The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-11

given to their own per1shing seameni
Canadian sea-wolf would have had more
gratitude to the man who had succored
n her young; the American flag hauled
down from an American masthead by q
Canadian officer. Why, in the old days
here would have been matter for hun
dred wars.
1t is not too much to say that, while
. this administration shall exist, there will
neither be redress nor hope nor expec-
tation OF redress for any Outrage cons
mitted by Great Britain upon an Ameri-
can anywhere.
Mr.. Hoar then shows that ll6 Ameri-
, can vessels were seized by Canada last
year because OF alleged violations OF
treaty rights. Continuing, he said:
This treaty is not the road to honor,
to safety, or to peace. 1t is not the road
i 10 the respect OF Great Britain, or even
OF Canada. Where It removes one cause
OF discorl it will produce ten. We can
never have commercial reciprocity till
reciprocity OF justice and courtesy are
first established.
The Americans are not guarrelsome
people. When We remember whose
children we are, We have always shown
a surprising readiness to yield our Just
rights for the sake OF peace. We have
little left to us even OF that rush humor
which our mother gave US. But we can
never live in peace with Canada il We
allow her to think that the methods she
has taken for the last three years are the
ways to gain concessions from US. We
can never live in peace with England II
we permit her, without prompt and in
stant protest, to try once more the ex-
periments on our forbearance which pre-
ceded the Revolution, which preceded
the war OF 1912, which accompanied the
war OF the rebellion.
THEN AND NOW.
At the close OF the war OF 1872, John
Quincy Adams, and Gallatin, and Clay,
and the elder Bayard met the represen.
tatives OF a power that had one-half OF
the world for her allies and the other
half at her feet. England had just over
thrown Napoleon on land, and swept
the natives OF Europe from the face OF
the sea. Yet we came from the contest
OF war, and OF diplomacy, with every
right and liberty unimpaired; our honor
without a stain, with added glory to our
flag, and the pretension for which Eng
land had gone TO war with us never to |
be heard OF again.
We had another war within our own
recent memory. Our foes were OF our
own household. Our ancient enemy
and our ancient ally sat at their gates,
gazing across the Atlantic, to see il they
could discover any pretext for throwing
their weight into the scale OF rebellion,
England gave us provocation enough,
But you remember the sublime patience
with which Abraham Lincoln waited un.
til the hour of our strength came. 1t was
the fortune Of another Adams to address
to Earl Russell one quiet sentence, per-
haps the most eloquent that ever came
from an American pen-"It is superflu-
GUS to observe to your lordship that this
is war"
GRANT, THE PATRIOT, AND CLEVELAND,
THE FRIEND OF ENGLAND.
You remember the time when General
Grant gave notice that any American
citizen who had claim against Great
Britain should bring the evidence to !
him. That naughty power sent over
her commissioners to apologize for her
wrong, and was held as n dependent to
make compensation. You remember
how the diplomacy OF the same great
administration induced nearly every
first class power in Europe to renounce
the old doctrine Of perpetual allegiance
and let our adopted citizens alone.
Those were days when the American
citizen, national or adopted, held up his
head in the pride of his citizenship.
Those were the days when our ten thou
sand millions OF wealth was becoming
fifty thousand; better still, when slaves
were changing into freemen, and free
men into citizens. Those were days
when the flag, beautiful us the flower to
those who loved it, terrible rs meteor
to those who heard it, foated every
where in peaceful seas, and was honored
everywhere in friendly ports. No petty
British officer hauled it down from an
American masthead. No Canadian
minister Of justice laughed in the face of
an American citizen when Grant was
in the White House!
AMERICA ROBBED or HER GLORY.
l confess that, much meditating on
these things, take little satisfaction
when think OF Grover Cleveland. l
do not like the policy which everywhere
robs American citizenship of its glory.
do not like the methods OF fraud and
crime which have destroyed popular
elections in SO many Democratic States.
/ would have the box where the
American freeman casts his ballot sacred
rs saCramental vessel. do not like
this conspiracy between the old slave
holder and the English manufacturer,
to strike down the wages OF the Ameri-
can workman and the comforts OF the
American workman's home. l do not
like your refusal to maintain the Amer
lean Navy and to fortify and defend the
American coast. And like no better
the present treaty. 1t leaves the Amer
lean sailor to be bullied 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 Wis
dom OF our fathers preserved for us.
At the close OF his speech, Mr.. Hoar
was complimented by several OF the Re-
publican Senators, and the Senate passed
from executive to legislative business.
TO REGULATE SUGAR TRUSTS.
Mr.. Sherman offered a resolution,
which was agreed to, directing the Com
mittee on Finance to inquire into and
report. in connection with any bills rails
ing revenue, that may be referred to
} it, such measures as it may deem expe-
dent to set aside, control, restrain or
prohibit all arrangements, contracts,
agreements, trusts or combinations, that
tend TO prevent free and full competition
in the production, manufacture or sale
Of articles OF domestic growth or pro-
duction, or OF the sales OF imported arti.
Cles, or that are designed or tend to fos-
ter monopoly, or TO advance artifcially
the cost to the consumer Of necessary
articles Of human life, with such penal
; ties and forfeitures as will tend TO pre-
! serve freedom Of trade and production,