The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-16
BllME's AMERICAN POLICY.
A Strong Exposition Of Mr.. Blaine's
Posit;on--A Broad, Able and
! Patriotic Statesman.

James o. Putnam. who delivered most elo-
Quent address Mr.. Putnam was the American
Consul at Havrc for many years. and was APP
pointed Minister 10 Belgium by President Gar
field. No ADLER presentation Of Mr.. Blaine's
views OF the necessity OF IN American foreign
policy has been given during the campaign than
the following passages from Mr.. Putnam's sd-
dress:
MR.. BIANK's FoRKIoS PoIicY.
Mr.. Blaines course ~ Secretary OF State. par
tcularly In connection with the spanish
American republics, has been more than
sharply criticised The Democratic party has
y dangerous-,a sort OF diplomatic Dynamite:
echo IRON the osn s,d Ss with a0ss
Of the lingo school. and calls upon her friends
n this country 70 aid tn his defeat Yes. Eng-
land that has subjngaeed e quarter OF the globe.
sss S ms
from Spain TO guard her highway to India, that
purpose' that is ever ia scRemins for commerSisl
ascendency In the republics OF South and Cen
trial America, whose naval stations and military
Tor every exigency of naval war. is horror
struck that q statesman Is In Nomination for
the Presidency who, with type 81 courage and
patriotism which England honored in her
Canning and Palmerston, presumed to insist
upon an American policy that should secure US
friendly commercial relations with our sister
against European aggression. Perhaps the
Americaa people will share her alarm and that
of her allies here, and will repudiate policy to
secure us our natural commercial advantages
and maintain the republican institutions OF
North and Central America against the wiles of
European ambition. 1 remember New York
gave the country in its crisis hour Premier or
kindred courage to Mr.. Blaines.
SECRETARY SEWARD
was saved from the Presidency to render services
In the State Department hardly less important
than the military service in the field. History,
when she makes up her final record OF the war
OF the rebellion, while placing Lincoln among
the God-created rulers born for the crises OF ma
tons, will rank Secretary Seward with the few
great diplomatists whose wisdom and hope and
courage and national feeling were as powerful
FOR defense against foreign foes as fleets and
armies.
Gov. Seward when Secretary Of State was no
favorite OF England or France; but by his Amer
lean diplomacy he sent the French troops ont
Of Mexico. and drove Macmillan from the
mushroom throne built on Austrian intrigue
and French bayonets.
y SECRETARY WEBSTER.
Massachusetts, once gave the country a Pre-
mier of kindred American assertion, whose name
stands, and will forever stand representative Of
ak that is commanding in intellect and patriotic
IN action. MIR. Webster knew how to assert the
dignity of his country. He so asserted 1t in his
controversy with Austria at the time of the
Hungarian revolution that the Austrian Minis
Iter-Chevalier Hulseman-took his leave, Kos
suth said here In Buffalo, without so much as
wish for ms good journey from anybody. No
words OF Secretary Blaine approached in sharp
ness of national assertion the words of MIR.
Webster when, In his correspondence with the
Austrian Minister, he declared Austria TO be
but patch on the earths surface compared
with the territorial vastness of the United
States, and that had Austria put In force its
menace against agent OF the United States 1t
would be met by the utmost power, military and
naval, of the republic.
! The same Wing statesman, in 1929 in his mas
terly speech on the Greek revolution and the
policy of the allied Powers to crush out the rls-
Ing of the oppressed peoples. said-and his
our Staee Department in letters so luminous
that they can be read from London, from Paris,
Prom Berlin. and 81 Petersburg1~There will be-
i trust in God, an AMERICAN policy"
1t was a kindred American assertion by Secre-
tary Seward that forced England to abandon
forever her claim of right OF search OF American
vessels. 1t was a kindred American assertion of
an American policy by Mr. Blaine when in Con-
gross that forced the British Government TO
abandon the CLAIM OF British citizenship over
q naturaized citizen OF the United States, and
so placed the 8gis of the republic over every
naturalized citizen from whatsoever land. Such
was the idea of the old Wing, and such is the
idea OF the Republican party OF the American
policy.
II Mr.. Blaine was earnest in trying to secure
an honorable peace between Chill and Peru and
TO save Peru from that cruel spolfation which
finally overlook her, and which has no parallel
In modern civilized warfare, Ii was OH the side
OF humanity; and may the 2. day never S. dawn lawn
look with indifference upon the misfortunes of
any republic in Europe or America. do not
believe the country Will consent TO ask leave OF
England or any other European Power to MAIN
tain American interests, and its own honor. on
this continent
The North and South American States are vet
In their infancy: they have natural Affiliations
and have interests which should unity their
spirit and action in matters purely Western.
States should take the lead in establishing that
esprit de corps among the Western republics2
She has priority In age, the priority IN all the
clements of national strength, and its highest
lessons of in irrational justice this age has
learned from her.
While the great states of Europe rush into
war for revenge, or commercial aggrandize-
ment, the United States has invoked the meth
DDS. of arbitration, and will say, for IL is just,
that this experiment of peaceful settlements Of
international disputes was inaugurated during
the rule Of the Republican party. The Alabama
controversy conducted by Secretary Fish. and
the later fishery controversy conducted by
Secretary Evarts, both of which had generated
bad blood enough to breed a half-dozen wars,
were brought by Republican diplomacy to
CONGRESS OF WESTERN REPUBLICS.
II was the desire OF Mr.. Blaine to establish an
esprit de corps among the American states that
should lead to settlement OF all international
disputes that might arise by friendly arbitra-
ton, and so avoid the horrors of war, that in
spired his proposition for congress of Central
and South American republics l know his
proposition met'with SCOT and sneer In England
and at home but ask you, IL, in view Of the
belligerent relations then existing between two
of the Western republics and of the angry
boundary controversies between other of the
Gulf states, proposition TO the republics of
North and South America that might lead to
peaceful adjustments OF international contro-
versies was a fair subject OF scoff and de-
rision?
Shall Europe enjoy monopoly of congresses?
Her states have been repeatedly so in session
during our century, from congresses which in
les and 1921 issued their DEGREES. and sent their
armies against the liberties of states, and In the
interest of absolutsm, to the sittings OF yester-
day over the remains of Egypt, the helpless
football OF European diplomacy Yes. gentle
men, we will stand by Mr.. Baine's emphatic
Americanism. While France is waging wars in
China and Africa to advance her commercial
power, and England Is ever waging war in some
quarter Of the globe TO advance her commercial
interest, the United States will seek at least SC
long as the responsibility of It's action devolves
upon the Republican party, to establish the as
tendency OF American interests on the American
continent.
But IL we have grown degenerate and are pre-
pared to surrender our American trust, the Re-
publican is not the party to administer the Gov
eminent In It's day of humiliation, and Mr.
Blaine is not the man TO place our moral or oui
political sovereignty at the feet OF any foreign
power
THE CIAYToN-BULwEB TREATY.
Permit me to refer to one other act Of Mr.
Blaine as Secretary of State, which has much
disturbed English sensibility, and which the OPP
position at homo has made another subject oil
criticism. refer 20 his celebrated dispatch rel
alive to the modification of the Clayton Bulwel