Abstract

Notes from the Capital

During the international complications of the last few months, one have heard so much, about what would have happened if politicians William Howard Taft or Theodore Roosevelt had been elected U.S. President in 1912, that it may be of interest to look back at recent Administrations which have had threats of war dinned in their ears and see what happened. One needs revert no further than to politician Benjamin Harrison's term, when some of the seamen from the U.S. state Maryland were maltreated by a mob in the streets of Valparaiso, Chile, and the Government of Chile was called upon for reparation. Chile had, just then, enough troubles of her own to excuse, in her opinion, a little delay, even if no account were taken of the local manana habit. The President, weary of fruitless negotiation with Chile, allowed a hint to escape from the White House that he should cut short her dilly-dallying by a given day.