Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-11-02
THE MAN AND HIS MESSAGE.
New York Tribune.

The British Minister'S lndlscre.
ton was startling surprise, but
the credulity of the Democratic
political managers IL even more
amazing. They take it for granted
that the disastrous effects of his
Intervention in American politics
can be cOunteracted by his dis
mlssaI under circumstance more
or less iguominlous. This is puerile
folly. Yet the Administration has
acted upon the contemplate as
sumption that it could redeem its
character IN this way by display
of temper. After the cold fit, OF
which Secretary Bayard's earliest
interviews we're disOrdered symp-
toms, hot fit has been brought on
by the inhammatory talk OF Gen.
Collins and Mr.. O'Reilly. The
Administration has pulled itself
together and sent his passports to
Lord Sackville. 1t dismisses the
British election agent who tried to
serve the President by telling the
truth about him and his Admins
tratiOn. The Minister goes in dis
grace. His electioneering message
remains behind. That cannot be
recalled.
Let us reduce this question to its
simplest terms. The President q
year ago recommended policy by
which foreign importations would
be largely increased. Mr.. Mills
accepted this idea when, in intro
ducing his tariff Till, he declared
ave should lay taxes to Obtain
revenue, but not restrict imDOrta-
tons" The Republican party
from the beginning to the end OF
this canvass has held that the
policy of displacing American
with foreign manufactures In the
home market is what England
wants. This view has been con-
firmed without reserve or equivoca'
ton by the British press. From
the Scotch Highlands to Lands
End, journals while disagreeing
about everything else have united
in proclaiming this to be the policy
which England urgently desires
Americans to adopt. While the
evidence of English sympathy
Cleveland was indlsputable and
overwhelming, the Democratic
press sought to break it's force by
systematic mendacity. Notwlth
standing the energy of these dis
plays of partisan mlsrepresenta
ton and downright lying, the
President found 1t necessary after
the rejection of the treaty to make
a desperate effort to retrieve his
fatal reputation as the candidate
whose election was favored by
England. The Retaliation Message
was Immediately pronounced by
Republicans a political trick, 6
campaign device for divertinC
public attention from his English
tariff policy. This imputation was
bitterly resented by the Demo
cratic press, which affirmed that
the Presidents sincerity was not
to be questioned, and that it was a
vile campaign lie to assert that he
was in any sense an English can
dldate standing for foreign rather
than American interests.
At this juncture the British Min
lister appeared upon the scene
AS the recognized representative
of his Government IN the United
States, he declared that the Presi
dent should be supported by nat
uralized Americans of British de
scent in the interest of the mother
country; and, moreover, that thu
Retaliation Message was a politi
cal manoeuyre and of trivial con
sequence. His opinion should b'
and is decisive respecting these
matters in controversy. 1t demon
strates that the Republicans have
been telling the truth about the
English candidate aud his bun
combe Retaliation Message, and
that the Democrats have been lying
about both matters.
Now, will some of these shrewd
party tacticians tell US what bear
ing the dismissal of the British
Minister can have upon the vital
points at issue? 1t proves un'
doubtedly that the President and
his advisers are very angry Will
Lord Sackvllle tor hurting out the
truth, but it will not convict hin
of telling what was false. AL
though he is dismissed in hot
haste, he has established the iden
tity of English and Democratic
policy respecting largely increased
impOrtatlons of foreign goods into
the United States. He has fur
nished the President with an Official
certificate from the British EN-
bassy as the candidate whom Eng
land favors from motives of self
interest. He has discredited the
Retaliation Message as a campaign
Observation-Disclosures thunder
for the American political stage
that does not imperll Canadian In
terests.
Ii is the truth which the British
Minister has told that is destructive
to the Democratic cause. The
truth. teller is dismissed with a
flourish OF trumpets and affected
zeal for National honor. But his
revelation to the American people
cannot be blotted out. His official
message delivered at a crisis in
American political fortunes may
affect the industrial destinles of
the continent tor years to come.
The Parrot and the Old Man.
From the New York Press.