The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-24
Who Wants a Foreign War2

Blaine because as soon as he is elected
lie will declare war against England. -
The papers run by O'DonOvan Rosa
and Patrick Ford are also reported to
be urging men to vote for Blaine. be-
cause he is favorable To the users OF
dynamite in England, and Twill have 4
law passed putting tax on every En-
glishman who lands in this country, 50
high that no Englishman Will dare to
come to America.
We are aware that this policy of cam
paigning trenches on sub .ects which pO-
liticai newspapers, as a rule, prefer to
let alone; bat the Blaine men having
opened up the matter, no reason exists
why it should be gilgerly treated. Mr..
Blaine's friends declare that he is run
ming for President with the purpose OF
involving the United States in a war
with England. The declaration is
either true or false. If it is true, then
the men whose prosperity depends on
peace have no use for Mr.. Blaine, for
they have no use for a foreign war. II
it IS untrue, then Mr. Blaine'S friends
are using base appeals for class voters.
with the purpose of cheating the ones to
whom the appeal is made. The intro
duction of such a policy of campaigning
is novel, wicked and shallow. The can
didacy of no other man than Mr.. Blaine
would occasion such policy.
1t should be said very plainly that no
Americans and no sane and honest
Irish-Americans have any sympathy
with the dynamiters. They believe
them to be murderers ard towards, who
ought to be put in jail as cranks or
I hanged, if their villainy kills anyone
else. The carrying of Blaine's canvass
into the dynamite camp proves the des-
/ perate situation of that canvass, aud
the infamous character of it. There is
feeling against the dynamite poltroons
and miscreants, which is as deep as the
purpose of the American people to put
down mobs and murdererS, and, by de-
! tying that feeling, the Blaine men are
sowing so plainly to the wind as to in
sure their reaping the whirlwind.
Moreover, tie American people do
not want any foreign war. The late
civil war was war enough for them, for
long time. They want peace, thrift
and quiet. They do not believe that
the election of Mr.. Blaine is so neceS-
sary that foreign war would be 6.
cheap price to pay for it. They do not
believe that foreign war is so neces-
sary. that Mr.. Blaine should be elected
expressly to stir one up. So intense is
th.ir aversion to q foreign war that
THEY believe those who would egg on
violent classes with the hope of getting
on up, are demagogues and scoun-
drels.
she United States have had two wars
with Great Britain. The aggreSsions of
the latter country caused these two
wars. The first secured us independ-
ence. The second secured us eXemp-
tiOa from British meddling. We had
| the Just and successful side in both in
stances On another occasion, a war
was nearly threatened between the
countries, but it was averted by the
treaty which settled the Oregon bound
airy. The high joint commission
and the Geneva arbitration averted
another war. That left no CUES
tons to which diplomacy is not
easily equal. Now. the new cry for
a for IGN war is not based on any
grievances suffered or dangers appre-
hended. It is raised to make votes for
political speculator who wants to be
Pres dent. 1t ought TO lose him votes
Men who own anything or who are
earning anything are profoundly inter
eSted in averting any foreign war. Such
a war would suit those who have moth
ing to lose and no one else.
The introduction of foreign war as
question into the peaceful politics of q
people presumed to be free. is mon
strouS. 1t ought to cost its intrOd1cerS
dearly. Its introducers are the Blaine
campaiguers. The business men of the
United States have hard enough time
now, without any war beng brought
on them. The investments in which the
capital of the rich and the savings of the
poor are placed. are low and sbakv
enough now, without having Il million
million a year more added to the al
ready Onerous taxes. The ground is
Unlocked with graves enough now.
without opening it again for more
slain. The laborers and business
men are hard pressed enough now
to win bread, without the intro
duction of the greatest of human calam-
titles to the lot of the country. The
tide of crime, violence and communism,
of contempt for authority and law. is
high enough now without blowing away
the securities of order with gunpnwder.
No foreign government is seeking q
quarrel with us. We have no standing
quarrel with any of them. Our Nation
is slowly emerging from the troubles of
great civil strife.
That the Blaine canvass, to escape at
tacks on the character of the candidate
and to cover the want of any real rea-
son why Blaine should be elected, has
raised this cry for a foreign war, is a
proof of quackery and deviltry beyond
precedent. II ought to range against
Blaine the votes of all the respectable
and reasonable men in this land. If,
in the future, cause should arise requir-
ing Americans to defend their liberties,
this people will prove as brave in war
as they have proved themselves to be
before. But they are not going to elect
Blaine. to enable him to reopen the
flood-gates of war, neither are they 60
ing to reopen those gates, to elect
Blaine. So surely as leveling and lurid
appeals are made by the Blaine man
aLers to the crack-brained, rowdy and
lawlesS elements of the country that
surely will the stable, loyal, industrious
and thrifty combine against him, and
his defeat will be more overwhelming
than that of any other man ever before
was.--Al6aqy Argus.