Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-15
AWARD As A FREE TRADER.

San Francisco Chronicle: Bayard was not
thinking q the American people at all when
he spoke at Edinburgh. lie was only fol-
lowing a bad habit. INDUCED In by some OF
his predecessors. OF assuming that British
opinion Is of more importance 20 4 represent
alive Of ths United states at the court OF
st. James than the opinion OF his fellow
American citizens
Philadelphia Times: But MIR. Bayard seems
to be more enamored OF bad than Of good
English traits. AS he is so anxious TO make
free trade speeches, Mr.. Cleveland should
call him home at ONCE ard let him deliver
them from now until next November. IT Is
not proper that n should be paid SIS. 500 a
year by the United states to make free trade
harangu5s In England In his capacity of am
bassador from America.
Boston Advertiser: Mr.. Bayard's speech
befor the Edinburgh Philosophical society
on individual Freedom" wherein he con-
founded the noble thsme with the breaking
o OF his country's industries by the re-
moval of all protection, appears, as reported
by cable, to have been very like a distant
echo Of Hills Elmira speech, in which he
defined personal liberty" as meaning the
shanked roughs and toughs to violate the law
In order to fill themselves with beer and
bad whisky on Sunday.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Protection has
been the policy of this government from the
very foundation. II it has driven statesmen
" NiANts " hhto II IdBDN Una SUI
powerful a mind as that of Ambassador
Bayard Is allowed to meander through years
OF public office? For a statesman who has
been driven cut by jobbers and chaffertrs.
Ambassador Bayard is doing fairly we'll.
Such idle chickering's are unworthy Of no.
tice, after the experience that this country
has been passing through solely because
great statesmen Of the Bayard order have
had control Of the government.
New York Mail and Express: Thomas F..
IN ward nf nnlq usnrn hng o1yannnl htV,Ca1F
to the head of that unenviable class Of Amer
leans who either cannot or will not under
stand that when a man is sent abroad in
a diplomatic capacity he goes not as a frse
trader nor as a protectionist, not as a lem
ocrat nor as a republican, but as an Amer
lean patriot and gentleman, whose function
1t is to defend rather than to apologize for
the institutions and craftsmanship of his
own country. Mr.. Bayard's denunciation be-
fore the Edinburgh Philosophical society was
the utterance of a man whose colossal self
conceit led him into the grotesque folly of
making a democratic stump speech before
an association of h~igh-minded gentlemen and
economists.
Buffalo News: Mr.. Bayard makes a great
mistake. 1t is not protection, but monopoly.
that ~accomplishes the evil which Mr.. Bayard
complains of. Protection fosters American
industries and makes wOrkingmen prosper
Gus. Industrial wealth is evenly distributed
between the employer and employed Mr..
Bayard should read ''The London Financial
News Letter" That paper declares: The
lowering Of the American tariff he's been our
salvation, and 1t cannot be said that we have
shown much reciprocity; for, instead of taxi
ing the increased value of our shipments
across the Atlantic in kind, we seem to have
bought less American produce. 1t is needless
to go beyond our own Beard Of Trade returns
to find an explanation of a good deal of The
trouble in the United States"