Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-05-11
PURE AMERICANISM
IN Don Dickinson's Speech Before
Loyal Legion at Detroit.
Scores England and Her Menacing Attitude
Toward United States.

Detroit, Mich, May 10 The feature Of
the Loyal Legion banquet, last night was
a philippe against Great Britain, by Don
NJ. Dickinson. Mr. Dickinson responded
to the toast, "Our Neterans-Can They
Hear Bugle CALI" With impassioned
voice and impctuous eloquence he pointed
to what he considered the menacing atti-
tude of England toward this country.
Mingled with scathing denunciations Of
Great Britain were strong appeals for an
increased military force for this country.
lin the present condition." said he,
I'VE may indulge in reciprocity of polite
phrasing and post prandial exuberance, Ii
our alert watchmen will meantime keep
an ego on our good friends across the At
Iantic. especially when. having appro-
priated Africa, the islands. even the rocks
OF the sea, and wherever else force or in
trigue may gain footing, they begin to
take an interest, not altogether born of
curiosity or purely a Outstanding spirit,
In this hemisphere.
Zone cannot be SO Innocent as to be-
lieve that the sentiment of relationship or
friendship OF England to the United States
would stand in the way of the settled
policy Of Great Britain to make English
men richer and her power greater, even at
our cost. Her unvarying policy is first
and last and always to advance British
interests and retain British supremacy
to retain and add to British wealth. Her
purposes are material.
"Whoeve r gets in the way of that is the
enemy of England and will be so treated
whether it be the United States as a
great commercial rival who may be in
trigued against and encroached upon and
even crippled in some time of her distress
or when off guard, or by tribe of black
men in Africa, In the way OF her colonial
ton schemes, who may be safely mas
sacred with machine guns.
1.-THE corruption of continental cabinets,
the treatment of Napoleon after his sur
render, the acquisition and history of
India, the shameful support of the Turk
in Europe to this day, the treatment OF
Greece in the struggle for independence,
the cruel massacre of Afghan tribes, the
occupation of Egypt, the ruthless slaugh-
ter of blacks in Africa, the unspeakable
treatment of Ireland and the chivalry of
tho mighty toward the weak as exempli-
fled in Venezuela and Nicaragua, arc q
few of the subjects to be treated of and
characterized by the fair historian of the
next century when he shall set down the
facts of this one.
But they are subjects worth consider
ing now, because we should study well
the conditions surrounding our future and
should know something of the character
and purpose and policies of that power
whom tho telegraph and the greyhounds
of the sea have made our near neighbor
a reighbor who recently completed on the
island Of Lucia in the West Indies one OF
the strongest fortresscs in the world, and
has been careful not to mention it, nor &c
permit 1t to be described In print.
"A gainst what power of the Old World
is this fortilication to defend? What fleet
is it supposed will rendezvous under its
guns and against what nation is that fleet
sent? The fortress at Nassau, off the At
lantic scaboard. has been recently
strengthened and greatly added to, yet il
served very well during our war to protect
the violators Of the blockade, and the ships
Of war that preyed upon our commerce
found refuge under its guns
The speech is considered more remark
able, as Mr. Dickinson has just returned