Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1893-11-07
DO EVERYBODY Else


Whether in politics or in reli gion the
proselyte is always intensely suspicious
Of and irreconcilably hostile to his former
friends The intensity of his feelings is
usually the gauge Of the regency of his
conversion.
Such is the case with the editor of the
New York Press. He Is an Englishman
but recently converted to Republican
ism and protectionism, both of which he
personifes in their most imbecile types.
Such is the brief, but sufficient, history
of the critic who takes Ambassador
Bayard to task for the kindly sentiments
he expressed at Sheffield when he re-
ferred to the war Of 1912 as the late and
"the last war, between these United
States and Great Britain.
It is difficult to conceive what this
man, who has turned so holly against
the country which gave him birth, would
have Mr.. Bayard say. He does not sug-
gest anything that should have been
said to insult the hosts who were cour.
teously entertaining the handsome aud
honorable guest, Mr. Bayard, as the rep
resentative between the two greatest
nations of the world. But in the elegant
and refined language of his class, he
says:
IL is al very W II for the emissary of
our Mugwump President to say that he
cannot believe in the advancement of
any country founded on the misfortune
or injury of another" England has
never hesitated to advance her own in
terests at the expense of American mis-
fortunes. and has more than once DELHI
erately plotted ruin for American ia
terests IS after the war Of 1912, when. in
order to crush the Young industries of
the United States. British manufaetur-
ers and mel chants flooded America with
British goods, and gave Americans their
hrst object lesson in the disastrous
effects of free trade.
We confess our inability to answer an
argument like that. II England did the
things that Mr.. Bayard condemns what's
the editor kicking" aboutY
Whatever ignominy may attach to Mr..
Bayard as the "emissary' Of this country
while Mr.. Cleveland a Mugwump, is the
President, he must bear; we cannot de-
fend him against IT, The crime is beyond
our jurisdiction and out Of our bailiwick
We confess our inability, also, to de-
fend Mr.. Bayard for the sentiment that
one country should not seek to advance
on 1.-THE misfortune or injury Of another %
That controverts the beautiful doctrine
Of protection; or:
Do do Huokleberry do.
DO everybody else, or he'll do you.
At that most poteJt and last charge
against Mr.. Bayard, that the British
trying "to crush the young industries
here, flooded America with British
goods, we are agbast That is an en-
tirely new charge. 1t never appeared in
print before. But the dastardly wicked
ness Of such a crime against political
economy and the laws of supply and de
mand is astounding, appalling. vast.
We cannot conceive why our simple
minded forefathers did not rush into
another war Immediately, or mob the
merchants and their customers in this
country who assisted in that diabolical
plot
Perhaps they wanted the goods. Per.
haps the prices were ehesp and the
qualities excellent Those things which
would make the evil sll the more hate
fnl, injurious and destructive 70 the
superior wisdom Of a protectionist Of the
Harrisonized editor type. were the re
com mendatious TO those hard headed
and economical old revolutionists. They
! were not learned in the modern school Of