The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-08-17
iHE TREATY A FAILURE.
Samoa Not Benefited by the Exist
ing Form Of Government.
A KINDERGARTEN OF DIPLOMACY.

Consul General MuIligan's Report to the
State Department Points Out the Evils
Resulting from the Berlin Treaty-For-
Oign Omcials' Salaries Are Too High.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1L-Consul General
James H. Mulligan, at Apia, Samoa, has
made a voluminous report to the state de-
partment upon the conditions of the
islands. A portion of the report is de-
voted to q review of the government Of the
Islands by the United States, Great Brit
ain and Germany, under the Berlin treaty.
This treaty, Mr.. Mulligan concludes, was IA
mistake and to maintain 1t is to persist In
n mistake, "The present status" he says,
'is an injustice to the people of the United
States and n grave wrong to those of
Samoa. If it be said that the treaty so far
as il concerns Samoa has made matters no
worse, IL can be claimed with equal truth
that it has failed to make them better in
my particular. The admission of either
postulate is to confess u failure"
AS to the present government of Samoa
he SAYS: "a recognized and reigning
king is dependent for his support on the
voluntary contributions-the charity, in
fact-of that portion of his family or tribe
who adhere to him, while foreign officers
of his government enjoy salaries from his
revenues far in excess of the value OF
services performed. When a p~ittance OF
his nominal salary, long in arrears, is
doled out to him it comes through the
hands of a foreign official, who exercises
his pleasure to pay or withhold his law
full wife Is in no sense queen, nor more en-
titled to consideration than the half clad
women who file back and forth along the
beaches, A struggling village, within and
part of the kingdom, leviesimport and ex-
port duties on every dollars worth of
merchandise brought into or shipped out
of the kingdom, lending out of its reve-
nues to the kingdom barely enough to pay
the most meager expense and the salaries
of foreign officials.
IAN the machinery of government
perhaps it is not too much to say of sew
eral governments-is in active operation
within the precincts of this little town.
The guns of great men-of-war, year in and
year out, frown ominously upon the shore
in support of the government n the law
which does not exist within their effective
range, and yet an offender within half a
dozen miles of the seat of so many author
ties detles the processes of the court and
rebuffs the power of the invalided govern
ment. In the midst of all white clad mes
SenGerS OF crown anu COuSul MI W anu
fro along the blazing beach, the bearers of
imposing envelopes in which are covered
the stately communications that round
out the measures of time in this kinder
garten of diplomacy.
"In the meantime no clearing is made,
no plantation is extended. The country,
which at best, under it's many disadvan-
tages, needs all the stimulus of peace, the
security that government assures visibly
%languishes. There is no immigration, in
fux of capital or suggestion of enterprise.
All wait for that underlined something
that change which is to come; waitas they
have waited for thirty years; wait for the
%abrogation of the treaty, as they and theiI
4 fathers waited for its coming"
Only a small part of the islands, he says
are under control of this government
Back from the shore II the town the peo'
: pie do as they please.
The treaty, made by three government;
= for the government of "A third, is not con
sidered a success. The different forms Of
government sought to be brought together
y have been irreconcilable. There is toe
much friction. 1t is said that before any
e. step can be taken the three representative
10 must mite and then oftentimes reference
d must be made to powers on the other sid'
Of the globe. There is a diversity of opin
g ion, u conflict of interests and a clash o
rights.