The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-02
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coup in the history of modern times /,
seem to me. has quite equallea this; all
ene enemies of Cleveland in twenty-four
hours are. sounding his plaudits in the
puoilc places. No doubt the Lodges and
the Chandlers curse him soto voce; but
puDiic4y they. too. must Join in the
hufran. He will go down in history as
one OF the great Presidents who during
ms career repeatedly saved the country
IRON disgaceful conflicts with fourth-rate
poWersand at the close of his admins
tratlon, by a special coup. called forth
the horrid spectacle only to Law ii again
by the introduction of the element Of
time, and the meaningless. abortives hut
tremendously solemn and impressive
appointments of a high Commission
charged with the duty of doing nothing.
The American people are the chess board
and Grover Cleveland has guarded him
sem against any serious consequences
from his act by owning the entire game,
Kings, pawns. bishops and all. Nobody
else can play.
rms IS where something of humiliation
must De felt. We boast of our intelli-
gence, yet must be diverted from our
insane impulses by our rulers when they
are wise, and led into insane impulses
when our rulers are foolish or wicked.
we are savages and children who must
be coaxed of coerced lest we fly at one
ahotnerHs throats. Our barbarism must
ma vent IN one way or another-harm-
lessly sometimes, disastrousiy often. And
YET our humanity is as easily touched
as our brutality; show the most depraved
Jlngo the real horrors of war, and he will
SHRINK from every causeless pretext.
cleveland has rendered improbable for
years to come what has been imminent,
the election of a party pledged to a war
policy which would mean the loss, per-
maps, OF all our essential liberties. Such
a party elected in response to public
clamor might find it impossible to re-
cede even if it desired to do so, and the
elevation of a party to power by these
means would prove far more dangerous
than the yeast and froth of war fury
now harmlessly expanding itself. Let
the reader contemplate this possibility,
now rendered exceedingly improbable by
the experience of the hast few days, and
ask himself If there is not more than one
way of regarding this war message of
Grover Cleveland's.
1t may be said that this Interpretation
proves too much by attrihuting extraor-
binary prescience and sagacity to a man
not popularity supposed to possess these
qualities. ! annot stop to argue this.
l can only point out the various effects
of the message, which every day will
more clear. But there is some
thing in the political success of Grover
Cleveland which renders a high opinion
of his sagacity by no means improbable.
The ~ex-Sheriff, who came down from
Buffalo-an unknown man-and captured
a hostile convention and made it his,
Who went through three Presidential
campaigns with honors, and who has
bent to his will the non-resolution of
politician after p~olitician-this is no pIgmy
of a man But how, then, shall we ex-
plain the extraordinary language of this
message. the questionable extension of
the Munroe doctrine uncountenanced by
any legal authority of eminence?
Words. words, wordsf'-mere harmless
buncombe.
Is it not easy to see what the message
has done? Let us sum it up:-
First-The administrations foreign
policy rehabilitated; Grover Cleveland
and the Democratic party the real Up
holders of the flag %.
i5econdlA revelation of what war
means-a wholesome corrective of the
war fever.
Third-Every Republican lingo ST.
many of those who talked
.thoughtlessly of war now praying for
peace; the whole war current turning
the other way.
Fourth-A revelation of the real feel
of the English masses for America
and A-mericans-that Of genuine friend
Illness.
And. perhaps, over and above all this,
the possible outgrowth from this High
Commission of a Joint commission to
act as an International court of arbi-
trament, to which all boundary and
either international disputes will be re-
ferred in the interests of peace. And
thereafter, of course, the Lodges and
the Chambers will find but small oppor-
tunity for exhibition; and the business
interests of the country will breathe
more freely.
JOSEPH DANA