The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-01
Of Course Every One AppIaudS
CIeveland'S Grand Policy
of Protection.
GORDON OF NAVAL STATIONS
Extension Of British Rule Over Mi
Caragua VIII Greatly "Please"
Loyal Americans.


in which he says:
81 renew my congratulations for your
conspicuous bravery in promoting the
policy of the mother country. The joint
success of yourself and Lord Kimberly in
planting the British flag and extending
British rule over Nicaragua is admired and
applauded by every loyal subject of the
Queen, and will secure for you the love
and respect of all true Englishmen. Your
great and nagnanimous nature will not be
disturbed by unreasonable complaints of
any of your own countrymen who continue
to cling to the narrow and unreasonable
preiudices which the descendants of the
rebels of 1776 still entertain against that
great and good government which is still
willing to protect US, Notwithstanding the
i'll will and ingratitude of our deluded an
cestors.
"Your exalted position enables you to
see the great advantage of the Gordon OF
British naval stations guarding our ex-
posed seaports on two oceans, and the
great security and commercial advantages
the Nicaragua canal will afford under
British jurisdiction. Your clear vision
spans the continent and extends to far-off
islands of the Pacific, and you fully COM
prehend the complete protection that the
navy of Great Britain, with headquarters
at Honolulu, would be to the Pacific Coast.
1.-THE people of the United States will
view with much satisfaction the prepare
tons which you and Lord Kimberly are
making to present the claims of British
and American subjects who, in the interest
of the mother country, conspired to over
throw the republican Government of Ha-
wall. The fact that the conspirators were
unsuccessful aggravates the crime of the
republic in maintaining its constitutional
Government, and furnishes you and Lord
Kimberly ample justification for demand
ing impossible reparation, to make an ex.
cuse for planting the British flag and
extending British rule over the only re-
naming outpost in the Pacific where mill
tary establishment by an unfriendly power
would menace the commerce of the United
States.
'When you have fully secured the pro-
lection of England for our extended sea-
coast on both oceans and the construction
of the Nicaragua canal at the expense of
the United States for the benefit of Great
Britain your economy will be appreciated.
When the trouble and expense by the
uniustifable wars and contentious of your
predecessors against our mother country
are compared with your wise and concilia-
tory policy the ingratitude of the Ameri-
can people will shock the sensibilities of
all loyal subjects of the British crown, and
they will fully appreciate the wisdom and
patriotism ofyour administration.
''Thrice your predecessors sent delegates
to the British conference to consult and
receive instructions as to what financial
legislation the United States might adopt
without interfering with the commercial
supremacy of Great Britain, and thrice our
delegates have been instructed to so legis-
late as to enhance the holdings of British
creditors by limiting the supply of money
to the ultimate payment of gold alone.
Your bold and vigorous action in car
rying into effect the instructions which
our delegates received from the mother
country establishes beyond controversy
your courage and your fidelity to our ben
efactors on the other side of the Atlantic.
The miserable suggestion that your policy
is dictated by a London syndicate of
money changers is fully answered by the
fact that the people of England are SUBJ
ject to the same dictation, and that what
is good enough for Englishmen must be
good enough for their unworthy descend
ants on this side of the Atlantic There is
great promise for the glorious future for
the United States in what you have al
ready accomplished in securing British
protection against all foreign powers, par
ticularly against the hostile republics of
Mexico and South America, and also in
securing her Majesty's management and
control of our domestic financial policy.
I'm times past our tariff legislation has
created quite as much injurious and unnat-
ural friction between the mother country
and ourselves as our financial legislation
did before you induced England to resume
her ancient and rightful jurisdiction in
that respect. May we indulge hope that
your fidelity to the British crown has Sc
cured you such an influence as will enable
you to induce the mother country to take
charge of and regulate our commercial re-
lations in such manner as will remove all
the unpleasant and unnatural disagree
ments between the two countries with
regard to tariff legislation? Why should
England be more unwilling to regulate our
customs dues than to manage our foreign
relations and control our financial policy?
"Your success in eliminating from the
constitution the solemn assumption of an
independent financial policy for the United
States inspires reasonable hope that you
may be able in the near future not only to
render obsolete that other preposterous
assumption found in the pretended
authority in the aforesaid insubordinate
instrument to raise revenues by duties on
imports, but also to remove every other
unnatural obstruction to the legitimate
authority of Great Britain to manage and
control our domestic affairs from the same
magnanimous and disinterested motives
that she now manages and controls our
foreign affairs.
"Do not be discouraged by 'crazy
clamor of unthinking cranks' for an indie
pendent financial policy or an independent
foreign policy for the United States, but
continue to regard such unreasonable con-
tention as resulting from narrow prejudice,
engendered by such rebels, fanatics and
anarchists as Washington, Jefferson, Madi-
son. Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln and their