The herald., 1895-06-10
ANNOUNCEMENTS
nONDAY, JUNE 10, 1905.
WE SHOULD HAVE AN AMERICAN POLICY

The recent comments of certain por-
tion OF the press and some public men
on the administration of the state de-
partment by the late Secretary Gresham.
have made it evident that the United
States should have policy of its own.
1t should be American with a large A.
The policy that will command the ad-
miration and respect of the world and
the enthusiastic devotion of every loyal
citizen of the Union, so that wherever
the flag of the free shall shed the glory
of its stars, prince, potentate and presi-
dent, citizen and subject, will yield the
homage due the insignia of great and
powerful country. Thus far it's well, and
in fancy we hear the tumultuous cheer
ing of the army of professional patriots,
captained by Republican editors and
orators. We can see the exaltation of
chapesus and the gleeful execution of the
festive pigeon wing by the aforesaid
army, including the colonies, the ma ors,
the admirals and the senators from Maine
and Massachusetts. We fancy the un-
restrained expression of their Joy at this
apparent endorsement of the patriotism
they have copyrighted so successfully
that every Democrat, Populist and Mug
wump in the land is rendered traitor
and renegade because he possesseth it
not. We can hear the battle song of this
noble aggregation blessed with the sole
and exclusive right OF loving the
country and wearing the toga OF patriot
ism with the same Indifference to con-
sequences that a common mortal would
display in sporting protected sweat
shop" shirt ringing O. er land and sea
as they sing OF 'the old flag and an ap-
propriation." Surely they think they
have found a home market" for the stock
they have been sssiduously importing
for 10 these many years. But We said an
American policy, and we mean the gen.
uine homespun article, and not the for
eign product, nor the counterfeit of the
latter, such as the United Order of Bun
combe Patriots, have disturbed the public
peace by clamorously demanding the
adoption of. Their policy is no more
American than is the protective tariff.
1t is the policy our forefather. Stunned
and trampled on. 1t stands for outrage,
spoliation and wanton conquest, and
has made the nations Of Europe
infamous. There is but one pol-
icy that can be American, and that is the
one that is founded upon the eternal
rock Of right, and renders unto Caesar
the things which are Caesars and unto
God the things which are God's;" tie
policy which is just and fair to all gov
ernments alike, the great and the small,
the monarchical and the republican; the
policy that will indulge in none of the
chicane. the duplicity or the arrogance
OF old world diplomacy, but that will
have the courage to admit the rights of
others frankly and the bravery to defend
to the ultimate ditch that which belongs
to its own country; the policy that will
never dishonor the uniform of TIE
Am erican navy by compelling its
wearer to overthrow and subjugate
weak and friendly government, even
though it be an island kingdom of the
Pacific; the policy that nowhere will
hoist the Stars and Stripes as the symbol
OF fraud. usurpation and unjustiiabls
conquest, because we need this or that
island" but that will everywhere and
at all times win for the old flag the ad-
miration and the love that belongs to the
emblem OF dignity, honor andy Justice;
citizen to make the proud boast that his
country is always right because she will
never do that which is wrong" the
noblest policy any man or any people
can have-the policy of honesty. 1t is
the policy that Jefferson, Calhoun, Web.
ster, Clay, Marcy, Sewaid, Bayard and
Gresham have faithfully adhered to. II is
the policy that is true to the tradi-
tions of the republic and loyal to the
teachings OF the fathers 1t is in harmony
with the law of natural selection that the
party whose most notable achievement
was the theft OF a presidency should cham
pion the methods of the freebootlng gov.
ernments east of the A tlantic. 1t is to
be hoped, however, that the new secretary
Of state will not be swerved by the villif-
cation and the bluster of the party OF i'm
Itation and expectancy from the lines
marked out by his distinguished prede-
cessors, but that he will prove faithful to
the true American policy.