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THE PACIFIC AN AMERICAN
OCEAN,

The Hon. Harold NJ. Sewall, formerly
President Cleveland's Consul in Samoa,
is the son of the Hon. Arthur Sewall, the
we'll know shipbuilder of Bath, Me-, and
representative of the State of Maine on
the Democratic National Committee.
The fact that the shipping interests of
Bath are being injured severely by the
Democratic policy of ruin for American
industries has evidently helped to i'm
press upon the son, if not upon the
father, the folly of supporting an Ad-
ministration which strikes with equal
malice at the prestige of the Nation
abroad and its prosperity at home. Ex-
Consul Sewall, at Republican meeting
in Augusta, Me-, last week, delivered a
timely and forcible presentation of the
shameful, treacherous, anti-American
policy of the Cleveland Administration
in the Pacific. AS Mr.. Sewall declared,
foreign affairs have not been uppermost
of late in the minds of the people of
Maine. They have had enough and too
much to think of regarding the struggle
which has been going on and is still 60
ing on in defense of the very life of the
industries and commerce of their State,
assailed by the Democratic programme
of destruction and disaster for the North
But the honor of the whole Nation, from
Maine to the Rio Grande, is involved by
the policy which has brought disgrace
and shame upon the American Govern
menJ in connection with Hawaii, and
threatens similar disgrace and shame in
Samoa. That the Democrats of Maine
should have given approval, however
qualified, to course which high minded
Democrats in Congress, led by Senator
Morgan of Alabama, have repudiated
and condemned. shows the debasing in
huence of executive favor upon the cuck-
90 Democracy, and at the same time
draws the line clearly in the Maine con-
test between the Republican principle of
Americanism and the Democratic princi-
pie of sacrificing American to British in
terests.
Mr.. Sewall portrayed in facts and fig
ures that every American should take to
mind the greatness of the interests which
bind this country to the islands of the
Pacific. On that immense ocean two
fifths of the territory of the Republic
finds its outlet. Our States on the Pacit-
ic slope give us frontage there of over
800 miles, not including Puget Sound,
and Alaska, in its measured extensions
east and west, north and south, adds to
that frontage twice as great. To the
east lie the richest nations of Asia: to
the south the future republic of Aus
tralia, whose people, Mr.. Sewall correct
ly said, are to-day the aptest students of
our political institutions. The advent
of Mr.. Cleveland to the Presidential
chair found this country in position of
supreme and momentOus advantage re-
gardlng the Pacific, and that advantage
the Cleveland Administration has striven
by every means in its power, and even
beyond its constitutional power to sur
render.
Mr.. Sewall described in language as
severe as it was truthful the Infamous
conspiracy against Hawaii. That con-
spiracy has happily been defeated,
thanks to an outburst of patriotic indig-
nation which even the dull and stubborn
intellect of Grover Cleveland did not
dare to ignore. 1t remains to be seen
whether the scheme to surrender Samoa
to Great Britain and Germany in viola
ton of solemnly incurred obligations to
the people of those islands and in CON
tempt and disregard of the rightful in
fuence of the United States in the Paci-
fic, will be carried out. President Cleve-
land and his willing agent in infamy. the
Benedict Arnold of the State Depart-
ment, will sacrifice American interests if
they dare, and it remains for the patri-
otto people of this Nation to de-
mand by Republican victory at the
polls that the Administration shall aban-
don the policy of treachery, if not of
treason, and uphold American prestige
and influence in that vast ocean which
before many years will TEEN with Amer
lean commerce.-New York Press.