Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1891-04-09
THE WEST AND WAR SCARES.


Italian Government 10 q fortunate in.
cident, as it gives the people of the
West notable demonstration of the
skill and impudence with which the
Northeastern money centres take ad.
vantage of every opportunity to fur.
ther the interests Of the fertilization
Jobs and to impose on the country
the burden of obtaining an enormous
navy. The recall possesses no extra.
ordinary significance. This govern.
ment has recalled ministers by the
score in the last two years. 1t means
simply that the new Italian Cabinet
has taken advantage Of favorable
opportunity to get rid of an objec-
tionable man in such a way az to gain
some popularity in Italy. Yet from
the howl of alarm set up over it it
would be easy to imagine that the
Brshmins were about to be compelled
to evacuste Boston, and that Wall
Street was being forced under Italian
guns TO disgorge some of the money
it has extorted from the West. OF
course there will be no war with Italy.
If any italian subject has been killed
BY an American mob, Italy will file
its claim for damages, and get dana.
ges if it proves its case, whether the
italian subject deserved killing or
not. The punishment of his murder
ere is no affair of Italy's. If Amer.
lear grand and petit Juries fail to do
their duty, it is our misfortune and in
no sense an international affair.
This is the whole of the case on
its merits. On it's demerits-on what
can be made out of its by perversion
and distortion-the hullabaloo over
the recall of Baron FAvA is a sufici-
emit warning-and the West should
heed it.
After getting enormously rich under
the protection" of tax of so cents
on the dollar of everything used in
the Western agricultural States, the
Northeastern Plutocrats are demand.
ing more millions from the West to
protect them with extravagant coast
defences and ironclads. a very few of
which will cost more than the average
Western State would bring if sold at
auction.
And this sort of protection" is
demanded, not against any real dan
ger, for none exists, but that the
Northeast, thus protected, may have
foreign war as last resort against
concedipg justice to the West. But
for the certainty that New York and
Boston would be the first points of
attack, the Plutocratic politicians of
that section would not hesitate to
avert a crisis threatening tariff re-
form and currency reform by provok-
ing foreign war which would insure
their control the currency, keep the
tariff at an exorbitant rate and give
them the handling of more govern
ment bonds in war loans on which the
agricultural States would pay them
the usury. The millions they demand
for defence are but the pretext for ex.
torting billions of tribute from the
rest of the country.
Our military expenses already
reach $500. 100000 year, including
military pensions, and this comes out
of the agricultural States and the
productive labor of the country. It
is an expense that has been more than
doubled in the decade, and the late
Plutocratic Congress had more to do
with doubling it than all the rest put
together.
Under such conditions there is only
one attitude the West can assume if
it desires it's own welfare and the
welfare of the country. It must
oppose further military expenses
with ell its force and put its veto
on all preparations for war. When
the tariff and the currency are
reformed. if the Northeastern Pluto.
Gratis still demand hundreds of mil.
lions for war preparations. the West
will be ready to advantageously give
it's consideration to plans for raising
the money by levying a tax of 10 per
cent. on all incomes over 5000 q
year.-St. Louis Republic.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing