity, there
IS one that eclipses them all. We refer
% the cablegram sent on December II,
-v Minister Malta, TO our Minister IN
Any one who reads that
.5sum snt, which will become hiStorl-
l.. cannot but be convinced that 1t con-
aims everything but propriety and de-
,0-gm.
And this unfortunate document,
which might have passed unnoticed, had
.,5eep transmitted to Mr.. MOntt without
publication, was put before the public
ID both hemispheres by Mr.. Malta, and
gas laid before the Senate, which ac-
,sg.ed IL in silence, and was given to
.ls press Of the country, which praised
and applauded IL.
we have said the press, but we must
also say that at the time the caolegram
was published the press was restrained
.-, to-day when the "dlctatorshlp mas
fallen, and we enter again on a legai
End constitutional regime, the hrst
words OF the Dernocracia, modest though
they be, are a protest against a detrl-
rart that is far from representing the
public opinion Of Chile