The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-25
THE WAR CRY.
WHAT 1T MEANS.

Ureat Britain, concerning the bound
airy line between the Republic of Ven
ezuela and British Guiana. in South
A merica, on the ground that the adj
Judlcatlon Of the dispute between
those two countries is a violation Of
the Monroe Doctrine" which de-
clares that no European country can
acquire territorial possessions on this
continent.
Of course if this country gets into a
war we will all stand by her:-for we
believe in the doctrine:-'Our coun-
try-may she be always right;-but,
rlghtor wrong, our country"
We are warlike people,-as all
great races are,-and we will fight
On the drop of hat:-but we
want to know first who owns the hat,
and whether there is or is not
brick In it to stump our toes. We
must not permit the hereditary
blood-thrills to unsettle our under
standings-the God-like quality of
looking before and after"
We do not believe the Monroe Doc
trine" was intended to prevent ma
tlon, however large or small, estab-
lshed for ninety years on this contin-
ent, from insisting on its own con-
structitn of its boundary lines.
There has been dispute for eighty
years between Venezuela and British
Guiana as to just where the dividing
line ran, and it was agreed that
neither country should occupy the
strip claimed by both All BIRTHS h
Guiana contains about the same popu-
lation as Hennepin county, Mime
sofa; but it is made up of Chinese
coolies. Indians, Hindoos, half-breeds.
etc., ETC.: and the whole country is not
worth as much as Dakota county,
Minnesota. Along side Of British
Guiana is Dutch Guiana, and next
to that is French Guiana.
1t is a serious business to plunge
the two great English-speaking races
of the world into terrific war over a
little strip of territory, along that
boundary line, that is not worth as
much as single one of the hund reds
of battle-ships that would have to be
built to carry on the fight
We believe in the Monroe doc
trine," but the attempt to invoke it..
by this nation, in a dispute over di-
viding line between two countries,
that have lived peaceably side by side
for century. is little strained,
1t looks like an attempt to redeem a
diEredited administration by war
furOre. That ingenious gentleman,
Olney, the Secretary of State, is at
the bottom of it. He is the man who.
as Attorney General, induced the
general government to set up the I'M
heard OF doctrine that the United
States had the right to invade any
state of this Union, on the request of
a railroad corporation, land against the
express disaDprobation of the COVER
nor Of the state. This changed our
nation from the United STATES of
America, each sovereign within GER
tain clearly defined bounds and
limitations, to centralized power ut
terly unrestrained, rampaging at will
over the whole region from the At
lantic to the Pacific, without regard
to the provisions of the constitution
Of the United States.
BY this and similar acts this
Democratic administration has made
the Democratic party stencil in the
nostrils of the people, and it is on the
way to the bone-yard Of exploded
humbugs. And now the cunning
Olney proposes to save it by getting
up foreign war, that will drive both
English and American commerce from
the seas. and cost hundreds of thcus-
ands of lives and billions of property,
and all in order to re-galvaniZe the
rotten corpse of Democracy into popu-
larity.
We do not like the aggressive Brit
ish arts tocracy any better than the
rest of the people of the United
States; and we have the warlike in
stinct as much as any of us; but we
do not want to be "played for suck
er" by Cleveland and Olney, and 90
into Mysteries whenever they wave
the American flag and play Yankee
| Doodle.
This sudden concen traitor of public
attention on boundary dispute in
South America, that has been going
on for nearly century, looks very
much like trick of a Yankee lawyer,
to head off monetary reform in these
United States, and stop the war on the
Money-power, by killing off in battle
and by disease half-million or so Of
the discontented multitude. The
probabilities are that the war would
end. as the civil war did, by intrench-
ing Plutocracy more firmly in power
than ever before
| War is game which, we're the people wise,
| Kings would not play at.
The mission of this Republic is
peace. 1t is too great to get into a
fist-fght. II it ever goes to war it
should be to release mankind from it's
chains. No object less noble can
justify the slaughter Of millions of
Gods children.
Keep your heads, level, brethren.
Don't be swept off your feet by trick
sters and knaves. "Distrust the
Greeks bearing gifts:" and be suspic-
ious of every movement made by the
two joint bands of conspirators
against the rights of human nature.
FORECLGSED ON A MORTGAGE.