The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-06-10
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they propose the financial conquest of
the world for their own purposes.
In order to understand this subject let
us begin at the bottom and trace it's his
tory from the first 1t is said by our
hypocritical admirers that we should seek
an alliance with England in the interest
OF peace and our own safety. Is such
course feasible? Can the word of "Per-
ndlous Albion" be trusted in the matter
OF an international alliance. It is an
Old and wise saying: Beware of the
Greeks bearing gifts;" and let us add, of
plutocrats wearing smiles Like the SER
pent, they first charm, then slime, then
crush and devour. Beware of Albion
when she speaks you kindly. There is.
surely, game of deception and spolia-
ton on foot
In this investigation we must discrim-
mate between friends and foes We must
not strike at random. The great COM
mon people Of the British Islands are en-
nghtened, just and patriotic; but their
imperial and ariStOcratic government is
the most hypocritical and dangerous on
earth. That government came into ex-
lstence after the crushing defeat of the
English people in 1866, at the battle of
Hastings. 1t was founded on the feudal
system of land tenure, which has lived
without change or improvement, with
merciless rigor, for more than nine CEN
turies. The brave and patriotic people
nave never ceased to struggle for relief,
but the system still lives. The same
landed aristocracy and the same power
OF wealth enthroned by the sword of
William the Conqueror, still oppresses,
and the British people still suffer. Dur
ing the past two centuries or more the op-
Of ,r1o
Scotland, firing of the @Irrepressible con-
fiict'' have sought relief by migration.
And the very best people of the three
kingdoms have carried their language,
literature and civilization into every
land; while many thousands less fortu-
nate, have paved the bed of the ocean
from Liverpool to New York and Austria
liza with the carcasses of men, women and
children, escaping from the chains of a
wage and tenant slavery that is without
either justice or mercy
Nearly three centuries ago several colo
nies OF these liberty loving people settled
on the eastern coast of North America,
that they might escape the tyranny of
their British masters. They chose the
hardships of the wilderness, the rigors of
unaccustomed climates, and the hostili-
ties of the wild savages rather than en-
dure the expressions of the British gov
ernment, under the successors of William
the COnqueror
The colonies grew strong and happy by
neglect until they attracted the attention of
the mother country" Again they were
made the subjects of tyranny without
mercy. A tyranny rendered more severe
by burning, green-eyed jealousy on the
part of the mother country" lest the colo
MES should grow strong and some day set
themselves up as rivals in commerce and in
dustry with England.
The history Of these times is very painful
to read, and the endurance of the oppres-
sions and tyrannies by our fathers was he
roic indeed. Every possible devise of cru
city was resorted to by the British govern
ment to prevent the peace, growth and
prosperity of the American colonies. And
every species of scandal and vituperat:on
was indulged in by the British press to DIS
courage the migration of British subjects to
America. The stage as well as the public
journals was vehicle for their prOpaga-
ton; and laws were passed by parliament
fCrbidd;ng the migration of British subjects
to the American colonies.
The colon es were always involved in the
wars of the mother country" also, and uni
formly furnished their quota of men and
money, regardless of the consideration as
to whether the wars were beneficial to the
colonies or not. In the old French war of
1176 the colonies bore the principal share
and conquered Canada from the French for
the benefit of the British Empire.
Mr.. Hartley, a member of the British
parliament prior to the American revou-
ton, described the situation in America at
that time. in part, as follows:
'''TO hnp:n with tho 1atn uar-of 17cc
The American turned the success of the
war a both ends of the line. Gen. Moncton
took Beausejour in Nova Scotia, with 1900
provincial troops (American) and about 200
regulars (British) Sir William Johnson, in
the other part of America changed the face
of the war to success, with provincial
army, which took Baron Dierkau prisoner"
They kept, one year with another, 25,-
900 men on foot, and lost in the war the
flower of their youth. How strange it must
appear to them, to hear Of nothing down to
1863 but encomiums upon their active zeal
and strenuous efforts; and then, no longer
after than 1864, in such a trice of time, to
see the tide turn, and from that hour to
this, to hear it asserted that they were a
burden upon the common cause; asserted
even in that same parliament which had
voted them compensat:ons for the libera.ity
ard excess of their services.
''Nor did they stint their services to
North America. They followed the Brit
ism arms out of their own continent to the
Havana and Martinique after the COM
plete conquest of North America. And so
they had done in the preceding war. They
were not grudging of their exertions-they
were at the siege of Carthagena-yet what
was Carthagena to them, but as members
of the common cause friends of the glory
of this country! In that war, too. sir they
took Louisbourg from the French, single
handed, without any European assistance;
as mettled an enterprise as any in our his
tory! An everlasting memorial to the zeal,
courage and perseverance of the troops of
New England. The men themselves
dragged the cannon over morasses which
had always been thought impassable-
where neither horses nor oxen could go
and they carried the shot upon their backs.
And what was their reward for this forward
and spirited enterprise, for the reduction of
this American Dunkirk? Their reward,
SIR, you know WELT was given up for a
barrier to the Dutch.
"Whenever Great Briton has declared
war they (the colonies) have taken their