The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-15
An ADDRESS BY DICKINSON
A SPEECH MOST REMARKABLE
AS COMING FROM CLEVE-
LANDS INTIMATE
FRIEND.
England's Attitude Towards Our
Government Denounced in Most
Emphatic Terms.

sell house last night was the Philippe
against Great Britain delivered by Don
nj. Dickinson.
Mr.. Dickinson responded to the toast
Our Veterans, Can They Hear Bugle
Calf" and with impetuous eloquence he
acing attitude of England toward this
country.
Mingled with scathing denunciations
of the mother country were strong ap-
peals for increased military forces for
this country. The speech was more re-
markable on account Of the fact that Mr.
Dickinson is President Cleveland's most
intimate political friend being frequent
~ summoned to Washington as an ad-
wiser in matters, great and small, and
taken in connection with the admins
tration's course in reference to England
and her dealings with Nicaragua and
Venezuela.
Mr.. Dickinson had just returned from
Washington and from consultation with
the president. He said in part:
"Optimists and some doctrinaires tell
us that the age of war is forever past The
evidence does not sustain the PROPOSE
ton. The people of the whole world,
excepting America only, are either un-
der arms or on war footing. Intrigue
and war, and conquest and massacre and
false pretense and treachery, are means
to this end in use by the great compet-
ing countries of the old world in the
strife. 1t is part of wisdom to consid-
er these things and in our vigilant guard
of our countrys welfare it is our patri-
otto duty to weigh as nothing all interna-
tional after dinner sentiment and friend
ly professions in the stilted and stock
phrases of diplomacy.
In the present conditions we may in
dulge IN reciprocity of polite phrasing
and post-prandial exuberance, if our
alert watchmen will meantime keen an
eye on our good friends across the
Atlantic, especially when, having ap-
propriated Africa, the islands, and even
the rocks of the sea, and wherever else
force or intrigue may gain a footing,
they begin to take an interest not alto
gether born of curiosity or of a purely
Christianizing spirit, in this hemis-
phere. One can be so innocent as to
believe that the sentiment of relation
ship or friendship of England to the
United States would stand in the way of
settled policy of Great Britain to make
Englishmen richer and her power great
er, even at our cost. Her unvarying
policy is first and last and always to
advance British interests and retain the
British supremacy, to retain and add to
British wealth. Her purposes are ma
terial. Whoever gets in her way is the
enemy of England and will be so treated
whether it be the United States as a
great commercial rival, who may be~i1.
~. eS erler9eeas.eheed upon and even
crippled in some time of her distress
or when off guard, or the tribes of Afri-
ca, in the way of her colonization
schemes, who may be safely massacred
with machine guns.
1.-THE corruption of continental cabi-
nets, the treatment of Napoleon after
his surrender, the acquisition and his
tory Of India, the shameful support of
the Turk in Europe to this day. the
treatment of Greece in her struggle for
independence, the cruel massacre of the
Afghan tribes, the occupation of Egypt
the ruthless slaughter of blacks in AZ
RIGA, the unspeakable treatment of Ire
land and the chivalry of the mighty
toward the weak, as exemplified in Ven
ezuela and Nicaragua, are few of the
subjects to be treated of and character
lied by the fair historian of the next
century, when he shall set down the
facts of this one.
But they are subjects worth consid-
ering now, because we should study well
the conditions surrounding our future
and should know something of the char
acter, and purposes and policies of that
power who, the telegraph and the grew.
hounds of the sea, with and without
guns, armored and unarmored, have
made our near neighbor, a neighbor who
has recently completed on the island OF
st. Lucia, in the West Indias, one of the
strongest fortresses in the world, and
has been careful not to mention it, nor to
permit 1t to be described in print.
Against what power of the old world
is this fertilization to defend? What
fleet is 1t supposed will rendezvous under
its guns and against what nation is that
fleet to be sent?
''The fortress at Nassau, off the Allan.
tic seaboard, has been strengthened re-
Gently and greatly added to, and yet il
served very well during our war to pro-
tect the violators of the blockade and
the ships of war that preyed upon our
commerce found refuge under it's guns
There is fertilization of great
strength at Halifax on our northeast
border, recently added to and greatly
strengthened. Since the beginning OF
the year, congress has passed an act
which was signed by the president, ex-
pressing the deep interest of the Amer
lean people in an American canal which
will be the highway of a mighty COM
merce between the two oceans. Stimuli
taneously we have had the most extraor-
binary claims and movements of Eng.
land in Nicaragua. We have, too, the
covert suggestion from her foreign Of
flee that the Clayton Bulwer treaty-lone
since treated as abrogated by England
and therefore abrogated at our election
is still in force. l think you will agree
with me that patriotism and good states
manship alike applaud the increase Of
our navy and demand its further in
crease, demand a large standing army
and adequate coast defenses, so that We
may have peace with dignity in these
latter days and extend and hold the
worldwide commerce which we need"
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