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(ruilly of such flagrant violation that Sec- Presidential Chair, and Adams the first Re
rotary of State Seward advanced a plan to publican was in the Presidential cnjUr. ami
go to war' with' all of Jhem at one and the Jefferson the first Democrat was In the
same time. Presidential chair, France and Rnicland
nosaihle influence short sensed 1.C00 ships f ying in the Stars and
of 'open war to injure ua. She not only Stripes, and destroyed $60,000,000 worth of
permitted the building of Confederate vea- American property.
! in nrinu uhin vurds but ahe allowed But iielthe' the First Independent Presl
at least two to bo built In the national 1 dent nor the First Republican President nor
navv vnrri nf France and she supplied them the First lemocrattc President went to Wur
with supplies from her government arsenal. They settled our troubles by negotiation, Just
And England did more. ' as the President of the United suites Is try-
Tlirougn nis aecreiury m ing i0 d0 today.
caned Knglano: to accouni iur mo
of the Uj S. Ship Chesapeake on the high.
seas bound from New YorK to i-oriiana. lor
the biirnlnc of the U. 8. Ship Roanoke off
HK KKlMlltl.H'ANS WIMiING TO RKAD
HARKISON AND Mi.MNK, LINCOLN
ANI CUANT OLT OF THKIR -IMKTY,
llerartnla. for the solzure on Lke rne or
the ship Ptiilo Parsona and the scuttling of
the Island ijueen. tne snooting oi us
..... aM,i fha ornnnriin? of its OaHSOngorH
and. he protested to tint-land ngalnst the
Invasion or me wrrauij """- ,.. ,h Pr,.i. nf the United States
Btatesnjr a band of Southern sympainwers tey arni,Bn tne uolicy ot HarrlBoll.
of ltlalne, of Lincoln and of Grant? 1'or
the pleasure of criticising a Democratic
Iir the face of this record do Republi
cans realise that when they arraign the
from Canada who rode across the border
Inln Vermont, burned a portion of St. Al
bans, looted its homes, robbed Its bank of
121 1.000. killed one ot its ClUiens an"
wounded several more. In stinging lan
he told Kneland tnat sne vioiaieu
President, are' they willing to read out of th
Republican iwirty the greatest men the Re
publican party ever had? And .are they
Ruage.he tola - r.nRiana ni m willing to say that the Republican party of
"-"';,.. .-,. .,. today
III) r la UI1U Ullimn " J HAitili
felonious depredations , anst the ' Clvll war days and what Grant and Blarne
of the United States." and he wrote into m.i w... ..-t r,i,
did
did
and Harrison did but yesterday.
In his policy of peaceful negotiations to
day tho President - of the United States
follows the.exaniple set him by -the greatest
presidents the Democratic party and the
greatest presidents the Republican party
ever gave this nation
hinti.rv his diplomatic battle against Kns
land for letting loose tne Aiauama i
unn our commerce, to destroy ono hun
dppl million dollars' worth of properly, to
capture eighty-four of our vessels and drive
our flag from oft the seas. No nation
ever inflicted upon another nation a more
damnable or more maddening wrong than
Kngland Inflicted upon tne united oiaics in
the Alabama outrage.
But we didn't go to war. uinuuui n..
niir trnub ea DY nocoiiaiion Juai ua
President la trying to do today..
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WHM PIKIICK WAS PRKS1IKNT,
when PlercA was President the Uritish
minister In this country and tnreo oi nis
ennsnls violated our neutrality during me
Crimean war. W gave tneae represent-
tives of Great Britain their passports anu
Duit lhlm hnme ' I
Rut we didn't go to war. i n-rco ran
our troubles by negotiation ju o
I'resident of the United Stales is -trying to
do today.
WH1CN VAX BlIltKN WAS PllKSl DIONT.
tv'hen Van Buren was President a de
tachment of Canadian militia, during the
iniQPn!,i iriiuhles iii Canada, boarded the U.
s Shin Carolina in the American waters ot
Nlmrura River, killed an American member
of the crew, nred tne snip ana sini uc-i
n.irifi over Niagara I' alls.
n,,i uo A iln't co to war. van nuron
settled our troubles by negotiation Just as
tho Prosldent of the United States is try
ing to do today.
WHF.N JKFFKUSON WAS PRICSIDIONT.
