Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-03

powers concerned is permitted to draw an
arbitrary line through the territory In de-
bate and to declare that it will submit to
arbitration only the portion lying on one
side Of it. In view of these conclusions,
the dispatch in question called upon the
British Government for definite answer
to the question whether it would or would
not submit the territorial controversy be-
tween itself and Venezuela in its entirety
10 impartial arbitration. The answer Of
the British Government has not yet been
received, but is expected shortly, when
further communication on the subject will
probably be made to the Congress.
Hawaii.
Early in January last an uprising against
the Government of Hawaii was promptly
suppressed. Martial law was forthwith
proclaimed and numerous arrests were
made of persons suspected of being in SYM
pathy with !he Royalist party. Among
these We're several citizens of the United
States. who were either convicted by a
military court and sentenced to death, i'm
prisonment. or fine. or were deported with
out trial. The United States. while deny
ing protection to such as had taken the
Hawaiian oath of allegiance. insisted that
martial law, though altering the forms of
Justice. could not supersede justice itself,
and demanded stay of execution until the
proceedings had been submitted to this
Government and knowledge obtained there
from that our citizens had received fair
trial. The death sentences were subse-
quantly conmuted or were RENTED on
condition of leaving the islands. The cases
of certain Americans arrested and expelled
by arbitrary order without formal charge
or trial have had attention. and in some in
stances have been found to Justify remon-
STRANGE and claim for indemnity, which
Hawaii has not thus far conceded.
Mr.. Thurston, the Hawaiian minister
having furnished this Government abun-
dant reason for asking that he be recalled
that course was pursued, and his successor
has lately been received.
The Colorado LynchinE.
The dep!orable lynching of several Ital-
ian labort rs in Colorado was naturally fol-
lowed by international representations. and
1 am happy to say that the best efforts of
the State in which the outrages occurred
have been put forth to discover and pun
ish thu authors OF this atrocious crime
The dependent families Of some of the IN
fortunate victims invite by their deplorable
condition gracious provision for their
needs
These manif stations against helpless
aliens may be traced through successive
stages to the vicious padroni system, which
unchecked by cur immigration and con-
tract-labor statutes. controls these work
ers from the moment of landing on our
shores, and farms them out in distant and
often rude regions, where their cheapening
competition in the fields of bread-wnning
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labor interests. While welcoming as We
should, those who seek our shores to merga
themselves in our body polite and win per-
sonal competence by honest effort, we can
not regard such assembiages of distinc-
lively alien laborers, hired out in the mass
to the profit of alien spectators and ship
ped hither and thither as the prospect OF
gain may dictate as otherwise than repug-
nant to the spirit of our civilization, deter
rent to individual advancement. and hin
ORANGES to the building Up of stable COM
munities resting upon the wholesome am
billions of the citizen and constituting the
prime factor in the prosperity and progress
CT Cu. nation. If legislation can reach this
growing evil. 1t certainly should be at
tempted.
Japan has furnished abunGant evidence
of her vast gain in every trait and charac-
terist.c that constitutes a nations great
ness. We have reason for congratulation
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 wonderful
advance and to extend 10 her the consid-
Grafton and confidence due to her national
enlightenment anc progressive character
Our Southern NelghbOrs.
The boundary dispute which lately threat
ened to embroil Guatemala and Mexico has
happily yielded to pacific counsels. and its
determination has, by the joint agreement
of tn. parties, been submitted to the sole
arbitration of the United States minister to
Mexico.
The commission appointed under the con-
vortion of February IL. 1889. to set new
ents along the boundary between
United States and Mexico has COM
ed its task.
rs i sequel to the failure of a scheme for
the colonization in Mexico of negroes
mostly emsrantS rom Alabama under
contract. q great number of these helpless
ard suffering people, star, ing and smitten
with contagious disease, made their way or
were assisted to the frontier, where, In
wretched plight, they were quarantined by
destitute condition. directed Tations to be
temporarily furnished them through the
War Department. At the expira ton of
their quarantine they were conveyed by
the railway companies at comparatively
nominal rates TO their homes in Alabama
pom my assurance, in the absence of any
fund available for the cost of their trans
pcrtation. that l would recommend to Con-
gress an appropriation for its payment.
now strongly urge upon Congress the pro-
priety of making such an appropriation. 1t
should be remembered that the measures
taken were dictate not only by sympathy
and humanity. but by conviction that it
was not compatible with the dignity of this
Government that so large body of our
dependent citizens should be thrown for re-
lief upon the charity of neighboring
State.
In last years message I narrated at
some length the jurisdictional questions
then freshly arisen in the Mosquito Indian
strip of Nicaragua. Since that time, by
the voluntary act of the Mosquito Nation
the territory reserved to them has been in
corporated with Nicaragua, the Indians