The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-19
REFERENCE TO PROTECTION

| hEf ENCE III .E'ftOl
/ in the Edinburgh speech. The question of
so-called protection, Mr. McCreary de-
clared, was a living, important absorbing
question which was engaging the atten-
ton of the civilized world 1t was ma
tural, therefore, in comprehensive ad-
dress to educators and students that Nh
Bayard should give his views on pro-
| lection. Mr.. McCreary concluded in
part as follows:
when a citizen of our free country be-
comes an emba ssador or a minister,
should he be required to surrender or
suppress his true sentiments; should he
not have the right to speak his senti-
ments politely and respectfully. If they
are in accord with the policy of the gov
ernment which he represents? The peo-
pie OF the civilized world are aware of
the political evolutions which occur in
this republic, and they are aware that we
do not have in this country a special
diplomatic corps in Office for life, but
that our ambassadors and ministers are
appointed from the political party in
power. They are men who supported the
president whose commissions they bear,
and they uphold the policies of his adj
miniStration. Their views on these poll
cies should give no offense at him if they.
give none abroad. Tho Republican ma
jority will have more
PRAISE FOR ABSTAININCt
from the adoption of the pending resolu-
tons than they will have ii they adopt
Them
While Mr. McCreary was referring to
the Boston speech. in which Mr.. Bayard
said it took real man to- govern the
people of the United States, Mr.. GroS
,yenor interrupted. to ask, if he 9N1cCreary)
believed the president governed the peo
pie. if so, whether he governed the Demo-
cratic party. and especially whether he
governed the gentleman from Kentucky
on any public question.
Mr.. McCreary replied lightly that he
supposed Mr.. Grosvenor was trying to
have little fun at his expense. Serious
ly. however, he replied to Mr.. Grosvenor's
question in the affirmative He was al
ways willing, he said, to uphold the presi-
dent when he was discharging his duties
under the constitution.
Mr.. Draper Rep Mass.), member of
the committee, in a few words, explained
his position against the resolution of CEN
sure. This was not, he thought a time
for sensationalism. We had trouble
enough, he thought present and prospec-
censuring our chief diplomatic represent
tative. He agreed that Mr.. Bayard's
utterances We're hardly proper, but did
not think they merited such harsh action.
The last resolution deprecating partisan
ship by diplomatic representatives, he
thought entirely proper.
UNEXAMPLED
He, therefore, asked that the resolu
tons be divided and separatesvote
Iowa, also a member of the committee,
supported the resolution
This deliberate and unexanpled
breach of diplomatic etiquette" said
Mr.. Cousins, this ungra'teful, I'M
provoked and unbecoming insult to the
majority of the people of America, to
her distinguished living. and to her
honored dead by one who bore their
confidence, their mission and creden-
itials. must not be left unchallenged,
since it has entered the annals of our
diplomatic history -
'tMr. Bayard,' p he declared. ''toadied
to the Golden club and to, the school
of Manchester, and to his own preju-
dice, and told Great Britain that
PROTECTION IN AMERICA
had banished men of independent
mind and character, from it's public
councils, when he knew that the list
of it's illustrious advocates, beginning
with the distinguished names of Wash
ington and Madison and Franklin, had
never ceased to grow where progress
marked the way, until it had recorded
in the register of Independent minds
and fame the names of Clay and Jack
son and of Webster, of Lincoln and of
Grant, of Garfield, of Randall and of
Blaine, and he knew that almost on
the very day he uttered that indict-
menlt the list of Independent minds
that champion the doctrine of protec-
ton in America had grown to. the
greatest and most significant majority
that ever
SPOKE THEIR INDEPENDENCE
at a popular election in this country
He knew when he uttered that libel
on the memory of the greatest states
men of America that if you should
blot out the list of names that identify
the doctrine of protection in our his
tory, you would leave it a dreary
desert, insignificant and barren.
But last of all our ambassador con-
fides to Edinburgh the startling news
that protection in America danger
ously depletes the treasury Why,
Mr.. Speaker, every one in Edinburgh
knows that the champions of protec-
ton took the treasury of the United
States when there was nothing in it
but a Democratic free trade vacuum
and filed it with gold and silver coin
sunken into disgrace in the hands of
che Democracy, and made it as good
as the monled powers of Europe; SO
good that Wendell Phillips declared
that our funds sold as well in Europe
as English consols, and that the uni
versal union could borrow money as
claaply as Great Britain, and when the
great party of protection took the
treasury there was never deficiency
for twenty-five successive years, until
the
BLACK RAVEN OF FREE TRADE
perched again above our treasury door
and hooted surplus, surplus never
more
mo, Mr. Speaker, our ambassador
to Great Britain has not only violated
the regulations of his commission. not
only been false to his position, but.
false to the facts of his country. Who
would have thought that within forty
years after the eyes of the immortal
Lincoln were closed in martyred death,
amid the homage and the alteration
of this grand and grateful land-shat
within so brief time the ambassador
of his country to the motherland would
so far forget the dignified and delicate
requirements Of his high position as
thus TO stigmatize and villify the hon
est fathers and exemplifiers of one of
the first and dearest principles of the
great emancipator?"
His speech aroused great enthusi-
asm. He concluded with a burst of elo-
quence that set the house afiame. Men
streamed UP the aisles to offer their
congratulations, and it was fully
minute before order was restored.
Mr. Dinsnnore Dem, Ark) opposed
the resolutions. He could not hope to
equal in brilliancy and eloquence the
speech of Mr. Cousins, he said He
mus. rely ON the strength CT his cause
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