Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-12-08
PRESIDENT TO TIE COUNTRY


tConnnued from Beconu phBo1
continue the military governments
which have existed since our ocou-
patton and give to the people security
En life and property and encouragement |
Inder joint and beneficent rule.
2 A GOVERNMENT FOR CUBA \
As soon as we are in possession of |
Cuba and have pacified the island it |
will be necessary to give aid and |
direction to its people to form a |
I,overnmentfor themselves. This should
BE undertaken at the earliest moment
consistent with safety and assured sue
Icess. 1t is important that our relations
with this people shall be OF the most
friendly character and our commercial
relations close and reciprocal. ltshould
Ibe our duty to assist in every proper
lway to build up the waste places of
the island, encourage the industry of
1.-The people, and assist them to form q
Government which shall be free and
Independent, thus realizing the best
aspirations of the Cuban people.
Spanish rule must be replaced by .
kust, benevolent and humane govern
ment, created by the people of Cuba,
bapable of performing all international
obligations and which shall encourage
thrift, industry and prosperity, and
promote peace and good will among all
IF the inhabitants, whatever may have
been their relations in the past. Mel ther
revenge nor passion should have q
place in the new government. Until
There is complete tranquility in the
ISLAND and stable government in
hugurated military occupation will be
continued.
With the one exception of the rup-
lure with Spain, the intercourse of the
limited States with the great family of
khe nations has been marked with
bordiality, and the close of the event.
&ul year finds most of the issues that
necessarily arise in the complex rela-
&ions of sovereign States adjusted OF
Presenting no serious obstacle to lust
knd honorable solution by amicable
agreement. KS
kRGENTINA-CHrLE BOUNDARY DISPUTE
A long unsettled dispute as to the
Extended boundary between the Ar
kentine Republic and Chile, stretching
blong the Andean crests from the
Eouthern border of the Atacama Desert
TO Magellan Straits, nearly a third of
he length of the South American con-
inent, assumed an acute stage in the
Early part of the year, and afforded to
Ibis government occasion to express
The hope that the resort to arbitration
tlready contemplated by existing con-
, entions between the parties, might
prevail despite the grave difficulties
/ |rising in Its application. am happy
! o say that arrangements to this end
i have been perfected, the questions OF
act upon which the respective COM
1 nissioners were unable to agree being
!, n course of reference to her Britannia
majesty for determination. A residual
difference touching the northern bound
y Try line across the Actama Desert, fol
!, which existing treaties provided nc
, adequate adjustment, bids fair to bs
!, bottled in like manner by a joint COM
mission, upon which the United States
II Minister at Buenos Ayres has beer
i invited to serve as umpire in the las
n. esort. | found occasion to approach
Il ne Argentine government with view
N 10 removing differences of rate charges
~ Imposed upon the cables Of an Ameri
|. Ian corporation in the transmission be
~ ~ tween Buenos Ayres and the city o
y Uruguay and Brazil of through mes
aa lges passing from and to the Unitet
@ ni tates. Although the matter is com
II, Heated by exclusive concessions b.
~ Uruguay and Brazil to foreign com
4, anies, there is strong hope that ;
u' ood understanding will be reached
i, nd that the important channels o
u commercial communication between
=" al, he United States and the Atlanti
y titles of South America may be free
N, nv rom an almost prohibitory discrimina
~ :, ion.
\. In this relation, l may be permitte
NJ ~ 70 express my sense of the fitness Of a
~ International agreement whereby, th
Al Interchange of messages over connectin
y ables may beNregulated on fair basi
~, pf Uniformity. The world has seen tn
wS POSTAL system developed from cor
ia ~ Ferries of independent and exclusiy
,oS ervice into a we'll ordered union, {
y; T., Which all countries enjoy the manifol
benefits. 1t would be strange wei
\ the nations not in time brought
~ ealize that modern civilization, whic
H., pwes so much of its progress to I'll
nm Humiliation of space by the electr
orce, demands that this all importai
\ neans Of communication be herital
"S BIZ all peoples, be administered al
Regulated in their common behalf.
". Btep in this direction was taken wht
y The international convention of ISL
H. Tor the protection of submarine cabl
wv WAS signed, and the day is, | trust n
,e lar distant when this medium for ii
, ~ Transmission of thought from land
~, land may be brought within the d
h' main of international concert as COZ
~ bletely as is the material carriage
NJ W. commerce and correspondence upon Il
~" lace of the waters that divide them.
rsN The claim of Thomas Jefferson Pa
:, hgainst Argentina, which has be
l IT,, bending many years, has been adiuste
os The sum awarded by the Congress
argentina was. "a, 242. 35. Bt
~! The sympathy of the Americ
llls people has Justly been offered to t
lcl' ruler and the people of Austria Hu
~. gary by reason of the atiliction I'll
M ~, ias lately befallen them in the ass;
nto ination Of the empress-queen of tn
wv, n historic realm.
nam THE FATAL MINERS STRIKE.
ioini On the 10th of September, 1907
d I'D conflict took place at Lattimer, p
i, thP between body Of striking miners a
eted the sheriff of Luzerne county and
oyel tleputies, in which % miners W
ThU killed and Al were wounded, of VIII
heeb 10 of the killed and IL of the wount
itar!H were Austrian and Hungarian 81
ther- iects. This dcplorable event natura
COM aroused the solicitude Of the Austr
I 10 Hungarian government, which on
y id assumption that the killing and woul
abef' ing involved the uniustifiable mis-
!, thu of authority, claimed reparation
efor he sufferers. Apart from the scar
ing investigation and peremptory act
of the authorities Of Pennsylvania,
} th Federal executive took appropri
'pa steps to learn the merits of the ca