The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22

pubiics which they Quilt on this side OF
the sea? Had they not treated her with
Difference and recognized her in all filial
sympathies? And with what rewards
After so years the same thing came
again She invaded our territories sec
ond time and sought TO destroy US. She
burned our capital and spread dismay
wherever she was able TO penetrate And
in the ordeal Of the great day, when the
nation staggered, when civil liberty was
assailed, when republican government
seemed on its final trial before the world
what did Great Britain. dor She sought
every opportunity of entrance to the quar-
rel She availed herself Of every pretext
She got her hand on her sword for nothing
and was only prevented from drawing it
and joining the ASSISTANTS of the Union by
historical forces which she could not con-
troll.
Now IN the day of her distress, when
her ambitions pull in one direction and
her money lords pull in the other, when
she staggers under the stress Of her vices
and the weight OF her gold, she addresses
the American nation in the tones of a
mother and complains that her daughter
does not love her Indeed her daughter
does not love her and never will.
How the British Empire Was Built.
What has been the method of Great
Britain in extending her empire? How
has she established her colonies on distant
shores: In what manner has she made
her boasted drumbeat heard around the
world? This has been her method: She
permits her bands of adventures, without
law and without humanity, to make their
way into the unfrequented places of the
world. Thither they go out in search OF
spoils. Perhaps some gold mine, some
cave of glittering diamonds, some store of
ivory, some rich product of soil or climate.
may be found far inland, on unknown
rivers, where simple peoples dwell, or in
unyisited islands. There the civilized
brigands plaht themselves and begin to
torment the natives until what time some
Of them get justly killed for their crimes.
Then the others fee and spread report
how they have been assalled by savage5,
how the evangelists of civilization have
been slaughtered, how the king OF the bar
barian state is TO blame for it, and how
we only are escaped alive to tell the news.
What follows? All Englishmen must
be protected and avenged A military ex-
petition is sent into the offending country.
History cannot even recapitulate the nor
rors that follow in the train. Arithmetic
cannot sum up the hundreds and thou
sands and millions of innocent victims
that have fallen in foreign lands under the
bloody swords of the British soldiery. The
offending country is conquered. Forts
are built, garrisons established colonies
sent out. a local government is set up.
Tho ,ativac ara aithar naSfrOyld or en-
shaved. Great Britain colonies the world
And yet she has no friendl
She also civilizes the world. Indeed her
civilization is worth considering. 1t is
civilization effected with sword and shell,
promoted with brandy and opium, based
on the Bible and free trade, and secured
by the dissemination of religious tracts
and venereal diseases Follow the trail OF
this British empire through the islands of
the Pacific ocean, in India, in Africa, in
the west and in the easy wherever she has
gone, and the trail is everywhere stained
with blood, marked with trophies which
violence has set up on the charred remains
of native races, commemorate with rec
ords of slaughter and violence and lust, at
the appearance of which the soul of hu-
mainly sickens and hefsce Of charitable
hope is averted with burning shame.
Consider the arroganoe of this race and
nation. The presumption of Great Britain
reaches all the way from impudence to
brutality. The tone of supercilious con-
descension with which she invariably ad-
dresses her betters is such as to provoke
the just hatred of mankind. The notion
Of equal and humane intercourse, OF good
manners, of the gentleness which real