| Show VIOLATED daring the period just preceding tho the var when aen the united states was buy teg ing acceptable war craft wherever it t ar ra tb ta be had an effort was made to V base the chilean cruiser az to nothing now comes a dita saying that the cruiser haft haa son bought toy by spain and its ite guns are ao to be turned against us instead of the enemy this is bad it if true very bad indeed not that the cruiser or a dozen more like it in the spanish hands would amount to a formidable proposition but because of the unlooked for exemplification at such a time of the old adage that blood is thicker than water chile is as spanish as spain itself and notwithstanding the awful drubbing which the south american republic gave the mother country thirty four years ago it seems the family feeling is beginning to assert itself even this would not be a matter of so much concern were nothing else involved the fickleness of the romans and their descendants are too well known m to occasion wonderment when a new development of the weakness is apparent the really regret able thing connected with tt is that it true uncle sam will have to whip chile and he would rather have its respect through admiration and fear than vy b subjugation and ruin chile has de blared itself neutral and as such has haa it been treated but it is a flagrant violation of neutrality laws to sell or munitions to either combatant more than that it amounts to a declaration la of war on the part of chile this is of course the thing spain has long coveted and yet it may not be true it will be all the better tor for chile if it is not |
