St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-18
BARKING AT HIS HEELS.


fiuences in the state of New Jersey,
belongs the unpleasant distinction,
which men more sensitive to consid-
erat tons Of honor and patriotism would
tended to detract, if possible, from
the honor and appreciation earned by
this administration in its conduct of
foreign affairs. Every decent Repub-
party as he reads the miserable little
partisan performance of the senator
from New Jersey. One can understand,
though he may not sympathiZe with
of Mr.. Cleveland, and the secret SYM
pathizers with Great Britain. One can
understand the views of the Yale and
Harvard professors, men of peace and
physical conflict represents in their
clustered shades the acme Of horror
and degradation, when they protest
against any action that could possibly
bring about war between the United
States and Great Britain.
To comprehend these people we have
only to understand their point of view.
They are mistaken, we believe, but we
are sure that Trey are sincere. Los
ing sight of one side of human nature,
and being out of touch with the strong
er, even if coarser. forces that mold
the life and thought of the nation out
side of academic halls, their view is
obscured by a reflection from the blood
red field of war. Any and every sac
rifice seems reasonable to them, if nee
essary, to prevent hostilities. What
matters it to us, they think, what fate
may befall a weak and distant nation
as long as we are actually unmolested
in our own territory? They fall far
short of comprehending the real sources
of national POWER and national grand
eur, just as. necessarily, they fail to
comprehend the essentials of national
safety. With them, h )weVer, we may
do honorable battle; and, if we reach
no other conclusion, can agree to dis
agree.
The party for which Senator Sewell
speaks, on the contrary, is the essence
Of all that is mean and petty and false
and unpatriotic. He and these who
applaud him are a sort of mongrel cross
between the jingo and the coward.
Touch him on one side, and he breaks
out into declamations about American
honor and glory, and would advocate
filibustering expeditions all over the
world, provided he himself did not
have to take part in them. Touch him
on the other, and he would cringe and
yield and beg and suffer anything
rather than to stand up before his ad-
VerSary like a man. What Senator
SeWell is attempting to do is to steal
the administration thunder. To him it
is nothing but thunder. He measures
and values it according to the effect
which he thinks it produces upon the
tympanum of the public ear That
part Of it he wants to claim as belong
ing to Republicanism. AS a part Of this
he would detract from the honor that
Mr.. Cleveland has justly won for him
self, his administration, his party and
his country, by asserting that he has
stretched the Monroe doctrine too far.
This is the sort of assault in which
the Democratic party may take I'M
mixed satisfaction. 1t shows the en-
envy at their worst; not daring to dis
avow a policy which the people of this
country have approved with an en-
thusiasm such as they had not ex-
hibited before for thirty years, but
creeping and crawling and sneaking
around in the rear to see if they can
find some unguarded spot in which to
thrust the traitors knife. That is all
that the resolutions of Senator Sewell
mean They are introduced as a cam
party is welcome to get all the glory
it can out of them. 1t could not have
chosen a filter hand or a filter advo-
cate to defend them than that of Mr.
Sewell whose past record is such that
we can most accurately describe him,
perhaps, by saying that he is not out
of place in the United States senate
of today, and that he represents ad-
mirably that unprincipled and degen-
crate combination the Republican
party of the state of New Jersey.