The morning call., 1894-09-15
STATE DEPARTMENT VIEWS.

The last word of the concluding argu-
ment In the Ezeta case will have been
spoken when Judge Morrow orders the
noon recess to-day, and the fate of the
refugees will then be in his hands. Mr..
Page finished his presentation of the case
for the prisoners yesterday afternoon, and
before the adjournment. Mr.. Pierson, on
behalf of the SalvadOran Government,
agreed that he would finish this morning
Again yesterday mr. Page interwove
with his argument recitals from the leaves
of history, awakening and holding interest
in what might otherwise have been dry
recital. Wherever he turned for his
material he found something to point a
moral or adorn the whole tale of the down.
fall of the EZeta Government. The bones
of long since rotted traitors were dragged
from their graves and made to rattle the
stories of their owners infamy. Once
more the commanders of former days
charged in the van of their armies. carry
ing death and destruction to devoted peo-
pies: the horrors of the late rebellion
we're again passed in review; and all to
show, to emphasize the fact that madly
flaming passions unbridled by civil war
were not responsible to any earthly tribunal
for the awful crimes that may have been
committed when Salvador was ablaZe with
war and sedition.
The courtroom was filed all the morn
Ing aud not once did the speaker flag or a
nearer give one sign of ennui, and when at
the peroration an excited auditor shouted
Hear! hear !" the court was so well aware
of what had caused the ebulliton that it
smilngly excused it without reproof
ms Pa 70
begged to call his HonoT's attention to one
thing. That was that the prosecution
would probably lay great stress upon the
fact that at the time of the killing of
Canas General Antonio Ezeta was flying
at the head of few followers and was not
at the head of his army. Very true. said
the speaker, but Just look at the flight of
Napoleon from Moscow. he was in COM
pany most of the time with two aides-de-
camp, fleeing from the cold and snow and
famine of Russia. His army was deci-
mating, but yet with those companions in
tie eyes of the world he was still the En-
peror of the French. And so with Ezeta
End his few followers. He was in full
fight, with his army deserted to the enemy,
yet be and he alone was President of the
Republic of Salvador.
During the time that the numerous
crimes with which the refugees
are charged were committed, Mr..
Page again pointed out to the court,
Salvador was under military law; and
in all cases where damages had been sus-
tanned, the recourse of the damaged, un-
der the decisions, was against the Govern
ment. In this case it was purely Ques-
ton of whether the present Government
of Salvador and the late Government ever
entered into a conflict for supremacy in
the Government. If so determined then
whatever was done by one side or the
other was so intertwined, SO connected with
political motive, that it would be impossible
to separate, and these things charged
were of such character that they must
be looked upon as political offenses.
With rebellion TO tyrants is allegiance
to God" as his text. the speaker hastily
reviewed the stories of Major Andre and
Nathan Hale. He told of their fate, and
how the people of two countries, after the
lapse of all these years, viewed the occur
rences. If there was a single state Of So
clety where the end justifes the means
that state is patriotism. The love of coun-
try is almost madness, and the patriot who
uses every effort to destroy the tyrant is
justified in the hazard by the sacrifice of
his life. Not as anarchists are, whose
arm is terror and the annihilation Of law,
not as Corsini, who attempted to blow up
the French En- peror, but Eas. Nathan Hale
was. who regretted that he had not thou
sand lives that he might lay them down
for his country's welfare.
Taking, on the other hand, the sup