The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-02-06
GU Dtrala and Sirius
ar. BOWEN AND THE ALLIES.
4. II ACl.l, EDlroR.

The interest Of the entire country for
the past several days has been centred
upon the negotiations now in progress
between Minister Bowen, representing
Venezuela, on the one hand, and the
representatives of the allied powers,
England. Germany. and Italy on the
other.
Venezuela for a long time has been
very stubborn debtor and has succeeded
i'll very thoroughly eXhausting the pa
tience of her European creditors. Trans
actions between nations. unlike those
between. individuals, are always made
intricate by ponderous system of di-
plomacy, and there have been courte-
sizes and counter-courtesicS, discourte-
sizes and nnter-discourtesies and propo-
stions without end. Finally the allied
powers, after due notice to the United
States, the friend Of Venezuela, insti-
tuted a blockade of the Venezuelan
ports and demanded settlement of the
long standing debts. The German war
vessels went SO far as to lombard Fort
was very generally condemned in the
United States, and sufficient reason
for which Germany has never yet seen
fit to advance
1t was finally agreed between the
representatives Of the two sides that
thirty per cent. of Venezuela s customs
receipts should be set aside for the sat
isfaction of her debts. The agreement
was submitted to the allies and they
entered objection on the ground that in
aSmuch as it was through their efforts
that Venezuela had agreed to terms
their claims should be given preference
over all others. In other words, that
they should receive the whole of the
thirty per cent until their claims had
been paid and then the other creditors
should be considered. This proposition
Mr.. Bowen refused. and in the press
reports Il was stated as his reason
that by such an agreement there would
he incorporated in the law of nations
doctrine in conflict with the tenets of
all modern ethics, viz, that "blocka AIDES
and bombardments of forts, and the
consequent killing of helpless men,
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