The St. Johns herald., 1891-11-12
Work for Mir. Blaine.

| VIII O NLCADNO " 0P 4bE mind for itself concerning the state ot his health. It will judge by what
 he accomplishes. If he can man. age our foreign relations with all
 his old vigor and acuteness the pub lie will take it for granted that he is we'll. Otherwise not.
 There is plenty for MT. Blaine to do. The loose ends of the reciproc- ity negotiations must be picked up where he left them last spring. In a little over two months it will be the duty of the President, under the law, to put in force the retaliatory provi- sions of the Mckinley bill against all those countries that have not concluded agreements with us. We are having the sweets of reciprocity now; we shall have the bitter then. The more treaties MT. Blaine can negotiate within the next two months the less bitter there will be.
 Our Government agreed to discuss reciprocity with representatives of Canada last spring. The Canadian envoys went to Washington and Mr. Blaine was obliged to ask them to call again after President Harri- son had returned from his tour to the Pacific Coast. They agreed to come back on the 18th of October. When that date arrived President Harrison asked them to await un- til Mir. Blaine got we'll. Now that Mir. Blaine is we'll we may expect the Canadians to be promptly ac- commodated.
 The Boring sea modus vivendi expires next year. It is important that permanent agreement be reached in the mean time. The Eng fish and American Commissioners have made their reports. and from all accounts it will take considera- ble ingenuity to reconcile them. There are several other Canadian complications that may as we'll be settled at the same time. There is the fishery question, for instance, and the question of the proper reg ulation of Chinese immigration.
 Speaking of the Chinese natural ly brings up the very delicate situa- ton of Americans in China. MT. Blaine will have to decide how far, in view of our policy of reserving to ourselves complete control over our own soil, we can go with other foreign powers in compelling the Chinese to open their country to white settlement.
 When the Secretary left his post he had just vindicated, with much success, the right of the United States to deal with mobs in it's own way without responsibility to any foreign Government. He will now find himself compelled to demand l redress of Chile for an outbreak of mob violence too serious to be dis posed of in any such man ner and he will have to show that he can be as vigorous in enforcing Ameri- can rights abroad as he is firm in defending them at home.
 One of the most abject failures of the present Administration in it's management of foreign affairs was it's attempt to secure coaling sta ton in Haiti. MT. Blaine will have to make up his mind whether to renew that effort, to try to get the station somewhere else, or to give up any idea of gaining a foothold in the West Indies at all.
 One of the Secretary's earliest ex- ploits was his settlement of the Samoan question. It turns out now that this settlement, so loudly her aided at the time as a triumph, is a disastrous failure. The Berlin treaty is doing more harm than good, ,and it will have to be amended unless Samoa is to be reduced to anarchy. As Mir. Blaine was the workman who did the original iob. the cOun-