People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-12-05
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my uoII''dad shipped hit.lllh ana
thitSeonk'ale prospect Of gain may die
tate, as otherwise than repugnant to
the right of our civilization. deterrent
to individual advancement, and hinder
ances to the building up of stable COM
munities resting upon the wholesome
ambitions Of the citizens and constitut-
ing the prime factor in the prosperity
and progress Of our nation. If legisla-
ton can reach this growing evil it GER
tainly should be attempted.
JAPAN DOING WELL.
Japan has furnished abundant evil
dence of her vast gain in every trait
and characteristic that constitutes a
nations greatness. 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 advancements
and to extend to her the consideration
and confidence due to her national en-
lightenment and progressive character.
ME-NlOO . BOUNDARY.
The boundary dispute which lately
threatened to embroil Guatemala and
Mexico has happily yielded to pacific
cOunsels and its determination has by
the joint agreement Of the parties been
submitted to the sole arbitration of the
Unites States minister to Mexico. The
commission appoined under the conven-
ton Of February IS, 1894 to set new
monuments along the boundary be-
tween the United States and Mexico
has completed its task.
THOSE STRANDED NEGROES.
As a sequel to the failure Of a scheme
for the colonization in Mexico of ne
groes, mostly emigrants from Ala
bama under contract, a great number
Of these helpless and suffering people.
starving aad smitten with contagious
disease, made their way or were as
sisted to the frontier, where, in wrethc-
ed condition, they were quarantined
by the Texas authorities. Learning of
their destitute condition, l directed
rations TO be temporarily furnished
them through the war department. At
the expiration OF their quarantine they
were conveyed by he railway compan-
les at comparatively nominal rates to
their homes in Alabama upon my as
surance, in the absence of any fund
available for the cost OF their trans
portation, that l would recommend TO
congress an appropriation for its pay
ment. now strongly urge upon con-
grass the propriety Of making such an
/ appropriation. 1t would be remem-
bered that the measures taken were
Dictated not only by sympathy and
humanity but by conviction that II
was not compatible with the dignity OF
this government that so large a body
Of our dependent citizens should be
thrown for relief upon the charity OF
a neighboring state.
THAT LANDING AT CORINTO
In last years message I narrated az
some length the jurlsdictional ques-
tons then freshly arisen in the Mos
quito Indian strip Of Nicaragua. Since
that time by the voluntary act of the
Mosquito nation, the territory reserv-
ed to them has been incorporated with
Nicaragua, the Indians formally sub
Jecting themselves to be governed by
the general laws and regulations Of the
republic, instead of by their own US
toms and regulations and thus avail
ing themselves Of a privilege reserved
to them by the treaty between Nicara-
qua and Great Britain of January %,
1860 After this extension Of uniform
Nicaraguan administration to the Mos
quito strip, the case Of the British vice
consul Hatch and Of several Of his coun
trymen who had been summarily ex-
PEELED from Nicaragua and treated with