Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-09
AT MONROE DOCTRINE
Comment on GsrmlDy'i Action in Sinking
Haytian Vessel.
SITUATION OF PERILOUS TENSION
English Press Praises the President
for OverIookinE the ~ncident-
Analogy Roosevelt
ana Emperor william.

revolutionary gunboat Crete-a-fleTTot AT
Gonalves, Hayti, by the German cruiser
Panther and the morning papers devote
lengthy editorial articles to the incident.
A majority Of the papers agree that there
is no likelihood OF serious consequences de-
veioping, but they expatiate on the omin-
Gus possibilities which the AFFAIR has
evoked.
The Daily Telegraph says: There is no
doubt that Germany was perfectly within
her legal rights in sinking the Crete-a-
Pierrot and she has secured a permanent
and scrupulous respect for her mercantile
flag throughout South American waters.
No international complications will follow,
but II is impossible TO overlook the danger
that some similar incident In the future
may drop the spark into the magazine Of
the Monroe doctrine"
viii Cause r Tension.
The Telegraph holds that the precedent
established by this vigorous application Of
the mailed fist" II followed cannot fail
to bring about a situation of perilous ten
sion. The strict principles, the paper says.
with which American statesmen regard
Monrocism are one question, the suscepti-
bilities of the American people are an
other.
The latter might become excited, while
the former were not technically contra
vencd by an incident such as the sinking of
the -Pierrot.
The Daily Mail dilates on the gratifying
unanimity of the views Of Washington and
Berlin concerning the incident and says II
believes the German captain Of Panther
has done a good service IL his action forms
a basis OF common action against ire
sponsible states like Hayti.
TA- AEAa-GA- r-aA Aa1. 49, -atIx. l.
valuable as introducing some necessary
limitations to Monroeism as set forth by
President Roosevelt and asks:
"If the punitive process should involve
the occupation Of territory for its purposes
what would be the attitude OF the United
States?"
President and Emperor.
The Daily News publishes a striking
analogy Of the personal characteristics Of
Emperor william and President Roosevelt
and refers to the possibilities OF two men
"of such amazing energy. who have so far
only served their apprenticeship" being
brought into "a conflict so powerful and
80 piquant that the faintest hint of It Is
sufficient to send a wave OF excitement
throughout the continents"
"If Panther's action was meant as a
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the News, has very astutely turned a
blind eye to the signal. He declines to
see any hint. A smaller man than the
president would be tempted under such
circumstance to play to the galleries.
He has acted with characteristic good
sense in brushing the matter aside as a
trivial Incident which has illuminated by Its
brief flash the vast sea Of possibilities that
would have to be faced should the old
world ever come into direct conflict with
Monroeism. F'
The Standard says: Germany has re-
scented Interference with her by
the anarchistical West Indian blacks and
has promoted a regular and commonplace
action with the maximum Of emphasis and
that lie ALL"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-As was expected,
Mr.. Powell, the United States minister to
Hayti, reported promptly to the State de-
partment the sinking Of the Haytian gun
boat Crete-a-Pierrot by the German gun
boat Panther. 'H
Both of the minister's dispatches are
dated yesterday at Port su Prince. In the
first dispatch the minister said II was re-
ported that Panther had called upon Killick
to surrender; that he had refused and that
Panther had sunk Crete-a-Pierrot and all
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later dispatch corrected the statement as to
the crew. saying that they had escaped.
The minister promised to make an extended
report by mail.
The Navy department was also informed
Of the event in the following dispatch, re-
ceived from Commander Mclean, in COM
mand of the United States cruiser Gin
c~innatti:
PORT .AU PRINCE. Sept. s.-secretary
Of the Navy. W~ashington: German gun
Gonaives. Crew escaped. Panther re-
turned to Port au Prince. M'LEAN.
As matters stand. there is nothing to be
done by the State department at this juno
ture. The oficials have not changed their
view that the incident was one between the
German and Haytian governments and that
1t was not our business. The Berlin ad-
vices to the effect that the Haytian govern
ment had expressed It's satisfaction with
the situation being brought to the atten-
tion OF the department here, went TO con-
arm the officials In their position.
No American interests haye. been affected
unfavorably, In their judgment. and as the
United States has not recognized the rev.
olutlonsts In Hayti, there is no one to make
complaint to this government. On the
whole, IT. IL felt that the termination OF
Ktllick's career In summary fashion may
have a ~salutary effect, not only in Hayti
but also In South and Central American
countries, where heretofore the slightest
revolutionary disturbance has been made
the pretext for vexatious and expensive in.
reference with foreign merchant vessels.
Only recently the British cruiser Phaetor
was obliged to force the Colombian govern.
ment to release the British steamer EQua.
dor. which 1t was intended to impress into
service as a troop transport, while still
more recently Commander McCrea adopted
a similarly vigorous course with respect t
this same Admiral Killick and It is no
doubted that had he remained in HaytiaI
waters he would have seized the Crete-a,
Pierrot for violation of his warning to lie
foreign shipping alone. Altogether thes,
active naval measures are expecting to hsv,
beneficial results throughout that section o
the world, so far as foreign 1
concerned.
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