The herald., 1895-05-01
A SARCASTIC LETTER
Senator Stewart Comments on the Nicaragua
Affair

Senator Stewart Comments on the Nicaragua
Affair
DENVER, April 3O.-The. News has the
following special from its Washington cor
respondent:
The Nicaraguan affair and the attitude
OF the administration in connection there
with is the absorbing topic OF comment
at Washington. the general opinion being
that President Clevelan0's unexplained
action places the United States in an un-
enviable position.
Senator Stewart tonight addressed the
president in an open and sarcastic letter
on the affair, of which the following is
"UNITED STATES SENATE,
"WASHINGTON. April 80, 1895.
''Mr. President When | last wrote you
l did not suppose that | should be called
upon so soon to renew my congratulations
for your conspicuous bravery in promtt-
ing the policy of the mother country. |
did not then realize that your beneticent
policy extended beyond the extermina-
ton of obnoxious bimetalists and the
pestiferous farmers and labOrers who OPP
pose your sound money and safe cur
rency." But it now appears that your
wise and patriotic craftsmanship is not
con fined to the limits OF a sound British
financial policy for the people of the
United States. but includes your cordial
cooperation in the policy of conquest and
dominion for the mother country.
The Joint success of yourself and Lord
Kimberly i'll planting the British flag and
extending Bristih rule over Nicaragua is
applauded by every loyal subject of the
queen and will secure for you the love
and respect of all true Engllshmen. Your
great and mag1animuos nature Will not
be disturbed by the unreasonable COM
plants OF any of your own countrymen
who continue to cling to the narrow and
unreasonable prejudices which the de-
scendants of the rebels of 1776 still enter
tain against that great and good govern
ment which is still willing to protect us,
notwithstanding the ill-will and ingrati
tude of our deluded ancestors. Your ex-
alted position enables you to see the
great advantage OF Gordon OF British
naval stations guarding our exposed sea-
ports on the two oceans and the great Sc
curty and commercial advantages the
Nicaragua canal will afford under British
Jurisdiction. Your clear vision spans the
confinement and extends to the far-off
islands of the Pacific and you fully COM
prehend the complete protection that the
navy of Great Britain with headquarters
at Honolulu would be to the Pacific coast.
The people of the United States will
view with much satisfaction the prepara-
tions which you and Lord Kimberly are
making to present the claims of the Brit.
ish and Americans which the interest of
the mother country cQpspireS to over
throw the Republican government of
Hawaii
The fact that the conspirators were
unsuccessful aggravated the crime of the
republic in maintaining its constitu
tional government and furnishes you and
Lord Kimberly ample justification for de
manding impossible reparation to make
an excuse for planting the British flag
and extending British rule over the only
remaining outposts in the Pacific, where a
military establishment by an unfriendly
power would menace tn commerce of the
United Staes
I'm carrying out this patriotic pro-
gramme YOU will undoubted by exercise
thesame economy that you did in Nicara-
qua and avail yourself of the kindness of
Great Britain to furnish the lips for the
expedition which will capture the coveted
prize. The object lesson OF your broad
and instructive craftsmanship is already
instructive. When you have fully secured
the protection of England for our ex-
tended seacoase. on both lands. and the
construction of the Nicaragua canal at the
expense of the United States for the ben
eft OF Great Britain, your economy will
be appreciated When the trouble and
and contentious are recalled the gratitude
of the American people will shock the
sensibilities of all local subjects of the
British crown, and they will fully appre
clate the wisdom and patriotism Of your
administration. The union of inter ests
which you have secured between Great
Britain and her once rebelllous colonies
shows the folly OF an expensive foreign
policy in dealing with the mother coun-
try. when all our material interests can
be so well protected by her generous i'm
perial power. Although the policy of re-
lying upon British craftsmanship is not
new, you have enlarged. illustrated and
carried into effect that policy in such a
manner as to make the American people
realize that the sovereign power to coin
money and maintain a financial policy of
our own is inconsistent with that broth.
erly lore and cordial submission which
we owe to the country that gave birth to
our ancestors and to whose fostering care
we are indebted for the life with such lib
erty as them other country will graciously
bestOw.
Thrice your predecessors sent delegates
to British International conferences to
consult and receive instructions as to
what financial leg islation the United
States might adopt without interfering
til the commercial supremacy of Great
Britain, and thrice our delegates have
been instructed to so legislate as to en-
hance the holdings of British creditors
by limiting the supply of money of ulti-
mate payment to gold alone. Your bold
and vigorous action in carrying into effect
the instructions your delegates received
from the mother country establishing be-
yond controversy your courage and your
fidelity to our benefactors on the other
side OF the Atlantic. The miserable sig-
gestion that your policy is dictated by
London syndicate of money changers is
fully answered by the fact that the people