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V THE MORNING ASTORIAN, SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1904. PAGE TWO. THE MORNING ASTORIAN. Established 1873. RATES. ij mail, pr year $6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per mouth , 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY A8TOHIAX. If mail, per year, iu advance $1 00 ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. VENEZUELA AGAIN. As a result of the blockade of Venezuelian ports property stolen by foreignersogytbarhingsrfetaoishr money and property stolen from foreigners by that government were to be arbitrated by special inter national commissioners, and the question of preferen tial treatment of the blockading powers was sent to The Hague, says the Call. The international commis sioners have finished their work and made their awards, and at The Hague it was decided that the blockading powers had preferential rights. To all this Venezuela was bound by treaty. She had no right to expect other results than those that were reached by arbitration. She cannot claim that racial prejudice affected the result, for the Latin races were represented in the arbitration commissioners. The Spanish minister to Caracas was chosen to consider the Mexican claims, and when he made a proper award he was assailed by personal abuse by the news papers and was insulted in the street. The time has come now for Castro to observe his international ob ligations, and begin paying the awards in the order decided upon at The Hague". Of course he is not doing it. Pay-day is abhorred by Latin-America, with some exceptions. ' The Monkey of the Andees ' ' makes treaties only to violate them. His disregard of obligations raises again the question of the sufficiency of arbitration if there be no means of enforcing its payments. The Hague is a court without a sheriff. Its find ings are the highest judicial decrees known to the world, but they are worthless if they can not become judicial finalities by enforcement. The Hague con vention needs revision in this respect. It should be made to provide that when a nation, found in de fault by the court's decree, refuses or neglects to keep faith, it shall be the lawful right of the nation suf fering by that breach of faith to tax entire posses sion of the revenue external and internal of the de- gfault and administer it until the collections pay the claim and the cost of administration. That will give the court actual power and vitality and will at the same time lessen the number of eases that go to it. As long as the convention has no provision for en forcing a decree nations like Venezuela are very will ing to go to it. All international courts are a projec tion of the principle of ou rordinary judicial courts into the affairs of nations. But our judicial courts command respect because their judgments can be en forced. If it were otherwise their dockets would be overcrowded, for every litigant would be entirely willing to get into a court that could not enforce its judgments. Otherwise manv litigants are willing to settle out of court and save the cost of trial. In the situation created by Castro's disregard of the awards and of The Hague decision it is said that Germany proposes another naval demonstration and she will doubtless be joined by the other preferential powers. This means more turmoil in the Monroe hem isphere and another strain in our relationship with Europe. Castro is entirely capable of causing a most serious condition, that will go far beyond a blockade, for his conduct may compel the landing of a military force and the occupation of his capital as well as the blockading of his seaports. His conduct may be such that we will have to interfere to prevent the conflict taking on the nature of a conquest. The fellow is entirely capable of going to such lengths as to put the United States in a very difficult position. Were he capable of reasoning, or had he any genuine patrriotism and sense of responsibility, he would keep his treaty pledges and extricate his country from the serious position in which it has been placed by his blunders and crimes. One recent occurrence has disclosed his reckless- ness'and ingratitude. The American minister, Bow- en, went to the verge of diplomatic propriety in standing by Venezuela. When l.c appeared at The Hague as a representative of Ca :tro his statements in favor of Venezuela were irrit iting to the Euro; pean powers concerned, and we commented on them at the time as being far more extreme than his po sition and duty required. Not only in Europe but in Washington Mr. Bowen pursued his course, causing considerable embarrassment to our state de partment. If Castro were a normal person and Vene zuela a civilized country the friendly attitude of Min ister Bowen would be requitted at least by decent personal treatment. But instead of this Castro 's offi cial organ has vilely lampooned and libeled him and his government. It has slandered McVeagh and Pen field, the eminent American counsel who appeared for Venezuela at The Hague, and has incited hatred of them and their government by sheer lying. There is no doubt that this course was taken by Castro's orders, for when Bowen appealed against these calumnies to him and the minister of foreign affairs he refused to eompell a correction of the falsehoods, declaring that he would not limit the freedom of the press. At the same time he surpass ed and confiscated a newspaper that hnd told only the truth about his own conduct. This conduct is exas perating to the highest degree. But it will have one good effect. The fate of Bowen will admonish other American diplomats that his course gets no favor for friendship, and they will not repeat his acts and ex pressions of sympathy. 