Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-06-03
A POWERFUL PAPER WHICH IN.
TERESTS Us ALL.
Wherein the Heathens are a Standing
Menace to Americans and their Insti-
tutiOns-The Anti. Chinese Memorial
to Congress.
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tional disputes.
Man is fighting animal, and wars
will not cease while he is what he is.
Let it once be seen that we are un-
able to defend ourselves and England
will have an army in the country with
in a year, fighting for a market of
English goods.
Our Chauvinists are fond of boast
ing of our population and its wonder
full increase, of our fifty or sixty mil
lions of people-words which we keep
rolling off our tongue as if in love
with the sound.
What avail all our millions of peo-
pie for defense if they are not of the
right quality and stamina? And even
if they have courage and can fight,
what avails it if they are inharmoni-
Gus, burning with race antagonism, so
that the cunning enemy can set one
race cutting the threats of the other?
The people of India are numerous
enough, if numbers 60 for anything.
We can hardly expect to outnum-
Der them with their two hundred and
sixty six millions.
But England dresses one-half of
them in uniforms, with feathers in
their hats, and led stripes down their
legs, and sets them to shooting the
other half.
For the last two years Great Britain
has been carrying on war in the Sou.
dan and Upper Egypt, as usual fol
the extension of trade and market
The population Of the country consist:
of Arabs mixed with various types o
: blacks, from the Guinea negro down
In the last number of the Lon loI
Times Is the following news dispatch
that will show how England conquer
such populations and brings them t.
r commercial relations with her. Tn,
: incident occurred since this conven
l ton was called. The article in thu
Times reads:
"CArEo, February IA, 1886.
S "Osman Digma for the past three
days has been harassing our patro
Sir Charles Warren armed two hun
bred 'friendlies,' and started them O.
On their own account. In tho after
noon they returned with three hun
dred and six camels and thirty on
cattle. Sir Charles Warren gave ther
Il this spoil as present"
That telegram tells its own story
e and requires no comment. No "frienc
h lies" could Be found in France to al
t an invading Zoe, nor in Germany, nc
d in Old England, nor in New Englan'
Il nor in New Jersey. They could M
Ii De lOullu III Sulhd. Aio Soo tui
t, certain they could not be found
1t South Carolina, or in Florida, or
1t Western Texas, about the mouth
rs the Rio Grande -friendlies to go c
J. on their own account to drive in stoc
Of if they knew it. would be given
ii them as present on their return?
to Such thing is only possible whe
there exists some prejudice or anita
onism that divides the people of t
country against each other. The
y, are various causes of antagonism, b
r. race friction is the most unfailin
rd That always disintegrates and destro
p the very bond and fiber of a natio
d To give another example of t
rs strength of homogeneity, we point
lis Chill, which country has conquer
lis Bolivia and Peru. Any one mig
ST. have foretold in advance what wou
at have been the outcome of war
n tween those countries. Chill is
ire nearest to a pure blooded people
ew all the nations of South Ameri
Peru is another Mexico, if not ev
is more mixed and mongrelized. WI
de possible sympathy could the India
Try and half-breeds of Peru have with
his pure Spaniards, to give them a
ess heart in a war of defense? What
he they care who shall be their maste
thy While that war was going on,
here OH the Pacific had reason to f
complication might arise in VIII
we would be attacked by Chill, q
- we were not free from uneasiness.
en-. telegraphed east for more cannon
nd our forts. But what good are canr
err with no men behind them? Fifty
va, cent. of the able-bodied males on
'' coast of the age for bearing arms