New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-23
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Several London journals express ohe opnion
that the Republican Senators secured the rejec"o"
:, tho Treaty in order to curry favor with the
Ir,sb, We wonder II they accept the corollary
% that declaration, which would be this: The
Democratic Administration negotiated tho treaty
and the Democratic Senators supported u IN oiuer
IN rcocl and cstrangc the Irish III the hepuon-
cans are currying favor with the Irlsh ny 'n.'r
action against the Treaty IL must follow thaO III.
Administration deliberately made its shameiu'
bargain with Mr. Chamberlain Tor the SAKE VI 'n-
sulting the great foreign cohs"'ue"0'
which until 1884 uniformly supported tne Deh,-
ocratic party Does the English press wan' ir'Sn
voters in America to believe THAR
T. Is settled that Chicago won't have yellow
fever. Well, Chicago can't have everything.
We can imagine Mr.. Randall, Of the Committee
~ demonstrations. as smiling q cynical smile about
this time as he looks on while the President ana
tbe Free-Trade leaders are scampering about ana
irving 70 find out what has become OF that sur
plus.
Mr. Oscar Wilde has written spirited poem
about the g wild war-eagles' of England lying TO
(" the almond groves Of Samarkand,' and" Bokhara,
whore red lilies blow But those distant regions
viii be visited presently by more commonplace
nroduct Of the West Peace hath her travellers,
no less than war and where the aforementioned
eagles tapped wide wings in fiery light VIII
presently be heard the tread OF the Cockney ana
the voice of the Boulcvardier. The first OF
series OF excursions, personally conducted Is
to set out from Paris on September III Tor sam
arlland, Bolshara and Merv. 1t will be composed
exclusively of London and Paris clubmen and their
families and will make the round trip In seven
weeks, at q cost of 81, 900 apiece. The entire
Journey will be made without change OF cars, ana
II is pleasing to observe that the train Will be COM
posed of parlor, dining-room and sleeping cars OF
American design and manufacture. through
train from the Seine TO the Oxus comes very close
to being one of the wonders Of the world
II there was nothing in those letters that MADE
Governor Hill uncomfortable, why did he send MS
private secretary nearly two hundred miles after
Mayor Hewitt to beg that they might be alteredr
We are entitled to sympathy We find that the
condition which was confronting US has mystcri-
ously disappeared, and We don't know what IN
thunder to make Of ~
Secretary Bayard gets what comfort he can out
of the side-shows. The Treaty has been rejected
and cannot be revived, but the modus vlvendl
proposed by friend Chamberlain remains and can
be operative for two years, during which the Dem
ocratic party may secure control OF the Senate.
The modus vivendi certainly remains, since 1t Is
a voluntary concession made by Canada and
Great Britain, and the Senate has had nothing to
do with it, Canadian licenses can be obtained oy
American fishermen on payment Of the required
fees. and commercial privileges which ought to be
theirs without money and without price can DO
secured in that way. IL is characteristic OF SEQ
rotary Bayard that he should console himself
with the reflection that Americans remain at ho-
erty to purchase from foreigners as favor rights
the enjoyment Of which their own Government
is under obligations to secure for them.
1t is amusing to read complaints that General
Harrison is commonplace" in newspapers that
swallowed President Cleveland's cyclopedia
snoochea uyithout n proan