The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-13
THE CASE OF MISS STONE.

The latest dispatches from Sofia indicate that Miss
Stone 10 being treated with severity by the brgands
in order that the her harsh treatment may in.
nucnco Conaul General Dickinson, through the pres.
that win thus be brought TO bear him, to nc.
ccpt their conditions
Consul General Dickinson, Il Is said, is innexibe.
lie insists that the surrender OF MISS Stone must pre-.
codo or be simultaneous with the payment of the ran
II 70 feared that the briBands will not keep faith
but II they allowed to collect the ransom viii then
KIN Miss Stone and her companion, II is
cciycd, the cnptIyes during their long captivity,
have learned too much concerning the identity OF the
biigande ana of their abettors
This AFFAIR Of Miss Stone has taxed the patience or
the American people until It is about exhausted. Her
Turks and BugariAns In their country can carry
on their custom of brgRndsh kidnapping for ransom as
much ug they please SO long tho persons kidnapped
uro Turks and HuRarians. The governments of Tur-
key and of Bulgaria should be made to understand
and bat uhortly that when It to tho case of an
American citizen the line to be drawn. and drawn
sharply. We have army and navy that costs the
people of this country many millions of dollars yearly
what the army and navy of the United States for?
We have president who bonsts himself to be strenu
GUS. but who has boon playing the role of faineant
do nothing, who let's himself and the country he made
mock of by handful of foreign brgands is It not
perfectly plain to anyone who stops to think OF it for
mpnVut thHt rev lcHOlute Americana set down the
borders of Turkey and Bulgaria would have rescued
Miss Stone long uBo2 Would not few warships in
the ports of Coustantnople and Vornn nave a sanitary
effect? Hayo less spirit than tina French who have
recently shown that tho sultan can he impressed by
tue coQucuco of the argument of "A naval squadron?
Couml General Dickinson has boon making "encr
eetic representations and definite declarations" 10
the utmost OF his power. He should be backed up by
the army and navy OF the United States few war
shlpa IN tho harhors Of the countries at fault and
couple OF regiments OF American regulars undor the
command of an energetic officer would do the trick II
is high time the United States quit talking. II we are
not TO continue to bo object Of contempt Bugnrl;
and Turkey md The other nations OF Europe some
thinE definite should be done and done at once
II rs the prnmpncss of action of Great Britain II
such that protocols British subjects all over tn,
world. The briEands it win he noticed seize no Brit
sh subjects Foreigners believe tho United states ar,
backward I'm this respect The Stone case is a goot
one with which 20 begin TO remove that Impression
The fact of American citizenship should he an ncgs o.
protection all over the world As 1t was with the Ro
man citizen, In tho days Of the grandeur Of Rome 80
I'm those modern tlmca, the claim "Civls Americans
SUM should throw around Americans in all quar-
tors OF oc globo circle safety within tho limit OF
which the boldes Rggrcasor would uare to set foot