The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-28

1tIs not uncommon for dispatches from
ond ~ mako ducks and brakes of the
pu1,Io mon and political affairs Of the
Unitpd etates, but nothing quite 90 ludic-
xous n this line has appeared Of late years
= was contained In . Paris dispatch Of
Jnly sd to The New York Herald. This
dispatch makes - very important repre-
sentative 81 he 6Iccls" call upon Whitslaw
Raid, editor 81 tho New York Tribune, and
our SINISTER to France. and obtain his
s1ows o. The Mckinley bill.
Ihe Dispatch could have been based on
10 other thsory than that Minister Reid is
N IDIOT or It least dsnselv ignorant Of
~ reopeistiss attaching to his position,
md males him branch OF into slap-dash
dlocunion Of pending and most import
ant matter Of American lsgisl alton with q
french nswspapsr reporter. Nothing more
comical has appeared In print for many .
az than ars the expressions attributed to
Cur Hinistsr In this dispatch. In the first
plaoe he h made to declare that .'the birth
u anew and powerful political party, up
Aolding protection," was the '.result of the
civil war" Further along he is made to
say that the demand of socialist politi-
clans" b the "sole reason for the exagcera-
Hon Of the tariff, and in conclusion our
Minister d reprssented ~ declaring to the
6secls reporter lat II consider protection
opposed to civilization"
An Of which implies that our minister to
France. the editor OF the leading Republi.
can newspaper Of the United States. is ig
norant that Alexander Hamilton, the first
and greatest secretary Of the United States
treasury, was an ardent advocate of pro.
lection; that Henry Clay. whose fame i,
worldwide - one of the foremost states.
men Of modern times. was chiefly conspic-
nous ~ "the apostle Of protection, /" and
that he died nine years bsfore the CON-
msncement OF the civil war; that he (Reid,
had for IN immediate predecessor in the
editorship Of the 7I5uae one Horace Gree.
ley. who was an intense advocate of pro-
tsction before he (Mr. Reid) was born. and
With I'll the fervor OF his nature advocated
that doctrine for half an ordinary lifetime
through the columns OF the 7,ibuas
The language attributed to him In the
Dispatch also implies that Mr.. Reid know,
nothing about our Henry George, the fore.
most socialist leader in the United States
and b ignorant Of the fact that Mr.. Geory.
sccFns to disguise his arrant free-trsde
IDEAS under the dimsv pretense of .taritf
Tsform" or any other halfway measure
IN . word, this preposterous dispatch
makes Mr.. Reid appear an ignoramu, in
rsspeot 10 the history Of his country and
- politics, and Of the newspaper OF which
~ b che editor. and Of the origin Of
policy Of which he has been distinguished
advocate from the days Of his earliest man.
hood.
Certainly the enemies of the Mckinley
III and Of the protective policy must be
driven 70 sad straits when they ara com.
pslled to bolster their cause BY the publica.
ton Of such arrsnt nonsense. Ii IL hardly
necessary 70 assure the public that White.
law Raid is an out-and-out protecsonist
lor al that the name implies. and tina,
everybody connected with the New York
1Fa1 knew such 70 be the case, and that
thsif dispatch was . shear csnard when
they gave Il publication.