Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-11
BLUFFING
Being Resorted to by the To-
ries of Great Britain,
Who Hope 1t Will Give Them a
New Lease of Life.

They Arc Desperate for an Issue to
Arouse Jingoism and Bring the Coun.
try to Their Support, and Will work
tho Behring Sea squabbie for All It 10
Worth-BoGus Communications.
LONDON, March 1.-THE news from
America is the absorbing topic of dis
cussion, SO far as foreign affairs are con-
cerned, and it is intimated strongly that
should the American government at
tempt retaliation against Canada, En-
gland will withdraw from arbitration
and meet any issue that the United
States may choose to raise in the Beh-
ring sea muddle, with plain assertion
Of the right of English subjects to hunt
seals outside of the recognized limits Of
United States jurisdiction.
Anything to Prolong Life.
This position is urged by many of the
Tories, and is said to be regarded with
out disfavor, although, as yet, without
open approval at the foreign Office. The
Tories are desperate for an issue that
would arouse jingoism, and rally the
country to the support of the govern
ment. Lord Lalisbury's eastern policy
is generally approved, even by the Lib
erals, and the opinion is expressed in
Tory circles that the prestige thus
gained would stimulate general sup
port of course assertive of British and
Canadian claims in North America.
There has been notable disposition Of
late on the part of the newspapers COM
monty supposed to be in the confidence
of the government to foster q feeling Of
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impression that Americans are un-
friendly to Great Britain.
Ridiculous Letters.
With this object ridiculous commune
cations have been published, alleged to
have been written by Americans, and
containing bombastic menaces against
England.
Even if these letters were genuine,
they would not be published under
ordinary circumstances, aud without
some special motive on the part of the
newspapers giving them space.
There is some reason, however, to be-
heve that they have been written to or
der, as it is not thought likely that any
genuine and sensible American would
threaten, as one of these writers has
done, to throw 100000 men into
Great Britain and blot it from the face
of the earth. This absurd letter, how
ever. is being made the subject of gem
eral comment throughout England, as
an evidence of tho American braggadocio
and animosity.
Want Dem ons tration.
The Tories also regard the time as
favorable for an anti American demon
stration on account of he irritation that
exists among large numbers of working
people, who are supposed to have had
their wages reduced, or been deprived
Of employment altogether, on account
of the Mckinley law.
This feeling is especially strong in
Wales, and the manufacturing districts,
which are also strongly Liberal, and
which, some supporters of the govern
ment think, might be won over to Lord
Salisbury by any course that would
cause the Americans to suffer in retalia-
ton for the suffering which their high
tariff, it is declared, has brought upon
many thousands in Great Britain.
For these reasons Lord Salisbury's at
titude is openly supported by the Tories,
and is not without sympathy amoug
Liberals.
Talk OF War.
In naval quarters, while officials are
reticent, unofficislly it is stated that
the British squadron in the Pacific can
bc depended upon to do its duty in the
event of any encounter with the Ameri-
cans.
1t is we'll known that, during the re-
cent revolution in Chill, the sympathies
of Rear Admiral Charles +. Hotham and
his fellow officers, were strongly with
the revolutionists, and they would have
liked nothing better than chance to re-
buke the course of the American navy.
Not few of the Gillian navy officers
had been trained in company with the
British officers, and there was a strong
fellow feeling. This feeling has not
diminished with Chili's surrender to
American demands, and, said a gentle
man, who is persona grata at the admir-
atty:
"The Americans will make a most
serious blunder if they suppose there
will be any hesitation on the part Of the
British navy in defending British sub
jects in an occupation which Great Brit
ain holds to be lawful"
Rightly or wrongly, the sentiment Of
the Tories, expressed in the clubs, the
parliamentary lobbies and public places
generally, is that q jingo policy toward
America on the Behring sea question
will be both safe and politically profit
able, and that, even in the gravest
event, it would be the best policy to
pursue.
The Tory st. James Gazette, COM
menting on the news from Washington,
says that great fuss is being made by
the American government over the
modus vivendi, and suggests that 1t
would be better to allow sealing to go
on as usual and for the arbitrators after
ward to decide what damage. il any.