Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-07-17
BLAINE,S FOREIGN POLICY.
4 Very Clear and Forcible State
ment of What Ii Is and What
Ii Isn't.

The Boston Journal very tersely sets
forth the truth about Mr.. Blaine's for
.ign policy, and in so doing again con-
yicts Harper's Weekly of gross incOn-
sistency. The Journal says:
The Herald of Boston inquiries in re-
gard to the alleged foreign policy of
Mr.. Blaine, but before waiting for
reasonable answer, declares that it is
'swagger and bluster." Unless the
Herald accepts the views of the repre-
ientatives of the Rothschilds in the
country, the BelmOntS, and the press
which represents their interests. it has
no cause to make such an assumption.
Mr.. Blaine threatened no country with
war. In regard to the Panama Canal,
HG1per's Weekly of Nov. Is, 1881, says
that Mr.. Blaine's letter to the British
Government states with admirable
frankness and firmness the traditional
and reasonable policy of this country"
The same paper says that the letter
certainly had the effect to arrest the
rumored proposal for joint European
protectOrate over the canal connecting
the two oceans. 1t also applauds this
as the American instinct which is an
essential quality in our Foreign Secre-
tary." Perhaps it is the American in
stinct" to which the Herald objects. If
the Herald is posted on this subject it
must know that all that Mr.. Blaine did
was W; rranted by the accepted Monroe
Doctrine. and that the same doctrine
reference to the Panama Canal was
proclaimed by Secretary EvartS during
the Hayes Administration Mr.. Evarts
declared that the United States had q
right to protectorate over the Ameri-
can States in our own behalf. This he
did in contraventiOn of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty. Mr.. Blaine made this
same declaration with the full know
ledge of President Garfield, and it has
since by Secretary Frelinghuysen, fol-
lowing up our notice of intention to
abrogate the ClaytOn-Buiwer treaty.
Thus Mr.. Blaine'S action in this regard
is in harmony with that of his immed-
late predecessor and successor in Office.
This may be "swagger and buster"
Mr. Blaine is anxious to extend our
trade with the South American coun-
tries. Consequently the first thing to
be done is to make their acquaintance.
4 conference of the representatives of
all the South American Republics was
proposed, Just as one was proposed dur
ing the Administration of John Quincy
Adams and just as Secretary Freling-
uul SC1 lids oIllCO plOpOSCu W SOllSlOoS
This is not bluster or 'jingoiSm," but is
in the interests of peace and mutual
good will. During the brief period that
Mr.. Blaine was Secretary of State 'his
prompt and energetic action in defense
of naturaliZed citizens and of threat
ened and hostile commercial policy in
Europe toward certain American eX-
ports showed admirable vigilance" if
we accept the testimony of Hdrper's
Weekly, from which the above words
were quoted.
In his forthcoming letter of accept
ance Mr.. Blaine will doubtless satisfy
all reasonable people that it is not his
policy TO stir up strife with other ma
tions; but if one cannot wait for such
declaration we again refer him to
what he declared to be the Amer
lean policy" in his recently-issued
volume:
Tranquil at home, developing its in
eXhauStible resources with rapidity
and success unknown in history, bound
in sincere friendship, and beyond the
possibility of hostile rivalry with the
other Republics of the continent. stand
ing midway between Asia and Europe,
power on the Pacific as well as on the
Atlantic, with no temptation to inter
meddle in the questions which disturb
the Old World, the Republic of the
United States desires to live in ami
cable relation with all people, demand
ing only the abstinence of foreign in
tervention in the development of that
policy which her political creed, her
territorial extent, and the close and
cordial neighbOrhood of kindred Gov
ernmentS have made the essential rule
of her national life.