The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-22
OUR OWN CHIEF TOP oF-THe-HeAP.

OUR OWN CHIEF TOP OF -THe-HeAP.
Late dispatches from Oringobo, Ma
lakeland, give us the information that
Chief Mwaganga, or Top-Of-the- Heap,
has declared val against the adjacent
tribe OF Bangolians, and add the state
ment that the necessity for pressing
this war vigorously to avoid self-exter-
mination is likely to prevent or ut least
to postpone the revolution which has
been imminent in OringobO for some
months back.
II is apparent that Chief TOp-Of-the-
Heap is a statesman cut after the most
modern and broad -guage plan. The
little game that he is working has been
under way i'm Europe for years back.
IL is a sort of international thing there,
and has been got down to an economic
basis. All the crowned heads indulge
in il and they have established rules of
the game by which the fellow that
comes the nearest to declaring war and
doesn't do il wins the prize. To keep
his own people from rising and upset
ting him il is necessary that the
crowned head in each country keep
them busy getting ready to fight the
people in all the other countries. For
the interests of their treasures, how
ever. and out of regard for their own
personal comfort they take precious
good care that the wars shall eve go
beyond the getting-ready stage. War
is always on tap In Europe, but the
spigot is never turned, or hasn't been
for twenty years past, at any rate.
They haven't yet got the science of
not going 10 war down to such n fine
point in South Africa. When a chief
there has a revolution on his hands he
has really to levy war against some
other tribe, not merely to threaten it.
Time and attention to the business of
correct this trouble i'm South Africa as
il has in Europe, and we shall have the
whole African country perpetually
arming itself for the war that neve
comes.
Meantime. il Chief Top-of-the-IIea
has "a little spare time on his hands be-
tween this war and the next one, he
might run yer here and take a few
lessons i'm his particular branch of state
craft from the great American chief
tain. our own Top-of-the- Heap, Mr..
Blaine. That gentleman has a great
scheme on his hands. n that, il sue
cessful, will make his glory far exceed
that of the South African who gets up
a wal to keep himself in power or of
the European crowned heads who col
stantly threaten war with other states
in order to keep their own people i'm
subsection. Mr.. Blaine is seeking to
build for himself and his party n solid
platform for future success by stirring
up peace among the nations of the
American continent. At least peace
and prosperity, or the permanence of
the former and the increase of the lat
ter, is what he says he is trying to
bring about. lie has had his Pan
American congress I'm session at Wash
ington, and his mouth and the mouths
of his organs are filed with talk of re-
ciprocity treaties, international money,
great American banking systems and
the general regeneration of the CONT
nent, financially, socially and politi-
cally.
The fact is that Mr.. Blaine is putting
the finger of this government in the
pie of every other government in the
two Americas with the hope of getting
up "A fuss over foreign relations that
shall he at such a critical state when
the term of the present administration
expires that il will seem necessary To
continue in power the party that has
conducted the proceedings up to that
stage. Ostensibly the object of the
proceedings is To increase the power
and influence of the United States
among the other nations of America.
Actually the object is to create a
seeming necessity for the retention in
power of the republican party. Really,
the result will be. surprising that the
plans of our Chief Top-of-the Heap do
not iizzle utterly, the putting OF this
nation into a hole from which neither
Mr.. Blaine nor the whole republican
party can extricate il without national
disgrace and, probably, an American
And Chief Top-of-the-IIeap ought 10
understand that IL will not be n popu-
lar a The people of the United