The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
NUMBER So.
The Truth Out at Last.

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The idea is more or less prevalent
on the other side of the sea that the
United States amounts to something as
fighting nation, that it is ono of the
respectable powers of the earth, capa-
BILE Of taking care of itself and likely
to give the stoutest enemy rough treat
ment. This impression has got abroad
because of the fact that we are pros
porous people, with unlimited re-
sources, and supposed to be loyal to
the Federal union. True, there is a
diversity of race and of civilization
here which our European friends have
not fully understood and have therefore
failed to estimate, with due accuracy
and soberness, as points of weak ness.
This condition and other matters of
equal gravity, which we did not wish
the world to know, are ''given away
by a writer in the St. James Gazette
who "has passed good many years in
the United States" Starting with the
assertion that the strength of this Re-
public has been vastly over-rated- he
proceeds to prove it, In the event Of
war with a foreign power, says
this wise Britisher to his countrymen,
''the great labor associations of Amer
lea might probably take the opportun-
ity to put themselves aggressively in
evidence" against the government. A
fresher bit of news has not been seen
for many a day, and it is particularly
sensational in view of the wide spread
notion that among no class Of citizens
is the spirit of patriotism more liv-
ing fire than in the ranks of labor.
Moreover, the Indians ..would be very
likely-they are very well armed with
repeating weapons to take to the war
| path,'' sweeping through the north
west, no doubt, and laying siege to
Chicago. "Some people maintain.
the sapient writer adds, .sthat the
cowboys would hold the Indians in
check, but this is questionable" for
1.-The interests both of cowboys and
Indians are Identical, as are their pur-
SUITS" Even more serious is the posi-
bility that the seattle owners would
unite with the cred men and cowboys
to kill off the ssgrangers.' "a Who can
not readily see that the Britisher has
clear knowledge of the desperate situa-
ton into which a foreign war would
| plunge our government? If there is
need of further evidence, it is furnished
\ tot y,
"would be an excellent opportunity for
malcontent states to get loose from
one another" and he thinks the south
would jump at the chance. Worse
than that, the whole agricultural popu-
lation OF the country, *'two-thirds of
whom are foreigners" would refuse to
be ''conscrlpted, and finally, lit is all
but certain the Republic might disap-
pear" This intelligent survey of the
state of things existing here will cor
rect the errors which have long OBJ
tanned in the English mind regarding
the strength of America. It would
hardly be necessary for foreign foe to
fire gun. We would go all to pieces
if a paper bag we're exploded a league
beyond the three-mile limit The
truth has been disclosed at last, and it
is humiliating. Herr Bismarck, who
yielded to the American commissioners
in that Samoan business will now feel
like going out somewhere in the
suburbs of Berlin and repeating the
names of NEUROLOGICAL deities with
cannonade accompaniment Cincinna-
tt Times.