The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
STEWART TO GROVER
GROVER CLEVELAND RECEIVES
A LETTER FROM SENA-
TOR STEWART.
The Nevada Statesman Admins.
tiers a Few Caustic Com
pliments.


ington date the Journal this morning
prints a lengthy and extremely caustic
letter written by Senator VIM. M. Stew
art, of Nevada, to President Cleveland
and which has been mailed to the chief
executive. The letter, which deals prin-
cipally with the presidents foreign pol
icy, is in part as follows:
when last wrote you did not sup
pose that I would be called upon SO soon
to renew my congratulations for your
conspicuous bravery in promoting the
policy of the mother country. The
joint success of yourself and Lord Kim
.berly in planting the British flag rule
over Nicaragua is admired and ap-
plauded by every loyal subject of the
queen and will secure for you the love
and respect of all true Englishmen.
'"The people of the United States will
view with much satisfaction the prepa-
rations which you and Lord Kimberly
are making to present the claims of
British and American subjects, who, in
the interest of the mother country, con-
spired to overthrow the Republican
movement in Hawaii. The fact that the
conspirators were unsuccessful aggra-
vate the crime of the republic in main
tanning it's constitutional government,
and furnishes you and Lord Kimberly
ample justification for demanding i'm
possible reparation, to make an excuse
for planting the British flag and ex-
tending the British rule over the only
remaining outpost in the Pacific where
military establishment by an unfriendly
power would menace the. commerce of
the United States.
''The object lesson Of your broad and
comprehensive craftsmanship is already
instructive. When you have fully Sc
cured the protection Of England for our
sea coast on both oceans, and the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal, at the
expense of the United States for the
benefit of Great Britain, your economy
will be appreciated.
although the policy of relying on
British craftsmanship is not new, you
have enlarged and illustrated and car
ried into effect that policy in such a
manner as to make the American peo-
pie realize that the sovereign power to
coin money and maintain financial pol
icy of our own is inconsistent with that
brotherly love and cordial submission
which we owe to the country that gave
birth to our ancestors, and to whose fos-
tering care we are indebted for life, with
such liberty as the mother country will
bestow.
MAY we indulge in the hope that your
fidelity to the British crown has secured
you such influence as will enable you to
induce the mother country to take
charge of and regulate our commercial
relations in such manner as will re-
move all the unpleasant and unnatural
disagreements between the two 'coun-
tries with regard to tariff legislation.
Why should England be more unwilling
to regulate our custom duties than to
manage our foreign relations and to
control our financial policy?
Keep an eye single to the glory and
renown and the imperishable name you
will leave to posterity by achieving
a union of 125, 100000 of English speak
ing people under the benign and unset
fish rule of the British crown Yours
respectfully, VIM. STEWART"