The herald., 1895-12-04

| tenceu 10 ueatn, inprlsoumc"I ~ nu', v,
were deportei without trial. The United
States. whils denying protection to such
as had taken the Hawaiian oath OF ale
eiance, insisted that martial law, though
altering the forms of justice, could no,
supercede justice itself. and demanded
stay OF execution until the proceedings
had been submitted to this go ,ernmenl
and knowledge obtained tberetrom that
| our citizens had received fair trial. Inc
| death sentences wero subsequently, com.
mnted or we're remitted on condition oil
| leaving the islands Toe cases OF certain
Americans arrested and expelled By ar.
| bitrary order without formal charge or
trial have had attention, and In some
| instances has been found to Justify re-
monstrance and clam for inemnity,
which Hswaii mas not thus Tar conceded.
MIR Thurston, the Hawaiian minister,
having furnished this government abund-
| ant reason for ask 1g that he he recalled.
| that course was pursu sd, and his successor
| has lately peen received.
ITALY.
The deporable lynching OF several ltsl-
ian laborers in Colorado was naturally
| followed by international represen tations.
and am happy to say that the best
efforts of the state in which the outrages
occurred have been put forth to discover
ana punish the perpetrators of this at
rocious crime. The dependent families of
some of the unfortunate victims invite
by their deplorable CONDITION gracious
provision for their needs. These mani-
| festatio s against helpless aliens may be
traced through successive stages to tho
vicious padrone sy stem, which, uncheck.
ed by our i'm n grafton and contarct labor
statutes, cuntrOi these workers from the
mument of landing on our shores and
farms them out in distant and often rude
regions whprs their sharpening competi
ton in the fields of bread-winning toll,
brings them into COLLISION with other
labor interests. While welcoming. as we
should, those who seek our shores to
merge themselves in orr body polite
and win personal competence by honest
effort, we cannot regard such assem- biages
OF iistinctively alien laborers. hired out
in the interest OF spectators and shipped
hither and thither as the prosi ect of
gain may dictate, as otherwise than re.
pusnant to the spirit of our civilization,
deterrent to individual Advancement and
O hindrance to the bulldog up Ut stable
comm 'dities resting upon the wholesome
am bition and progress of cur nation. If
legislation can reach this growing evil
it certainly should be attempted.
JAPAN.
Japan has furnished abundant evi.
dsnce OF her vast gain in every trait and
characteristic that constitutes o nation 3
greatness. We hav, reason for conRratu.
lations IN the fact that the government
OF the United States, by the exchange of
liberal treaty stipulations with the new
Japan was the FIRST to recognize her won
derful advance aud to extend to her the
consideration and conlidence due to her
national enlightenment and progressive
character. The boundary dispute which
lately threatened to EN- broil Guatemala
and MexicI has happily yieldei TO pa
clfic counsels, and its determination has
by the juint agreement OF the parties
been submitted to the sole arbitration of
the United States minister to Mexico.
MEXICO
The commi ssion appointed under the
convention of February Is, 1889. to set
new monuments along the boundary be-
tween the United States and Mexico has
completed its task. AS a consequence OF
the failure OF a scheme for the col MIA
ton III Mexico of negroes, mostly emf
grants frOn Alabama under a contract.
a great number of these helpless and
suffering people starving and smltten with
contagious q seaSe, made their way or
were assisted to the frontier. were in
wretehcd pnght, they were Qtarantlned
by the Texas authorities. Leaning Ct
their destitute condition, directed ratlons
to be Temporarily furnished then
through the war d. partnent. AT the eX-
partition " their quarantine they were
conveyed by the railroad company at
com paiatively nominal rates to their
homes III Alabama at my in,tance. In
absence Of any control of tn, coast trans
purtaiton that l would recum mend to
consress an appropriation tor ITS pay
ment. 90 strongly urge up IN congress
the propriety of mASlng sucn an appro-
priatiuu. 1t should be remeu bered the
measures taken were dictated not only by
sympathy, but by a conviction that it
was not Compatible with the dignity of
this government that So large BODY OF
o Ir DE- pendent citizens SHOULD be flown
for relief upon the CHARITY vi neish bor-
ing state.
THE MOSQUITO STRIP
In last years message | narrated at
some length the iurisuicti nal questions
then freshly arisen in the MJ2quito In
dian strip of Nicaragua. Since that time
by the voluntary act of the Mosquito ma.
tions, the territory reserved to them has
been incor roratsd with Nicaragua, the
Indians form lily sui jecting themselves to
De governed by the general laws ana reg
ulutious of the republic instead of by
their own customs and regulations, and
thus availing thems Ives of privilege
secured to tuem by the treaty between
Nicaragua and Great Britain OF January
IS, 1860.
NICARAGUA
After this extension of uniform Mica
raguan ad inistrauon to the Mosquito
strip ths case of the British vice consul,
Hatch, and of several of his countrymen
! VINO mad been summary expelled from
Nicaragua and treated with considerable
indignity, provoked a cl i'm by Great
| Britain upon Nicaragua for pecuniary
| Indemnity, which upon Nicaragua's re-
| fusal to admit liability was enforced by
| Great Britain. Wn,le the sovereignty and
! iur. dlction of Nicaragua was in no way
| questioned by Great Britain. the formers
| arbitrary conduct in regard to British
| subjects furnished the ground for this
| proceeding.
A British naval force occupied without
| resistance the Pacific seaport If Corinto,
but was coon afterward withdrawn upon
| the promise that the sumldemanded would
| be paid.
Through this incident the kindly offices
! OF the United States were invoked and
| we're employed in favor of as pesceable
! asst element ana such consideration and
| indulgence toward Nicaragua as were con
| sistent with tue nature of tho case. Ell
| forts hae since been made the subject of
a preciative aud grateful recognition by
! Nicaragua.
| The coronation of the car OF Russia ut
Moscow IN May next invites tho ceremo-
NAL participation of the United States,
! nit n ir,lp