Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-08-31
The Truth Out at Last.


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 one OF the
respectable powers Of the earth, capa-
BILE Of taking care Of itself and likely
TO give the sioutest 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 'shas passed a 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,
4 s'the great labor associations OF Amer
lea might probably take the opportun-
ity to put themselves aggressively in
evidence against the government A
fresler bit OF news has not been seen
for many day. AMI it is particularly
sensational In view of the wide sPreaI
notion that among no class OF citizens
is the spirit OF patriotism more iiv-
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
vest, no doubt, and laying siege 70
Chicago. s.Somc people maintain. "
the sapient writer adds, that the
, cowboys would hold the Indians in
: check, but this is questionable, for
1.-THE interests both of cowboys and
Indians are identical. as ere their pur-
: suits" Even more serious is the posi-
: bility that the .tcaitle owners" would
d unite with the ''red men and cowb1ys''
: to kill OF the .'grangers." Who can
} not readily sec that the Britisher has q
7 clear knowledge OF the desperate sitn1-
) ton into which a foreign w@r would
plunge our government? If there is
need of further evidence, it is Furnished
in the statement that such wal
.woull be an excellent opportunity for
: malcontcat states to get loose fro--
j. one another and he thinks the south
!, would jump at the chance. Wors'
0 than TAFT. the whole agricultural popa
!. lation OF the country. ..two-thirds Q
: whom are forcignecs,n would refuse t
t be .-coascrlpted," and finally, lit is al
i bat certain the Republic might disap
5 peas This intelligent survey OF ths
i state Of things existing here VIII cor
is rect the errors which have long oh
y tanned in the English mind regardin
. the strength OF America. Ii woul
e hardly be necessary for a foreign foe t
b FIRE gun. We would 80 all 70 piece
! if paper bag were exploded q leaEu
i beyond the three-mile limit Tn,
d truth has been disclosed at last, and
: is humiliatlng. Here Bismarck, VIII
r yielded TO the American commissioner
\ in that samoan business will now fee
!, like going cut somewhere in th
Is suburbs OF Berlin and repeating tn
names OF NEUROLOGICAL deities with
, cannonade accompaniment. -Cincinns
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