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Show OI'.UIUI. MclLl.llMMI UV CIIIIX. (!i:.s. John A. McUlhivvnii, of tho Utah Commission, Ua gviithman who his had considerable eiperlmre In both the civil and military departments depart-ments of tlm Oovernment, and by rrju.n of IhU and his disposition lo take a broad and comprehensUn view of i very quotlun with which the nation has to do, his opinion on the Chilian situation Is worth rec r J lint, lYlsrly stated, he thinks Chile (resume, (re-sume, on her littleness and giet to unwtrrantable lengths because she nallzes thnt the United Blate. cannot atlorl to go to war with her without the greatest provocation. Tho eople of that 'shreslrlngM nation are Im-piluoua, Im-piluoua, presumptuous uud valu, and to tokratu an act of audacity or Impertinence Is simply to tncotuage them In tha.dlj ctlon. Units something Its the way of a satisfactory aolutlou U n ached without further delay, the General thinks an uutUlvocal and unconditional apology should buui minded, and untesn this fnimedlaub' lollowa the di livery of tha ilcmami, lit ui proi-ced with as little delay and cerimooy a possible to raise the nco eeMry force on land and sen, one'li co-crerate with tho other, and, alter giving the Chilean, an others ample time lo take their famllle. out of Ibr reach of danger, turn loess on Valparaiso Valpar-aiso andkeep at It till there Is nothing left of the city but splluttrs and elude elu-de rr. This of itself would settle the matter and lie thinks It It doubtful If anything else would. Ho argue. In IhlswayiTheaulhoiltleaof that nation must I e thoroughly convinced that we are In earnest, and as thing, have gone and are going It Is doulUul If anything el-o will eo convince them. Ilealde-havlng Ilealde-havlng a salutary effect elsewhere, It would produce a belter feeling at home, In that a brush with n foreign power would tend to diminish the partisan par-tisan acerbity now prevajllng and to unify the people generally. The Ueu-eral Ueu-eral Is coultJo it that all the troo needed coul J be raised In this put of the country; and something of the old military ardor that use I to animate him seumod for the lime rekindled aa he sjioke, showing that he wouldn't mln 1 being railed upon himself. However, wu have not changed our view, upon this luljtct |