Whn .TelTerson was President 1'ngiano
seir.ed -hundreds of our slifjis and Napoloon
hundreds more. I'ingianu cuiniirncu wvui
thousand American seamen to serve against
their will in tho F.nglish navy, and Na
,.i, nr.lered the seizure and condacation
of American ships wherever found. Our
shipping rotted at every French and Brit
ish port, our crews were cast into prison
.i lft lo rile of abuse ana neglect, jne
nnil.h xhln Ieonard nrea upon me mner-
tin rrulser Uhesapease in smi-nLiin
waters, killed and wounaea sevorai ni our
atilnrs took three native-oorn American
citizens on" the Chesapeake and hanged one
of them in nailiax.
H.it we didn't CO to war. jwiiitsoii afi-
tio,i nnr troubles by negotiation Just as the
President of the unitea mates is trying iu
do today.
WHF.N ADAMS WAS PRKSIDKNT,
President France
preyed upon our commerce. She extended
uaiiir nen.rches and confiscation to the
vnrv waters of the United States themselves
f. . - n i ..n In nt.i- Kliito rienart-
until sne p.. "i- n , .h. r..oni admlnistra-
nent charges or over i.aux viuianons i , 'V r . . 'V :,; Z " .i...i
. i... An-.ei-lan nmhiuHailora on ne neve I nan lauco n snouia hbvo no"1"
neutrani s . u h. .wnrrt rather
who sought to adjust tnese wrongs were re- ..l, ..-.- -
rert recognition and openly insulted at the than the pen In pressing the Alabama
fused recognition i , -ailed claims? Are they willing to brand Grant
rrencn " . . . r" .... .. j K. h l,n,.t l neace
ni.l,mnnn ftlll ret retnent lO ncail . s a wn-,m ubvuuoq .
L hnill twelve battleships. I Are they willing to pronounce John
n.. wa rinln t en to war. nuama fk;vii-u i Aniimn nieiiiaiiy ur Huimt-niir uii.t"iih
..- iM,.i,lf, tv necotlation Just as thelcause he wished to be remembered, not as
o...,iji f the United States is trying to tho second President of the United States,
llllll US 11IC Ill!l WIIU o.rr.i
from war with France In 1800?
WASHINGTON WAS PRESIDENT. And yet the present violations acainst our
i nanivn i -1 r rr. i n ti fn i Hi?ft n t ftimjmreu wun
When Washington was President and, the 2,300 violations which France piled up
"neutrality" first declared, war convulsed while John Adams was President insignlfi-
Furone our ships dared not to put out to cant as compared with Kngland building a
' commerce was paralyzed and business navy to prey upon our commerce when Lin-
' t American nnHsentrers and Amor- coin was ITCH dent Insignuicani compare'!
aeproEwc ,i jI,iih thft hnit-hnrv nf American citizens by
lnn preWS wore iiuwu iiiiu tiiiouu u.,- , ...k.. j
nrlved of legal rights. Genet, the Minister the Spanish firing squad in Santiago, when
from France, fitted out privateers
r . , .
In the Presidential onarr nas sreuitju
every warring power, from every empire
under the sun, the formal and definite as
surance that the neutral rights of America
shall be respected and observed.
We challenge our critics to deny a single
fact In the record. Wo defy them to show
a single point at which the helmsman wno
has safely piloted tis through Europcls
storm has departed from the course laid
down by those who established America's
foreign policy.
THK DKCIjA RATION OF INllnriwu.
KNCK CONFIRMS THK POIJCY OF
NEGOTIATION.
'To maintain our national honor by
peace If we can, by war if we must," Is the
motto of the President of tho United States,
But before suDmliting to tne cnanoe
misery of war, true statesman that he Is,
h nrnnnsea to Dut the reason and Justice
of negotiation to tho test. If they are as
patriotic as they preiena inose wno tcimuio
ihiu nniinv nf necotlation may blush from
shame to learn that they censure the policy
pursued by the signers or tne ueciaratiun
of Independence.
In the document which made us free
inhn Hancock and Benjamin Franklin and
Charles Carroll and all the other signers
declare (I quote their exact words), they
declare they "appealed." they declare they
"ennlnred." thov declin they-" warned,"
they declare they "reminded" England of
nur winners before we went to war.
