The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-30


and unjustifiable as Captain Coghlan's and
that it has given greater offense to the
Beers than Captain Coghlan's gave to the
Germans, and Mr.. Chamberlain's indiscre-
ton was just as useless as Coghan's'
In connection with the foregoing remarks
OF Mr.. Chamberlain, another indication that
the causes OF friction between Great Britain
and the Transvaal continues increasing. is
given in the announcement by Mr.. Cham
rerlain yesterday evening thai Great Brit
ain had informed President Kruger that
the dynamite concession by the Transvaal
was a breach of the London convention.
The Daily Mail, commenting on this state
ment says: 'Krugers sands are fast run
ming out and the hour is approaching when
England must take action"
The Coghlan incident has caused a great
deal of stir on this side of the Atlantic and
has furnished the press of England and the
continent with fruitful topic of discus
sion throughout the week. The English
papers have taken a lenient view of Captain
Coghlanis indiscretion and. except in the
case OF one or two VIGOROUSLY anti-Amer-
lean journals, have been disposed to find ex-
cuses for him. The Spectator. in an article
which is typical Of English comment, says:
Though We must join in the censures Of
Captain Coghlan for bis indiscretion, we
must not forget that what he said was sub
stantially in accordance with the facts. The
Germans behaved at Manila in a most ir-
ritating and unfriendly way TO the United
States. 1t was absurd for them to expect
to play the part they played without rails
ing feeling of the most intense bitterness
in such high-sprited body of men as the
off Nd Of ba
An explosion of this feeling was bound TO
come sooner or later"
The Saturday Review, In an article char
asteristic OF its treatment of anything con-
cerning Americans, says: Had an English
captain made Captain Coghlan's speech. If
such thing is conceivable, or had Ger
man officer made it about England. there
would have been war. but the Americans
are treated by the world like spoiled chill
dren. We, however, do not envy the posi-
ton of Captain Coghlan, from which he can
only escape by accepting an imputation
upon his sobriety."
The Speaker takes a more common-sense
view of the matter and rejects 1.-The brutal
and insulting suggestion of the German pa
pers that Captain Coghlan was intoxicated"
The Speaker assumes that Captain Coghlan
thought he was talking in confidence TO per-
sonal friends and members of the Union
League Club and 'let himself go. His heav-
lest punishment" the Speaker adds, will
not be any that the secretary of the navy
can inf1ict, but the consciousness that he
has unwittingly done an injury to his own
country" sss
The Statist. in another optimistic article
on the business prospects Of America, dwells
on the restoration Of confidence OF the
American people in their country and the
happy results already visible in trade. The
| article concludes: 'All indications exist that
the American Nation has entered upon a
prolonged period of prosperity.
Newspapers here publish an interview
with "a very eminent Q. c." on the divorce
Of Justin Huntley Mccarthy by his wife,
Cissy LOTUS. This high authority is re-
ported as saying: ''The decree is of no
value whatever in England. If either party
marries again he or she will be guilty of
bigamy. They may do what they like in
America, but so far as English law is con-
cerned the divorce is a humbug."
Letters from the famine provinces of Rus
sia tell a narrowing story Of distress. In
the province of kazan, the center OF the
famine district, the Red Cross Society alone
is feeding l32, 900 people. The relief delegate
in the province Of Ufa reports that peasants
ran after him and begged for food on their
knees in the snow. The st. Petersburg
Skyya Viedomosti, in vivid description of
the misery and disease prevalent in Kazan.
says: Crime, mortality and the number of
still-born infants have increased and now
scurvy and typhus are devouring the popu-
lation like confagration famed by the
wind; but this is a case not of houses and
barns. but of human lives being destroyed"
Lord Charles Beresford came forth this
week as warm advocate OF automobile
cars. He attributed the congestion Of Lon
don streets TO the use of horses and said:
Willie was in New York, / was supplied
with a motor car which had the appearance
or a cab and the manners of a kangaroo, but
1t always got me safely to my destination. -
His lordslip also pointed out how much
Great Britain is behind the times in the use
or electricity. He was amazed, he said to
see how much work was done by electricity
On board American war ships where the
English use steam
The decision Of the government to finan-
cially support the Pacific cable project has
given great satisfaction and is warmly ap-
proved by all sections of the press, in which
II Is suggested that a cable be laid connect
ing the Samoan group Of islands. The hope
is also expressed that Great Britain has
taken care TO restore for the motherland the
chance for profits. The governments pres
ent arrangement limits the liability to G20
900, and nothing is to be paid until the end
of the first years working of the cable. 1t
is expected TO reduce the rate from four
shillings six pence to three shillings a word
between England and Australia
The Sydney. N. S. W.. correspondent of
the Daily Mail says that his Eminence,
Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran, archbish-
op of Sydney. made vehement speech with
reference TO af1airs in Samoa, in the course
of which he said that the fighting there was
mot warfare, but deliberate murder-worse
than the Armenian atrocities"
According to the Brussels correspondent
of the Daily Mail, the Belgian royal yacht
is preparing for three months cruise, I'm
the course Of which King Leopold will visit
the United States.
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