New-York tribune., 1891-05-10


be held to have had notice of the limitations upon
the treaty making powers Of the United States. of
their Constitution, and in particular of that
provision which leaves the administration of Grim.
inal justice 10 the separate States He holds, on
the other hand that the defects of judicial pro.
cedure are no answer to the complaints OF q
foreign Government. I" IL the denial OF justice
is palpabe and the case serious, foreign Govern
ment may treat it grave breach OF mterna-
tional rights; possibly, even as a casus peih'"
No doubt she may, and there is no act dispieasing
or injurious to her for which she may not seek
redress in the way. History is full OF
prccedents, and the origins Of many wars ana
diplomatic difficulties lave been trivial But
in these days there is such thing as public
opinion Nobody ever thought for example. that
the alleged insult to Bendetti by the King OF
Prussia at Ems justified France in starting for
Berlin, nor did she get very far on that road
Professor Bryce suggests. as Others have sug-
gested that the American Congress should legis-
late for the protection of aliens and the full exc
cution of treaties. lie offers no solution OF the
present difficulty nor is there probably any soiu-
ton except that Italy should recover her senses
The report of the New-Orleans Grand Jury gives
OCCASION as might have been expected, for 1resh
outburst of anti-American comment from the
American correspondent of The Daily News" He
tells his English readers that justice is COM
pletey controlled by criminals and their allies.
lie alleges that thoughtful observers fear that
the condition of the police and of the criminal
prosecuting machinery in New-Orleans is symp-
tomatic Of nearly all the larger cities of the
country containing a large foreign element Every
where, he asserts even more sweepingly there is
demoralization similar to that disclosed at New
Orleans Another dispatch discloses the real
source of these slanders upon the Republic. The
"thourhtful observer is the Editor OF Inc
New-York Evening Post" He it is who says that
our shame will be blown about the world,
and it is from his office that the wind
comes which blows it, "The Daily News's"
agent is Mr. Godkns agent, writer on his paper
thoroughly imbued with his spirit and his nos
tility to what is American. 1t is Mr. GodIln' the
naturalized emigrant, whose voice is hearo III pe
half of those other naturalized emgrants VINO
murdered Hennessy in New-Orleans. Such views
find a natural home in the congenal columns OF
this Gladstonian sheet. which thinks IL pi'S .na'
the "New-Orleans mob did not first turn their
attention to their own countrymen, whose COW
ardice and venality lay at the root Of the whole
mischief II only Americans had been lynched,
| "Tbe Daily News" and, no doubt The Evening
postn also. would have thought it all right loI
the Justice of lynch law ought to begin at home
Tho less this journal says about venality, the
better: while its New-York correspondent is con-
tent 70 accent British pay for sending TO Brlush
journal long series of shameful libes on America
of which this is only the latest
Ono more word on libels from another quarter
That too smart attempt OF the Marquis I'll huuin'
n fasten to Mr.. Blaine the charge OF uang
private dispatch publicly has had no succeSS' ine
American answer to it was hete thought prompt
d;ori6ad and conclusive. Last week brought us
an American libel of a different sort, appearing
IN n paper where it would do a hundred times the
mischief which any publication In y Inc Dany
News" could effect i thought then that IL migh'
o hetter In leave it unnoticed, but since an cpl
demic of scandal seems to have broken OUT III
New-York, like the epidemic of influenza IN Eng
land it is probably useless to try to ignore ether
The Tines was needless enough to publish last
Thursday week O. budget of scurrious gossip about
Mr. blaine in connection with seal-fshing in Beh-
RING Sea. Mr. Blaine accused of keeping
omen the Behring Sea question, and refusing to
come 70 an agreement with England; because he
is bimself partner in the sealing trade; and for
tho same reason putting of Sir Julian Paunce-
fote with the false pretence of Illness There
is much more of this malicious nonsense-half
column of it in all. The Dalzlel Agency IS the
| author of it, Mr. Dalziel. by his name would
seem 70 he a ScOtchman. Whatever he be, this is by
no means his first experiment in libel ON America
and Americans 1t is singular, indeed, that
The Times" should be willing to make itself the
channel along which these calumnies are allowed
~ ooze England is at least, much interested
os America in having the Behring Sea disute ami
cohlv settled and quickly settled. To publish ri
dicnlous LANNON'S on the American Secretary of
State is 70 create public opinion in this country
which can only hinder the conclusion of that
aoreement which both countries and the Minis
ters NJ both countries sincerely desire. 1t is hard
70 saw which is the more guify-he who transmits
or he who publishes, such lnfamies; but II the
ortbor ~ them be an American. his act is the
more indiscreet ;,
"Tbe Times stoops so low as to notice edi-
toriallv these innundoes saying to-day: we 90
not assume that Mr.. Blaine has been unduly swayed
nv the interests of the North American CONNER
cial COMPANY which is avese at present 10 u
close time. We are looking to his acts not 10
the insinuations that he has been trifng, from
unworthy motives, with the mtter, and that that
connanv is permitted to exdrpate the seals
And this great Journal which lsed 10 pride ITSELF
or ;ts good manners proceeds TO ask what VIII
ho +hopgbt of him. if certain cmrges should prove
true. ~ p,..o,a
Having discussed in long article Mr. Blaine's
latest note 70 Sir Julian Pauncefote, and being
unable TO adduce any serious objection 10 his pres
ent proposals for arbitration, "The Times un-
huries its old sneer to account fer this sweet rea-
sonableness of the American Secretary OF STATE
observing that there is no more electioneering
capital to be got out of the question Such Is tne
temper in which it is now thought proper 10 dls-
cuss grave international issues
This weeks elections have brotght but little
comfort n the Conservatives They lost the Stow
market Division of Suffolk by 214 and they car
ried South Dorset by forty. But they expected
to win, not to lose, StOwmarket, and they counted
on much larger majority in Dorset This last is
what is called moral victory for the Gladsto-
mans. never heard of anybody who liked moral
,;o,ores in nolitics when he could have the other