New-York tribune., 1895-12-28
THE PEOPLES VOICE AGAINST ENGLAND.
Is TT ANOTHER INEXPLIcAELE CYCLONE LIKE
THAT OF 1892:

THAT OF 1892
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Turning haf-carelessy a few moments ago
the pages OF "rhe Cosmopolitan" of last November
my eye fell upon this from THE study Of the Sa-
moan Disaster" by J. Lyon Woodruff:
About noon. while we drifting helplessly
about in the trough of the sea. the hull and me
spars Of Her Msjesty's snip Ca;lope sudaenE laea
shouted caian Kane ani cana am sGE @ to TO try TS 70
arewercd Admiral Kimberly and then our boys
syarmei up into the rigging and there arose from
those four hundred tars such roaring cneer OF
Rritons' veins and give new impetus 70 tne'.
desperate undertaking. They succeeded in forcing
their way through the channe after several mar
breadth escapes, and weathered the storm without
loss of l!fe serious injury Captain Kane SAD sad
aftfrWard In speaking Of this episode; MY men
,ye re thoroughly demorazed before we passed. the
trenton. our chance of escape was 50 slender am m
the loss of the snip seemed to De sucH 9 an n tbe f
fact that there was no ambition ett IN thein iGr
further exertiors But when they saw the nopIe
conduct of the Trenor's crew ana heard @ mem n,, n
the face of fate even more certain 'ian ou M own,
cheer us on in perious path, all ,lstiessness
and insubordinaton vanished. and knew that 'he
CailiOpc safe
Mot readers vii. recall the thrill OF admiration
and 10y that wen. over the English-speaking world
wnen this memorable incident was first told; now
we read II with dim eyes and chokef voices just
now it seems a good time TO recall IT, surely 'he
memory is better and nob.er than The fierce var
cries that are going all the land and over the
As reader of The Tribune from its first Issue
and with nv Cng admiration OF Its leVel-headeu
,ieyvs of things. | cannot but be surprised that IL
so readily echoed curious c.amor OF the
country over the message of President Cleveland on
tlc Nicaragua affair Are we not Just now ID mn, III,
centre of "A cyclone analogous to that which swept
oyer the country in 1892, the most unrcdSohls
,r1 indeed incXplicab.e political movement ever
soen in this strange world? But how VIDE ana
H apueslon satisfactorily, why should peope
overthrow Administration ana party ,, wii,rn
had without question made the Nation secute
and prosperous as it or as no other nation haa
eyer BEEN But the peope dld IL deIIDs' 49, ~
Are We not now in this present war ciamor' tnus
,rnrght mo being by our President Simply reap
no Inc aftcr-harvest Of that disastrous MISTAKE,
Trnder the Harrison Administration ana the lea
,11Xrnl, ed prosperity. but respected as never
before over all the world. The rec prosity rea';e9
Isd bound the nations to us by ties or mutual IN
terest reinforcing the respect which our power
called forth by pecunary motives ihdA'"s '''e'
f,rbe very first and most Zea.ously pursued piT-
nose Of the Democratic Administration was 70
abroqate these peace e-makng ueatles ant III e,ie M
1i1y, y,rnment with whom they Mad peen ma Ioo
hing us OF sympathy and isolatins Us from men.
\oyy when this has been done ana the. country
has Ieen plunged into disastrous hnancla! nood'
s~ddenv comes this rash and inconsderate m,s-
sage which sounds war-note ana threatens '"e
prfce of two great nations. , ,,,oa
And all the country. Senate ara fouse ciitoIS
n1 rea,lers Fast ard West. North and South, ap-
pcons aS h in ali his? win it take long for the people
~ ow1ke 10 some sold consideration? i IL no,
tSe sa,ne unthlnking and blind Impulse nat 'nree @
years ago struck down the prosperity ot this peo-
n'e and is il not an enlarged echo Of 1t?
Pc anu - - ''N WILLIAM AIKMAN.
Atlantic city y. j., Dec. "a. 1885,