St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-05
VIEWS OF THE REVIEWS.

ter, objected to the credentials of Adj
miral Gherardi as insufficient. though
Mr.. Douglas urged their sufficiency,
and that it took two months to get sat
iSfactory papers from Washington. The
naval display made by the admiral had
the effect of making Hayti suspicious of
the real purpose of the negotiation and
helped to defeat it. Then he gives, in
manner calculated to impress the
reader that this is the real end for
which he writes, an account of
the efforts made by a New York
firm to wiring from HyppoIite subsidy
of half a million dollars for its steam
ship line. He tells how the agent of
the firm tried to enlist his services i'll
the matter how, falling, he reported
Mr.. Douglas lat Washington and to
various persons in high places as I'M
friendly to this concession" Then the
agent cody laid claim of $1,000 for
damages to his firm in prosecuting the
subsidy, and demanded that Mr.. Douglas
aid him in getting it, which he refused
to do. The fellow finally got it, and
then returned to press his scheme. 1t
is evident that Mr. Douglas has not told
all he knows, and that he wishes to
give hint that an investigation of the
relation of the state department to the
subsidy hunter might furnish some in
teresting reading.
William Henry Hurlburt, Journalist
and diplomat, has an article on Rec
lproclty and Canada" which. in view of
theNcoming resumption of the efforts of
Canada to establish closer and freer
trade relations with us, is timely The
word reciprocity" he says, is "a mon
grel and bastard like the thing He
compares 1t to cutting a dixie after
dixie has been built at great cost ito
keep the level of nations wealth
above the surrounding element" The
word made its first appearance in the
language of the diplomats in the pro-
ViSionai treaty of peace between this
country and England in 1882. But the
cardinal question, he thinks, is how far
the power to intefmeddle in the affairs
OF the Dominion and the Union, held
by Great Britain, is an element OF
mischief or of good, and he re-
CARDS any participation of the British
foreign Office in the negotiations as
more likely to impede than to further
the end sought. The tendency, he
thinks, in all the colonial dependencies
OF Great Britain, is towards commercial
independence. to the right to make
treaties freed from the control of the
mother country.
John Russell Young gives the results
OF his observation while minister to
China in his New Life in China" He
gives some facts which should set
Americans to thinking whether il is
either right or best that the policy of
the nation should be made to bend to
the demands of ignorant and selfish
demagogues. 1t is not pleasant to
learn fnat rpSnlt nf in
defensible policy, our flag" which in
the days of Burlingame, had the pres
tlge almost OF a DrOtectOrate in Pekin,
which was at one time the dominant
flag in Chinese commerce, has no au-
rhority beyond certain domestic offices
at the consulateS and legation" in
1885 the American flag was on every
coast and in every naVigable stream of
China, covering the largest commercial
fleet in the East. Now it may be found,
II at all, upon some poor, forlOrn petro-
leum tramp steamer edging its way to-
wards unfrendly WharveS." The cause
he finds in the fact that our attitude to-
ward China has finally awakened the
last emotion to be aroused in the Orien-
tai mind-the emotion OF self-respect."
Out OF this is SDringing what he terms
the new life of China, an antag-
onism to all foreign interference
and disposition to prepare for
what may come by awakening the mill
tary spirit which sent Chinese armies
of conquest across Asia into Eastern
Europe under Genghis Khan and Ii
nOur. As Illustrative of this, Mr. Young
says that at Ningpo the viceroy was
entertained by himself and Admiral
Davis on board the Enterprise, during
which drill of the men was given On
the return call the vcerOy asked if they
would like to see drill of his troops,
and one was ordered. The movements
were executed with such precision that
Admiral Davis exclaimed: ITO think
that | actually gave that Chinaman a
drill on board my ship to show how the
thing was done, and now he gives me
drill to show me that his people know
them"
Henry Watterson is not himself If he
is not breezy, and he is strictly Waiter
sonian in his gossip about political con-
ditionS and probabilities in the article
which he has christened ''Straws" 1t
is the unexpected that always happens
in presidential nominations, he main
tains. and he evidently expects that the
nominations next year will verify him.
The fall elections promise crop of
IllOuSl may UldSI
them all and leave the Cleveland-HiIl
embroglio to raise storm in the next
Democratic national convention. OF
Mr.. Cleveland, he says that he brought
10 the White house the excellent traits
of great aSSiduity and an unusual turn
for details, ''but he soon added to them
the display of an extraordinary self
confidence, particularly so in one so
unprepared, ana surprising taste
for experimental politics, personal and
political. He cut and Slashed right and
left. In his hands precedents were scat
tered like cobWebs. He beat down Op-
position with success startling to the
discounted. He made issues with
precipitation that staggered the doc
trinaires. It is not denied that he, bv
his enemies, partisan or personal, that
he gave the country wise, safe and
clean administration" which, though
the colonel does not seem to recognize
it. is very ample Justification for that
novel conduct of administration which
the colonel evidently disappr0ves of.
Another thing which supports the as
Sertion with which the article opens,
land set all precedent at def
anee by gaining strength from
his defeat. He exculpates Gov. Hill
from the blame of the defeat which at
tached to him, having evidently in mind
his own letter TO the governor, which
the latter never received, and the rather
contemptuous opinion of Mr.. Watterson
which he expressed later. He evidently
thinks it would be to the advantage of
themselves, the Democratic party and
the state of New York if these TWO gen
tlemen should take Dana's advice and
'sget together" He insists that the
Democratic party should stick to it's
last" and believes that if it permit the
Republicans to switch it off on the sill
yer or any other issue than the tariff
lit will meet defeat and richly deserve
it."
Richard Henry Stoddasd contributes
an appreciatiye article on Lowell's lit
erary life whose standing as a critic he
rarardS as fixed even If the tina hoe not