The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-11-30
CLEvgLAND,s PARTNER-

Great Britain is the hereditary enemy
OF the United States, says the Virginia
Chronicle. She has fought US on every
occasion when she thought she had us
in her power; she has bribed the saw
ages on our boundaries to butcher our
defenseless women aud children; she
let loose her war vessels during our
civil war as fast as they could be
bought and paid Notwithstanding
the protestations Of Minister Adams
to prey on our commerce.; even Glad
stone boosted in Parliament that "a
new nation had been BORN" and moth
ing but fear impelled Great Britain to
submit the damages inflicted on our
commerce by her Alabama and kindred
destroyers. This fear was the new
United States Navy, the only ironclad
navy afoat.
Since that time Great Britain has
managed to surround the whole Amer
lean continent with vast Gordon OF
armament. She has military rail-
way from Halifax on the Atlantic to
Port Moody on the Pacific, intended to
be used in military operations against
this country, aud on that account built
in great measure from the Imperial
Treasury. She has free entry for her
fleets to the St. Lawrence, through
which flow the waters of the great lakes.
From her fortress at Halifax she could
let slip a swarm OF armored cruisers
that in a very little time might ruin
our coasting trade, aud lay our unpro-
tected seacoast under contribution.
She has similar coign of vantage on
the Pacific at Esquimalt. British do
minion is exerted over the Bermudas,
Bahama, Jamaica, the Belize, Barba-
does, st. Lucia and the Leeward Is
lands. Bermuda, three days out from
Charleston ann New York, is equipped
with Notifications which are described
In the Colonial Year Book "as the most
formidable and perfect in the world"
A submarine cable connects the fort
ress at Bermuda with Halifax. 1t was
laid only two years ago, and it cost ST.
100000, sum ten times greater than
the exchanges between the group and
Canada. In the reef-enclosed harbor
at Bermuda, Great Britain has ship.
building plant, dry dock that will lif,
her heaviest sea-going battleshlps (while
the United States has not solitary ont
which can take in the armored cruiser
New York; coaling station and
vast system OF earthworks, mounted
with the heaviest guns. Since 1856
Great Britain has immensely strength
ened the garrison at Kingston, and ere
ated an entirely new one in the harbo
of Casteries, st Lucia.
Taking Halifax, Bermuda, Kingston
and Casteries together, chain of OF
fensive Notifications is constituted with
in three days. reach of every America
seaboard city. Each is mounted wit
guns of the most effective modern type
Each is capable Of fitting vessels &c
sea at moments notice. A cabl
connects them all with each other an
with London.
In the South Sea the British empil
spreads over immense oceans that hol
almost every dot of land that ris'
above them. On one Of the Falklar
islands, just north and east Of CaI
Horn, there is British coaling static
At Sydney there is another. There
q third, recently built and splendid
armed, at the Fiji islands, and the
are the great defenses at Esquima
from which, at an hours motto
Seattle and Tacoma could be Ia
!. waste. And what is the meaning
a all this Gordon of iron and gunpowd
1 that surrounds us2 Nothing more tn
/. that Great Britain means to fight t
a United States sooner or later--perha
4 on the enforcement of the Monroe de
# trine--- il we undertake II.
To complete the chain OF gunpowt
and iron that encompasses us sim
link is needed and that Is Hawaii.