The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-22
A BITTER ATTACK
cAsTRo,s NEWSPAPER PRINTS AN
 INSPIRED EDITORIAL.
The Editorial Bitterly Complains of . Purely Legal Question Being Made Diplomatic Issue--Castro
 Rides Horseback.


 Caracas. Sunday, April 12.-For the hrst time in nearly two years, General Castro was able to mount on horse- back last week.
 Although for a year he has been gradually recovering from the illness which nearly cost him his life, he new CT had completely recovered until his late protracted stay at Los Teques He had been absent from the capital near ly two months. living at mat health resort and he has now returned even tually much benefited. His return was coincfdent with news from Washing ton giving the Calhoun report and the next day Fl Constitutional, the rov- ernment newspaper, made a bitter at- tack on the American commissioner ana against those conclusions which are adverse to Venezuela. Judge Cal nouns hrst conclusion that the New fork and Bermudez Company never Iulnlled the conditions imposed by the hamilton concessions is duly applaud sd. but referring to the report, three adverse concessions. Ei Constitutional says that the American judge could not maintain the impartiality of his position and he has tried to invalfdate ms own opinion. based on good law. oy means of two or three high sound ins phrases of pattifogging Ia wyer..
 AI,er confutins in detail, Judge Call nouns conclusions the inspired edito- rial bitterly complains of a purely Ie- Issue It says:
 lnasmuch as from whatever sia. ohe looks at the question and no mat ter now much history and subtlety of pettIogging lawyer is invoked tbe queston only presents a Judicial char acter and on its face it is a nnattar ot mere law. we ask: Tn what court does Judge Calhoun think the trial should oe' m those of Venezuela or those of North America?
 Further, If the question is excIu- sively of law. to be decided bv Is w courts why is diplomacy invoked :? what have the State Departments of one or the other countries got to do with the matter? What is the reason Tor these notes, either reticent. unsea- . soaable or incorporate, but always in- harmonious or aggressive by means os whicn the American Government think can maintain. because a conscientious ana Just government like ours, the prestige of it's moral authority. the reputation of its statesmen who try to mix up with a question not at all within their Jurisdiction, and the good name of a people who are vain, with the thought that they are the stand ara bearers of justice and the Paiadins of liberty?
 Is 1t in this way that that Govern. ment believes 1t Is supporting the jus- tice Of It's citizens by violently and ar- bitrarily transferring the question from the inviolable and clear law of the discretional, hclIle, artificial and subte grounds of dfpomatic debates? Is it by maintaining such a leonine preten. sion of its own rights agaisnt those of the Latin American republics, that the United States can hope that Europe will consent that 1t be the guardian of justice in American"
 Alleging that it Is either a question of the honorableness of Jurge Calhoun or of the. good faith of the American government, Fl constitutionaYs article closed with these wards:
 Returning to the limited sphere of the question of Bermudez Company, we ask is it now, after four years. that Jurge Calhoun informs this govern ment that the company had no rights under the Hamilton concession but did Is 1t that he did inform has govern rnent of this four years ago and that the American government has reserved this fact to bring 1t forward today, this pretending to introduce a new eie- ment Into the question? But even this element leaves the matter on partly legal grounds, about which neither ministers nor secretaries of state, nor political advisors can have anything to say
 Tt Is Is true. 1t is a question either of the honorabieness of the judge or of the good faith of that government and this must be decided by public opinion in all America by the honest consciences of all men and by the sense of justice of the people themselves of the United States