The Irish standard., 1897-05-15


foreign rivals.
ARBITRATION TREATY DEFEATED.
As briefly announced in last weeks
issue of the Irish Standard the Anglo
american treaty negotiated by Richard
Olney and Julian Pauncefote was de-
feated in the. United States senate or
May 9Th. The money changers Of Wall
street and the Anglo-maniacs Of the
East are sorely disappointed at the
rejection of the measure end the press
Of London is making bitter comments
Oil the action Of the senate i'll failing
IT, ratify' it. considering that Engla;:i
holds probably $1,000, 900 OIL of our Sc
curities and takes nearly one-half of our
exports of merchandise" says Henry
Clews, the financial writer of Wall
street, "this rejection of treaty of am
ity cannot be regarded from business
standpoint as anything short of grave
public misfortune, the effects of which
may be hereafter felt in many unseen
ways" This creature cares nothing for
national interests. He has no concep-
ton of what patriotism means; his sole
thoughts are conferred in coupons, bonds
and securities. and so he rails at the
senators and declares that they have de-
fed the best opinion of the country
(meaning that of Wall street, and are
out of harmony with tire humane and
friendly civilization of the republic
fmeaning that of Wall street) and fail
to comprehend it's international inter-
ests-the interests of the financial mag
mates of Wall street.
The London papers, as already init
mated, are quite ugly over the action
of the Senator's. The st. James Ga
zette, the organ of Salisbury & Co.,
charges the senators with being inau-
enced by IAN ex-convict and sworn enc
my of England" meaning Michael DAY.
tit, who on his return from California,
spent several days in Washington urg-
ing the members of the senate to have
amity with Great Britain. He was in
terviewed at great length by the Wash
ington Post, and he candidly stated that
Great Britain was hypocrite and was
playing a.. perfdious game with the
United States over the arbitration
treaty. t'She has been talking peace
and brotherhood and Anglo-Saxon kin
ship, and all the rest, during the past
year, AND processing a most Christian
desire for treaty Of arbitration with
you, while all the time she has been
planning new Notifications on her pos
sessions round your coasts. She has
built small Gibraltar up at Vancouver,
British Columbia, and is adding to it's
strength every day. At the present mo-
ment there is a bill before parliament
asking for $50 ,000, 900 for military works
in various parts of the British empire.
and a million of this money is to be
spent on forts and coa1ing stations on a
small island called st. Lucia, of the At
lantic seaboard of the United States.
This is not an evidence of good faith
or of good will on the part of the Sails
bury government, and 1 think it is only
right that the fact should be known
to your people,"
There is no doubt but such plain talk
from Michael Davitt produced bene-
fetal effect upon the minds of the sena-
tors and caused some of them to cast
their votes against the ratification of
the treay. Senator Mason, Of Illinois,
in published interview, gives good
reasons why he did notcvote for it, and
others have been equally outspoken in
their. views. The treaty was too much
one-sided, and there was no necessity
for it, say they.
The majority of. the citizens OF the
United States approve of the action of
the senate. They know that in the
treaties heretofore made between the
United States and Great Britain, the lat
ter has had decidedly the best of it, be-
cause British statesmen are adopts III
diplomacy, while our socalfed statesmen
are novices il, the business. Mr. Olney
was no match for Pauncefote. He was
better acquainted with railr ,ai leejs]a.
ton f.cm the fact of his being an :sttor-
ney for railway companies than he was
in international negotiations when the
interests of 100000 of people we're at
stake. The people had never delegated
to him the power of entering into an in
ternational compact. Grover Cleveland,
and not the people, had brought him
into prominence, and now both of them
are relocated to private life. We believe.