The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-06-02

weeks before the Chilians were down on
their knees in abject apology, and with
Commander Evans, whose martial de-
rible cramp. We must not leave out
Tracy and Evans. "This administration
has vindicated the honor of the Ameri-
can hog. Now for the first time in
twenty years American meat products are
admitted in every European market on
the same terms with the meat products
of other lands: and in some markets on
terms even more favorable L have had
some difficulty in figuring out just who
has done this. Certainly it was done
primarily by the agents of the state de-
partment: by Minister Reid in France,
! Phelphs in Germany, by Minister Grant
in Australia: and by other ministers If
remember correctly, Mr.. Reid began
this work with hostile Partisan press,
hostile French public. hostile cham
Der of deputies and, at the first, hostile
government to contend with. He gave
such character to the American hog
as to enable it to force its way not only
into the French market, but into every
! other. No my excellent friend, Secre-
tary Rusk has said that he is very much
obliged to Mr.. Blaine and the state
department for the able assistance
they have rendered to him in securing
the admission of American meat pro-
! ducts abroad. This seems to me that it
was Rusk who did it.
'f"In a recent speech, the president
himself said that this result had been
accomplished, in such complacent terms
as to make me fear that Rusk had
counted without his host but whetherit
was done by the president or by Rusk,
the republican party and the country
will not be likely to forget that Blaine
was in the state department., that Reid
was at Paris, that Phelps was at Berlin,
and that their relation to the victory
was not altogether mechanical.
/! tIt might be said perhaps that the
credit of the achievements wrought by
republican statesmen belongs especially
to the president on the ground that he
gave those great men to the party: but
did he? Certainly it was not Harrison
who made Blaine, nor did he make
Reid, nor William Mckinley, nor John
Sherman, nor Allison, nor Aldrich, nor
Frye, nor Hale. / guess maybe he did
! make Noble and Miller, and shall not
object to his having all the credit which
attaches to their careers; but the point
1 wish to bring out is that ours is gov
ernment of parties, and not govern
ment of men. The presidents error lies
in assuming that he has done it all
! He asks the country to see in him
the inspirator and creator of all that
has brought process and happiness to
thespeople since he began to reside in
the White House; he attributes to him
self all the glorious achievements of the
last congress, quite ignoring the superb
genius whose strong arm and clear head
turned havoc into order and made the
feeble majority of three or four the
most prolific and successful body of law
makers that ever sat in congress. The
Mckinley bill, the customs act, the
!! shipping bill, the pension law, the navy
construction laws, the fortification law,
the. army reform acts, the wonderful leg
islation which the republican majority
of that congress formulated, and which
Thomas B. Reeds resolute will enabled
them to enact, Mr.. Harrison attributes
| to himself, and says: ''See what have
done.''
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