Their Hands Full
Wabhinotos, March 21. - The Central i Americau, eompllcations, the Mexico Guatemala difficulty and the Spanigh ! insult to OJd Glory are the reigning son, sations of the day, to which íb added tho j break between Grcsham and the HawaiiI an minister. Between them all it would seem that our diplomatic talent in tho state department wjuld find "foemen worthy of its steel," or something to that effect. The alleged British demand au Nicaragua, has fallen somewhat into the background, because there is a shrewd auspicien that the telegram from Managua had lts origin in the United States, and that John Buil has not made; any 6uch peremptory demand. That is the belief expreased by n good many of tho diplomáis. LnokK War in Mexico. It begins to look uu thougti it will be luipossible to avert war botween Mexico and Guatemala. Opinión is freely expressed in diplomatic circles bere that ■serieus troublo is almost uertain to resul t. Señor Romero, the Meiioan minister, expresse a lively hope that the points in dispute may be settled, and so do the diplornats from Guatemala, but this hope is not generally ente rtained. A war botween those tvvo countries can have only one terminatiou. It will end in the extensión of the boundarios of Mexico farthersouth, the subjugation of the strongest Central American country, and its elimination froni the map of independent nations. It has long been the dream of Mexico to acouire Central America, and she seems to be in the way of a realization of the uutional desire. ïhe war spirit is said to have again barst out in Mexico with increasod tury. On Mion Kctumi the oiint rks. According to Mexican Minister Romero: "ïhe pending quostiou between .Mexico and (uiatemala is u, very plain one. Each country claims that ander the de facto line existing before the truaty of 18S2 she was in possession of the disputed territory, and both agree tbat it belongs to Mexico ander the line niarked by the treaty. As the treaty line is pararnount. Mexico considerad the action of Guatemala in sending an armed force to destroy the log camps established there by Mexicans wil o were uutting wood under grants of the Mexican government, seize the logs and arrest the men, an unwnrranted invasión of her territory and bas asked Guatemala to apologize lor it, and to pay an indemnity to tho victims of the o u trage. " Tho CaSK of Thuis ton of Hawaii. And now we come to the Hawaiian matter. There is no doubt that Thurston's recall has been asked - and that long enough ago to have received a reply - beuause, as alleged, Thurston told the reporters something before he gava the information to the state department. This is variously declarod to be always wrong, and wrong only according to what he told. Senator Hale has been among the most zealous defenderá of the Hawaiian republic on the flooïs of the senate, but he does not support Thurston in the matter of the minister's reported recall at the instance of ïjecretary Gresham on the facts so far as duvcloped. If Thurston publishod diplomatic oorrespondence before eiving it to the state department, says Halo, he was clearrly in the wronir. He, L.ike8 the ltle Keptlblic. "I ])ad hoped," hu coiuinued, '"that nothing more woulcl happen to strin our relations with the Dole government, for 1 believe it is a good government, and ihat tlie Hawallans have a republic which is BUch in lact as well as in name - not like these Central American república, including Mexico, which are nothing but military despotlsrutf" It. really makes little difference wliether Thurston has violated official etiquette or not, il' he is persona non grata lie must go. He must also go whether the Dole government likes it or not. But if it doesn't like it Dole will simply omit to aocredit another person to succeed Thurston and in this case Willis, our minister to Hawaii, will be obliged to take a leuve of absence just as Porter, our minister to Italy, did when Barou F'ava was recalled as the result of the killing of his follow countrymen in New Orleans.
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