Any one can disparage diplomatic proce
dure, hut only men of patience and princi
ple can successfully conauci it.
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Former Governor Martin H. Glynn, of New York,
1 " Jk-klM
In our
hrlrs. flouted our officials, and tried to
...ii., ihls Country to the support of ! ranc
...irn for the help France gave us in
.u. Revolutionary war. Kngland a
Fr-ince seized 400 of our ships and confis
.,.',i millions of dollars' worth of our
nrouerty. and up In Quebec Ixird Dorchester
' F . r-t .1 . Indiana Vl O rln9 SttrA tt
Grant was in the Presidential chair.
Tn this as in "all the other Ug questions
of life the more we understand the past,
the better we shall uti3 "o present.
Where it took ten years to secure inadequate 1
compensation for the Alabama claim, the
present administration has already secured
In tho case of a single claimant, reparation
promised Canadian imnns mr i'canuic greater tnan an tne i.mma ,.inn
linrnine American homes and scalping blued. Where, in other administrations dur-
American citlwns. f ing great foreign wars, the American flag
Hut we didn't go to war. Washington W; merely an Invitation to plunder today
Kittled r troubles by negotiation Just as that Ma Is the best protection of all who
the President of the United States Is trying desire to be safe upon the seaa.
in Aa today Where Washington voJnly pleaded for
To sum up inis guiiii'aiauvo i'-'" u recoitniuwn oi uur ucunai 1 - - -
comparative results X assert, and history ferson nought in vain to protect our shlp-
Vahington the first Independent was '-n th freodom of the seas, the man who now nils
Just as Rufus King criticized WashinR
ton's negotiations with Krance in the Genet
affair, just as the mem hers of John
Adams' own cabinet criticized his negoti.
tlons which averted war with France, Just
as Horace Greeley criticized Lincoln; ho tor
personal and political purposes men whose
ambitions outrun their sense of Justice crit
icize the negotiations of tho President to
day.
A POLICY THAT SATISriKS.
Hut, say our critics, this policy satisfies
no one. ,
They mean it does not satisfy those who
would map out a new and untried course
for this nation to pursue, but they forget It
does satisfy those who belir e tho United
SI it oh should live up to the principles It
thus nrofensed for a century audi more,
Chief Justice White of the United States
Hun rem a Court suvs this policy has given
America the greatest diploro title victory of
the past generation. Maximilian naruen,
Germany's noted editor, says "that never
once has this republic violated its neutral
ity. and Ulloert 1. urcMienun, ine inmuuD
Knglish journalist, nay" " ib me uuiy oi
the President of tne United stales to pro
tect tho interests of the people of the
United States." that he can't dip his coun
trv hell iust to Hhow the world he has
a keen sense of being an Individual savior."
This policy may not witimy mow wn
revel in destruction and find pleasure in
despair. It nwy not sitisfy the lire-enter
or the swashbuckler. Hut it does satisfy
those who worship at tho altar of the God
of Peace. - It does satisfy Hie mothers ot
the lan-1 at whose hearth, and lireside no
Jingoistic war has placed an empty chali.
It does satisfy the daughters of this land
from whom bluster anil bra have sent no
loving brother to tK dissolution of the
grave. It does satlsff tho fathers or tins
land and tne sons or tms tana wno win "Km
for our flag, and di for our nag when
HcAson prlms tu tin, when Honor drawi v
the sword, when Justice breathes a bless
ing on the standards they uphold.
And whom, we asK. win tne poucy ot our
nponents satisfy, and for how long? Fight
ing for every degree of Injury would mean
perpetual w-ar and this is the policy of our
uoonents. deny it how tney wui. ii wouiu
not allow the United States to keen the
sword out of the scabbard as long as there
remains an unrighted wrong or an uitba its
fled hope between the snowy wastes ot Si
beria and the Jungled hills of Borneo. It
would make America as dangerous to it
self and to others, as destructive and as
uncontrollable as tne cannon tnat suppea
its moorings in -Victor Hugo's tale of '93.
