The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-12

this government and KNOWLEDGE Oh
saiueu therefrom that our citizens had
received fair trial.
me death sentences were subse-
Iueitiy committed or were RENTED
on condition of leaving the islands Tho
edsss OF certain Americans arrested
anu expelled by arbitrary order. win
out formal charge or trial, have had
attention. and. in some instances have
een round to justify remonstrance and
d ciain Tor indemnity. which Hawaii
mas not thus far conceded.
MI Ihurston, the Hawaiian Minister.
| having furnished this Government
abundant reason for asking thai he he
recalled, that course was pursued and
MS successor has lately been received
NO RECOGNITION FOR CUBA.
cuba is again gravely disturbed An
ms" Iectlon IN one respect more ac-
NY thail the last preceding revolt
Wnlch continued from 1865 10 1873 now
| exists in large part Of the eastern
Interior of the island, menacing even
so,he populations on the coast. he
sues deranging the commercial ex
changes of the island, of which
our country takes the predominant
snare. This Migrant condition of hos
.aitles' py arousing sentimental SYM
| pathy ana melting adventurous SIM
|
earnest effort on the part of this Gov
eInihent TO enforce obedience to our
neutrality laws and to prevent the
.erritory OF the United States from be-
InS USED as vantage ground from
winch to aid those in arms against
Spahlsh sovereignty. Whatever may
ne the traditional sympathy of orr
countrymen as individuals with a peo-
PIE VINO seem to be struggling for
| lareef autonomy and greater freedom.
as ueep as such sympathy naturally
| must be in behalf of our neighbors. vet
the plain duty of the Government is 10
| observe in good faith the recognized
opisatiohs OF international relation
snip. The performance of this duty
should not be made more difficult by
disregard on the part of our citizens
OF the obligations growing out of their
allegiance to their country, which
should restrain them from violating as
individuals the neutrality which the
nation OF which they are members is
pound to observe in it's relations to
friendly sovereign States Neither the
warmth of our peoples sympathy with
lhe CUBAN insurgents, nor our loss and
material damage consequent upon the
futile endeavors thus far made TO re
store peace and order, nor any shock
our humane sensibilities may have re
ceiVed from the cruelties which appear
W NpPNSiiiiS Vial dtltIlZe lnlS San2lllp-
airy ana nercely conducted war have
IN the least shaken the determination
OF the Government to honestly fulfill
every international obligation, vet il is
to be earnestly hoped, on every ground
that the devastation of armed conflict
may speedily be stayed, and order and
quiet restored to the distracted island,
bringing in their train the activity and
thrift of peaceful pursuits
"ALLIANCA" AFFAIR.
One noticeable instance of interfer-
ence by Spain with passing American
ships has occurred On March last,
the ''Allianca," while bound from Colon
to New York, and following the custo-
mary track for vessels near the Cuban
shore, but outside the three-mile limit
was fred upon by Spanish gunboat,
Protest was promptly made by the
United States against this act, as not
being justified by the state of war, nor
permissible in respect of vessels on
the usual paths of commerce, nor toll
cradle in view of the wanton peril oc-
casioned to innocent life and property.
The act was diSavoWed, with full ex-
preston of regret and assurance of
non-recurrence of such just cause of
complaint while the offending officer
was relieved of his command,
Military arrests of citizens of the
United States in Cuba have occasoned
frequent reclamations. Where held on
| criminal charges, their delivery to the
ordinary civil jurisdiction for trial has
been demanded and obtained, in con-
formity with treaty provisions, and
where merely detained by way of mill
tary precaution under n proclaimed
state of siege, without formulated ac-
cusatiOn. their release or trial has
been insisted upon.
The right of American Consular Off
GERS in the island to prefer protests and
demands in such cases having been
questioned by the authorities, their en-
iOyment of the privileges stipulated by
treaty for the Consuls of Germany was
claimed under the most favored nation
provision of our own convention, and
was promptly recognized.
The long-standing demand of Anto-
Mo Maxine Mora against Spain has at
last been settled by the payment on the
14th of September last of the sum orr
ginally agreed upon in liquidation of the
claim. Its distribution among the par
ties entitled to receive it has proceed
ed as rapidly as the rights of those
claiming the fund could be safely de-
termined.
The enforcement of dfferential du-
ties against products of this country
exported to Cuba and Puerto Rico
prompted the immediate claim on our
part to the benefit of the minimum
tariff of Spain in return for the most
favorable treatment permitted by our
laws as regards the production OF
Spanish territories. A commercial ar
rangement was concluded in January
last securing the treatment so claimed
Vigorous protests against excessive
fines imposed on our ships and mer-
chandise by the customs officers Of
these islands for trivial errors have re-
suited in the remission of such fines in
instances where the equity of the COM
plant was apparent, though the vexa-
tious practice has not been wholly dis
continued
LYNCHING OF ITALIANS.
The deplorable lynchng of several
Italian laborers in Colorado was natu-
rally followed by international repre-
sensations, and l am happy to say that
the best efforts of the State in which
the outrages occurred have been put
forth to discover and punish the au-
thors of this atrocious crime. The de-
pendent families of some of the unfor-
tunate victims invite, by their deplora-
BILE condition, gracious provision for
their needs.
These manifestations against help
less aliens may be traced through sue
cessive stages to the vicious padrone
system, which, unchecked by our i'm
migration and contract labor statutes,
controls these workers from the mo-
ment of landing on our shores and
farms them out in distant and often
rude regions, where their sharpening
competition in the fields of bread-win-
ming toll brings them into collision
with other labor interests. While well
coming, as we should, those who seek
our shores to merge themselves into
our body polite and win personal COM
petence by honest effort, we cannot re-
gard such assembdages of distinctive
ly alien laborers, hired out in the in
terest of spectators and shipped
hither as the prospect of gain may die
tate. as otherwise than repugnant to
the spirit of our civilization, deterrent
to individual advancement and hind
rance to the building up of stable COM