The morning times., 1897-03-04
interests and purposes of the influence re-

| tion OF the last American currency strong
! act, which would have sunk any one of
| his predecessors in the sea ofimpeachment,
| to put forced Interpretation upon exist
Ing statutes, and by Treasury ruling to
| declare that all the obligations of the Unit ed
| States were payable in gold, thus denying
| to the government it's legal option to pay
| debts in lawful money, deliberately pre-
| pairing for the depletion of the Treasury
reserve at the will Of his friends of the
| syndicated forei gn money power, and estab-
fishing an assumed necessity for the issue
of national bonds in time of peace.
Again, taking advantage of ambiguous
statutory language in the Redemption Act,
without recourse to the Congress, he has
repeatedly made issue of government bonds,
sold them to foreign syndicates at prices
far below the market value OF the same Sc
curities on the next day, and used the pro-
ceeds to pay current obi isations of the gov
ernment, in utter defiance of the true in
tent and meaning, If not OF the letter, of
the law. All these things he ksls done, in
the face of a legislature too supine to offer
effective resistance.
or his foreign policy it only can be said
that from the day he assumed office to
this one, its record has been a panorama
of un-American, disheartening and disgrace
ful policy and action. He found the
Hawaiian revolution and the Ha waiian re-
public accomplished facts. lie promptly
withdrew the annexation treaty with the
islands, about to be ratified by the Senate,
and quickly attempted to crush the
Hawaiian people, and once more to force
upon them the rule and murderous
vengeance OF a despicable and debauched
cannibal dynasty. In this effort he was
foiled by the angry voice OF civilization;
but up to this time he has succeeded in
preventing an accomplishment OF Hawairs
manifest destiny to become part of the
United States. If he has not been the
SpAoNiOt'S p'AAtA't'A uGSAI Va NiNht
and the conservator Of the Sugar trust, in
this policy and incidental action, he might
as well have been so. The phenomena
would have been the same
In the course OF the japanese Chinese war
his caIloUs Indifference to the Voice OF hu-
rnanity was exemplified. Three Japanese
rf
military defenses took refuge in an Ameri-
can consulate. No offInse was proven
against them and civilized authority would
have held them too young 10 commit any.
Their surrender, which was demanded by
the Chinese, was known TO Grover Cleve-
land to involve their preliminary torture
and final deca2itation. Yet he ordered it,
against the protests OF the consul, against
all precedents Of American action in such
cases, and against the united outcry of all
European residents in the place. Ao-
cordingly they were surrendered, fiend-
ishIy tortured for three days, and at length
murdered.
There is one episode in connection with
his foreign policy that little can yet be
said about, because it is still Involved IN
a mystery that will only be solved by time,
further analysis and perhaps Congressional
investigation. We refer to his action in
relation to the Venezuelan boundary dis
pute. without warning, he sent a
mess to the Congress which practi-
cally amounted to a call to arms against
Great Britain. This act was so opposed
to the ideals and the interests he had
regularly and reli giouSly reached for and
served, that the nation has even now
hardly recovered from its surprise. If,
however, it were to be predicated that this
truculent and warlike attitude were as
sumed merely to raise a cloud of dust be-
hind which a greater, graver, more con-
sistent, and menacing Interior purpose
could take form. then possibly the original
movement could better be understood. Per
haps such an Interior purpose, in the prose
cutton OF which the Venezuelan message
might be termed the first by-play, could
be found in the arbitration treaty with
Great Britain, a measure fiercely pushed
by the combined Cleveland aud British in
fluence, in and outside of the Senate. Light,
and t may be a sulphurous light, yet may
break upon the riddle of this project and
the antecedent preparatory manifestation.
If the foreign policy Of the Cleveland
administ ration has been pitiable and dis
honorable in other respects, its policy
and practices with regard to the Cuban
revolution, and the interests and rights
of American citizens on the island, have
been unspeakably degrading to the ma
tional name and honor. President CIeve-
land has deliberately turned his back
pendence, as our own and his fathers
once struggled with Great Britain. He
has not been content with ignoring their
claims to consideration. He has actively
and wlllfully used the naval power of
the United States TO help fasten and rivet
the chains of eternal Spanish slavery
upon that suffering people. He has been
the warm and consistent friend and as
sistaut to the power Of Spain, all the
time knowing that the Spanish officials
and troops in Cuba were numbering pris-
oners of war and harmless non-combatants
wherever they could be reached; that