The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-10-31

contest is largely mixed up. in this
country. with home politics, Il il were
only for the purpose OF cutting an ec-
caslofaai stick from IL, wherewifh To
whip . party antagonist. Yet one
wolld have thought that the selection
OF Mr. Chamberlain as negotiator
would meet with universal approba-
ton on both sides OF the ocean. seeing
how friendly be i toward the free
commonwealth 70 which he came As .
messenger of good viii.
uPos THE WHOLE,
So lar as the English press has given
an opinion since the beginning OF the
presidential contest, it was and even
ret Is. 10 the main, favorable to the re-
newed candidacy Of Mr.. Cleveland.
his Is. no doubt. TO be explained from
reasons OF political economy. The
same reason was. 30 far as the wealthy
manufacturing classes we're concerned.
az the bottom of the former English
sympathy with secession. Among the
upper ten thousand and the political
hangers-On, the wish TO see the United
states broken up arose from the ad-
ditiorsal incentive of stenlning the
tide Of the movement for an enlarge
ment OF popular rights in Engiand
itself No sooner. indeed, had the
American republic come out trium-
plant from its struggles than the pop-
uiar movement in this country got a
powerful impetus for the extension OF
suffrage and kindred reforms. In fact,
the powerful wave of victorious free
dom in the United States strongly
beat. in the end, upon the English
shore, and there made itself felt.
on THIS OCCASION
Ii may be worth while to state that ii
IS mistake TO suppose the foreign
policy of English governments or
parties to be ALWAYS and exclusively
dominated by the free trade principle.
There have, at any rate, been some
noteworthy exceptions TO that rule.
Russia Is one of the most proiectionist
empires; Turkey essentially q free
trade country. Yet even Golden took,
politically, the side of Russia-eyen to
the extent of declaring against the
Polish cause and writing in favor of
the further extension OF the territorial
power of Carbon. Mr.. Gladstone is
supposed to be an out-and-out free
trader. Still, he too. blessed the sword
OF the a1tocrat in the last war against
Turkey; and ever since Bulgaria has
tried TO stand ON her own legs as
against the domineering attempts of
the Russian government, he has kent
significantly silent.
More than this: Mr.. Gladstone, dur
ing the debates on his home rule. or
rather repeal bill. actually committed
himself to concession of protection
ism for Ireland as against England.
This fact has been observed by very
few; yet. it clearly results from re-
cords of the house of commons. 1t
is public secret that the Irish party, y
in their vast majority, claim the right,
for the separate parliament they insist
on, OF establishing tariff of its own.
MR.. GLADSTONE,
Who in the confidential negotiations
which preceded his bill must have
been informed on this point, declared
in 1886, in peculiar phraseology, that
1.-The maintenance of the fiscal unity
between Great Britain and Ireland is
not vital principle. The remark
was thrown out incidentally, as a
casual interiection, and thus escaped
general notice; but il is not the less
significant. His object being to main
tain himself in power even at the cost
of the dissolution OF the legislative
union between Great Britain and
Ireland, he did not shrink from an
offer of giving up his free-trade prin-
ciples in the closest neighborhood in
England.
All this shows that il is never safe
to reckoA on consistency in the case
of some OF the foremost politicians of
this country. However. so far as
things go at the present moment, it
may be averred that the leanings of
the majority in England continue in
favor of the candidature of President
Cleveland, and that these leanings are
to be explained either from the tariff
consideration or from the old and not
yet quite extinct aversion to the party
which saved The American Union in
1904, or from both reasons together.
At the same time there's much gnash-
ing of teeth that the very candidate
whom il was intended to patronize
should, in his desire TO "outmaneuver
and dish the Republicans" threaten
to strike simultaneous blow against
Canada and England"
In the midst of this confusion, one
consolation is generally chung to-
namely, the hope that. in consequence
of this unexpecte policy, Canada her.
self should once more be drawn closer
to the English connection. Such is
the picture OF the situation, as it pre-
sents itself TO the eye of one to whom
England has become a second home,
and who would grieve to see her going
down. but who has also before his
minds eye the cause of the freedom,
the prosperity, and the might of the
great transatlantic republic.
KARL BLIND.
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