The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-16
Tn. Mexican and Nor mo. Questions.


The first fruits of the new policy begun by
President Hayes are seen in our ability to
borrow money at four per cent For that
evidence of our higher and sounder credlt
with the world the country is indebted 10
the wise but much abused Southern policy
of Mr.. Hayes. While the politicians are
growing at him and threatening him he re-
stores the country to peace. and by the SIM
pie and constitutional act of allowing the
States to govern themselves enables us 10
put out a four per cent loan, which Will
save the country about dozen millions
year. That is the cash value OF this policy
OF peace and reconciliation, and we COM
mend the fact to the consideration OF the
party GROWERS who opposeit.
But Mr.. Hayes does not stop there he
has promptly taken hold OF two other ques-
tons which have long been reproach to
our craftsmanship; and the sagacity no
shows in the selection Of his objective
points, and the vigor with which he goes to
work, are pledge that abuses too long suf-
fered will be remedied by him. He has
sent District Attorney Sumner Howard back
to Utah with the assurance that he shall be
fully supported in his investigation and
prosecution of the authors of the Mountain
Meadows and other murders; and he has
given notice to Mexico that the incursions OF
her robber class upon our soil and their
long continued acts of murder and rapine
must cease at once, and that she must make
good the losses which she has for more than
twenty-five years allowed her people to in
fict upon our border population.
It is high time that American citizens
should feel that they enjoy the protection OF
their government, wherever they may be, and
especially when they are pursuing peaceful
industries on our own soil. The Mexican
banditti have been too long tolerated. We
have become accustomed to seeing Ameri-
cans and their flag treated with contempt
and insulted and wrongcd by other nations
simply because these were weak. But I'M
becility is not, thanks to President Hayes.
to be any longer an excuse. Our foreign
policy, SO long reproach to us, is now to be
changed, and we do not fear that the vigor.
Gus assertion of our rights will lead to COM
plications or to war; What the President
demands is only justice, and rs he speaks in
determined voice, he will get justice and
security, for which our border residents have
waited too long.
In fact, the new administration, by the
manner in which it has taken hold OF the
Mormon and the Mexican questions, has
shown more sagacity and vigor than we can
remember in many years in our national ad-
ministration-we may say, indeed, since the
time Of President Jackson. The drifting
policy is cast aside and, as in his action
toward the Southern States SO in his pro-
posed course toward Mexico and toward the
Mormons the President will accomplish
more good, we believe, for the country in
strong, straightforward, peaceful way than
did General Grant with the sword or Web
ster with all his eloquence. This adj
ministration, 50 contemptuously abused and
misrepresented by certain politicians.
demagogues and journals Of both parties,
shows what previous administrations for
many years have wofully lacked-insight,
courage, determination to settle questions,
and not carefully to leave them unsettled.
That, we believe, is what the American people
want, They want statesmen who are not
afraid to look affairs in the face who do not
use their utmost efforts to put off trouble
some questions who are not, like idle
schoolboys or skulking laborers, anxious
mainly to avoid doing what it is their duty
to do.
The Arkansas emigrants were cruelty
murdered twenty years ago yet it was left
to President Hayes to bring the murderers
10 justice, and he is doing it. The inhabi-
tants of our border counties in Texas have
been suffering wrong, have been robbed and
murdered for nearly thirty years without
security or redress. Their complaints have
gone up to every administration for more
than q quarter of a century, but President
Hayes means at last to protect American
citizens living on the border. Spain has
as though they had no rights which any
body was bound to respect but Secretary
Eyarts has informed the Spanish authorities,
also, that there is a new man ut the helm,
and that our flag and our citizens are not to
be any longer insulted and wronged.
Why not? Because we are strong are
we to be forever run over and put upon by
the weak? Because we are powerful are we
forever to tolerate nuisance at our doors
which worries and wrongs our own people2
We do not fear that the foreign policy of the
new administration will bring upon us the
curse of war. 1t is policy of peace be-
cause it shows our weaker neighbors that
we will no longer be trifed with. Presi-
dent Hayes, in his inaugural Message, gave
the strongest pledges Of his intention and
desire to live ut peace with all nations.
His character and that of his consti-
tutional advisers are sufficient guar