Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-29
THE TRUE MEANING OF LORD SACK
VILE VESTS LETTER.

the Democratic ticket, was piece of diplo-
matte im2ertinence that has been rebuked
by the sentiment of the whole country aud
will probably secure his recall-that is il
Grover Cleveland. as President of the United
States, has hundredth part of the back
bone possessed by the average citizen OF
the Republic. Whatever may be his feel
ing in the matter, or his relations with the
Minister, be will scarcely fail to advise the
English Premier OF the desire of the people
of the United States that West shall be
recalled.
But while the letter of the Minister was
objectionable meddling with political af.
fairs that ought not concern him, and in
which he can take no part without grossly
Offending, it is perfectly clear that he in
tended to conserve English interests by his
action; that whatever may be Mr.. Cleve-
lands ideas concerning his modification
OF the tariff scheme, he plays into the
hands of England's desire; that English
Journalists and statesmen interpret his doc
trines Alright, and read them as advocacy of
the free trade which English political econ
omists desire to become universal.
But why should the English at this time
be so solicitous TO promote free trade ideas
in America? We find that they are to a
man for Mr.. Cleveland's reelection, be-
cause they look upon hini as a free trader.
little in the rough perhaps, but still for
free trade as far as any candidate dares to
be in pioneering that idea. Senator STAN
ford tells US that he found all England
supporting MIR. Cleveland, and the ex-
pressions OF the English press, very many
of which we reprint, confirm the Senator's
Judgment. Hon. Thomas II. Dudley, for
merly American Consul at Liverpool. who
IS an intelligent observer. says that in
single year one English political organiza-
tion-the Golden Club-which is devoted
wholly to the dissemination of the free
trade idea, distributed in the United States.
and especially in the Western States, no
less than seven hundred thousand of its
tracts. The same club selects free trade
theorists who are professors in American
colleges as objects upon which to confer
special favor and distinctive houors. The
manager of that club in his report says:
In the United States the exertions of your
committee have had the effect to bring free ex
change to the front as one of the great questions
OF the day: Your committee continues to afford
all the assistance in their power to those who
are laboring in the free trade cause in foreign
Sount1es In America, in the progress of po-
alical events there is great promise. 4 =
The result of turning public attention in this
direction is seen in the fSct that revenue re-
form has become leading question in the
PRESIDENTIAL contest and is on the winning side
We ask again why this solicitude to i'm
press upon our people the idea that free
trade is our true policy? The answer is
not far 20 seek. By establishing the free
t ade doctrine in America as part Of our
Governmental system, England will accom-
plish two grea. objects, both of which she
has ever had in view:
The securing Of the United States as a free
9iar6et for her manufactures, By breaking
do,c'' the manufactures of Amcp1ca
The diaupting and final disintegration of the
union Of States, and the epcntual decay of re,
publican Institutions
The English are an aggressive CONNER
cial people, who plant their flag forever in
sunlight who claim commercial domi
nation upon all seas, and do not propose
to yield the palm of ruling the wave"
They have sagacity enough to know that
the Republican party is the natural enemy
ST p,ODarcbia1 scba,oas ard oor,,.:i
su5serviency, because it is the party of in
teiiigence, of Americanism, even to ex-
ciusIveness, if need be; and because il is
the one party of unionism, the polical Or
ganization that stands by and will do bat
tie for the indissolubility of the union of
sovereign States and the integrity of the
idea Of self-government.
The Democratic party has by far its
greatest strength in the South In the
South the iree-trade sentiment is dominant.
II led South Carolina into the crime of null
liication. 1t was an melting cause that
inspired the South to rebel and seek the
destruction of the Union. For precisely
the same reason the South had the SYM
pathy OF the English people and the secret
aid OF the English Government in that un-
holy struggle.
Southern Independence, with an open
declaration for free trade in the Constitu-
ton of the Confederscy, meant to England
the accomplishment of two great objects !:
First, the establishment of free trade prac-
tically between Europe and the American
continent; second, the disruption of the
American Republic and the removal. by
that example, to far more distant time the
day of the triumph of the Democratic prin-
ciple in Europe, and the consequent over
throw of the monarchisl idea
II was to this end that English ship
yards vomited forth blockade runners, pri-
vateers and armed ships of war to destroy
the commerce of the republic; it was for
this that Confederate bonds found sale in
English markets and American rebels
sought shelter in English arms 1t was for
free trade and the overthrow of the system
of selt-government that England not only
secretly gave aid and comfort to our do
mestic fees, but by all insidious ways
sought to induce the United States Govern
ment to consent to disgraceful peace that
involved the acknowledgment of the indie
pendenee of the Confederate States of
America and the failure of the idea of a
Federal Union.
1t is perfectly natural that the English,
who still hold with the idea of the Golden
Club, as expressed by the London Times
II the club) cannot rest iclile The United
States are linstbdued-should avail of the
Democratic party as the most direct and
powerful agency through which to accom-
plish their ends. 1t was that party which
not only affiliated With The South in its re-
bellion, but out of the bowels of which the
rebellion sprang. There was no Con-
federate who was not Democrat" says
Colonel Mosby, and so there was no Re-
publican who was not Unionist They
were Democrats in South Carolina who de-
sed the United States Government by the
effort to nullify her customs laws: they were
Democrats who fred upon Fort Sumter
they were Democrats who wrote into the
Constitution of the Confederacy the theory
Of free trade; they were Democrats who took
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