Washington sentinel., 1898-07-02
COMMERCIAL Aoeerssrovs syFRAucr

from English dominion.
COMMERCIAL AGGREsstoNs BY FRANCE.
Ierlle Ohsycn,J
1t is high time that the industrial and
commercial communities OF this country
spoke with firmness and sternness to the
Government about the manner in which
1t Is failing to safeguard our interests
from foreign aggression. Ever since
the Franco Russian Alliance got into
working order not a week has passed
without some act OF aggression upon
our commercial or political interests,
Only recently we called attention TO thu
shameful trckeTy OF France i'm the
matter OF The Tunis treaty and the ad.
mission OF English goods into our couu-
try IN connection with which she has
admitted her own productions duty free
IN order to give them the advantage
ever the English, which for a few years
she has TO admit at duty Of s per cent.
| his trick has hardly been revealed
! before IL is covered by another m con.
nectlon with Madagascar In that Iarge
| island, before IL was weakly sacrificed
| to French Clamor a few years ago by
Lord Salisbury our commercial interests
! largely predOmiuated over all others,
America coming next France could
not claim / e per cent, and had abso-
lutely no other interest in the island, #
we possibly except a Jesuit mission or
two. The whole country had been won
from the vlest barbarism to Christianity
by the labors Of English and 2 merican
missionaries and was happy, cOntented,
and prosperous under ITS native Queen
and Government. The scramble tor
Africa was in progress at that time, and
IN order to obtain the withdrawal Of the
bogus claims OF France to Zanzibar
Lord salisbury gave France a Gree
hand" in Madagascar, where she had
absolutely no claims or interests, while
we had both. We now see the result.
The country was invaded, first pro.
tected,' then annexed its native Gov.
ernment destroyed, its Queen taken
prisoner and then banished, It's leading
80 ~ 'ADh VI AAlAbl leAAlNAIH nlNI AllE country
handed over to a lot Of military adven-
turers who are swarming over it like
flies over a dead carcass. The natural
result follows: the purpose for which
all this has been done is the formation
Of a market for French manufacturers,
in which they can have an absolute
monopoly, and the commerce Of every
other country be destroyed
We would ask the commercial com
munties Of the country-our cities and
towns engaged in industry and COM
merCe, our Chambers OF Commerce,
employers and workpeople's associa
! uons and large private emplOrers-to
ask the Government to make the most
imperative remonstrauCes to France
against these everyday aggressions, and
/ to give il very plain intimation that
sharp retaliation will be exacted unless
| they are Withdrawn. The two burglar
| ious powers OF the continent are
in their own eyes delightfully."- CO. oper.
ating IN their policy Of aggression, and
| Immediately one has effected a grand
! coup and drawn attention to itself the
second makes another in order to dis
tract attention from the previous one.
And here our boasted Government, the
strongest OF the century, IS utterly be-
wildered--a Government, too. which if
it had any claim to public confidence
was that based upon the belief-a
greatly mistaken one it is provng-that
foreign affairs would be dealt with i'm a
firm manner and the Couutry's interests
conserved. How sad the disillusion.
ment is proving The pity Of il is that
we cannot look elsewhere tor relief
| The Radical Opposition has no creed
! no policy and no statesmen in its ranks
capable Of adequately dealing with the
| situation Ii thinks the salvation OF the
country and the world depends upon the
realization of its Socialistic schemes for
a redistribution OF the wealth of the
country among the most vocferous
| agilators Of trade unionism and indie
pendent laborism As a party it is
utterly lacking in the qualities that
ought to command the confidence OF
the nation. There IS no safety in re-
posing the nations interests in the
hands OF either party, because both are
shackIed by the threadbare traditions ol
old political conditions which are
rapidly passing into limbo OF forgotten
things; the only remedy is for the intelli-
gence, the capital, the commerce and
the industry Of the country to combine
anew and form a party on up to date
lines, dismiss the professional pohti-
clans who now block the way assume
the reins OF power, and conduct the
affairs OF the country with the carefur
bolduess and determination that the
political brigandage Of the times calls
tor While these necessities are finding
their way to the mental conviction Of III,
nation, let the present Government b,
ordered to take into its Glands sucf
retaliatory powers as will enable it tC
deal effectively with such actions a.
those Of France, which have called TO
these remarks.
IMPRISONMENT OF RE URNED E,u
GRASTs FROM Argentine.
: Lswish Chronicle.
p The IS6 Jews who arrived 10 Khersol
, on May p from the Argentine we're a
] once imprisoned by the localauthorities
because on leaving Russia they pledge,
S themselves never to return, and ha,
4 therefore broken their word, The poo
r people whom fate has so hardly deal
S | with. however. found friends i'm thei