The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-29

And SO Sargent is to he bounced
from the German mission after all
The President has sent his name t
the Senate for confirmation as envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipo
Tertiary to Russia. This is y weak ant
foolish act on the part of Presiden'
Arthur. The American people have
never regarded Sargent as q very
| able diplomat or as q particularly
bright man. Nor have they taken
any great amount of stock in the fool
ish Lasker resolutions. But since
Congress passed the latter and forced
Sargent to present them to the Ger
! man court and thus called down the
wrath of Bismarck upon the head Of
our minister aud to certain extent
compromised his relations with the
German a%ristocracy, they feel like
standing by him. We very much
mistake the spirit of the American
people if this act of President Arthur
il not received by them with hooting
and derisiOn.
How the grim old German Chancel-
lor must have chuckled, night before
last, when the ne VS. of Arthur's weak
move was cabIed to Germany. He
doubtless called for an extra glass or
two of lager, ordered another plate of
fragrant llmburger and as he gulped
down the one and masti-
Gated the other his jolly
old sides shook with merriment
over the fact that he had not only
kicked the American hog out of Ger"
many but had kicked the American
minister out of it too. And
when he had smoked bis capacious
~meerschaum to the last fibre of
Spanish-not American-tObacco,
and drawn his nightcap over his
bald pate, he drew a c%ontented sigh
and softly murmured, "D)t a a
glorious victory!"
Aud Mr.. Arthur, the weak
backed, Underlined Arthur, the
nerve'ess Arthur, the toady Arthur,
the polite Arthur, the would-be-
Observation-Disclosures Arthur, how
did he feel day before yesterday?
Why, he felt that he had gained a
victory" over Blaine, and
Logan, aud over Sherman, and
over Edmunds, and over every
other Republican aspirant for the
Presidency. He thinks he has cap
tured the whole German vote of the
United States by playing into the
hands of Bismarck in bouncing Sar-
gent. What a mistake he has made!
The American people are not fools.
They cannot fail to see the hand
of the politician in the re-
moval of Sargent and to feel the hui
position to which he has
brought the country before the civil
lied world. Their verdict will be:
he has sacrificed the honor Of the
country to his consuming ambition
TO become again its President.
What q blessed thing it would be
to have a man with nerve and hack
hone In the Presidential chair for a
few months some one who cared
more for the honor OF his country
and his country's welfare than he
did for the qualification of his am
a man who could sink the
politician in the statesman, and who
could rise to the requirements Of the
exalted position. If such a man
were occupying the Presidential
chair, MI. Sargent would not be
from the German ministry.
He would stay there whether the !
German court wanted him to stay or
not, and If any fuss were kicked up
about 1t the American hog, the Lasker
and Sargent would all be
,ram:ned down the throat Of the
overbearing, swell-headed
But such q man Is not at |
he head of the nation and the
American people must become the
angling stock of the world merely |
crafty the political ambition of a
3talwart politician.