The record-union., 1895-12-05


that we made all necessary demands
and secured all necessary guarantees
for the safety Of our people in China.
In the Waller case reference, there is
failure to manifest an assertive Amer
lean spirit France has treated US shah
billy in that matter, and her refusal to
disclose the testimony upon which she
bases her right to hold an American
citizen in Imprisonment is not rebuked
as it should be. We are told that our
Minister to France is still striving to
get a glimpse of the evidence adduced
at the summary trial of Waller, but we
are not assured that the President will
much concern himself if the delay to
disclose the record is continued.
There is gratifying spirit manifest in
the message in treating of our trade re-
Iations with Germany, and the advised
threat of retaliation for unwarranted
assault upon our food exports to that
country is unmistakable. Great Brit
ain is censured for her failure to fur
nish sufficient patroling force in
Behring Sea, but the President fails to
ttell the country why he has not made
fsuch neglect cause for more grave con-
Germ and imperative demand. He con-
tents himself with saying that to all his
1caT1f c
turned a deaf ear The President very
sensibly views the Alaskan boundary
matter as one not alarming, and favors
the erection of a commission for its set
tlement. a proposition that will not sat
| isfy the jingo press, nor the demands OF
the hysterical sensationalists, whose re-
cent articles would lead the people to
believe that the United States is in dan
ger of losing a considerable strip of ter
ritory in that region. and ought to de-
clare war against Great Britain forth
with.
He asserts the righteousness of the
Monroe doctrine in the matter OF the
Venezuelan difficulty, but not with the
emphasis that will fully meet the SEN
tinent of the mass of the American
people. England has for six months de-
leyed response to the Presidents note
of assertion of the doctrine in the case
of Venezuela, and his request for re-
ply to a proposition for arbitration
But this does not appear to have I'M
pressed the President as contemptu-
Gus. Yet the statement is strong one
in which the President asserts that If
the boundary dispute is to be submitted
to arbitration, as he has suggested. the
whole case should go to the arbltrators,
and not so much of it only as concerns
disputed territory on one side OF line
arbitrarily drawn by one of the par
ties to the issue.
! The padrone system is condemned in
manly and vigorous terms. but the
President does not touch upon immi-
grafton of alien laborers beyond those
brought in as contract chattels, though
the consideration of the padrone sys-
tenn brought the whole subject natu-
rally to the surface. There is reason,
however, to expect expression from
him on this subject at a not distant day
The NicaraguanM Mosquito difficulty
is touched upon and the President as
sures the country that Nicaragua is en-
tirely satisfied with the part played by
the United States in the matter. There
is then no reason for anyone else being
dissatisfied with our policy in that di-
rection. There is no reference to the
canal scheme, or any matters relating
to if. and it is to be assumed that this
was purposeful omission, in view Of
probable treatment specially hereafter
On the other hand it may be just as
reasonably assumed that the Executive
viii announce no policy in that relation,
and proposes to leave Congress unham-
pered by any new expression by the
President upon the canal question.
The country will be with the Presi-
dent in the expressed wish to get free
of the whole Samoan matter 1t has
been the source of endless trouble to
the United States, and with no suffi-
cient good results. The Cuban insur-
rectionists receive no comfort from the
II. lii on fo,oa tho peI1tra l.
ity laws and he puts in a plea for more
resnectful treatment of Spain by our
neople. in that they should refrain from
giving aid and comfort to the rebels, no
matter how strong their sympathies for
them. 1t was fit that the President
| should declare his intention to have our
| Government keep faith with Spain, but
his advice to refrain from open ex-
nression of sympathy with the rebels
for it amounts to that-will fall upon
deaf ears.
The President has no confidence in
the promises of the Turkish Govern
ment to afford protection to our people
within its jurisdiction. But we are
given to understand that our friends in
that quarter must look mainly to for
eign ships and foreign Powers for pro-
lection and place of refuge. We are
told that the European Powers have
the right and assert it, to alone compel
the Turk to be humane and to aff64'd to
foreigners in his country due protec-
ton. However that may be. the Amer
lean people will incline to the belief that