Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Gresham’s Work. [ARTICLE]

Gresham’s Work.

“Mr. Gresham’s work in the state department will show,” says Walter Wellman,Ja record rarely equalled, never excelled, in the field of labor. If there was one failure, a hundred success! s compensated therefor. He achieved the great victory of getting England out of the Mosquito strip, where she had been for a century. He stood by *ur treaty bhgations and followed the dictates of humanity in an effort to arrange peace between China and Japan Heduued under an arrangement made by a former administration which committed

the United States to the upholding of one monarch in Samoa, and made us the jailor of another, and | succeeded in securing mitigation of the unfortuna.e contract. He did his best to induce the corrupt and insincere, the tricky and selfish United States senate to enact legislation which would preserve the national honor from the stain L.f deliberate and confessed treaty breakißg; he firmly arrested efforts to use the recognition of the United States in support of a monarchical conspiracy ana rebellion in Brazil. He secured justice tor Americans m Nica agua. in Cuba, iu Honduras and many other countries; he did all in his power to protect the life of the seals on the one hand and to induce congress to make appropriation for tribunal award on the otner. He exercised due diligence in an i ffoit to secure American participation i i an investigation oi tue Armenian oat' rages. His good offices aided in restoring neace between Mexico and Guatemala. His prompt demand for a; ology from Spain for an insult to our fl g was complied with.” *

About the prettiest tribute paid the memory of Judge Gresham came from Post master Genera) Wilson. He said: “1° kuow Judge Gresham was to love him as a man and to admire and respect him as a public servant. When Mr. Bissell was leaving this department he told me t’ at for all the worries and disagreeable experiences of his official lite he was achly compensated by baying made theacquaintance anc enjoy d the friendship of Judge Gresham. 1 share in the warmth of that feeling. As a man the dead secretary wa* plain, direct, cordial and high-toned. As secretary of state ne was severely laborious and p installing. Through exceptional difficulties and embarrassments he conducted our affairs with great ability, to the honor of the American name and steady increase of our standing aua influence among the nations of the earth lor justice, wisdom and self-respecting devotion to freedom. Few lives have been more fruitful in high, unsslfish and solid service to tLe country.”