National Republican., 1886-10-02
Breakfast Table Letter to the President


Mr. PRESIDENT: Sixty millions OF people |
hold you responsible for hard tlmas, bal |
weather. poor crops, and earthquakes but mp |
to the present writing no one has ever init.
mated that You are personally responsible for
the foreign policy OF your administration.
The delegation representing the steamship
lines running nom New York TO Cuba and
Genital America which called upon you re-
Gently was much pleased with the interview,
and returned to New York in full c)n'ldlnc5
that your judgment would favor proclima-
ton withdrawing privileges now exten1ed to
sranish vess, Is in this country. whyshou'd
you not issue such n pr)climGtion? Ittates
stlcast two to have reciprocity. ffthc CubIns
refuse to rcciprocate commercial advantages
in kind, we may we'll ask: Does reciprocity
Icciprocate? IN the cnsc OF Cuba 1t seems 1t
does not.
IT'S perhaps about time that the Unitcl
States should either purchase or sink the ISL
and. Time was, undoubtedly, when it was
part OF the continent Tho water separation
could be adjusted by Il skilled diplomat like
Ambassador scdgwicl, who is declared by the
Mexican Jockey Club tobe fundamentally op-
posed to the use of that element.
Pity poor sodgwick. when he stood before
your Secretary of State It is reported thu he
pleaded the baby act, and as he was not an
officer Of the government, they could MT call
| in question his personal conduct IN tue City of
Mexico.
How would It do to send him to Bllgarlat to
watch the making ofa new map Of Elrope9
The return of Secretary Mlnnlng n Wash.
ington ard to his Official duties tells ths world
that the ancient friendship between You Is re.
stored, and that you coincide with his views
upon the tariff, as expressed in his letter Of
resignation in which he advocated the re-
moval of duties, except upon a few scores OF
articles.
II will be seen in the coming congressional
elections whether the people indorse an Eng.
lish free trader being Mt the heai Of the Treas.
ury Department.
No one doubts Mr.. Manning's ability, or his
integrity. The country classcd him as OF the
Randall school of Democrats, but, alas, with
one bound he goes TO the very font and bo-
comes leader of the leaders OF free trade
| Democrats.
Morrison Is horizontal Carlisle specific AMI
perpendicular, but Manning wipes OF the Gus
tom dues on nearly 4, ,0)O articles aud puts tiem
on the free list. Verify, II is enough to mike
John Golden rustic in his winding-sheet to
shake hands with the present Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States.
II refreshing to SEQ how promptly and fully
old England is compensated for any money
that her loyal subjects may have invested in
our last presidential election.
Manning's tariff policy, and Bayard on the
fisheries, with that courtly English gentlem IN,
Mr.. Phelps. at the court of St. Jame1, are
sufficient to justify Chairman Kenna, of the
Democratic congressional committee, drawing
at sight on the Bank of England for any
amount of money needed in the present cIa-
vass
The chairman OF the committee on foreign
affairs, Mr.. Belmont, would undoubtedly In.
dorse the draft, by way OF acknowledgment
for honors conferred upon himself.
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