Evening star., 1899-09-13
No Truth in Alleged Secret Alliance
With England.
MERELY A CAMPAIGN FICTION
Secretary Of State Writes to
Chairman Dick Of Ohio
r RE VIEW OF STU TION

hay, Secretary OF state. makes this en-
phatic statement regarding the alleged Sc
| cret alliance between England and the
United States:
There is no alliance with England nor
with any other power under heaven ex-
cept those known and published to the
| world, the treaties of ordinary information
al friendship for purposes of business and
commerce No treaty other than these ex-
lists; none has been suggested on either
side; none is in contemplation. 1t has
never entered into the mind of the Presi-
dent nor of any member of the government
to forsake, under any inducement. the wise
precept and example of the fathers, which
forbade entangling alliances with European
powers
Following is the letter in full:
NEWBURY, N. H. September II.
Hon. Charles Dick, chairman executive
committee, Columbus, Ohio
Dear Mr.. Dick: l am sorry that my en-
gagements are such to render it impos-
slble for me to accept your kind invitation
| to be present at the opening of the Ohio
publican state campaign at Akron, on Sep
tember D. l regret this the more as the
occasion promises to be one of unusual in
terest- A stirring campaign, and, l doubt
not, great victory awaits you.
Our opponents this year are in an un-
fortunate position. They have lost, for all
practical purposes. their political stock in
trade OF recent years. Their money hobby
has collapsed under them Their orators
still shout 16 to / from time to time from
force of habit, but they are like wisdom
crying in the streets. in one respect at
least, because no man regardeth them.'
Vaults Full of Gold.
With our vaults full of gold; with a suf-
ficiency Of money to meet the demands of
| volume of business unprecedentedly vast
and profitable; with labor generally en-
ployed at fair wages: with our commerce
overspreading the world; with every dol
lar the government issues good as any
other dollar; with our finances as firm as a
rock and our credit the best ever known,
1t is no time for financial mountebanks to
cry their nostrums in the market place
with any chance of being heard
1t is equally hopeless to try to resuscitate
the CORPSE of free trade The Dingey tariff
the legitimate successor of the Mckinley
bill-thal name of good augury-has just-
fled itself by its works. 1t is not only true
that our domestic trade has reached pro-
portion never before attained, but the
American policy of protection-the policy
OF all our most illustrious statesmen, of
Washington and Hamilton, Lincoln, Grant
and Mckinley-has been triumphantly vim
dicated by the proof that it is as efficacious
in extending our foreign commerce as in
fostering and stimulating our home indus
tries. Our exports of domestic manufactures
reached in this fiscal year the unexampled
total of S60,GGo.G9O. an amount more than
two hundred millions in excess of our eX-
pCrts ten years ago. These figures ring the
kneil of those specious arguments which
have been the reliance of our opponents
for so many years, and which are only
fruitful in times of leanness anu disaster.
Trusts to Be Fought.
What is left, then. in the way of a plat
form? The reign OF trusts, which the re-
publicans can themselves manage having
all the requisite experience both of Iegisla-
ton and business. and finally the war,
which. it seems was too efficiently carried
on and has been too beneficial to the nation
to suit the democratic leaders. We have
been able to give in our time some novel
ldeas to the rest of the world, and none
more novel than this. that a great party
should complain that the results of a war
We're too advantageous Hard it will he
to convince the bulk of our people that we
are the worse off because our flag has gain
ed great honor, our possessions have be.n
extended, our position in the world in
creased and our opportunity for work and
usefulness enormously widened through the
fortunes of war and the valor of our SOL
dlers and sailors.
Being in this desperate need of argyll
ments. it is not strange that they should
nave recourse to fiction. An attempt will
be made in the Ohio democratic platform to
excite the prejudice of certain classes OF
voters against the present administration
by accusing it of an alliance with England
The people who make this charge know it
to be untrue; their making it is an insult to
the intelligence of those votes they seek
by this gross MISREPRESENTATION But as
one of their favorite methods of campaign
is to invent fiction too fantastic to con
trad1ct and then assume it to be true be-
cause 1t has not been contradicted you
may permit me to take one moment to
dispose of this ghost story, as it refers to
the department with which am connected
There is no alliance with England, nor
with any other power under heaven, ex-
cept those known and published to the
world-the treaties of ordinary interna-
tlonal friendship for purposes of business
and commerce. No treaty other than these
exists; none has been suggested on either
side; none is in contemplation. 1t has never
entered into the mind of the President or
OF any member of the government to for
sake under any inducement the wise pre-
cept and example of the fathers. which
forbade entangling alliances with European
powers.
No Truth in Alliance Story.
! need not dwell upon this fact. Even
the men who wrote the Ohio platform
know there is no alliance. But they seek to
make capital in this campaign out of the
undeniable fact that our relations with
England more friendly and satisfac-
tory than they have ever been before. 1t
is hard to take such a charge seriously;
and if it is taken seriously, how can it be
treated with patience?
In the name of common sense let me ask:
u,
to cultivate, wherever possible, agreeable
and profitable relations with other nations?
And If with other nations, why not with
that great kindred power which stands
among the greatest powers of the world?
What harm. what menace to other coun-
tries is there in this natural and beneficent
friendship? Only a narrow and purblind
spirit could in it anything exclusively.
1t is a poor starved heart that has room
for only friend. 1t is not with Eng
land alone that our relations are improved.
We are better terms than in the past
with all the nations. With Russia our
old-time friend; with the great German
empire, to which we are bound by so many
ties; with our sister republic of France;
with Italy, Austria, and. in short, every
European, every Asiatic nation, our reIa-
tons are growing in intimacy and cordial
tty every year: and our friendship with our
Eeighbors to the south of us, from the Rio
Grande to Cape Horn, grows firmer, more
genuine, day by day.
And why should it not be so? Every one
likes to be on good terms with the peace
able and the prosperous, especially If their
hospitality is of that nature that other
people profit by 1t, and this is precisely our
condition. Our trade is taking that vast
development for which we have been pre-
pairing through many years of wise Ameri-
can policy. of sturdy American industry.
of thoughtful invention and experiment by