New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-14
ANGLO-AMERICAN NOTES.
ENGLISH OPINION OF Mr.. CLEVH1AND
AND PRESIDENT MKINLEY-MR'
BAYARDs LAST APPEARANCE
PIKE COUNTY BALLADS

Tho Ere,;sh nrsss IA having its final tributes
a, ,dm,r,t;on 70 the outgoing President and
condemnng with faint praise the nico,l'"e
President MT. Cleveland's popularity i" H"s
land has survived the sudden shooA Va -
Venezuela message, with its menace Vi ""'
He has been forgiven for using rough "'.ei
monous language respecting the Mohr'e
trine and the necessity for setting 'o."
d;spute. He has been fighting in America TOT
thirteen years the English battle TOT a 10" '"i''
and In spite Of his undiplomatic threatening
language n vear ago and his audacty IN APP
pointing a Commission to discover ""0''
boundary Of the British Empire really was' ITO
ia regarded here as the ideal American States
man. President Mckinley has won the oecisise
Aoht Of honest finance and rescued not only
America but Europe as well from 'hone'
catastrophe which would have paraivzeo '"o
dustrial world but he Is the author u a' g.
English tariff and the Apostle OF rro'ec''oi,'N'
The English press admires the ou'soiis
man M, ia SUSPICIOUS Of the incoming po'-
tician." and doefuly hopes that ne VIII ho'
make many mistakes! ~
The English people were never peiore 30 We
Informed respecting American anars as '"e'
are now; yet there certain essential iac's
,,,h nv. mayor stated in the press. one OF
,hes~ "a the disastrous failure OF the experiment
NJ introducing in the United states lower tarH
based on English ideas The National debt, IN
.tead Of being reduced, as II was at an amazing
rate from 1867 to March. 1893, has been larger!
increased while Mr. Cleveland was PRESIDENT. a
surplus which was once the envy oi e'e's
Finance Minister in Europe has been conVef'eo
into deficiency, concealed more or less py oo''u
issues for the ostensible purpose OF maintaining
the gold reserve American prosperity was the
marvel Of the modern world when Mr.. Cieveiano
entered upon his second term. Throughout 'hat
term there has been industrial depression and
commercial stagnaton. and there mas oeeh
vIdespread distrust Of American financial ad-
ministratlon. English economists never pause
to consider that these disastrous results have
accompanied the first deliberate attempt MADE
after a generation Of phenomenal prosperity TO
Introduce their own tariff ideas in the United
States They seem incapable OF entertaining the
idea that the abandonment OF distnctveiy
American principles and the substitution OF
English economics for them have had any ap-
probable effect upon National fortunes. IL IS
more agreeable for English censors OF American
policies to declare that Mr. Cleveland is STATES
man who has been in advance OF the condltohs
Of public opinion and that the country mas re-
NAMED Protectionist with a disordereo cur
rency and with impaired credit, and that no real
approach has been made TO the English revenue
system, especially as tic iiiSoi"S '~> --~
condemned as unconstitutional
Another essential fact which is seldom II ever
taken into account by English writer's on Ameri-
IAN affairs is the necessity for providing the
Treasury with adequate revenues and Wipins
ont deficiencies Under the Cleveland Admins
,ration the balance has been on the wrong side
NJ the ledger year after year; and the first WORK
NJ the Mckinley Administration and a Repuo-
ucan Congress will be the conversion or dehci;
into surplus by tariff revision. In similar con-
aitions an English Chancellor Of the EXchequer
would insist upon having Increased revenues 80
rs 10 enable him 10 meet current expenditures.
No English Government could remain in power
If If were 10 neglect TO raise adequate revenues
for maintaining the solvency Of the Treasury.
Yet when President Mckinley undertakes the
burdens of Office with clear perception or the
immediate necessity for revising the Wilson
Tariff so as to establish an equilibrium between
receipts and expenditures. he is regarded with
suspjcion and dstrust as an uncompromising
chamnion of American Protectonism, committed
~ nolcies which are essentially anti-Englsh.
Mr. Cleveland who abruptly meraced Eng
lard with war On account Of Verezuela retires
into private life with the plaudts and eulogums
OF the daily press as American statesman OF
heroic stature and moral convictions. President
Mckinley, entering upon office with an IN
stinctive preference for a Treasury surplus in
PLACE of deficit and with an ambition to restore
old-time conditions of National prosperity. is
greeted with cynical incredulity and secret mis-
giving as politician without capacity for TAX
ing broad statesmanlike and patriotic views Of
National policies. SO dearly does the English
nan love his cherished theory and so blind is he
TO the practical experience of other nations than
his own, Mr.. Cleveland has been the most popu-
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he represented the low-tariff policy which Cob
den predicted half century ago would conquer
the world In single decade President McKin-
ley will never be popular in England he repre-
sents American experience, which has been a
greater force than English theory in regulating
the tariff practice Of Europe and the British
colonies.
If Sir Robert Peel. Mr.. Golden and Mr.. Bright
were living to-day they would have great trouble
I'm explaining the non-fulfilment Of their proph-
ecies Did they not say that English agriculture
would prosper under Free Trade, and that the
price OF corn would never drop below % shillings
quarter. And has not blight fallen upon every
form Of farming industry, and has not wheat
gone below 20 shillings until tillage became I'M
profitable? Did not Mr.. Golden declare In 1874
that 'you have more right to doubt that the
sun will rise in the heavens tomorrow than you
have 10 doubt that in less than ten years from
this time, when England inaugurates the glorious
era Of commercial freedom. every civilized com
mercal community will be Free-traders TO the
backbone?" And has 1t not been the force OF
American examples which has kept the world
Protectionist ard deferred the triumph Of Eng
lish Free Trade principles?
Certainly no greater service has been rendered
to the Free Trade cause at the end OF the century
tbap ha tpfo of a ne bo-
nomenal prosperity In America under a genuine
Protective system Mr.. Cleveland has earned
his popularity in England. He may not have sue
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