Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-25
THE MESSAGE In ENGLAND.
Comments Of the London Press on
Clevelands Manifesto.
HIS SINCERITY is QUESTIONED
One journal Suggests the Impropri-
ETY. of Introducing the Tricks
OF Poker Playing Into
American Politics.
The Lion Growls.

NuD'-Dpctldl W lie DEE. IDldlUc y
| emissaries, who are here collecting statistics
| showing the great attachment the British
| have for President Cleveland, were bothered
this afternoon when they read two sharp
| attacks on him in two leading Tory evening
| papers. In the course of bitter editorial
on the fisheries the St. James Gazette OBJ
| served: suddenly, while every one is in
an unsuspecting frame of mind, Mr.. Cleve-
| land launches his bolt from the blue.
| The position is exceedingly awk-
ward and unpleasant for both
! countries and the retaliatory measures which
| are threatened by the presidential message,
are so absolutely illogical and unreasonable
| that it is difficult to understand what their
| precise meaning is. But before very long
president will have to be chosen, and Mr..
| Cleveland and his political friends are anx-
| ious he should be returned to Office. Now, if
| the president can see his way to materially
| increase his chances of reelection by playing
| at a game which has always immensely
| ticked our American cousins-the twisting
| OF the lion's tall to-wit-it is perhaps not to
| be expected that he should hesitate to twist
it by any consideration of the lions feelings
| The object is to provide an elegant curl upon
| which patriotic Americans may gaze
| with complacent pride, at intervals
| listening to the defiant shrieks of
| the western eagle. That is the only
| possible explanation of the message. Another
| is that Mr.. Cleveland always, of course with
| an indirect eye to the ballot boxes, may be
trying what is known u America itself as a
| 'bluff'.n
| The Globe says: ave fail to understand
| why President Cleveland, a generally just
| man, should seek to punish Canadians for an
act committed by the Washington senate. Is
he, too, playing to the gallcryi Did the value
| of the Irish vote in the presidential contest
| tempt him to make a bid for it. The surmise
| may look unchartable but we see no other
| explanation that fits in with the surrounding
| circumstances"
| lCOppight 1888 bp James Gordon Bennstt.l
LONDON, August 4.-TNew York Herald
| Cable-Special to THE BEE. The morning
| papers all follow the lead of the evening
| papers on the message. The lion in the press
room fairly lashes the president with its tail
Thus the Daily Telegraph: 'Mr. Cleveland's $
entire communication is conceived in a spirit
of most uncompromising hostility. His
startlingly aggressive message has been i'm
mediately due to the action the part of con-
gress What his precise motive
may have been is to be OWNED only
by those deeply versed in the mysteries
of the curious system which the Americans
are pleased to dignity by the name of politics.
Perhaps the president meant to trump the
last card played by the republican majority.
| All that the unintiated spectator can expect
to know about the matter is that in the Ian
guage Of the American gambler between
whose methods and those of American poll
| ticians there is close resemblance Presi-
! dent Cleveland has seen the republican ma
| jority and gone them one better"
| The Standard observes: what makes the
tone of the message all the more remarka-
Bile is that President Cleveland does not give
himself the smallest trouble to conceal or
dissemble the fact that it was the United
States senate and not the government of the
dominion which rejected the result Of his
diplomatic efforts. 1t is hardly necessary to
point out that this measure must be very in
furious to the commercial interests of Canada.
The large traffic which passed over the Can
adian Pacific into the United States will be
stopped, and the growing trade between
Japan and the eastern parts of the dominion
seriously crippled. For a portion Of the
year the heart of the dominion is cut off, by
nature, from direct intercourse with Europe.
The closing Of the st. Lawrence by ice
makes it almost imperative that Canadian
exports and imports should pass through
United States territory. New York, in fact,
is one of the Canadian seaports and without
it the manufacturers and merchants of the
colony would find themselves, for time at
least, in a bad way. The conclusion Of the
message is in harmony with the rest Of this
curious state paper. 1t ends by the assertion
that government does only half its duty
when it permits citizens to be imposed upon
| bn,p tod h,rN 40 oh; a
tion of other nations. But which nation
We may well ask. 1t seems to us he has
rendered it impossible for him to urge any
such accusation against this country"
! The Daily News says: "President Cleveland
lets the republican senators know that if they
want an aggressive policy they shall have il
with vengeance. The senate, he says, has
refused to cooperate with him in an effort TO
settle the dispute. In this country we may
be well pleased enough with the assurance
that he has put the republican senator's in a
hole, but after all the one important fact for
US is that the international question
is not settled, that it is more unsettled than
it ever was before, that business is disturbed
that the relations between this country and
America are strained, that the relations be-
tween Canada and America are more strained
still and that an uncomfortable new depart.
ure will have to be made"
| The aristocratic Morning Post cries: 'It
seems as if the exigencies Of his position as a
candidate for reelection to the presidency
had urged Mr. Cleveland to play the part OF
advocate hastily That the president who
authorized the negotiations should be the
first person to initiate new difficulties is GER
tanly surprising and cannot but depreciate
the position assigned to matters affecting the
British empire by President Cleveland. 1t
may suit for the coming ticket at the presi-
Dental election to make this question a test
of party fealty, but this method OF treating
them puts strain upon Englishmen gener-
| lly."
The Times, while saying the message is a
clever move on the political board, says
"The president cannot be acquitted of per-
sonal inconsistency in the course he has
taken, which was In no sense obligatory upon
him. However, the presidents message is
in any case preposterous II he was
not bound by the vote OF the
senate he was gratuitously inconsistent
| with his previous attitude II he