Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-15
Un-American Americans.

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Louisiana to be the Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary of the United States
to France, Mr.. Cleveland has Sc
lected to represent this country
two individuals, who are con-
i spicuously un-American in their
views and sympathies.
The missions to England and
France are the most important
in the diplomatic service of the
United States. Great Britain is
the leading commercial rival of
this Republic. The course of
her government toward this
country has almost invariably
been unfriendly. British en-
croachments on American rights
have been particularly vexa-
tious in the northern seas Brit
ish mercantile and political
agents have been INCREASINGLY
active in endeavoring to arouse
a dislike of the United States
in the countries of Latin Ameri-
ca. The British Empire is the
only great European power that
possesses territories contiguous
to the United States. 1t is the
only power that has erected
formidable fortresses for the
purpose of menacing this coun-
try. 1t is obvious that the Am
bassador of the United States
to the Court of ST. James ought
to be a man of sterling Ameri-
canism; a man not only of tried
mental capacity, but of indomi-
table firmness in the assertion of
American rights.
France, on the other hand, is
our friend and ally. She was
the invaluable champion of
American rights against British
oppression in the Revolution.
Her government is to-day re-
public hardly less popular in it's
form than our own. Both the
past services of the French to
America and the fact that
France is the one great republic
of Europe makes it highly i'm
portant that the United States
should be represented at Paris
by a diplomat of first-rate abili-
ty and sincere sympathy with
republican institutions.
Mr.. Bayard and Mr., Eustis are
the representatives of aristocrat-
ic and unrepublican doctrines.
The Louisiana ex-senator is a
leader in the infamous Bourbon
conspiracy of force and fraud
for the suppression of Republican
votes in the South. He is the
champion of caste domination
and the strenuous opponent of
social and industrial progress.
AS for Mr.. Bayard, he represents
the close oligarchy which has
ruled the State of Delaware for
generations. For many years
Delaware has been practically a
pocket borough for Bayard and
Salisbury families. They have
ruled the State with an auto
cratic power which has FORUM
ately had few parallels in Amer
lean politics.
The careers of Mr.. Cleveland's
Ambassador to England and
Minister to France have been a
continuous warfare upon the
fundamental assertions of the
Declaration of independence
that all men are created free and
equal. There are men who have
no sympathy with the millions
of their fellow citizens who eat
their bread in the sweat of
their faces. They represent, not
the great masses of intelligent,
industrious, self respecting
Americans, but the arrogant
oligarchy of the South, whose
power was founded on the en-
slavement of labor and whose
aims and prejudices were essen
TALLY those of the nobility of
England and the Continent.
They are in full sympathy with
the purpose of European monop-
olists to gain contIol Of the
American market; they are in
substantial accord with the Eu-
ropean aristocrats who regard
republican institutions with con-
tempt.
The appointment of Bayard
and Eustis to the most important
diplomatic posts within the gift
of the government, is a signifi-
cant reminder that the Democrat
ic party is the party of Bourbon
ism and reaction, of caste, preju-
dice and un-American ideas.-N
Y D,aoa