The Herald

THE ACCURACY OF ENGLISH JOURNALISM

The fool annihilator could find a large field for employment in the journalistic world of England. Some of the editorial utterances regarding the retirement of Admiral Meade of the United States navy, seem to indicate an incapacity to grasp the real reason for the displacement of that officer, that would do credit to a marine or a Massachusetts senator. The Spectator and the naval and military magazine Broad Arrow, seem to take the president's act as one performed to show the friendship of this country for England, and as a rebuke to the admiral for anti-British utterances. As every reader of the American press knows, the admiral was retired because of his public criticism of the president's course in a matter of national consequence. The president of the United States, as the commander-in-chief of the army and navy, was the admiral's superior officer, and in the interest of well-established naval discipline could no more afford to overlook the admiral's breach than the latter could a similar offense on the part of a lieutenant. The garrulous old tar was fortunate to escape without a court martial. The question of international amity had nothing to do with the incident. If the English editors would read up a little more on American affairs, their comments regarding the same would not be so ridiculously inaccurate. As indicative of the kind of conception some of the queen's papers have of happenings in this country, the following, published in the London Times about the time of the Industrial army sensation will be interesting:

"General Coxey, the gentleman who ran for president in opposition to the late Chauncey Depew, is leading an army of discontented hobos on Washington. Hobo is the political pseudonym used to designate the members of the Independent Republican party. General Coxey is a native of Yuba Dam, capital of the state of Baltimore, and a journalist of some distinction, having edited the Congressional Record, an influential paper published in the Mormon interests of Boston, N. Y. His army has captured the Delaware and Lackawanna railroad, which will afford transportation through the Rocky mountains to Fargo, where the troops will embark in gondolas and sail down the Susquehanna to Washington. As the president, Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, is absent in Kentucky on a buffalo hunt, attended by the regular army as a guard of honor, grave apprehensions are felt at Washington as to the possible consequences of Coxey's invasion of that territory. If the Kickapoo Indians should join him, serious consequences may ensue."