The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-11
What Next2


The key to the CLEvELAND-GREsHAM for
eign policy has yet to be discovered. A
meddlesome disposition In matters where
with we have no business to interfere, n per-
sistent indifference where American inter.
ests are really concerned: who can reconcile
the crazy Inconsistencies, or find the guild
ing principle Of action in the performances
of the extraordinary twof
Blow hot, blow cold Is the story; hot
whenever the common sense Of the situation
requires restraint, and cold whenever the
national welfare calls plainly for the gen.
GRAFTON of a little patriotic caloric.
Indifference: The time comes for the
fruition Of the steadfast policy Of the United
States for half a century with regard to
Hawaii. The islands are ours, not for the
asking, but for our mere consenting. Nor"
say CLEVELAND and GRESHAM to the Ameri-
can people. Hands off Hawaii !"
Interference: A republican form of gov
eminent has been established in that same
Hawaii, q Government recognized by our
own. The hands of CLEVELAND and GREsH-
AN are forthwith stretched out slyly from
Washington to assist royalist conspirators
and British intriguers in the overthrow Of
President DoLE's Government, and the res
toration Of the semi-savage and ~bloodthirsty
wretch who had called herself Queen.
Indifference: In Samoa we have acquired
certain definite rights and assumed certain
definite obligations by means of O treaty,
which Is the result of the policy declared
and inaugurated by CLEVELAND himself
during his first term. Hands Off Of Sa-
moap' say CLEVELAND and GRESHAM; and
the pair are actually working for the sur
render Of n priceless national advantage, for
the reputation of q deliberately assumed
national duty, and for the promotion of
British interests, with quite as much zeal as
they could possibly show were they hired
men of Downing street.
Interference: China and Japan engage in
a quarrel with which we have nothing to do.
CLEVELAND and GRESHAM cannot keep their
hands off, inasmuch as no American in
terest is to DO served by interfering. They
begin by notifying Japan distinctly that
their joint sympathies are with China, and
then when China gets the worse of the
fight and British interests in Asia are plain
ly threatened, they step in and volunteer to
mediate, o proposition naturally and prop
erly rejected by Japan with such p~oliteness
as circumstance permit.
Indifference: English diplomacy pushes
cautiously but steadily for a commanding
position at the Atlantic entranc to the
Nicaragua Canal, the waterway of the
future between the East and the West of
the United States. Never in our history has
a greater American interest been at stake;
nor has there ever been a more obvious or
more imperative demand for a vigorous as
sertion of the MONROE doctrine. To all ap-
p~earances the eyes of Mr.. CLEVELAND and
Mr.. GRESHAM are fixed upon Armenia.
Interference: The old Eastern question,
around which European diplomacy has re-
volved for years. IL acutely revived by re-
ports of Turkish outrages in the neighbor-
hood of Mount Ararat. CLEVELAND and
GRESHAM ann keep their hands of. They
promptly join the European Governments In
an investigation of the crimes Of the Kurds
and the incompetence OF Turkish administra-
ton, and send off an agent to Armenia !
This suddendeparture from American policy
and precedent is so startling as to attract the
attention even of our friends, the self
centred Frenchmen, and to inspire a Paris
newspaper to ask what has become of our
MONROE doctrine. and to hail our Govern
ment as " the seventh European power"
This is q skeleton sketch of the astound-
ing foreign policy Of Mr.. CLEVELAND and
Mr.. GRESHAM up to date. Who can under
stand iti Who can explain it upon any
theory that recognizes the entire sanity of
the President and his Secretary of Slater
Why is the policy Of meddlesomeness
active whenever We have nothing to gain by
interfering
Why is the policy of apathy manifest
whenever we have everything to lose by In
difference IN the part Of the CLEVELAND
Administration
What will come next on the fantastic
programmed