The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-05-31
GRANT and the GuIuea.Jinglers.


the Executive handling OF the treaty
oS Washington it is not perhaps sur.
o.;s;nc that the authorities concerned
tharewith should have got themselves
~ one or another time into line with all
;,raeinable kinds Of things and people.
+. r. certain that they have made them.
.slves quite q alnenable to the juris'
J;ction Of the poets and the sa.irists as
of Tuffendorf and Vattel. Nothing
could more accurately apply to one
most important feature OF the American
aide of the case, for instance, or more
exactly describe the attitude Of both
England and America, than this COUP
let taken, with but q slight modifica.
ton, from Tennyson's wellknown poem
Of "Locksley Hall":
For the jinsli9s Of the guinea helps the hurt that
And these nations do but murmur. snarlins at each
It is the special disgrace and the
most singing of President Grants ad.
ministration that its conduct and its
misconduct have been so persister thy
colored and determined by pecuniary
influences. In all that he has done and
all that he has left undone President
Grant has steadily pursued one domi.
nant object-that "pro6ts might ac-
crue." If he has any intense sympa.
thies at all they evidently are with
people who are either in hope Of max.
inc good deal of money or in fear of
losing it.
How plainly this appears in the inte-
rior history Of the treaty middle as in
mart revealed by the correspondence
lust sent in to the Senate! The whole
tone of President Grant toward Eng.
land, and with it the whole aspect of
our case, evidently began to be changed
fro,, firmness to softness, and from
quiet persistency in our rights under
the treaty to nervous and feverish
anxiety about the treaty itself, from the
moment when imperilled stock jobbers
and stockholders began to assail the
Presidential ear. Up to the time when
Minister Schenck began telegraphing
from London, the attitude Of the United
States, in spite of Bancroft Davis's
hideously stupid cease" was more than
decent: it was respectable and consist.
ent with the national dignity. On the
25th of April, Schenck begins to squirm
under the electrical applications OF the
Government "syndicates," and declares
in a spasm of obvious and not discred-
table vexation that England has been
encouraged in her position" and that
the "diffi culties of the situation have
been wonderfully increased by much
speaking, writing and telegraphing not
always wise and considerate." Mr..
CYRUS w. Field and the "syndicates"
may reasonably suspect Mr.. Fish, we
think, Of a malicious intent toward
themselves in publishing that letter,
for it really reveals nothing else than
their selfish and meddlesome interfer.
ence in favor of Great Britain and
against the reputation and honor Of
their own country. Mr.. Cyrus W..
Field, in particular, had double mo.
tive in the hope of present gain and in
the fear of future loss TO excite him
into this sort of pestilent activity. A
diplomatic furry between England and
America meant q sudden storm ofcable
dispatches and cable tolls, while seri-
Gus rupture between England and
America would mean formidable fall.
ing off in cable dispatches and in cable
tolls, and war between the two coun.
tries would mean no dispatches and no
tolls, and perchance, also-such are the
amenities Of modern civilization-no
cable.
From the date of April 25 onward the
moneyjobbing influence over President
Grant is plainly to be traced on both
sides of the water in this whole bust
ness. Those who take an interest in
the summer junketings of President
Grant at Long Branch are well aware
that he has always there combined busi'
ness with pleasure in this sense, and in
this sense only-that his associates on
the beach and at the board have been
associated with him in the bartering
and handling of property Of all kinds
Among these associates the proprietor
Of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Mr.
Childs, has been conspicuous. 1t is to
be wished that all of them, by the way,
might have been as respectable, per
sonally, as is Mr.. Childs. Well, on the
9th Of April, two days after his growl
about the "syndicates" and Mr.. Cyrus
w. Field, Schenck receives Mr.. Fish's
first telegram proposing to withdraw
and nullify the Objectionable part Of
our case" On the 29th Of April the
London Tines has a telegram from Phila
delphia, dated April %, and announcing
that the Ledger Of that city states that
President Grant is willing to withdraw
the indirect" claims. And the next
day, April 30, the London Times had
still another telegram from Philadel
phia, dated the 10Th, in which the sub
stance of Mr.. Fish's note of the 9th
paving the way to our surrender was fully
recited. On the LIST of May (mark the
dates in all this) the London Times hae
an editorial showing perfect knowled g
Of Mr.. Schenck's telegram of April 30
the preceding day, sent to Washington
in reply to Mr.. Fish's Of April q, ant