The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-08-30


people from his Free Trade message and
from the Mills tariff bill? Is not buster
on the fisheries to be the plan of campaign
for the Democratic party? Are not per-
mits for braYado to be issued by the politi-
Cal agents of the Administration, marked
on the back Good TIL after The first Tues
day in Novembel?''
We have our partisan differences at
home and settle them OIL our own
soil in our own way, but towards
all foreign powers on the globe we should
present one united, indivisible American
republic. But this was not done. The
treaty was launched as Democratic par
titan measure. rather than a patriotic
American measure. And the London
papers have been following their usual
vocation of euogiZing the Democracy and
abusing the Republicans with greatly in
creased vltuperatiOn against the RepuOl-
can party ever since it was found that the
Senate was bent on maintaining the Ma
tional dignity. 1t is plainly apparent
from the text of the Constitution itself
that the wise men who framed it intended
that the ordinary legislative power should
be committed to the majority, however
small, but that no treaty could be framed
without the overwhelming support of pub
lie opinion.
They provided, therefore, that it should
require in all caSses. two thirds of the
Senate to ratify treaty; but despite tn S
the National Administration went ahead,
+, CARELESS of results, and negotiated
treaty 80 repuguant to the American in
stinct Of national self-respect that instead
of securing a ratification by two-thirds of
the Senate it was absolutely rejected by a
majority vote. W hat then? AT the first
rebound the PRESIDENT has leaped SO far
over Oh the other side that lie asks author
lty to cripple all our commercial relations
with Canada, from PassanaquOdda Bay to
VancouveIs Island. Having fG thu ee years
offered to waive the rights of the fisher
men and the National dignity at the same
time, the President desires now to cross
over to the other side of the question and
outherod Herod in his demand for re
dress. He seems eager TO day 10 discharge
a whole battery Of Krupp guns on the
question when last year blank cartridge
from pocket pistol would have settled
the whole affair. After subjectitg the
country, month after month. to the humil
latlOn vi AL unprecedented surrender. the
Presidents supporters. with the zeal of
new converts. rather than with the extrav
agant enthusiasm OF pretendprs, are now
manifesting such such renewed and deep
and keen sense of the wrongs we have ex-
perenced from Great British in Canada,
in the matter of fisheries: that they second
the Presidents extraordinary somersault
and, in the slang of the Democratic heel
ers, they are ''Thirstiug for Canadian
gore"
The Democratic papers were but short
time ago telling Ma :, husetts and Maine
that their cuntemp iOe little questions
over few Goldfish on the banks of New
Foundland was not worth consideration
in the National Congress, and if they kept
annoying the county ab ut it they would.
in The end. drive Congress into giving the
full markets of the United States to all
fishermen of the dominion.
Mr.. Blaine then cited the Alabama
Claims Treaty which was rejected by the
Senate, and then went on at great length
to show that whenever the country when
under Democratic rule had had any deal
ings with Great Britain it WAS made to
suffer by the incapacity or partizan action
of the Democracy. But for the plumbers
of the Democracy who backed down from
the cry of "54-4O OF fight" the American
flag would now be floating from the Gulf
of California to Behring's Strait Presi-
dent Cleveland is exactly following in the
laundering footsteps of his party's Presi-
dents. He closed as follows:
On Wednesday the President was still