it would irive us a war abroad each tuns
the lighting cock of the Kuropean weather
uhifted with the breeze. u wouiu
make America the cockpit o'f the world. It
would mean the reversal of our traditional
policy of government. It would moan the
adoption of imperialistic doctrines which
we have denounced ror over a century- "
would make all the other nations the wards:
of the United States and the United Stales
the keeper of the world. What would be
come of the Monroe Doctrine under such
a policy? How long do our opponents sup
pose we would be anowea to meuaie in
European affairs while denying Kurope the
right to meddle In American affairs? The
policy or our opponents is a uream, it
never could be a possibility. It is not even
advanced in good faith; it is simply an ap
peal to passion and pride, to sympathy ana
prejudice, to secure partisan advantage, ll
a word this policy of our opponents woukt
make the United Slates the policeman oi
the world. Rome tried to be policeman oi
the world and went down. Portugal tried
to bo policeman of the world and went
down; Spain tried and went down, and the
United States proposes lo profit by the ex
perience of the ages and avoid ambitions
whose reward is sorrow mid whose crown
is death. '
NATIONAL HONOR.
In desperation for a slogan our oppon
ents try to create an Issue out of natioiuil
honor. '
Now national honor is not tho whim ot
an Individual mind; not the creation of a
coterie of minds.
National honor Is the composite senti
ment, the composite Impulse, tho composite
reason of a whole people feeling the emo
tions of nature and following the dictates
of God.
And It Is for this rensan that "the power"
to declare war is conferred by the Conslb'
tut ion of these United States, not on the
Individual will of tho President, but on
the compos!; renspn, the representative de
cision of "f-he Congress of the United
States." .
Do. then, tho y otspurs of this country
mean to proclaim llumiselves moro Jealous
of our national honor than tho frarmim of
ho CoriHlitution, than Washington or Lin
coln? Where, when and from whom did
hey receive their com mission as kcepei s
mid interpreters of the honor of this nation?
Who gave them a monopoly of the work-
ngs of the brain or the emotions or the
heart? What mystic faculty do they pos
sess which n:iture Ikis denied to other menf
I hey proceed on the theory that lh
noisiest man iK'fhe land Is the best patriot.
'earful within, blustering without, tho
coward whistles to keep up courage, and
hopes. the world will rend in his fuce w.iat
not in his heart. Tne brave man, con
scious of what is In his heart anil wireless
uf whether or not the world reads it in his
face, neither whistles to'tleceive his neigh
bors nor publishes his patriotism to win tho
Pharisees crown of s'lf-praise.
These noisy critics forget that an appre
ciation of honor is as elemental In every
man as the instinct which calls the flush of
rage to the cheek or the blaze of anger to
the eye. When the honor ot this country is
outraged or the gHory of Its Klag Is he
Htninhed the man of the street, the toiler
in the fields, the artisnn In the shops, tho
man who stioulders his musket and marches
away at his country's call will need no ono
to tell htm, no one to show him where duty
lies and manhood calls. The men who will
do the fighting will not have to be drummed
to war they will summon themselves to
battle with the valor of a Jackson and tho
ardor of a Wayne.
. PKKPAKKDNKKS.
The genius of this country is for peace.
Compared with the blood-smeared pages of
Kin ope our records are almost immaculate.
In the making of no other nation has con
quest played so smull a part. Stolen
wealth does not fill cur coffers or ravished
territory swell our domains.
We have built our greatness on the re
sources of nature and the peaceful toil of
our people. The ring of the anvil not the
rattle of the saber, the song of the reaper
not titer shriek of the. soldier, the ctaUor of
the shuttle not the crack of the rifle have
won us the place we occupy today In tho
councils of tho world.
With us war has never boen a choice. It
has always, been a fate. We would like to
furl the Hags of war and still Its throhhlni?
lrums; we sign for the uiy wnen men win
bent their swords Into piowsnares, ineir
spears into pruning nooKs, uul uih
that the miracle is yet io e pei mi imv.i
which perfects human nature and imbues
nations with tho spirit to do unto others as
they would do unto ua.
LfKC tne old aiuwA-w itiim-i wu
peace, we would lileo to throw the toma
hawk of war so high In the Hky that no
man's hand could ever pull It down Hut
when some other tribe among tho ricet. of
men sends us a bundle of rrows wrapped
In the skin of a rattle-snake, we want, lika
old Governor Hradford of Massachusetts, to
b- In a position to send that rattle-snake
skin back stuffed wifii powder and with balk
We tfentucate the compii'-ion but w rco