Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-05-04
GROWERS FOREIGN POLICY.
1t will be the Very Opposite of Its
Predecessor.
Probabilities Of a Tariff Similar to the
One Enacted in 1916.

| AohlNulON, ApIl SS,- mere is no
reason for questioning the accuracy of
representations made in regard to the
policy, in foreign matters, of the pres
ent Administration and Government,
People read and listened TO the proph-
estes of correspondents, but treated
them lightly as of a partisan charac-
ter or sensation, and refused to become
alarmed about u predicted course by
the new Government and the old party,
too preposterous in their estimate to be
true.
ltwas inconceivable that the Admin
istration should contemplate deliber-
ate reversal of its predecessors, mar
rowing and unpatriotic course in rela-
tons with foreign affairs and COM
plete undoing of all that had been ac.
complished in building up our foreign
commerce through the magnificent
American policy instituted by Presi
dent Harrison and Secretary Blaine.
1t took some overt act to open the
eyes of the people to the fact that such
predictions were correct that not only
was such course and policy likely to
be pursued by Mr.. Cleveland, with the
aid of Mr.. Gresham, but that it was
positively the course determined upon.
Little time was allowed to elapse by
Cleveland between his Inauguration
and the act that was to be an eye
opener 1t came in the hauling down
of the American flag and the whole
Hawaiian incident, with its humilia-
ting, amazing and extraordinary feat.
lures. In this action Cleveland allow
ed no divided responsibility. 1t was
the President of the United States who
pulled down the flag of his country at
Honolulu, for the man who directly
ACTED was not a representative of the
United States, but the personal repre-
sentative Of Grover Cleveland, with
his letter to that effect in the breast
pocket of his gray coat. And such a
letter. Itmust make every self respect
ing American blush in the reading OF
itfrom its opening: Grover Cleveland,
President Of the United States of
America, to His Excellency, Stanford
B. Dole, Councils of the Provisional
Government of the Hawaiian Islands
Great and good friend I" &C., to
its closing;
MAY God have your Excellency in
his wise keeping.
Written at Washington this 18th
day of March, in the year 1893. Your
good friend, "GRovER CLEVELAND.
by thePresident.
"W. Q. GRESHAM Secretary of State" "
What sort of posing and monkey
business for the President of the
American Republic to be indulging in.
These are the phrases used between
Emperors and King and Czars-the
Lords anointed rulers i'm their
communications with one another.
Cleveland had already become "con
secrated," and all those about him,
even to his private secretary had duly
consecrated themselves. Now he
shows determination to be annointed
also. 1t is about the limit of making
this Government ridiculous in the eyes
of the world when the President ad-
dresses the head of provisional
government of six or eight people as
great and good friend, and fervently
exclaims MAY God have your Excel
lency in His wise keepingn'
The San Francisco Bulletin, which
had the first chance at the complete
letter, handled it thus This address
is modelled after the most improved
style of the crowned heads of Europe.
1t ought to have been signed Grover,
Imperator.' The terms are those con-
ventionally used by Queen Victoria or
the Emperor of Russia when they have
any corr spending dignitary to write
to. The assumption of such an imper-
ial style of address by our Government
would be as ridiculous as the aristoc-
racy with which the Emperor Solo.
que, of Hayti, once surrounded him
self. He conferred on its members
titles derived from the menu which he
loved, and before the world strutted
the Duke of Charlotte Russo, and the
Count of Marmalade. Such epistolary
high flying on the part of the President
of the United States is not more ludic-
rous.n
On the more serious side, it was d
bold step, and long one in the usur-
patton of power for the President to
declare that the authority of his per-
sonal commissioner "in all matters
affecting relations with the Govern
ment of the Hawaiian Islands" is
paramount, " though there is present
an American Minister with plenary
power under the. constitution and the
laws appointed by the President, and
confirm ed by the Senate. When the
question was raised as to the author
ity to lower the flag, Senator Butler
asked: but by whose authority was
the said flag hoisted on said pole? ?"
If, as claimed by the defense, the
flag was raised on questionable author
ity, it was lowered certainly ON much
more questionable authority. 1t was
raised by an American Minister, and
lower by the personal representative
of Grover Cleveland. If one was an
iTegularity the other was, and the