The record-union., 1891-05-10
Special to the SUNDAY UNION.

| SpSSLSAA W the SUNDAY UNION.
New YORK, May 9.-Yates' London
letter to the Tribune says: "There is
only one master III this country, and L
am he; there shall be no other be-
sides me-" Such are the authentic words
OF the German Emperor at the Dusseldorf
on Tuesday. ''In the spirit" adds he,
Il drink to the welfare of the Rhine
province" But when the fumes OF this
spirit had been dispellod a more sober
second thought of the Emperor led him
to strike out from the official report of his
harangue this all too significant sentence.
That it was spoken there is no doubt.
They who heard it were many. 1t was
his answer, think some, to the election of
Bismarck to the Reichstag.
Be the Emperors motives what they
may, his speech is remarkable for more
| reasons than one. In the first twelve
lines of it the first personal pronoun
occurs thirteen times, and the whole de-
hverance is saturated with egotism. Moth
ing apparently can control his passion for
publicity. He is content at present to
make his voice heard. 1t viii be the
turn OF his cannon little later.
Ihat too smart an attempt of the Mar
qulS oil Rudini to taSten on Blaine the
charge of using private dispatch pub
| Gcly has had no success The Americans
| answer to it was here thought prompt.
| dignitied and conclusive.
Last week brought us an American
| libel OF different sort appearing in n
! paper where II would do hundred times
the mischief which any publication in the
| Datty Ne'rS could effect. l thought then
that 1t might be better to leave it unno-
| ticed, but since an epidemic of scandal
| seems to have broken out in New York,
| like the epidemic of influenza in Eng
| land, 1t is probably useless to try and
| ignore the other. The Times was heed
less enough to publish last Thursday
week budget of scurrilous gossip about
| Blaine III connection with the seal fishing
| in Behring Sea. Blaine was accused Of
! keeping open the Behring Sea question
| and refusing to come to an agreement
with England because he is himself a
partner in the sealing trade, and for the
| same reason putting off Sir Julian
Pauncetote with a false pretense of i'll
| ness. There is much more of this ma
| llclouS nOnSenSe-half a column of il in
all. The Dalziel agency is the author of
| it.
1t is singular, indeed, that the Times
should be willing to make channel
along which these calumnies are allowed
to ooZe. To publish ridiculous lampoons
! on the American States, is to create pub
! lie opinion in this country which can
only nlnder the conclusion of an agree
ment which both countries and the Min
listers of both countries really desire. IL
is hard to say which is the more guilty,
| he who transmits or he who publishes
such infamies, but, if the author of them
| be an American, his act is more indis-
Greet.
| The Times stoops so low as to notice
! editorially these innuendoes, saying to-
day: I'VE do not assume that Blaine
! has been undulY Swayed by the interests
| of the North American Commercial Com
| pany, which is averse, at present, to n
close time. We are looking to his acts,
not to the insinuations that he has been
| tritling from unworthy motives with the
matter, and that the company is per-
mitted to extirpate the seals" And this
great journal, which prides itself on its
! good manners, proceeds TO ask what will
| be thought of him if certain charges
| should prove true.