The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-25
"RULE BRITAIN MIA"
A Very Popular Air With the Present
Administration.

Administration.
Since March 4, 1898, on the in
coming Of the present administra-
ton, both the foreign and internal
policy of the country appears to
have been formulated with a view
to a consideration Of the interests
of foreign countries rather than Of
our own country. This has ap-
peared not only in one instance, but
in many instances. Setting aside
such little matters as the exclusion
of China or Japan tea from the
White House kitchen and the ex-
elusive use of Ceylon tea, because
it is English, you know, we find
that similar policy only on larger
scale and one of greater significance
has been carried into our affairs of
state.
The most important feature was
the tariff measure formulated on
English free trade lines, without
any regard or consideration for the
interest of American labor or Amer
lean industries. Having changed
our system of currency to conform
with that of England, it was only
natural that the same model should
serve on which to fashion our
methods of revenue. The result,
it has been found, would have been
insufficient to supply an income
equal to the expenditures of our
country. This also is English.
We also have the suggestion made
to forestall the revenue by an issue
of short term treasury bills. This
method of spending ones income
before it is earned is also of English
origin.
The latest Anglomaniac develop
ment that has eminated from
Washington this year has appeared
IN connection with the Hawaiian
muddle. 1t appears that the first
published report of the secretary of
! the state on this subject was shown
to and approved by the British en-
bassador at Washington before it
was handed out for publication fol-
the information of the American
people. We thus have plain case
of an act undertaken by the Z United
States government and supposed to
be for the best interests of the UNI.
ted States and of the American peo-
pie first submitted for the consider
alton and approval of the represen.
tatiye of foreign country, and
that country England.
Not only has this most extraor-
binary step been taken, which was
decidedly uncalled for and merely
an act to carry favor with what is
English, you know, but at the same
time the secretary did not even
have the common courtesy to sub
NIT copy of his report, even after
publication, to the lawfully recog-
nized representative Of the Hawaiian
Islands, who is located at the seat
of government. There was a direct
insult given to the other country
concerned, for which the report was
made, while servile funkcYdom was
effusively displayed to the represent
tative of England, who had no
earthly concern in the matter so far
as either the United States or the
Hawaiian Islands were concerned.
Such are some Of the gross exhi-
billions of un-8merlcanism on the
part of the present Democratic ad-
ministration, as effusively and Of
! fensively displayed to the American
people. For other instances we
need only examine carefully the
new tariff measure, formulated on
English Free Trade lines and de-
signed mostly to assist foreign trade
at the expense of our own. The re-
mafkable utterances of Benjamin
Folsom, cousln-in law of President
Cleveland, that we're made on our
national birthday to the manufac-
turers at Sheffield, are too surely
becoming realizations, and his con-
gratulations to the English rranu-
facturers were by no means out Of
place from his own standpoint, or
that of his cousin-in-law, or their
party. There are no words of con-
graduation for American manufac-
turers or for American laborers.
They may condole with one another
while waiting for the congressional
elections of 1894.
CHARLES X. AUCKLAND.