New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-30
Iican Reciprocity versus Free Trade; that is tho
UJT1PTTy UJTHOTT CUTS.

| HILARITY UITHOUT CUTS.
Not the least Of the cheerful phases OF tho
peaceful ending of the lately threatening COM
pcations with Chill is the unmeaSmed hilanty
Of "The Evening Post" 70 see that wise news
paper even moderately content or IN what might
be called its mood of chops-licnnG ana under
growing, is a rather grateful spectacle % me
common mind for it indicates that things III
general are not on the crumbling Drink oi the
everlasting bow-wOws and possibly something
NAV be saved. But to see II really hilarious
is an cxhilaration, and the extent Of lis present
ioy NAV be imagined when we say that IN rs
latest issue il expresses regret that rs lack OF the
necessary mechanical appliances prevents It's
| giving pictorial vent to is eXubCrancc. We
have never regretted till this morning" it says,
sc that The Evening Post was not pictorial
papcrr Its lament is on account of lis inability
TO produce in pictorial form something fi:ny by
way of illustration of the discontinue OF the
ignorant and iterate persons who have been
insisting all along that the dignity OF the Nation
and the personal safety OF lis citizens required
something more from tie Gillian Government
than il had seemed willing to concede These
| ignorant and illite1te persons have been DIS
| comfited by the Circumstance that the ChlIlln
| Government has somewhat tardlly but in an en-
| tircly satisfactory manner made the concessions
which the ignorant and illiterate insisted upon.
| And what The Evening POST would like to
| illustrate pictorially if it had the mechanical APP
piances is the retreat Of the ignorant and Hit
crate from the stage shaking their fists at The
Evening Post as they disappeared"
We share our contemporaries regret at its lack
Of facilities Sill, the hint it gives us Of the
picturc il would like to print is almost As salts
| fying as the picture itself could be. And, after
ALL are not the ignorant and illiterae sufficiently
shamed already without being subjected To the
ordeal of caricature? And ought not 1.-The
Evening Post" itself to he satisfied with is tn
umph over the ignorant and illitemtc without
goating over it? The position Of our contcmro-
| rary has been from the beginning, first that
| it was itself tho only recognized authority on IN
| ternational law, and that it was only the au-
| daci.y of Grass ignorance for any other news
paper to attempt TO discuss the question; sec
ond. that our Government was wild and wicked,
violent and quanclSome, i'll undertaking to str
up ill-fceinG on The poor prctcXt that two or
three sailors wearing our uniform had been killed
and the Gillian Minister of Foreign Affairs had
pIblicly charged our President and Secretary of
the Navy with misrepresentation and lying; and
third, that no one had any right to say il was
state of things in which the dignity of the Nation
and the safety Of is citizens were involved ucS
he was ready 10 enlist as "a private or coal
passer' and 20 down there personally TO fight 1t
out. Ii was 4 crying shame, it said, tha, per-
sons who knew nothing about international laW
should be permitted 10 write on tho subject; they
were marine milians," who ought 10 be nd
died with bullets"
| The incident terminated with the utter dis
comGture of the ignorant and iltcrac. The
Gillian Government dealt them a black eye hy
offering a complete apology and ample icplra-
| ton At least THE Evening POST says 50;
and that they left the stage by >idc-door' in
great rage at that paper And or learned
contemporary, taking leave Of the subject re-
marks that the ignorant and illiicrltc ought TO
study up on international law for :" there ought
to be somebody in each Office who has some
| knowledge of the subject "The display Of
blank ignorance" it says, which follows an in
ternational complication is a National diSgIace.'
A remedy for which, it seems to U.s. would be
readily furnished If 1.-THE Evening Post" on such
occasions would set some of is young men at
work preparing editorials on the subject for all
the city papers That would save MS from Ma
| tional disgrace"
We repeat our regret that "Thc Evening
POST had not the facilities for illustrating It's
editorial on this subject with cuts. And yet we
do not quito see how they would have made j,
much funnier.