Smyrna times., 1888-08-29
FOr the smyrna Times.
Washington Letter.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9th, 1888.
Amerlcanism certainly has the call
just now. In the discussion of the
fisheries treaty, the republicans had
the best of it with the public, but Mr..
Cleveland, who seems to have either
lots of luck or the peculiar faculty of
knowing just what will please the
public at certain times, has turned the
tables upon them by his message on the
rejected treaty, and our general rela-
tiOns with Canada. Whether Mr..
Cleveland is in earnest or not in his
prOfessed desire for further authority |
to retaliate upon Canada for her treat |
ment of American fishing and other |
interests, it is not my province to de- |
eide, but that the message was a |
shrewd political move made Just at the |
right time, cannot be doubted by any |
intelligent person who has carefully |
noted its effect upon public opinion. |
The republicans were reaping too |
much advantage from their anti-En- |
glish opinions or alleged opinions,
something was necessary from demo- !
cratic standpoint to stop the Irish de-
sertiOns from their ranks. That some-
thing Mr.. Cleveland has supplied.
That it involved complete change of
base on the part of the administration
matters not. The republicans may
truthfully charge that the most of the
authority for which Mr.. Cleveland
now asks was granted him eighteen
months ago, and that he has never
made the slightest use of it, but that
will not prevent his message from be-
ing popular. The message doubtless
created more CONSERVATION among the
Canadians than it did among the re-
publicans here, for it shows them that
both of the great political parties in
this country are governed by the
American idea, and that further impO-
sition upon American interests will not
be tolerated. The effect of the mes
sage upon the democrats in Congress
has been electrical. Many of them
We're apathetic towards Cleveland,
now they all regard him as another
Andrew Jackson, and that its effect
upon the rank and file of the party
throughout the country at large will
be beneficial, cannot be doubted.
What is to be its real result on the re-
latiOns between this country and Eng
land cannot well be told at this time.
: That Mr.. Cleveland will be given all
, the authority he asks from Congress
I do not doubt, and his action when pos
sessed of that authority will decide
whether we are to have war or not.
: Many of the deepest thinkers in this
country have long been of the opinion
that it was only a question of time
when Canada would be annexed to the
United States, and that England will
ever allow that annexation to take
J place peaceably, l, for one, do not
! believe.
. The decision arrived at by the pen
!, sion committees in both House anC
= Senate, to reduce the amount of the
!, pension which it is proposed to give
- Mrs. Sheridan from $4,000 to $500
seems hardly fair when the eminen
services of General Sheridan. and tn,
= fact that the widows of other mel
whose services were certainly of NJ
more value, receive pensions of 5000
u u year are taken into consideration.
u kThe fact the House is now in a dead
u lock over the Deficiency appropriation
III bill, for want of a quorum, and tina
le the democratic leaders of the Hous
70 are anxious to pass the bill giving MI
VI Cleveland the authority asked for i
his message, has caused the House t
Vi pass q resolution annulling all leave
u except those granted for sickness.
~ is expected that a quorum will be pres
u u ent by the middle of this week.
;u A joint resolution has been intro
III duced in the House, that should b,
u come law, but unfortunately it
p feared that it will not. 1t has Ion
y been a custom with a certain class
1iy Congressman to put items of dubiOl
*, character. in important appropriate
nu bills. The habit should be stoppe
~ and the passage of this resolutiC
III would do it.
ne The report of the bill to prohibit Il
5Iy transportation of adulterated food fro
y; one State to another contains food fl
h1 thought. 1t says: Recent investig
IN tiOn in the Department of Agricultu
ry; of cheese deceptions, frauds in mil
.O OF adulterations in beer and spirits,
iCn spices and condiments. and 9th
Ic- things in daily use as food and DevC
Dis ages, emphasize the necessity for pl
MS vention or repression of these disre
Ine utable practices, stimulated by Il
up greed of gain. Liquids, perhaps ev,
re- more generally than solids, are suble
Use, to this sophisticatiOn. Aged brandt
nlr-- are made from diluted, only color
pea and favored alcohol; cheap wines a
ong mixed and manipulated to initiate {
cry pensive brands; beers are doctored
was avoid the use of expensive hops, a
on to cheaper the product or simuli
'ap- some desired quality. Teas are mix
colored with poisonous minerals, a
Fm; spent leaves are dried and placed
Qua second time upon the market.
ses' animal industry which asks for prot
ugn ton proposed in this bill, reaches
ana the levels of life, from the milliOna
ards to the day laborer; it embraces m
the than all other industries in the co
ted' .s try combined-the property of
ilCe, poor"