The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-14
Daily eagle
Bring the Bickerers Home.
". NJ. MURDOCK. Editor.

Bring the BickererS f1ome
There may be war over the Samoan matter. There
should not be- nations Germany England ana
The United States garing at one another
r most trivial quarrel of their representatives all of
which representatives are cutting fanciful ddoes with
little brief authority
careful review of the Samoan difficulty would find
the representatives power at fault at one stage or
another with probably the shoulders of
Herr Rose consul But they are all to piae'
tor fomenting foolish quarrel
Germany England and United States have condo
minimum mutual sovereignty, in Samoa Mataafa and Ma
etoa Tanus were aspirants for the gshp An cleo
ton was held and Mataafa elected Chambers, the
American chief justice islands, held that Mataafas
election was illegal that Maetoa Tanus was elected
Maie7a's followers are greatly the minority and the
Maaaf crowd tereupon sailed in and wiped up the spongy
tropical earth with the MaIetoa outfit provisional gov
eminent was then formed Mataafa, which was
recognized by the consus three pending word
from their respective home governments
The American admiral Kautz, sent with the Phlla-
e1bIa to Samoa TO dsperse Mataafas provisional govern
aen and aetoa who had been declared king by the
American justice, Chambers The Mataafans We're
told politely by clear out for home and were on the
point of doing so when the German consul told
the Maaafans and he would recognize them as
the government Fighting ensued English and American
marines being landed and dis
erse them point the three governments realizing
that their tropical agents rreparable loggrheads
decided three to proceed thher and as COM
mission decide on the question at issue In the meanwhile
the American English marines have been pegging away
at the Mataafans. April the Americans and English
were anbusled by the plantation managed
by German said have urged the Mataafans 70
fight This German been arrested Owing to the jam
ming Of a highly delicate piece of Colt gum the
English and American helpless The heads OF
Lieutenant Lansdale Ensign Monaghan of our navy
and Freeman of the English navy and several
others were cut off carried about tro-
7hies conformity Samoan custom now prohibited Dy
law The three forming the commission which is to
right matters should their field of labors The
American member ready the German member is ready
hut the English member and will not until he is
ready In words he delays and The question Of his
delay is now paramount subject in the whole difficulty
England claims is not sent away mmedi-
ately is because send him until she has prepared
comprehensive instructions for him. Germany says that
England is holding in the hope that events in
Samoa viii compel England America to form alliance
There is no conceang the feeling between
England and Germany hostile and that the American gov
ernment is allied in sympathy with England
the representatives both countries in Samoa having acted
together the first in opposition to te representative of
Germany.
When the whole matter out, as years
will bring it out it will be discovered lazy eli
mate of Samoa most Of their
time Matching up specous Quars among themselves The
Apa hamlet, and there being nothing else
lOafed smoked their pipes
disagreed Having cable connections and safe in
their isolation quarres have into
lures being bilious addition being idle, they
have up a veritabIe devils workshop.
In first place, German consul nursing tropic
and rivalry England, took PERM
cousy active behalf of Mataafas candidacy,
although had long been enemy of Germanys
Climbers chief justice should have kept
clear of quarrel, took Malietoa
MaIieoa defeated by overwhelming vote,
trparte that eli
gible that the construction good
lame faulty unjustifabIe The German
full Of bile and iemper his American brother
1hereupon undertook depose American chief justice
entirely un.ustifabe In the battle which ensued
between the Maaafas and the followers of Mae>oa the
German consul prayed that the Maaafans might while
the British and American consuls prayed that Maletoa
might conquer When Kautz admiral arrived
have Lost his head also gone
of placing Maie7a the throne in bumptious
But Rose, the German consul instead Of waiting
his government hack him and stimu
lated the Mataafa outfit resist.
This is the quarrel the quarrel Of a lot Of men
whose vers have become dormant under southern SUM-
1t would be ridiculous nations to go to war
to sacrifice either money time imbrogo
which could be easily rmed Cd by sending warships
TO Samoa to bring the bickerers and change
climate
But men for slight causes sometimes nations
and there spark in natter which may grow
into 4 oonfagration.