Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-11


products designed for exportation, Our great
insurance companies, for example, having
built up vast business abroad and invested q
large share OF their gains In foreign countries
In compliance with the local laws and regula-
lions then existing, now find themselves within
narrowing circle OF onerous and unforeseen
conditions, and are confronted by the necessity
81 retirement from field these made unprUht-
able II indeed they are not summAriiy et-
peiled, some of them have lately been in
Prussia 1t is not to bs forgotten that inter
hatiohaltrade can not be one-sided It's cur
rents are alternating and its movements should
be honestly reciprocal Without this it almost
necess arily degenerates into a devi.e to gain
advantage or a contrivance to secure benefits
with only the semblance of q return. In our
dealings with other nations. we ought to be
open-handed and scrupulously fair.
This should be our policy as q producing fa-
tlon, and 1T plainly becomes us as people who
love generosity and the moral aspects of ma
tlonal good faith and reciprocal forbeafance.
these consideratIons should not however, con-
strain us to submit to unfair discrimination
nor to silently acquiesce in vexatious hindrauces
to the enjoyment of our share of the legitimate
advantages of proper trade relations II an
examination of the situa ton suggests such
measures on our part as would involve restric-
tions similar to those from which we suffer, the
way to such course is easy; it should, how
ever, by no means be lightly entered upon.
since the necessity for the Inauguration Of such
policy would be regretted by the best senti-
ment OF our people, aud because it naturally
and logically might lead to consequences of the
gravest character.
The Behring Sea Matter.
Our relations with Great Britain, always in.
innate and important, have demanded, during
the past year, even a greater share of consider.
alton than Is usual. Several vexatious Quee-
tlons were lefs undetermined by the decision of
the Behring sea arbitration tribunal The ap.
pllcaton OF the principles laid down by the
august body has not been followed by the re-
suits they were intended to accomplish, either
because the principles themselves lacked in
breadth aud definiteness or because their exc
cut1on has been more less imperfect. The
understanding by which the United States was
to pay and Great Eritain to receive lump
sum of $i2j,0OJ in full settlement of all British
claim for damages arising from our seizure of
British sealing vessels unauthorized under the
award OF the Paris tribunal of arbitration was
not confirmed by the last Congress, which de-
clined to make the necessary appropriation /
am still of the opinion that this arrangement
was judicious and advantageous one for the
government, and 1 earnestly recommend that
It be again considered and sanctioned. II,
however this does not meet with the favor of
Congress, it certainly will hardly dissent from
the proposition that the government is bound
to every consideration of honor and good faith
to provide for the speedy adjustment of these
claims by arbitration as the only other alterna-
tive treaty of arbitration has, therefore,
been agreed upon and will be Immediately laid
before the Senat, so that, in one of the modes
suggested, final settlement may be reached.
The Venezuela Issue.
1t being apparent that the boundary dispute
between Great Britain and the Republic of
Venezuela, concerning the limits of British
Guinea, was approaching an acute stage, a
definite statement of the interest and policy of
the United States regards the controversy
seemed to be re luired both on its own account
and in view of ITS relations with the friendly
powers directly .ncerned In July last there
fore, dispatch was addressed to our ambassa-
dor at London for communicate to the British
government in which the attitude of the United
States was fully and distinctly set forth. The
general conclusions there reached and formu-
lated are in substance that the traditional and
established policy of this government is firmly
opposed TO forcible increase by any European
power OF its territorial possessions on this conti-
nent; that this policy is as we'll founded in
principle as it is strongly supported by nu-
merous precedents; that q consequence the
United states is bound to protest against the
enlargement of the area of British Guinea m
derogation of the rights and against the will of
Venezuela; that, considering the disparity in
strength of Great Britain and Venezuela the
territorial dispute between them can be easily
settled only by friendly and impartial arbitra-
ton and that the resort to such arbitration
should include ths whole controversy and is
not satisfied if one of the powers concerned is
permitted to draw an arbitrary line thr rough the
territory in debate 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 a definite answer to the question
whether it would or would not submit the terri
torial controversy between itself and Venezuela
in its entirety to impartial arbitration. The
answer of ths British government has not yet
k<SoN h.nk
further communication on the subject will prob
ably be made to congress.
The Hawaiian Matter.
Early in January last an uprising against the
government of Hawaiia was promptly SUD-
pressed. Martial law was forthwith pro-
claimed and numerous arrests were made of
persons suspected of being in sympathy with
the Royalist party. Among these were several
citizens of the United States, who were either
convicted by military court and sentenced to
death, imprisonment or fine, or were deported
without trial. The United States, while deny
ing protection to those who had taken the Ha-
waiian oath of allegiance, insisted that martial
law, though altering the forms of Justice, could
not supercede justice itself, and demanded a
stay of execution until the proceedings had
been submitted to this government, and knowl.
edge obtained therefrom that our citizens had
received fair trial. The death sentences were
subsequently committed or were remitted ON
condition of leaving the islands. The cases of
certain Americans arrested and expelled by ar
bitrary order. without formal charge or trial.
have had attention and in some instances have
been found to justify remonstrance and claim
for indemnity, which Hawaiia has thus far not
conceded. Mr.. Thurston, the Hawaiian Minis
ter, having furnished this government abund-
ant reason for asking that he be recalled, that
course was pursued and his successor has
lately been received.
Lynching OF Italians In Colorado.
The deplorable lynching of several Italian
laborers in Colorado was naturally followed by
to sSy that the b,st efforts of the State in
which these outrages occurred have been put
forth to discover and punish the authors of this
atrocious GRIM. The dependent families of
some of the unfortunate victims invite by their
deplorable condition gracious provision for
their needs. These manifestations against
helpless aliens may be traced through succes-
sive stages of tho vicious padr roni system which
unchecked by immigration and contract
labor statutes, controls these workers from the
moment of landing on our shore, and farms
them out in distant and often rude regions
where their cheapening competition in the fields
of bread winning toll brings them in collision
with othec labor interests While welcoming,
we should, those who seek our shores to
merge themselves in cur body politics and win
personal competence by honest effort, we can
not regard such assemblages as distinctively
alien laborers, hired out in the mass to the
profit of alien speculators and shipped hither
and thither as the prospect Of gain may dic-
tate, as otherwise than repugnant to the ght
of our civilization deterrent 10 individual ad-
vancement and hindrances to the building up
of sta BILE communities resting upon the whole
some ambitions of the citizen and constituting
the prime factor in the prosperity and progress
of our nation II legislation can reach this
growing evil it certainly should be attempted.
Congratulations for Japan.