Show THE CHILEAN IMBROGLIO THE san francisco chronicle has noticed the firmness of president harrisons s message menage to the chilean government on the subject of the he late outrage upon american sailor sand it is alarmed lest belligerent chile should construe the message menage as an a war threat and accept the challenge its tremors are caused from the presumed inequality of the contest the united states being the unequal party owing to the weakness of its navy davy for the united states to allow its citizens to be murdered in chile without redress and its rights under the common law of civilized nations ignored through a fear of being whipped by we the chilean men of war would look a little strange and we do not believe such fears would trouble many people outside of the cAran chronicle jok office in the meantime the united states government cannot afford to go to war wair s with chile so long as a possible means remains for reconciliation on a reasonable basis the mission of this republic is peace and individual security and freedom to all men its moral aspera eions are far too lofty and its assum assumed re lation sto mankind too magnanimous to countenance anything that could be suspected of bravado in its dealings dealing with lower lesser powers and particularly with powers that are struggling with the problems of liberty by methods patterned after its own we cannot believe that a declaration of war upon chile under present circumstances cum stances could escasan escape an appearance 4 at least of tyranny what is in needed in the premises is not war mes messages siges or pompous assumptions of superiority but a little wisdom where it is most needed for the occasion ocoa sion notably at valparaiso the schemes for settling s the difficulty that would be most like ly to suggest themselves tham selves to such a man as the present united states minister to chile are not likely to be of a pacific character it if hostilities should result from the strained conditions now existing they may be safely attributed to bad diplomacy even an actual resort to arms would be no evidence that a capable representative at the seat of the chi lean government might not have brought the differences to a peaceable adjustment in twenty four hours |