Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-14
Uncle sam May Have to Poy.

WAsHINGTON, March 14.-With two such incidents as those of Now Orleans and Walsenburg, Colo, facing them, and such affairs aS the Rock Springs massacre of Chinese and tho killing of tho Italians in New Orleans in the hack ground, the state department officials mako no secret of their apprehension that tho United States is destined to havo serious difficult tics in maintaining it's treaty relations with foreign nations unless congress comes to the rcscuo.
 As it stands now, owing to tho limita- tions placed upon the exercise of the fctler- al power by a statute tho government it. self is pOwCrless to protect foreign citizens whom the United States is under solemn treaty obligation to protect.
 Under our peculiar conditions tho ma tional government can only look to tho state to extend protection, and if this is denied or tho measure of protection is in adequate it cannot intcrforc. Meanwhile the state itself is wholly free from any rc- sponsibility tO tho forUign powers with which the United States has entered into treaty relations, and these powers are pro- hibited from even ren.onstrating with tho offending statc government They can look for redress only to the helpless na- tional government
 
 governor, or weak mayor. or even an in- competent chief of police in any city. to force an issue that can Do decided only by war, and the fate of the whole nation may depend on the conduct of such officials.
 Proclamation From Governor Foster.
 NEW ORLEANS, March 14.-Goyernor Foster has issued a proclamation which has had a good effect among business mon, inspiring confidence that peace will be maintained and laborers of every class protected. The proclamation is as follows: "To the Citizens of New Orleans:
 Armed and organized bodies of men have in the past few days congregated on the leveo front and the approaches thereto, and have there engaged in rloting, result ing in tho woundinR and killing of a num- Der of persons. and have thereby been guilty of offcnses against tho peace and good order or the state and threatening the commerce of the port, and as these offenses may be repeated, now, therefore. I. Murphy J. Foster, governor of tho state of Louisiana, by virtue of power vested in mo by law, do hereby issue this, my proc lamation, ,oondemning all such assemblages to immediately disperse and warning any and all persons against Q continuance of such acts, whether by secret meetings Of overt action, and do further counsel and advise all law abiding citizens to refrain from frequenting places where violations of the public peace are likely to occur, and to abstain from all acts which may serve to excite the public mind, and I do hereby declare that, as the chief executive, charg Cu with the constituent duty of seeing that the laws of the stato arc faithfully execut. ed. will, through the proper law officers see to it that the participants in the latC riots are brought to justice and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
 And I do further declare that I will use the whole power of the commonwealth civil and military, to suppress and dis perse all riotous assemblies, and to main tain and uphold tho law, and to sustain all persons in the full enjoyment of theil constituent and legal rights, and to pro tect them in life, liberty and prosperity and to that end I invoke tho aid and as sistance of all good citizens. and inyitl the corporation of all who have at hear tho true interests of tho stnte.
 MURPHY J. FOSTER"