The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-15
SHOWS THEu UP.
THE ENGLISH MONEYED
STOCRACY.
Their Grip on the New
World.
WE NEED A NEW DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE.
A Billion and Half Invested in
Our RailrOads-Half a Billion in
Real Estate in Our Cities.
THREE MILLION ACRES LAND
OWNED BY ONE NOBLEMAN.
American-Ca Commerce $4,000 Tons;-
Foregn-Carried Commerce Twenty
Six Million Towns,

eve clip the following wonderful ar
ticle from the Shoe and Leather Review
OF Chicago-not political paper. 1t
should be read by every American, ma
tive-born or naturalized)
The sober second thought of the Ameri-
can people is beginning to assert itself
and thousands of citizens who were
seemingly enxious few days ago to de-
clare war against England are now more
conservative in their views. The COM
mission to be appointed by the president
will probably let the Venezuelan ques-
tiOn gradually die out. and it is likely
that the episode will be recorded in his
tory as glaring example of the depths
of folly to which a normally sensible
president may upon occasions descend
1t seems grossly unfair to impugn the mo-
tlveS of President Cleveland and raise
the cry that he is bidding for third
term. Even the severest critics should
hesitate to make such mOnStrOus ar
raignment. Aspiring tyrants have in
volved nations in bloody war to gain a
throne, but it is incredible that any man
having enjoyed two terms of the presi-
ucuCv vi luc Oullou OtdCoS WOulQ Do WILL
ing to plunge his country into the hor-
rors of war, merely to retain the office
for another four years. Mr.. Cleveland's
action can only be explained as colossal
blunder, committed in rashness and that
1t will be repented in leisure.
While the action of the president is in
expedient and unjustifiable under the
circumstance the fact remains that
Great Britain richly deserves a thor
ough and complete thrashing. She is
the tyrant and bully of every sea. and
crime. Circumscribed in her own little
island she would be harmless and incon-
spicuous were it not that her merchants
and bankers, backed by English war
ships and bayonets, have forced every
nation to pay her usurious tributes. The
action of the British government in Ven
eZuela is an example of her conduct ev-
erywhere. Her foreign policy has al
ways been the extreme of seltshness and
aggrandisement The terrible arraign-
ment made against England in the Dec
1aration of independence is just as true
today as it was in 1776. All over the
world she is governing without the con-
sent of the governed. Impoverished ma
tions in all quarters of the globe are be-
Ing taxed without representation. Long
ago the British government abolished
chattel slavery, only to adpot that more
modern and scientific form of spoilation,
the loaning of money and eXacting usu-
rious interest. Starving princes in
semi-civilized lands are supplied with
ample funds wherewith to live in riot
and prof1igacy and their people become
bonded slaves to England, whose bayo-
nets are at the elbow of the tax-gath-
erer.
If one wishes to gauge the iniquitous
Of Evrr tow
States it is not necessary to go as far as
Venezuela. Of late years we have be-
come servile imitators of all that is bad
in European sociology. The sturdy mid
die classes of England have a supreme
contempt for their idle vicious. igno-
rant and diseased arstocracy, but here
In free America we have learned to
dearly love a lord during the very time
that the better class of Englishmen have
learned to hate him. The callow youths
in our Eastern cities smoke English bull
dog pipes wear ill-fitting English
clothes. and ape every inane and idiotic
performance of the scrofulOus scions of
nobility. The parents of these initiative
idiots are no better, since they at
great expense employ an authority on
heraldry for large consideration to
trace back their ancestry to some land
grabbing English nobleman and prompt
ly embazon ridiculous escutcheon up
on their carriage doors and table service.
The next step is to prostitute their
daughters for a foreign title and there
after to spend three-Quarters of every
year in Europe apologizing for their ma
tive land, affirming it is so new and un-
couth and lacks culture, and that it is
so charming in London, you know.
But the deplorable part of it is that
while our young men were posturing
and attitudinizing with their thoughts
in Pail Mall, the Strand or Rotten Row.
Lombard and Threadneedle streets were
busy obtaining mastery of our re-
sources by debating our financial sys-
tenn. Apart from the silver school of
finance, which believes in independent
American bimetallism. there are thou
sands of able thinkers like John " Far
we'll, the great dry goods merchant of
Chicago, who admit we can never bring
about bimetallism except by confer
ence of the nations. Without going into
the merits of the argument for or
against international bimetallism one
must admit that if the United States had
never consented to adopt gold monomet-
allism England, with all her financial
power. could never have forced us to the
rold standard. British fnanciers have
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