New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-25
30 BEAUTIFUL o MY COUNTRY"

90 REAI-T1FI-L. o MY COUNTRY
AN AMERICAN WHO HAS LIFTED HIMSELF From
HOME BY HIS BOoTsTRAPs.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: address you as the one that influences GER
tain provincial newspapers. judging from their
adoption OF your boysh phraseoloSy In calling the
ex- Queen Of Hawaii Mrs. Dominis, or queen
In" Only few years since every Yankee. from
the President down. deliberately entertained the
then ruling sovereign Of Hawaii. How far such
scribblers are from saying one word against any
member of EnClands royal family. They only as
sail the helpless.
A lot Of Yankee Adventures destroyed the Gov
eminent Of Hawaii, and. failing TO make the nited
States a party receive stolen goods, they set up
an oligarchy msnamed republic. Any company
of foreigners have just much right to overthrow
this Government disfranchise the native majority
and rule as they please. You know this as well as
any one, unless as / sometimes believe you and
other Yankees minus the faculty OF discerning
the difference between right and wrong. what
ever Is gain for us Is right" is the average Yankees
creed
was born in New England, OF Puritan stock
but because | thoroughly despise the meanest ma
ton on earth | am sometimes mistaken for an
Englishman. The Yankee has all the worst faults
he ever attributed the Jew with hypocrisy added.
lie would rob his mother Of her last dollar. claim
Ing ne reluctantly did 1T from sense Of duty-she
would make bad of the money II she had IL.
\ Yankee rhymer can pen lampoons against
defenceless ex-queen. but he never points the finger
q the lowest French Canadian-be
Queen Victora's bayonets are behind the lat
ter. Yankees can mob harmless Chinese for taking
money out Of the country but warlike Italy easily
forces clustering Blaine to offer indemnity for
wrongs inflicted Italian subjects by members
of the first families OF New Orleans
Yankees boast Of their courage Their last war
one party ran short Of recruits Germany humbled
SIX weeks. But when were traders ever renowned
az warriors? The mercenary Jew never distn-
guishes himself as a solder. During the Rebellion
military science consisted In battering immense
bodies OF recruits against each other. But
what more can We expect in a country settled by
the servants OF English iradesmen and augmented
Your Nation is called the richest on earth. How
much is its dollar worth three miles from shore;
the literature OF England and Europe for nearly a
century? The French claims were paid by France
but this Government refused to hand over what II
had collected Every weak. defenceless race WITHIN
rapacty but how little you dare to insult an Eng
lshman. What IS your Grand Army but a horde
World to furnish attractions FOR the Columbian
Exposition. but royalty and nobility across the At
New-Yorkers walked up and meekly paid the as
sessment Of Tammany thieves without BACKBONE
enough TO resist. \ foreigner gave a statue Of LIB
erty to the city with so millionaires but news
paper had 10 beg pennies to pay the cost OF
Few. indeed are your noted wrtersnalmost none
from the South. Where are your native artists.
musicians or actors? Engands representative
yachtsman was 4 scion OF royalty-an exceedingly
poor specimen. | own, but compare him with the
representative Of this country.
This Nation numbers over 100000 but nobody
praises its Congress and what a dearth Of states
men In the senate, Ere long. judging from nunler-
ous signs and from the opinions OF almost all
meet Your people Will be IN the midst OF bloody
revolution and | pray that II will come quickly
Then you Will have something else In mind than
stealing A nation and wrOngng "A woman 70 do H.
out OF the wreck and ruin Of the revolution hope
a better Nation will be formed.
should like TO see the above In print though
| have little hope you Will do It. for the average
Yankee VIII hear nothing against his Nation or
himself. j. w flItt
Incasville Conn. Feb. IS. 1895