Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1888 — BLUSTER IN ENGLAND. [ARTICLE]

BLUSTER IN ENGLAND.

The Standard, in a savage leader on the fisheries question, says: “It will be well for the President and Government of the United States to remember that Canada is a dependency of Great Britain, and that if the necessity should unfortunately arise she has behind her the guns of English iron-clads. If our American cousins fail to understand this allusion; if, in deference to the tone of coarse brutality which seems to be the distinguishing feature of their domestic politics, they invite us to reply to their insults in a strain they will comprehend, perhaps we may be allowed to remind them of the Trent affair.” The Standard further says: “If we have to deal with a nation of filibusters, let us at least know it. We will tell our American cousins frankly that we have not advanced so far toward ideal Christianity that we are prepared to turn our cheek to the transatlantic smiter.” _—