The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-19
CORDIAL RELATIONS.

ion of several of the controlling nations in
the civilized portion of the world. On the
ID of July last Mr., Garfield was shot, and
instantaneously and universally came mes
sages of sympathy and marks of esteem,
from the absolute monarch and the limi-
ted ruler, from the Cotton Exchanges and
the political clubs, from government and
people alike, oil over the civilized world,
Such manifestations were as gratifying as
they were unexpected, and they Indicated
decidedly more than hecourtesy of nations.
They bore upon their face the evidences of
sincerity and genuineness indicative of
something before inexperienced under any
similar or other circumstances. Since
then other events have occurred
across the waters seeming to foreshadow the
same spirit and point to like future devel-
opments. Now what does all this mean?
Evidently the first fact taught is the uni
versally friendly disposition Of the different
nations toward the United States. That
this feeling exists and is widespread no one
can doubt. We stand fortunately without
rival or an enemy on the globe, We are
the one people ofall others who have been
left to work out our destiny without foreign
Intervention. But beyond and deeper than
all this is another conclusion easily reached
in view of these demonstrations in our hon
or, But short while since, the American
flag, for the first time any similar honor had
ever been paid to foreign power, was car
RED in the front rank of the great process
sion on Lord Mayors Day, and was greeted
| with the most enthusiastic cheering and evil
dences .of regard, by the vast throng
lining the streets of the great
English capital when its stnndard-bcarcr
appeared. Across'thc channel, in France
or Germany, no national emblem meets
with more respect than that of our repre-
sentative Republic, and the statesman
either before his constituents, or in the
Rcichstag, or the Assembly, meets with no
more favorable hearing or reader accept
ancc of doctrine than when his Illustrations
are drawn FROM the history OF polity Of
America. This was not so, even so short Il
time back as ten years ago. There was
then n comparative indifference by
Europe as to America and oar statesmen
and national events were scarcely known
Now we find large and aristocratic dcputa-
tons sent across the waters IN government
ships and at. at government expense to
n nc in hn 10, Of .,
event purely national, or, rather, an event
more directly affecting us than other peo-
pie. This cannot but he gratifying to us
all. 1t cannot but fan and fattcr our
national pride, but can anything else be
seen in it than desire to honor
and recognize tn growth and
honor of a great nation? I'm
questionably 1t. means that the eyes
1.-THE nations are now turned to usward.
while back we looked to them. 1t means
that gradually the little leaven of rcpubi-
canism is permcatng other masses than our
own, that those who are in darkness politi-
| cally, and heretofore condemned us, now
recognize the political conditions under
which they are operating as unsatisfactory
and dangerous, and are beginning to lool,
to us for light. 1t means fur
ther, that the toillng masses
Of the old world have begun to see that sue.
cor under oppression, or sympathy and
money necessity to oppose ty ranny and
abuse when they are called upon to endure
Unjust come and in fact speedily does flow
from America. And they have taught in
no ambiguous or doubtful way the present
| heads of their COVE rnments to feel that here
in the United states all people have a
| friend and one which must be courted and
conciliatcd rs well as honored and admired.
| 1t is often said indeed that rulers are slow
to learn and have but little sympathy with
subjects This may be n political axiom,
| butcorallary to it is the fact that rulers in
this day particularly are not blind. Steam
| printing, railroads, mail service, telephones,
what not, the greatest perfection of which
have been reached by, us by the way, have
brought about dissemination of DO
hlitical thought and general knowledge
that now enables the monarch 10
know all times the needs and the demands
and the articles of belief of each and every
section ofhis realm; and upon each succeed.
ing rccurrenceo of that expression of the bal
lot, that machinery for declaring the public
will transplanted into Europe through
American example, he smiles or irowns, n.
II gives him no uncertain intimation of the
favor in which his administration is held
Here we begin to see below the surface Of
these governmental and popular demon
STATIONS in honor of America, The
people now, for the first time
look to us for the future, and the crowned
heads recognize that under the existing
condition of political thought, subtle anc
now intelligent principle is permeating al
classes of society, they cannot combat tn,
sentiments of the subjects or successful,
oppose the growing spirit of the time
Hence the result, an unprecedented desr,
to cultivate cordial relations with this new
but unobtrusive factor in the politica
world, a cordality that will if possible CO
ment government 60 government beyont
the probability of n jar, and so we hcart
over the wires only day or tw since Mr.
Sackville-West, the new British Minister
evidently, in fact, ofcourse, speaking by tn,
card furnished him by the government n,
1 A..