Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-08-17

in favor of a Government of sixty
millions Of people, with territory
that is capable of taking in the
whole world, is the only party that
is fit to govern.
What do you want with a treaty
with government that recognizes
no rights among its own citizens
a government that has an unwrit.
ten constitution; It's judges created
for life; common law that was It's
pride and is to-day the pride of
Americans, for they respect it as
they got it from the mother cOun.
try, as we once called it; impanels
a jury with lord chietnstice on
the bench and a jury hears all
the evidence, and the lord chief
Justice says to the jury after laugh.
ing, "There is no case made yOu
bring IN your verdict this way; |
am the Judge not only of the law,
bat of the factsp-a violation OF the
fundamental principles of that IN.
written constitution aud Of the
common law Of that country and of
all civilized countries 3?
Mr.. President, | ask why do we
want treaty with a government
that does not respect treaties, and
does not respect the rights of its
own citizens under its own cOnsti.
tuition and its own laws? II this
Senate arraigned a man under a
crimes act, and appointed three
judges of the United States Su-
preme Court to try him, would it
not either appoint a committee to
know whether he was flt assO.
ciate for Senators here, or would
they not let the law take it's course,
and that man be arraigned for his
crimes ? Yet we find this govern
ment with which we propose to
deal today by treaty, taking
member of Parliament and naming
three judges of its own creation to
pass upon his guilt or his limo.
cence ! would sooner have
treaty of commerce with the Fill
Islanders. 1t becomes the social
ed American Democracy to make
such a treaty, but it i'll becomes
the Republican party whose name
is derived from that whicn Jeffer.
son himself assumed when he or.
ganized the first Republican party
In this country.
We see there as the very basis
of this proceeding in that Parlia.
ment which is to pass upon this
matter, that member, supposed
to have as much right and prlyl.
lege there as any other, asks by
what warrant OF right this member
OF Parliament is taken out, and Mr..
Balfour, for instance, called the sec.
retary for Ireland, ssys, 81 am re.
spOnsible," and that is the answer
of the government to a question
that involves the personal liberty,
and possibly the lite, of a member
of Parliament. No warrant, no
precept, except that the secretary
for Ireland says, 81 am RESPONSE
BILE" Why do we want a treaty
with snch a government as that I
| repeat, sir, that the duty Of this
Government IS to let that govern.
meut know that the liberty TOR
which our forefathers fought, and
which they won, is still cherished,
and that we have nothing in com
mon with a government that does
not recognize the forms of law at
least.
There has been case after case of
that sort within the last few weeks.
Here is what is called a govern.
ment leader in the British Parlia.
ment asked if he did not have q
conference with the editor of the
London Times, Mr.. Walter, before
he made a certain report. lie
made an equivocal denial OF it. and,
losing his temper, he was caught in
a trap and was obliged inadver-
tently TO confess that he had met |
him, and then stated that the Omis.
sion of the words Sand others,p
after the name of "Parnell," was
occasioned by slip of the |
tongue in reading. the bill. There |
is the greatest of English premiers,
Gladstone, confronting that Par. |
Lament and its leader, confronting
this entire administration, and he
says to them, that this conduct on
the part of the government Is cen.
surable. say we want no treaty
with such a government.
said, Mr.. President, in starting
that | intended to discuss this ques-
ton without going into details. |
have given the opinion of Judge
Woodbury.. | have no desire to go
further with it except to say. which
is almost repetition, that all that
has transpired IN connection with
this fisheries treaty indicates the
policy of this Democratic Admins
tratiOn. 1t is pro.EngliSh from the
President to the last Cabinet officer.
Nothing has been left undone that
would bring about free trade in this
country and what | have read here
as proceeding from Mr.. Bayard, the
Secretary of State, to Sir Charles
Upper, never having been denied
must be accepted as the truth, that
the adoption of the fisheries treaty
would lead to the adoption OF free
trade by the United States.
The Republican party represents
the protection sentiment of this
country. The Democratic party
represents the freetrad element.
| do not undertake to say that no
Senator on this floor with Demo.
cratic prooliyities will deny it abso.
lutely, but, sir, when | hear vote
cast on this floor | know it is on one
side or the other. | know it is for
the Administration or against it,
and there can be no doubt about
the position of the Administration.
When | hear at one time the Sena.
tor from Alabama Mr.. Morgan
make a speech opposed to the fish
cries treaty, or any other kind of a
treaty, and | hear him afterwards
advocate the other side of 1t, have
a right to conclude that there is
some Administration ned icine
working around iR the Senate