Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-08-28
GROWERS GALL.
Cleveland Proposes to be a Law
Unto Himself and Abrocate
international Treaties.
Blaine Roasts Him and States =
men Generally Hold His Mes
sage up TO Ridicule.
GROWERS GALL.


He Carries it with Him. hut Uses 1t with
out Judgement.
The sudden flop OF President Cleve
land on the Canadian question Is prov.
ing sore trial to the democratic party
throughout the land; the local spouter
in each community is without guide
rs to his uttprances on the situation,
waiting impatiently to see what posi-
ton the great democratic organs will
take. and these mouthpieces Of the
party are equally tardy in giving the
key note. Not so is IL with the repub.
lican party and the republican press;
with nromptuess that smscks Of pre-
science, the fsteful message bad scarce
ly been given TO the senate before Ed
munds, Hosr, Sherman aud Hale
were on their feet and with clear aud
statesmenlike argument had cruci-
fed the unfortunate Grover on che
cross. built through ignorance and OBJ
stinacy oran un worthy desire To regain
lost constituency or possibly COM
bination Of all, by his own hands. The
Intellectual defense attempted by Sen.
stor Morgan, who chamlipned the
fisheries treaty bill in the senate,
amounts only TO a pleading Of the
"baby act" and his claim that the re.
lection Of his pet measure by the re-.
publican majority 10 the senate was
merely part OF scheme TO entrap
the President into b present unseen.
ly position, is unworthy the utterance
of any person on whom has been con.
ferred the high honor Of sitting in the
senate Of ths United States.
The nature and antecendents of the
treaty which President Cleveland
sought to force upon the people of this
country is best explained in the graph.
ic language Of Mr.. Blaine, from whose
speech delivered at Lewistown, Me-,
on Saturday, last We quote:
Here are the main facts of the issue
between Canada and the United
States, or, PERHAPS, to speak more ex-
actly, besween Great Britain and the
United States, In respect 10 the fisher
lee. IL was our belief, and still l., that
after the alticles ot the treaty Of Wash
ington relating to the fisheries
had expired, the Canadian gov
ernment behaved in al unueighborly,
unseenliDgly aud unjust manner to-
wards our fishermen, In refusing them
rights which they had enjoyed by long
prescription. Iu order to bring the
government ofthe dominion to just
appreciation OF the subject. congress
authorized the president in the spring
of 1857, to adopt at his discretion a pol
icy of suitable retaliation, directing
among other things that whenever
aud so long a. American vessels were
deprived of commercial privileges in
the ports of Canada. Canadian vessels
should be deprived Of like privileges
in the ports oil the United States.
This, II may indulge in appropriate
slang, sas u genuine tlt.for-tat policy
in which the punishment was admir-.
ably fitted for the crime, President
Cleveland declined to enforce the pei
icy and allowed outrage after outrage
upon our fishing vessels TO go unre
dressed. He was bent upon some form
of negotiation with England, even
against the expressed wish and will oi
the United States senate and In def
ance Of the large share in the treaty
making power which the constitution
assigns TO the senate. Finally without
the consent OF the senate and practi.
cally against it's protest, the president
organized commission TO frame |
treaty that should settle all points o
dispute He thus gave what wa
never intended 10y the constitution
partisan side to an international dis
cussion. Ii was never designed by tn
founders Of our government that in
tercourse with foreign nations shoul,
be conducted by republicans or demo
Gratis, or by Wigs. or by fedeiallsts
IL should only be by the nation as
whole. We have our owI
partisan difference at home and settl
them on our own soil in our own way
but toward all foreign powers on th
globe we should present one united
iDdivisible American republic. Bu
this was not done. The treaty wa
launched ~ dem mocratic psrtisa
measure. rather than as patriot
American measure. And the Bondo
papers have been following their usul
vocation OF eulogizing the democrnc
and abusing the republicans, wit
greatly increased viluperation again'
f. the republican party ever since II WI
found that the senate was bent o
maintaining the national dignity.
IL plainly apparent from the text (
constitution itself that the wise me
who framed IL intended that the ord
nary legislative power should be com
mitted TO the majority, howeve
, small but that no treaty could b
framed without the overwhelmln
support Of public opinion. They pro
vlded, therefore, that II should re
quire. In all cases, two-thlrds OF th
senate 10 ratify q treaty, but despit
this the national administration wen
ahead. regardless Of results, and negC
tisted n treaty 90 repugnsnt to tb
- American Instinct OF national sell