The National tribune., 1882-07-01
"THE VAMPIRE OF NATIONS"
4 Greater Possible Danger 30 Result from En-;
land'S Arts than her Arms.

Greater Possible Danger 80 Result from Eng
lands Arts than her Arms.
From the Irish World.
Such was the brand which the Baron Lie
big, of Germany, stamped years ago upon the
unblushing forehead Of that nationality
which claims to lead the advance Of ciyili
zation and to embody in her own institution
more of the elements of advanced civiliza-
tion than have elsewhere been grouped to-
gether.
Had that scathing term originated with
an Irishman, an American, or a Frenchman,
it might have lost some of its terrible signiti-
cance by the suggestion that the utterance
might have escaped the author as natural
! hut perhaps prejudiced ebullition boiling up
from sense of ancient outrage, but, coming
as it did from one whose nationality has SCI
dom felt the atrocity of British domination,
and whose Teutonc stock is proverbially
placid and phlegmatic, it comes with pecu-
liar force.
The venerable philosopher made the utter
ance with the calm dignity with which re-
spectacle Judge would deliver a verdict,
being the result and summarization of his
scientific and economic researches, and may
be termed judicial in the best sense Of the
term. He said:
England is robbing all other countries of
the conditions of their fertility. Annually
she removes from the shores of other coun-
tries to her own the manurial equivalent of
three millions and half of men, whom she
takes from us the means of supporting. Like
a campfire she hangs upOn the neck Of Europe,
nay, of the entire world, and sucks the heart
blood from nations without a thought of JUS
tice toward them, without shadow of last
ing advantage for herself"
If that was true as to her relations with
Europe in the time adverted to by Baron
Liebig how much more emphatically so is.it
now in her commercial relations with this
country, which she is stripping of every ele-
ment of agricultural fertility as fast as the
ships of Christendom can carry them from
our shores.
1t was this policy in colonial times which
sucked the life-blood from Virginia and
Carolina soils for the British tobacco trade,
and farther back in history stripped Ireland
of her forests, which were renowned through
out the world for their grandeur, extent, and
beauty.
Baron Lebig, perhaps despairing of right
ful retribution by human agencies, turned
with religious fervor to the sometimes
slow but always sure justice of an outraged
God, and with the most entire confidence
prophesied that the hour of retribution and
perhaps ruin were in store for her. He
stated that faith thus: 1t IS impossible that
such iniquitous iaterfereaceS apih the diUiRe
order of the acorld should escape its righJM
punishment; and this may perhaps Overtake
England even sooner than the countries she
robs Most assuredly q time awaits her
when all her riches of gold, iron and coal
will be inadequate to buy back thousandth
part of the conditions of life which for cen
turies she has wantOnly squandered away"
A short time since Judge Kelley, in Con-
gress, while warning the representatives of
the American people of the danger resulting
from her arts more than from her arms, from
her cunning more than her cannons, from
nef IldIJertIS IOIt iidu utI JOOk up
and eloquently continued Baron Liebig's
argument, and claimed that the prophesy
was now near fulfiment thus The day of
England's tribulation was nearer than Lie
big could have believed. 1t is upon her now.
The vampire has exhausted the blood Of Ire
land her more than eight millions of people
now nnmber less than five millions. Tur-
kew, in natural endowments as rich as the
same number of contiguous square miles
anywhere in the world, is the Sick Man of
Europe, and instead Of furnishing The acorid
qciM Damascus blades cannot make q pi0eo or
hoe Of iron Egypt is scarcely better Off
than she. Representatives OF British and
French holders of her bonds practically ad-
minister her finances Frequently occurring
famines and insufficient means Of susten-
ance are rapidly reducing the population of
impoverished India. And the vampire, hav-
ing absorbed the blood of these and other