Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-16
WAR WITH ENGLAND.
Britain to Collect Debts at Mouth
Of the Cannon.
Significant Threats Uttered Against the
United States by Goldbug English Pa
pers-The Cowardly Attitude of Amer
lean Tories.

Chicago, Oct. 3.-War with England
is threatened by the Americanreprese
atives of the English bondholders and
Shylocks, in the event that Bryan is
elected. 1t is not an idle threat. The
money power is desperate and will not
surrender its clutch on the Threats of
the American people without fight.
Here are two recent editorial express
sions from well-known London news
papers:
London, Sept. 12.-[Copyright, 1896,
by the Associated Press. - London
newspapers are now more fully realiz-
ing the Importance of the presidential
election in the United States to Great
Britain and the continent. The Daily
Telegraph says that the American de-
partment of the stock exchange is q
veritable sick room, because English
capitalists will never take their interest
from the United States in deprecated
currency and it goes on to say that
the adoption of bimetallism, or as it
would become later, the silver standard,
in America, would practically mean
the reputation of their debts, and it
is this sort of thing which leads to the
withdrawal of ENJOYS and declarations
of war;"
The following is from the London
Times and Echo. paper Of enormous
circulation, owned by Passmore Ed
wards, an Englishman of enormous
wealth.:
"The election of W. Bryan-a young
man from Nebraska, an imprisoned
orator, but hitherto an unknown poll
tician-as the democratic candidate for
the presidency seals the adherents of
the democrats to the silverites. The
gravity of the situation can hardly be
exaggerated. 1t is by no means so
certain that Mr.. Bryan may not be
elected, ind If he should be, and con-
gress DEGREES that silver, which is to-day
worth half a crown a pound, shall be
worth five shillings, and that all ma
tional gold bonds shall be paid in sill
yer, there will be war between this
country and the United States before
this time next year. The great CAPT
talists who forced Gladstone to occupy
Egypt will compel any government in
office here to declare war against Amer
lea, sooner than that their holdings of
| American bonds shall shrink to half
values"
Threats of this kind will not deter
the American people from rejecting,
by an enormous majority, English
domination and British financial sys-
tenn. This is the same England which
the United States has on two memoir
able occasions defeated in war, and
there is yet enough manhood in America
to defend our homes against English
greed and aggression. It is the same
old fight over again. The American
tory, who hung upon our rear and
made secret and open war against
American liberty, yet exists in New
York, Chicago and other great money
centers. He yet longs for an American
monarchy. He yet believes that the re-
public Is a failure. He does not dis
guise his hatred of the common people
He is now plotting for the disfran.
chisement of those who cannot qualify
on property basis. His purse is open
to Mark Hanna. His daughter is either
married to or scheming for marriage
with an English lord.
If the election of William Jennings
Bryan means war with England, we
must prepare for war. Bryan will be
elected, and in the war which will en-.
sue, the English aristocracy and their
American allies, the hereditary tories
Of New York and elsewhere, will be
wiped out of existence. They never
won fight against American freemen
and they never will.