Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-11

the American people put from the cena,e.
4 Criticising the administration still fur
ther, Mr.. Hoar declared that there would
| be neither redress nor hope of redress un-
der this administration for any outrage
committed by Great Britain upon an,
American anywhere. For the insults to
our flag we got no apology from Great Brit
ain. We got no indemnity for the mast
| and he questioned whether there was any
security for the future.
Criticising the treaty, he declared that
in the matter of fishery rights it did not
afford redress of grievances, nor provide
against the recurrence of causes of com
plant in future. 1t conceded valuable
rights which ought not be sur
rendered. and gains none which we
do not now possess. 1t negotiated in
regard to matters which should moi
be the subject of negotiation and failed to
settle matters which preemptorily de-
| manded settlement. 1t gets much less
than it is worth for what it proposes to
give, and much less than Canada had al.
ready shown her willingness to pay, IL
left US in worse attitude for future nego-
tiations; showed an utter want of appre-
citation for the national value OF our fish
cries, and the respects in which they are
imported, and an utter insensibility to the
Ndttoiihi uouOrs QiHuitf ana cndratIer. 1he
whole tone and temper of the negotiations,
he declared, was feeble, spiritless ignoble
and timid. 1t was the first treaty in human
history unless made with some half savage
chief. or III regard to ports closed to general
commerce, when there had been an at
tempt TO stipulate for the civilities of life
II was treaty, which for the first time.
recognized the doctrine that fishermen are
to be dealt with as an inferior and less
favored class, TO whom might be righrfully
and properly denied with our consent, the
courtesies and privileges intended to all
other commerce.
In concluding, Senator Hoar referred
with pride and satisfaction TO the civic,
military and diplomatic history of his
country; to General Grant, when Presi-
dent, giving notice that any American citi-
zen who had claim against Great Britain,
should bring the evidence to him and how
that naughty power had apologized for her
wrong and was held as dependent to
make compensation. He recalled how the
diplomacy of Grants great administration
had induced every first class power in
Europe to renounce the old doctrine of per-
petual allegiance and let our adopted citi-
zen alone.
There were days." said the Senator in
his peroration, "when the American citi-
zen, national and adopted held up his
head in the pride of his citizenship Those
were the days when our ten thousand mill
ions OF wealth was becoming fifty thols-
and; better still, when slaves were chang
ing into free men, and free men into
citizens. Those were days when the flag
beautiful as the flower to those who loved
it, terrible as a meteor to those who hated
1t, foated everywhere in peaceful
seas and was honored everywhere in
friendly parts No petty British officer
hauled it down from an American mast
head. No Canadian Minister of Justice
laughed in the face of an American citizen
when Grant was in the White House |
confess that much meditating on these
things, l take little satisfaction when |
think of Grover Cleveland. l do not like
the policy which everywhere robs Ameri-
can citizenship of its glory do not like
the methods of fraud and crime which have
destroyed popular elections in so many
Democratic States l would have the box
where the American freeman casts his
ballot srcred as sacramental vessel
/ do not like this conspiracy be-
tween the old Shareholder and the English
manufacturer, to strike down the wages of
the Amersan workman and the comfort of
the American workman's home. l do not
Ike your refusal to main tains the Ameri-
can navy and to fortify and defend the
American coast. And l like no better the
present treaty 1t leaves the American
sailor to be builied and insulted without
redress and abandons the American right
to the fisheries, older than the nation itself
which the valor of our fathers won for us
and the wisdom of our fathers preserved
for US"
Mr.. Hoar finished his speech at p. M,
having spoken little over four hours. There
was fair attendance of attentive listeners
on both the Republican and Democratic
sides of the chamber during its delivery.
Mr.. Hoar's allusion to lack of special
ability on the part of the American nego-
tiators, was contested by Senators Payne
and Gray. Mr.. Gray asked the Senator
from Massachusetts, if he . ought the
negotiators on the America. side, Mr..
Putnam and Mr. Angel, to say nothing of
Secretary Bayard, were inferior in equip
ment for the duties imposed on them, to
Mr.. Chamberlain, and Mr.. Hoar said he
Thought they were. The training OF
New England lawyer in country
city and the training of head of
a university in the West and the training
of an able and honored United States Sem
ator, did not tit them TO cope on terms of
equality either in diplomacy or special
knowledge with the British negotiators
More than this, he thought the result of
that diplomatic attempt would abundantly
satisfy the Senate of that fact.
When Mr.. Hoar finished his speech. the
conference report ON the District of Column
bia appropriation bill was presented and
agreed to, and at $40 the Senate ad-
journe6.