New-York tribune., 1888-08-27

be c0nQucteU Oy hcpuUllCduos VI w DSh'V's">~f -
by Wings, or by Fcderalists. IL should only pe
by the Nation as whole.
Why should the railways Of the United States,
that Annually transport fifty millions of Canadian
goods in transit be deprived Of their business ana
endure a large loss on account OF a sudden whim
Of the PresidentP Why should the transit from
Detroit to Buffalo and New-York. over both Amer-
can and Canadian lines of rails be suspended when
it las no relation whatever to the FISHERY ques-
sion? Why should the large traillc between
Quebec and Montreal on the one hand ana Port-
land on the other, by which Portland becomes the
winter port of Canada, be summarily stopped at
the caprice of the President because OF his chagrn
over the course Of an independent, but as he con-
siders refractory Senate? Is it the design Of the
President to make the fishing question odious by
embarrassing commercial relations and commercial
exchange along 5000 miles Of frontier, and to
inRict upon American communities needless,
vexatious and perilous confusion of trader
DEVICE TO COVER THE FREE-TRADB ISSUE.
II Congress will give him the enactments which
he asks he will give them retaliation until they
cry, Hold, enough!' and will allow him 10
settle the Fishery question in the precise manner
which the Senate contcmptuously REJECTS.
Or, after all, felow-ctizens, is not the Presidents
position mere political device to divert the at
tention of the American people from his free-tradc
message and from the Mills Tariff bill Is not blus-
ter on the fisheries to be the plan OF campaign 1or
the Democratic .arty Are not permits for bravado
TO be issued by the political agents OF the Ad-
ministration marked on the back, Good TILL AFTER
the first Tuesday in November a
We have our partisan differences at home anu anu
settle them own soil, in our own way, DuS
toward all foreign Powers on the globe we shouo
present one united, indivisble American Repupnc;
Rut this was not done. The treaty was launched
as a Democratic partisan measure, rather tha1
patriotic american measure choir nu nsua .e vacation
of eulogizing the Democracy and abusing tne he
puhhcans, with greatly increased yltuperaton
Ss,I'' feTnd 'ts that the senate was bent. on
maintaining the National dignity 1t is plainly
apparent from the text Of the CONSTITUTION i!seii
that the wise men who framed 1t INTENDED thao ;.
the ordinary legislative power should be c9mmlu-
ted 10 the majority, however small. but that no
treaty could be framed with9nt the oveswheiinlns s
support of public opinion. They PROVIDED, there-
fore that il should require in all cases TWO thrus
OF the Senate to ratfy treaty; but, despite tnis
the National Administration went aneaa regarutcso 50
of results. and negotiated treaty SO repughan&t & 10
the American instinct of National scli-respect .n
instead Of securing ratification by two-thrus Oh
the Senate it was absolutely relec'cu oy n"IoriS
vote -
'CLEvELANDS REMARKABLE soMEEsAULT
What then? st the first rebound the President
has lcared so far on the other SIDE that he ASKS
authority to cripple all our commercmi relations
with Canada from Passamaquoddy Bay 10 van
couvcr's Island. Having for three years ohereu
TO waive the rights OF the hshermeh anu
the National dignity at the same time, the
President desires now to cross over 10 lhc
other side Of the question. lie seems eager to-day
90 discharge q whole battery Of krupp guns on the
oucstion. when last year blank cartridge from
noclrtpstol would have settled the whole aiiair'
After sCbjcctihg the country month aIter Honln
10 the humiliation Of an unprecedented
,,rrendcr the Presidents supporters, with
the zeal OF convcrts-rather WIN
the cxtravagant enthusiasm of pretenders-are no"
uanifcstnn such renewed and deep and keen sense
Of The wrongs we have experienced from OFeat
Krta IN in Canada the matter oil llshcfles, llic
they second the President eXtra"rdlnary nr Sonsl
lauIt and in the slang OF the Democratic hceicI9'
they are thirst.ng for Canadian gor@ .;,,.
The Democratic papers were but snort Tme
,go telling Massachusetts ana Matne me ta ndas on
The banks of Newfoundland was not worth con,
.ideration in the National Congress and that II
iney kept annoying the country about ~ tHey 1s
Wonld in the end drive Congress into giving tne
fnl markets OF the United States to all lishermeh
VI the Dominion.
HOW GRANT NET SIMILAR ISSUE
Ny friends, history repeats ltseli. Leu mo
eall your attention to remarKaoie paraHei
between the course of President Cleveland and
She couse of President Johnson, after he returned
% the Democracy in more weighty negotiation
with England than that relating to the hsherles.
fou will readily remember that under instructions
from Andrew Johnson our Minister to England,
The late Revcrdy Johnson negotiated treaty de-
xicned to settle the Alabama claims. IL was ne
rotated with Lord Clarendon. the Foreign Secre-
tary of England. and is known as the Johnson
Clarendon Treaty. 1t was communicated 10 the
Senate just before the expiration Oh Johhsohs
term, and the Senate had 1T under consideration
when President Grant was inaugurated 1t was
rejected with emphasis and lndigDation-Just as the
Eeuate has now rejected the Fisheries Treaty
Lotto Ibrqcidpnt Grant sent to Congress
n Communication on the whole subject OF the
Alabama claims Referring to the Johnson-Clar-
,ndon Treaty, he used these weighty words whlch
beg to read to YOU
Believing that treaty thus misconstrued IN ts scope
md INADEQUATE its provisions would not have prouuced
thc hearty cordial sentiment pending questions whcn
alone is consistent the relations which desire TO
have firmly established between tho United states ana
BIitp regard the action Of the Senate In reject
Ing tho treaty 10 been wisely taken in the interest
Of peace and as necessary step in the direction OF
perfect and cord al friendship between the two coune
sensitive people, conscious Of their power
are more at case under great wrong wholly az
tanned than under the restraint Of a settiemehO
which satisfies neither their ideas OF )ustce nor
the grave sense of the grievance which thcy nav
sustained. In his next annual communication
President Grant recommended to congress 10 an
taconize the appointment OF "a commission 10 taKe
proof of the amounts and the ownership OF the
several Alabama claims, on nonce 10 'he rgpre-
sentative Of Her Majesty's Government at wash
ipgton and that authority be given for she sct-
tlcment Of those claims by the United States, so
that the Government would have the ownership oil
the private claims as well as tho respohsiolc cna-
troll of all the demands against Great y ialn.
The result, you know, was that the British Govern,
ment proposed joint commission to adnt settle an
claims between the countrles: that PreSideho
I;rant' mike President Cleveland, secured the as
sent Of the Senate before appointing commissioners
in return and the joint commission made set
tlemept which, OH the whole was satisfactory 10
both parties This was brought about TO the
honor OF both nations in consequence Of the iirn
position assumed by President Grant. why coud
not like attitude to-day on the part OF tie fres-
dent produce a like result, peaceably, honoTaby,
and to the lasting advantage of both Nationsf
THE DEMOCRACY's DIPLOMATIC BLUNDERs.