The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-27
FOR CLOSER RELATIONS
Minister Vicuna of Chile Pre-
scented to President Mckinley.
OUR GREAT INFLUENCE
Amazing the World With Prodigious
and Rapid Development Our
Friendship for the Republics
OF the South.

Washington, Aug. 26.-Senor vicuna,
the new minister from Chile. was pre-
scented to the president by Secretary
Day to-day. There were the usual di-
plomatic greetings incident to the re-
ception of a new minister.
Minister Vicuna. on presenting his
credentials, said In part: Mr.. Presi-
dent: The mission which has been con-
hded to me has for it's principal object,
as IL expressed in the text of my Gre
dentials, to maintain n draw closer
dayb day the amicable relations which
happily exist between the two repub-
lies. The people and government of
Chile behold In this great nation one
most worthy Of being Initiated in it's
Just and liberal institutions, I'm it's spirit
more ample tolerance and generaliza-
ton Of popular culture, in the untirlng
activity and tenacious energy with
which it proceeds with even course in
all the paths of progress, amazing the
world with its prodigious and rapid de-
velopment.
Chile has experienced from the earl
lest years OF her independent life the
efficacy of the influence OF this power
ful republic to preserve peace or to
restore ii when it has been interrupted
not only between states of his con-
tinent and European states. but also be-
tween the American states themselves
THE treaty of indefinite truce nego-
tiated between four South American
republicans and Spain in 1870. in the
city OF Washington under the auspices
Of this government; the treaty which,
having been NEGOTIATED through the in
termediary of the ministers of the
United States in Santiago and Buenos
Ayres, furnished I'm 1891 the means for
a pacific solution of the question of
- So
the Argentine Republican, proofs OF
this beneficent influence.
THE financial and commercial rela-
lions between this country. the empo-
rum OF every class Of production and
wealth. and Chile have scarcely been
initiated and are, in the opinion of ex-
perts, susceptible OF immediate n con-
siderable development. My instruc-
tons charge me to bring about this de-
velopment. and | will do so. with the
zeal aroused in me by the conviction
that economical interests are constant
ly acquiring greater preponderance in
international relations.
II trust. sir. that / will meet from
your excellency and your government
the favorable welcome and the benevo-
lent assistance Indispensable for the
successful discharge n accomplish
ment of my mission"
The president replied in part as fol-
lows: MIR. Minister: That Will
accomplish the object of your mission
in drawing closer the friendly ties that
have lone existed between your repub-
lie and ours I cannot permit myself to
doubt. inasmuch as the same high pur-
pose inspires the government OF the
United States, and to that end I can
assure you of the hearty cooperation
OF myself and my associates in admin
~istration in faithful fulfllment of the
will Of the people of the United States,
TO dwell in peace and in mutual friend
ship and closer community Of interests
with their neighbors in the great west
ern continents.
You agreeably recall occasions when
this cordial spirit OF our government
and people has been manifested toward
the commemorative Of South America
i'm the interest Of peace and good will
among them and them and
foreign states. S%pringing as it does
from wholly impartial motives of
friendship. that friendly disposition
cannot but continue in the future as
in the past whenever fitting occasion
for It's expression may arise without
initiative or solicitation on ouT part.
The enlargement OF the economical
and commercial ties between the states
Of this hemisphere. to which you adj
vert. is a matter Of very kindly feeling
on the part of this government and its
people, whose existing legislation looks
10 a share in this beneficent and pro
gressive movement on the basis OF mu-
tual accommodation and equitable re-
ciprocity, not merely with the Ameri-
can states, but with all the countries Of
the world
The F~urloughs Extended.