4 ARMIES FACING EACH OTHER. The Japanese and Russian armies are practically facing each other in northern Corea, and yet the long expected battle does not materalize, says the Post-Intelligencer. Neither feels itself strong enough to attack, and each is hurrying reinforcements to the front, improving its communications and pre paring for the struggle. It seems to be a waiting game. Foreign military critics are of the opinion that the delay in the commencement of active hostilities is rather more to the advantage of Russia than of Japan. Their view is that if Jaapn had proceded in her land operations with the same expedition and dash that she operated ou the sea the result might have been the same. The Russians would have been caught unprepared and a crushing blo.v or two might have been planted which would have given Japan the odds. Now, it is theorized, the vastly superior re sources of Russia will enable her to take advantage of the long lull and get in shape to resist a Japanese advance. The censorship on correspondents, temporarily re laxed, seems drawn tighter than ever, and for the moment no further dispatches are permitted from northern Corea. It can be surmised what the mean ing of this is. Previous forecasts that a rigid cen sorship on correspondents meant that an important move was on, which it was thought advisable to con ceal, have proven inaccurate. No important move of any magnitude, save the general advance into north ern Corea, was chronicled when the correspondents were permitted to send their reports after having been choked off for awhile. From the news standpoint the situation in the orient is best described in the language of the street : "Nothin'doinV Heinze, the Montana copper king, stepped up to the clerk's office yesterday and paid his fine of $20,000 for contempt of court for violating an injunction order by working the Michael Davitt lode claim. Perhaps Heinze made money by the deal and con sidered the fine reasonable enough. But the next time the federal judge will make the fine large enough to pinch, if this one was too easy. The Chicago lawyer who has instituted legal pro ceedings to stop the construction of the Panama canal is said to have some clients at Bogota. It is a trib ute to his intelligence to assume that the Colombians are paying him well for the senseless effort he is making in his own name. Mr. Bryan's motives are, of courcr, purely philan thropic, in his desire to relieve the widow of Philo S. Bennett of the burden and responsibility of that $50,000. He would like to save her from crucifixion on a cross of gold, and would actually sacrifice himself. Tacoma's coal bunkers are believed to hold the world's record for quick dispatch. A collier was given 3570 tons of coal on Wednesday in nine hours and a half. Will Seattle kindly exhibit her best re cord in this line! A Chicago doctor has denounced bathing. There are some men who are afraid of water to drink, but the man who is afraid to wash, even if counseled not to by a doctor, is cordially not to select Astoria as a place of residence. If the price of rubber advances sufficiently some thrifty people might sell their proclivity to peek into other people's affairs. This would be a splendid inducement to cultivate a homely and prosaic but excellent virtue. Some curiosity is expressed as to the permanence of the name of the steamship Tacoma. Since the change of ownership it is hinted that she may 1k re christened Rainier. Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, is for Hearst. The "yellow kid" is gathering together a rare col lection of political freaks and misfits. That silver service will perhaps have the effect of preventing a change of the name of the good old steamship Tacoma. Pgarp r Why is Pears1" Soar-the best in the world, the soap with no free alkali in it sold for 15 cents a cake? It was made for a hos pital soap in the first place, made by request, the doctors wanted a soap that would wash as sharp as any and do no harm to the skin. That means a soap all soap, with no free alkali in it, nothing but soap; there is nothing mysterious in it. Cost de pends on quantity; quan tity comes of quality Sold all over the world. Dr. VAUOHAN, Dentist. Pythian Building, Aitorla, Oregon. Dr. T. L. BALL DKNTIST Ml Commercial itmt, Aitorla Ore. Dr. W. O. LOGAN DENTIST 678 Commercial St., Bbsnahan Building C. J. TUENCHAItl) Insurance, Commission and Shipping. CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER. Afcl. WtUa-rtrro and Nerthtrn Pacific Biprees Companies. Car. ELEVENTH and BOND 8T8. 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