Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-23

to be missed by anybody; and gave the country at last vision enough to see what was in fact the course of affairs abroad, within and without un- happy France.
 Before that trying year I7s3 was put. an attack upon Hamilton in the house. though led by Madison, had Jailed: Jefferson had left the cabinet; and the hands of those who definitely and heartily supported the president were not a litle strengthened.
 There was sharp bitterness between parties-a bitterness sharper as yet, indeed. than their differences of view; but the "federalists." who stood to the support of Washington and Hamilton. were able. none the less, to carry their more indispensable measure-eyen an act of neutrality which made the pres ident's policy the explicit law of the land. The sober second thought of the country was slowly coming about to their aid.
 Doubts About England.
 The air might have cleared alto gether had the right method of deal ing with France been the only ques- ton that pressed; but the i'll fortune of the time forced the president to seem not only the recreant friend of France. but also the too complacent partisan of England.
 Great Britain seemed as mischiey- ously bent upon forcing the United States to war as Genet himself had been. She would not withdraw her garrisons from the border posts; it was believed that she was melting the Indians to their savage tnroads apon the border, as the French had. done in the old days; she set herself to destroy neutral trade by seiziAg all vessels that carried the products of the French islands or were laden with provisions for their ports; she would admit American vessels to her own West Indian harbors only upon sufferance. and within the limits of 8 most jealous restriction
 It gave touch of added bitterness 10 the country's feeling against her that she should thus levy as it were covert war upon the Union while af- fecting to be at peace with it, as if she counted on its weakness, especial ly on the seas; and congress would have taken measures of retaliation, which must certainly have led 10 open hostilItles, had not Washington inter yened. despatching John Jay, the trusted chief justice, across sea as minister extraordinary, to negotiate terms of accommodation; and so giy. ing pause to the trouble.
 Whisky Riots Suppressed.
 While the country waited upon the negotiation, it witnessed wholesome object-lesson in the power of it's new government. In March, 1791, congress had passed an act laying taxes on dis titled spirits: twas part of Hamilton's s plan to show that the federal govern ment could and would use it's great authority. The act bore nowhere so hard upon the people as in the vast far counties of Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia, beyond the mountalns--and there the very allegiance of the peo- pie had been but tbe other day doubt full, as Washington very well knew.
 How were they to get their corn to market over the long roads If they were not to be permitted to reduce its bulk and increase its value by turn ing 1t into whisky? The tax seemed to them intolerable, and the remedy plain. They would not pay 1t. They had not been punctiiious to obey the laws Of the states: they would not be- gin obedience now by submitting to the worst laws of the United States
 At first they only amused them selves by tarrlng and featherfng an ex- ciseman here and there; but resist ance could not stop with that in the face of a government bent upon hay ing its own way. Opposition organized itself and spread. till the writs of federal courts had been defied by vio- lent mobs and the western counties of Pennsylvania were fairly quick with incipient insurrection.
 For two years Washington watched the slow gathering of the storm, warn ing those who resisted. keeping con gress abreast of him in preparation for action when the right time should come, letting all the country know what was afoot and prepare it's mind fer what was to come. It must have won him to a stern humor to learn that seven thousand armed men had gathered in mass-meeting on Brad dock's field to defy him. At last he summoned an army of militia out of the states, sent 1t straight to the law. | less counties, going with it himself tiil he learned there would be no serious resistance-and taught the country what was back of federal law. Hamii ton had had his way, the country its lesson.
 Jefferson's Sheer.
 ''The servile copyist of MT. Pitt thought he must have his alarms. his insurrections and plots against the constitution" sneered Jefferson. 'Ii aroused the favorite purposes oi strengthening government and increas ing the public debt; and therefore an | insurrection was announced and pro claimed and armed against and | REad Reyieu Want Ads