The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-15
An Aggressive Foreign Policy.

II has been put forward a. an argli-
ment in favor OF Blaine election that
ii in power he would give lis some new
and startling revelations in the way OF
foreign policy What he would do. or
what he could do. in this particular
line we are not told. hut the general
impress -ion is conveyed that in some en-.
tlrolv original manner he would start Ia
the world shake the American banncc.
We suppose, over the etlrtc muuar..iies
of Europe and cause our bird OF freedom
to scream defiance in the ears of our
enemies All OF this kind of talk may
safely be cla-Sci with other campaign
nonsense, but ii it he really tended To
influence votes. il ind Gates Il curious ig-
noran'c Of the spirit and ideas of the
majority Of our people. There alWal :
is ana always Will be, a certain restless
and reckless element thirsty for excite
mrnt and commOti1n in foreign rs in
home affairs, but it has never come any
where near controlling the country.
aud il Will be a very bad day for Us
when it does. Il comedies with the an
archie. communistic element that even
IN free. popular government iiudS
some eNcuse for existence and that loves
an explosion becaus" II thriycs best
among ruins 1t j. y new idea in poll
tic, if the W Shes and views ot this class
are tu be- employed as an argument to
influence an election. which is really
what this talk about Blaine foreign
policy means.
But perhaps some of Blainc's ad-
mirrrs may say that what they are
after is an original and aggressive for
elm policy and not empty indulgence
OF National vanity. The reply to tins
Is, that neither origua itv nor az
grcs,jvcncSs j. needed in our foreign
policy at present We are getting
along very nicely 10y minding our own
business. and any other course TN u this
would sur ly result in Nat 'unai in lIrl
The idea that we need aggrrsSivcneS,
IN this direct ON is 4 mistake. We are
differently situated from any other
great Nation in the world. We have
no colonial possessions We nave ample
space 10 expand in Nc have no Dir ANS
ot conquest, and our territory i com
pact and contiguous. our foreign pol
icy has been and should alwav, hc de-
voted tu TAX NJ care Of our own Nation
t.au in interir iug with the bH>inc>- Of
other people, aud We have qu IT, enough
to DO in this direction without PLAYING
quiNotic experiments tur the grUinca-
ton OF National vanity. We are not
quite n Nation of shopkccpcr~. but
We have grrat deal ot stun Of one
kind or another to sell and our pros
pcrity largely depends upon domestic
tranquility and commercial dcye,op-
mcnt aud energy.
As tn tho restoration Of our National
fr 4 l..- . ,1sbf d. b..
mo- means quite certain, no aggrcs ssive
ideas touching foreign policy on the
part Of our President can do Us much
good. Nhat We really have suffered
from a~e evil, resulting from the rule
of the Republican party in the shair> OF
the country during long period \
poor navy, consisting OF a few wooden
ships i, an injury to our National
name. 4 loss Of commercial repre-
>entativeS on tie high seas. with q
broken up foreign commerce. i also su
in nry. ami 80 with other matters. No
change in our foreign policy in respect
10 England, Germany on other Nations
can ob,teratc these National failures.
w hat we want i a change sweeping
change n the Government, and a trans
fer Of power from unwo thy aud incom-
prl"ul hands 10 hands that are IL an
and Eorou> in the Il ,char-e Of duty.
We are well aware that the elements
OF disorder, Of Wild schemes and vensl
methodS in both parties are favorable
10 the election OF Blaine We are salts
lied that it should be 50. There i, some
thing i'm Mr. Blaine TO attract these elr-
mentS to his support. and We are quite
willing 10 20 before the tribunal oi the
people with the issues made up in this
way. Il can never be true that the
and Industrious citizen ot he
[ niteI States viii support man Tor the
Pr,.>ilen y BE- ause he j. rash and iau-
gcrous in character. or that thes viii
eve be willing TO have our foreign pol
icy dictated by any other ron>dera-
tons save dignit, and honor aud a de-
cent respect for The opinions OF man
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