Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-03-02
RusrnOrS OGWar.

Ihe cQDIo OlspitciicS cAhiDio e'S
fact that the Radical Government
at Washington with its usual stu
pidity has been guilty. of the fool
ish blunder of attempting to over
reach the British Government by
trying on small game Of blustcr
and chicanery in the Interpretation
of the Washington Treaty so-called.
Without such Interpretation the
Washington Government full ly COM
prchcnds that Great Britain has
obtained great advantage in tho
arrangement. With such an ill.,
depreciation tho British Govern
ment has come to learn that John
Bnll will not consent to the terms
of the contract We have always
denounced this treaty as the mere
makcshift, of two towards, each
afraid to fight under the circnm-
stances, neither having the romot-
est idea Of coming to Il warlike is-
sue; but each afraid that the other
if too much pressed would really re-
sort to blows. The tact is That En-
eland noat dyM, and the United
States can't. We thcreforo DO not
apprchcnd any serious difficulty in
a condition of things of which both
parties haze been perfectly conscious
from the gerry hour the treaty rds sign
ed and ratified. The whole High
Joint Commission business, includ-
ing the Gcnevh Arbitration, has
never been anything else, than an
amusing and expensive fafte' The
truth is that both of the contract
ing parties had got themselves in
to n situation in which it had be-
come necessary 20 do something to
relieve themselves from general
ridiculc! and it was thought an ap-
propriate device to call Oft the at
toniion of the World from British
Ministerial heroics on the one side,
and Amctican Executive and Sena-
torial brnvado on the other, by
presenting the Diplomatic Specta-
clIes of the High, Joint Commission.
ThS meaning Of this programme
however, has been all the timc as
TRANSPARENT hs glass,
The New York Radical papers
will, as matter of course, indulge
in any amount Of disgusting verbi.
age usual with them on such occa-
sions. Drunken. Chandler ard Bill
Nye may cavort in tho Senate.
But we are truly delighted to see
that the Now York World as one of
tho exponents of Democratic senti.
ment, has cut its wisdom teeth at
last. Indeed the World improves
as it dismisscs its old sensational
disposition which it caught, no
doubt, by infection from the radical
spirit of exageration by which the
World was surrounded during and
since the war. The World Gays:
"That if it should appearthat the
treaty was an understood difficulty
by two contracting parties, the
ouestion will arise, whether this
happened by any fanlt or chicanery
on the part Of the American Gov
crnment 1t is unfortunate that
the Geneva commission is called TO
discharge its duties in the year of
the Presidential campaign AS
things now look, the Administra-
ion has ovorshot its msrk in try
ing to mako party capital out of
this contrbtefsy, and if the treaty
is repudiated, the public verdict
will be that the President, and ads
visers, bungled great question in
stead Of settling it'll u.
These remarks arc wonderfully
rational when contrasted with the
observations of the Herald ahd
Times on the same subjcct2 .as
The folly of these efforts at sharp
practice by the Washington Admin
islration is TO be seen in this, that it
might have had the questionable
credit of settling the doubtful bust
ness of tho Alabama Claims, and of
receiving a sort Of bonus Of a few
millions of dollars from England
Chat Country being willing to be
blackmailed unreasonable amount
for the sake of peace J while now
The Whole BUSINESS may fall through,
and caif .ohiiy be fenewed by Sum
pcr's antics in the Senate; md an
other heroic ttfeht. from Grant to
saiasl Eagldnds lead i she hap
psrs b 10 10 ,rdt #iih another Ma
ton. t,t.,. ysaga.s.1ku.
Southern States, that the Radical
Government dare not, at this juno
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