The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-07-13

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zen is as good as any other man. Ameri-
cans are nowadays engaged in business en-
terprises all over the world and if Congress
ever allows US to exchange our products
and manufactures for those of other coun-
tries on fair terms it is very certain that
American enterprises in American hands
will become much more numerous
in foreign parts. This notion of the
President and Secretary of State,
of causing it to be generally under
stood that American citizens and their prop
erty will have to be respected by foreign
Powers, is therefore not only pleasing, but
Of great practical importance. Seafaring
folks and people who go about ''strange
countries for to see" have long noticed
a singular phenomenon in connection
with British subjects. Wherever, even
in the most remote parts of the
earth, nm Englishman is wronged, it has
been found that presently British man-of-
war appears on the scene to demand salts
faction and as the commander of such
ship is quite certain that his government
will uphold him in getting satisfaction"
he is usually somewhat peremptory and apt
to make things disagreeable.
1t is not necessary to say that for o good
many years American citizens have not
been quite as certain Of support in foreign
countries as Englishmen. We have had
civil war on our hands our foreign COM
merce has been crushed the last admins
tration began its foreign policy with an at
tempt to acquire st. Domingo, with some
views about paying off the national debt
by the carrying trade with that half Of an
island and when the st. Domingo bust
ness broke down it lost hope and let the
American citizen go abroad pretty much at
his own risk. Moreover, We had our South
ern troubles on hand, and it was about as
much as one administration could do to
maintain the carpet-bag governments as
they needed and wished to be maintained.
Fortunately all this is now changed for the
better. The gunboats which used to keep
watch opposite New Orleans over the slum-
bers of Kellogg and Packard are once more
available for foreign service; the troops on
whose bayonets Kellogg was held out of
reach of the people in Louisiana have been
lain having begun the practice of law in
this city, the President and Secretary of
State are able to spare the time which
General Grant and Mr.. Fish had to devote
to South Carolina affairs for the considera-
ton of other matters.
And so we have foreign policy once
more. The American eagle modestly holds
l., 10 To-
fact his voice has been heard already, and
with good effect Peru has heard that she
must not seize an American ship in viola
ton of law, and Peru has let 60 very sud-
denly. Spain has been warned, and we
wait with some impatience for her apology,
because we do not believe that Secretary
Evarts will accept such sham apology as
Spain gave in the Virginius affair. And
Mexico has been told that she must control
her banditti or we will do it ourselves and
in our own way. The advantage of little
international plain speaking was never bet
ter shown than in the case of Mexico. We
have been suffering outrages at her hands
for years; pillage of orr border farmers had
got to be n systematic pursuit. Secretary
Evarts quietly gives notice that it must stop.
There is Mt first an indignant protest from
various Mexican Presidents most of them
in exile and hoping to get back. There
upon General Ord is commanded to pursue
the robbers across the frontier. He does SO,
and this morning the still small voice of
Senior Mata announces from Washington that
he has power to negotiate for the joint pro-
lection of the border and the fullest security
to Americans from Mexican depredations.
Why did he not say so before? All that
we want is security. Mr.. Ma,a has been
week OF two in Washington. He would, in
our Judgment, have done well if he had de-
clared, as soon as he arrived, that he was
empowered by President Diaz to arrange
with Secretary Evarts for the cure of all our
grievances. Is it possible that he imagined
this matter was going to elbow over?" He
was never more mistaken. He will find when
he comes to talk business with Mr.. Evarts
that while we mean to do no injustice we
do not mean any longer to suffer injustice
from our neighbor. Lazarus lying at the
door of Dives deserves to be treated with
consideration: but Lazarus setting up rs
highwayman or as burglar is different
matter. When Mr.. Evarts and Mr.. Mata
come to official conversations the questions
will arise, Can and will President Diaz
crush the banditti who harry and rob
our border people? Is he ready to
adopt plan for the cooperation of
his and our forces, with this object? Can
and will he engage TO protect American cit-
zens living in Mexican States from spolia-
ton by forced loans and from other illegal
annoyances and wrongs to which they have
been exposed, and from which, it can be
established, English and German merchants
have been cautiously exempted? If Mr..
Malta has authority to answer these questions