Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-29
No mans wages should be SO low
that he cannot make provisions in
his days of vigor for the incapacity
Of accident or the feebleness ofsold
age.-Benjamin Harrison.

" aSSAeS1se VI tne fSS U1cAoSS OtNoiu
age.-Benjdmin HARRISON.
The BTttish 1uterlCgonce In Behalf of
Clevefand-The Intrusion of Minister
West in Our Affairs.
The patriotic sentiment Of the country is
moved by the declaration OF
the British Minister at Washington in
favor of the reelection of Grover Cieve-
land TO the Presidential Office. 1t is a re-
markable interference by foreign diplo-
matte representative in the affairs Of the
Nation to whose government he is ac-
credited. It il violation of official pro-
prieties and a wanton disregard Of the
rights and national sensibilities of the
American people. II must and will be
resented az foreign insult, which could
not be ignored without national humilia-
ton In some respects this British in
trusion in our political affairs is more Of
fensiye and less TO be tolerated than the
conduct Of the French Minister Genet,
whose prompt recall WAS demanded by
President Washington. The French Re-
publicans were In the terrible throes of
national peril by the armed coalition of
the European monarchies, aud France
had just aided US In obtaining
our independence. and 1t was not strange
that Prenchmen should strongly feel that
Americans ought to help them. But this
intesmeddling of Minister West in our
political concerns has no such excuse nor
mitigating circumstances. 1t springs en-
tirely from the sordid greed Of English
men to influence our economic policy for
the sake Of getting larger control Of our
markets, and to cheat US out of our his
torlc and invaluable fishing interests. All
that the letter Of this British official says
or implies, was fully known before-that
England strongly desires the reelection
Of Cleveland, because his Free Trade pro.
gramme is in harmony with her inter
ests and designs. The British press for
many months has abounded in proofs OF
this. The numerous declarations of Eng
fish politicians and Of English manufac-
turers have proved this. The Democratic
newspapers and stump orators have
sought to make 1t appear that the
Republican newspapers and speakers
have not correctly stated English
opinion. The letter of the English Min
lister Is conclusive evidence that the wish.
es Of Englishmen for Democratic success
in the present campaign have not beer
misrepresented nor exaggerated. Eng
| glish opinion and Canadian desires are
equally in favor of the party which keeps
Cleveland and Bayard in office, because
they are weak and incompetent, and car
be made tools in the astute hands Of Brit
ish diplomatic and government officials
Read the words of Minister West anc
Minister Upper, which We publish In
another column of this paper to-day
The proof is absolute and unqualified thai
England and Canada want Cleveland anC
Bayard continued, because she can con
| troll them in her interests, and do not
want the Republican party restored tt
the control Of the American government
because its policy and its statesmen will
not conform to English ideas and English
interests.
Precisely to-day as when the Southern
Democrats fired on Fort Sumpter, the
British officials and the British politician.
and manufacturers were against the Re
publican party because it was and i.
American, and would not and will not b,
subordinate to British designs. Precisely
to-day IA when rebel iron-clads sailed on
of English harbors, armed with English
cannon and manned by English sailors
English political sympathies, especially
| of the Tory party now in power, wer
with the Bourbon Democrats, who KEEP
the South solid on precisely the same pol
itical and economic lines now occupied b,
Cleveland and those who are backing hin
for reelection
Were Cleveland and Bayard to ask tn
recall of Minister West tomorrow, i
would be precisely for the same reason
that the former issued his recent messag
of Retaliation-a transparent trick T.
cover his tracks and to mask his real pur
poses. Neither Cleveland nor Bay
ard can abate the just indig
nation of the American people by an
such superficial subterfuge. Englan,
/ would undnrstand him, ,ran;aoI, 40 W.,
understands him. Cleveland and Bavart
know well that Englishmen understan,
him. In conformity with diplomats
usages and International prophecies Lor,
Salisbury may order the recall of West
That concerns England quite as mucl
as the United States. But the rea
offenders on whom the American peopl
must impose their sternest disapprobatiol
and forbid to continue in office, are tn,
| two men who have Inundated them be
fore the world by their foreign policy an,
their negotiations with our great CONNER
cial rival, the two men who have falsfiet
their promises in many ways, and who
have done their utmost to have the United
States adopt that system of Free Trade 81
hostile to the interests of American Labor
50 dangerous to our Home Markets, an,
which would make this country as com
pletely commercial province Of Grea
Britain, as Australia, Cape Colony, or Por
tugal.
at Is certainly very desirable to have
Christian gentleman elected to the Presi
dency OF the United States" says tn,
Temperance Evangelist. Eight year,
ago the lamented Garfield, an elder in the
Christian Church, was chosen. This veal
we have two Christian men nominated fol