People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1895 — NO OFFENSE MEANT. [ARTICLE]

NO OFFENSE MEANT.

England's Position in the Ni ( aragnnn Tncident Explained. . Washington. March 27.—1 t is r'ey-.m’ by those who are in a position to be ---o'’ ' ’ ’4 " as to the intentions o-" • F’-iiish foreign office, and also ar to t’ o representations which our enverhn—' h.' " made to Great Britain i’-ro-.?-'? ' ■ ’nister Bayard, in regard to t 1- ’I-:;.. i"': ult'matum to Nicaragua, that t' civ a misconception of the text of t’-'/i d- -’iiment. The seven ‘'ords in the matum to President Cleveland w- -« tffi a which provided that the R 1 ■■’'ir of the arbitration commissi'? ; ■ - Pl be “not a citizen" of any . L 1 n republics.” As ordinarily em-,1 -.- d and understood by the British Ri• T 1 ■lli -- the phrase “American r. wahlies” is limited in application to the emri’-r republics of Central and. South Am-"r ; - ce. It was these republics that Gr-'R P"-: tain’desired to exclude frrr.i I -.vir; ti e casting vote between the - geon representative and the commirsiomm chosen by Great Britain. Whr ■ technically and literally the Vnitß Stat/? form one of tlie “Ameriean republics,” it is explained that the English foreign office never classifies t l -?: great government and people with the Spanish and Portuguese speakinSouth and Central American governments.