The record-union., 1895-12-04


eigners, were followed by the disgrace
and dismissal of certain provincial Off
cials found derelict in duty and the
punishment by death of a number of
those adjudged guilty of participating
in the outrageS.
This Government insisted that a
special American commission should
visit the province where the first dis
turbances occurred for the purpose of
investigation. This latter commission
was formed after much opposition, has
gone overland from Tien Tsien, accom-
panied by suitable Chimes escort, and
by its demonstration of the readiness and
ability OF our Government to protect its
citizens will act, it is believed, as most
influential deterrent of any similar out
breaks. The energetic steps we have
taken are all the more likely to result
in future safety to our citizens in
China because the Imperial Govern
ment is, l am persuaded, entirely con-
vinced that we desire only the liberty
and protection Of our own citizens and
redress for any wrongs they may have
suffered, and that we have no ulterior
designs or objects, political or other
wise.
China will not forget either our kindly
| service to her citizens during her late
war nor the further fact that while
furnishing all the facilities at our COM
mand to further the negotiation of
lpeace between her and Japan. we sought
no advantages and interposed no cOun-
sci.
The Governments of both China and
Japan have in special dispatches trans
mitted through their respective diplo-
matte representatives, expressed in q
most pleasing manner their grateful ap
probation of our assistance to their
| citizens during the unhappy struggle
Of f1,a 1.1n Of s1i lx~irl rlCr
the way to their resumption of peace
! full relations.
THE WALLER CASE.
The customary cordial relations be-
tween this country and France have
! been undiSturbed, with the exception
| that a full explanation Of the treatment
! OF John l.. Waller by the eXpeditiOnary
military authorities of France still re-
mains to be given. Mr.. Waller, former
ly United States Consul at Tamative,
remained in Madagascar, his term of
office expired, and was apparently sue
cessful in procuring business conces-
siOns from the Hovas of greater or less
value
After the occupation of Tamative
and the declaration of martial law by
the French, he was arrested upon Vari-
Gus charges, among them that of COM
municating military information to
|
! convicted by military tribunal and
! sentenced to thirty years imprison-
ment. Following the course justified
! by abundant precedents, this Govern
ment requested from that of France
the record of the proceedings of the
French tribunal, which resulted in Mr..
! Walters condemnation. This request
has been complied with to the extent
of supplying copy of the official record
! from which appear the constitution and
! organization of the Court, the charges
as formulated and the general course
and result of the trial, and by which it
/ is shown that the accused was tried in
open Court and was defended by cOun-
sci. But the evidence adduced in sup
port of the charges, which was not re-
ceived by the French Minister for For
| eign Affairs till the first week in Octo-
! Der, has thus far been withheld, the
French Government taking the ground
that its production in response TO our
demand would establish a bad prece-
dent.
! The efforts of our Ambassador to
/ procure it, however, though impeded
! by recent changes in the French Min
+ istry have not been relaxed. and il -
! confidently expected that some salts
factory solution of the matter win
shortly be reached. Meanwhile it ap-
pears that Mr.. Walters confinement
| has every alleviatiOn which the state of
| his health and all the other circum-
stances of the case demand or permit.
In agreeable contrast to the difference
above noted. respecting the matter of
! common concern where nothing is
sought except such a mutually salts
! factory outcome as the true merits of
4 the case require, is the recent resolution
/ of the French Chambers favOring the
/ conclusion of a permanent treaty of
{ aY-F.i rot ion hot q fIX-n fysia
An invitation has been extended by
! France to the Government and people of
/ the United States to participate in a
great international Exposition at Paris
/ in 1900 as a suitable commemoration of
the close of this, the worlds marvellous
century of progress. | heartily recon-
mend its acceptance, together with such
/ legislation as win adequately provide
for a due representation of this Govern
ment and its people on the occasion.
TRADE WITH GERMANY.
Our relations with the States of the
German Empire, in some aspects, typi-
cal of a condition of things everywhere
! found in countries whose productions
and trade are similar to our own. The
/ close riValries of competing industries
/ the influence of the delusive doctrines
that the internal development of a ma
tion is promoted and its wealth increas-
ed by a policy in which undertaking to
reserve its home markets for the exclu-
sive use of its own producers, necessar-
lily ObStruct their sales in foreign mar
! kets and prevents free access to the pro-
ducts OF the world, the desire to retain
trade in time worn rutS. regardless of
the inexorable laws of new needs and
changed conditions of demand and sup
/ ply, and our own haIting hardness in
Inviting a free exchange of commodities
and by this means inperilling our foot
! ing in the external markets naturally
! open to Us, have created a situation
somewhat injurious to American ex-
/ port interests, not only in Germany,
/ where they are perhaps most noticeable,
but in adjacent countries.
The exports affected are largely Amer
| lean cattle and other food products, the
reason assigned for the unfavorable dis
! elimination being that their consump-
! tion is deleterious to the public health.
/ This is all the more irritating in view
/ of the fact that no European State is
as jealous of the excellence and whole
sCmeness of its exported food supplies
as the United States, nor so easily able
| on account of inherent soundness to
guarantee these qualities. Nor are
these difficulties confined to our food
products designed for expectation.
! Our great insurance companies, for eX-
/ ample, having built up a vast business
abroad and invested q large share of
their gains in foreign countries, in COM
/ pliance with the local laws and regula-
tions then existing. now find them
lselyes within a narrowing circleof ruin
Gus and unforeseen conditions and are
confronted by the necessity of retire
ment from field thus made un-
profitable. If indeed they are not sum-
marily expelled, as some of them Of
late have been from Prussia.
| 1t is not to be forgotten that inter
national trade cannot be one-sided.