Show THE ITATA AND OTHER ULUXDEIIS The following communication is commended com-mended to our Republican friends who never tire of dilating upon the course of the present administration as to Hawaiian affairs A brief item in a recent dispatch recalls re-calls to some an almost forgotten Inci dent in the diplomatic annals of the Harrison administration The item in brief is this That the owners of the Itaa had succeeded in their claim against the United States for damages for the seizure of that vessel i e that the commission to which it was referred had allowed their claim A brief summary sum-mary of the case may not be out of place here Balmaceda the president of Chill and the Chilian congress were at variance vari-ance in regard to their respective powers pow-ers This variance grew Into war Each side claimed to be the legltiniate government as in the Sandwich Islands Isl-ands There were American interests We were represented by Pat Egan whose principal diplomatic qualifica tion was his hatred of England He promptly espoused the cause of Bal maceda The Itata was fitted oUt and left California as her ownels claimed In a perfectly legal manner and departed de-parted for Chili with a cargo of arms and warlike munitions for the congressional con-gressional party whom our government govern-ment through its agents saw fit to designate as rebels Tn > Itata was pursued by an Amer ican war vesse1 l with orders to take her by force if need be She was c found undot the cuavoy of a Chilian I war vessel which surrendered her toile to-ile American waP vessel under protest pro-test The commander of the Chilian I war vessel doubtless believed it to be better to submit to be bullied by 65 j OOQQQO people than to bring on a war las j Chili even If united had but 2600 000 people the odds of 25 to 1 being too great The vessel was brought back to San Francisco at a cost of about 750000 taken before a United States court for I condemnation and released on the ground that her seizure by the United States war vessel was illegal and now the commission decides that the United States must pay the damages for seizing seiz-ing her probably about 150000 I What a triumph for American diplomacy I diplo-macy How thankful ought every American to be that the Chilian commander com-mander insteaii of defending his rights from the piratical acts of this great American nation choge rather to yield them j The true animus of our diplomatic service in siding with the despot Bal macedu may be found in the fact that there were millions in it for a few American speculators if Balmaceda could be kept ill the control Out of thiR damnable outrage grew the illfeeling towards Americans which culminated in the attack by the mob upon thf crew oF the Baltimore Should we go very far out of the way in eking to understand the attempt of Stevens In Hawaii if we were to presume that the Jove of money is the root of all evl there When we add to these affairs the Behrlng sea fiasco by which we shall be compelled to pay a few millions for the gross ignorance l of international law shown by the state department the future historian of America will hardly point with pride to the diplomacy diplo-macy shown by the Harri = on admin istration FAIR PLAY Salt Lake city Feb 15 I |