Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-08-06
England and Mexico.


with both these nations. That with Eng
land has been standing several months.
1t relates to the Canadian fisheries ques-
ton. New England fishermen have had
their vessels seized in Canadian ports.
AID their business destroyed for the year,
and after vainly seeking to attract the at
tention OF the State Department to their
condition, they are considering what
means they shall take as private indivld-
uals to protect themselves against the hos
tie policy of the Dominion authorities in
this matter. The government at Wash
| ington has rendered them no aid, given
them no instructions, and except for the
announcement that negotiations are going
on which it is hoped will settle the fish
cries difficulty in satisfactory manner,
the State Department appears to take no
interest in the subject.
| Now this is very bad, exasperating.
crushing state of things for our fisher
men. But this is not all the evil. The
impression is created that this govern
ment Is afraid to stand up for its just
rights against England, because England
is powerful nation that Secretary Bayard
covers and cringes and permits the in.
suits and outrages upon our fishermen to
20 on because he has not the courage to
stand up mantully and maintain the
rights and dignity of the nation against
| such foe as Great Britain.
| There is a very suggestive contrast be-
tween Secretary Bayard's course in re-
lation to England and that which he has
adopted towards Mexico in the case of
been very imperious. He has bristlea all
over with the signs OF offended dignity
and determination to wiring the neck Of
little Mexico unless mis- demands are in
stantly complied with. If Mr.. Bayard is
not coward and bully, he has in the two
instances mentioned and contrasted acted
exactly as towards and DULLES do; he has
cringed to the stronger power and exer-
cised his authority in very arbitrary man.
ner ever the weaker. The New York
Herald OF recent date has the following
upon this subject
Five or six thousand honest New England
| fshermen have been harried and worried, put
| to expense and loss, seized and driven about
| by English cruisers since early III May, and
hey have appealed to Mr.. Bayard for months
IN vain for protection. One man, clearly a
vagaoond and disreputable person, not even a
resident of his country, falls into trouble in
Mexico, and through his own misconduct,
and instantly, before even there has been
time for = thorough inquiry into the circum-
stances of the case, Mr.. Bayard imperiously
demands his immediate release.
We wonder that MIR. Baysrd is not solicit
tous lest the public, contrasting his two poll
cies. will say that he truckies to strong
power England, but buiiies weak power,
Mckee.
Mexico is undoubtedly in the wrong, but sc
is England MIR. Baysrd is very patient witt
England, though thousands of our homes
people are outraged ana put to loss, and he
makes the plea that the peculiar institutions
aud relations OF Canada and England make
the work of negotiating slow. But he mus
know that the not at all peculiar constitution
OF Mexico, formed upon our own, far mors
requires patience in dealing with her IN such
a case.
Mexico, like this country, has a fedora
government and courts, and a State govern
ment and conrts. Cutting Is in charge of q
State tribunal When he so peremptoriy
demanded the release OF Cutting, by the
Mexican government, Mr.. Bayard surely
| forgot that when, "A few months ago, the
Chinese Minister appealed for justice for his
people murdered-not merely held tor trla
before a court-he explained that under our
form OF government the United States were
not liable for such acts as to foreigners
$50 long as they have access to the courts,
and that remedies must be pursued in the
proper quarter and through the avenues OF
justice marked out for the reparation of such
wrongs
Cutting has been offered release on bail
and refused it, He is on trial in Mexican
State court, Certainly, considering his owr
recent utterances, Mr.. Bayard should have
been less imperative. Considering his very
great patience with the Canadian outrages, he
should have been more patient with our weak
but friendly sister republic
To be humble to the strong and imperous
to the weak is not the way for a nation-or a
secretary of state-to command the esteem OIL
honorable men.
/ Murphy on Leonard