The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-12-19
Fun FOR THE BOYS, But DEATH TO
THE EELS.

When popular cldmor forced Sir Robert
vaipole. about the middle of :he last
century. into declaring war against Spain.
some one came 10 him and told him the
London popuiace were ringing the bells.
Yes" replied the Prime Minister "and
they will soon be wringing their hands"
which proved TO be somewhat In the ma
ture of a true prophecy
The President and his Secretary Of
state have brought this country face TO
face with a war with Great Britain, and
If We have war and are successful in it
We shall have detached from British rule
some territory down in South America
which has been under Dutch rule and
British rule together tthe English acqur-
ing the Dutch rights one hundred years
ago. for more than three hundred years,
on which reside 10000 British subjects,
who love the British rule, and we shall
have turned these people over 10 the
Venezuelan rule that they abhor and live
I'm the utmost terror Of
We have nothing 10 10 with Yene-
zuela: we have no interests of
any sort there. and We are sim
ply putting ourselves forward 10
night out her quarrels for her because
President Monroe once said that this
country ought not TO stand by and see
a European power acquire territory I'm
South America. That is the whole case.
and not a word can be added TO it, unless
some suggestions or third term is in
order. We will have war with Great
Britain in short time now unless the
good sense of the American people as
sorts itself and force Congress 20 pause
in its present impulse--for il is an
impulse alone, with no reason at It's back,
That the sound sense of the people Will
arrest the tide in q short time, unless
impulsivv men commit us too far we have
not the slightest doubt. When the great
West begins to reflect that 1t sells all of
it's surplus Wheat and meat to England.
and when the South begins to reflect that
England buys all of her cotton. these two
sections OF the country are going TO say
that there should be some imperative
cause to drive as TO war with England
before they consent to destroy the mar
ke's for the only thing they have to sell
Great Britain Is New England's rival in
manufacturing. and New England would
therefore be glad 10 drag the South and
West into a war with England. in which
she would go on manufacturing what
America needs while the West and South
were left 10 fight out war that was to
cripple. II ii did not destroy. her rival
But what would happen TO the South and
West while they were destroying their
best friend TO oblge New England? They
would be left without markets for their
products. to pay double ana treble prices
for what New England manufactured
during the war. and TO get along as they
best could with what they could dig out
OF their own soil. New England's desire
gor war with Great Britain is easily ex-
planned But why the West and the South
should tolerate the suggestions OF II We
cannot conceive. Talk Of protective
tariff BAH II isn't TO be compared with
n war A war would be worth
dozen protective tariffs. Our
ports would be blockaded and 1t
would enable New England to charge
US two or three times what . protective
tariff gives her. But the South and the
West would be paying the piper all the
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