Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-03-13

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Y SENATOR JOHN L. WILSON.
might we'll laugh at the changes of opin-
Ion here in tho last month, both in and
out Of congress. .,.t.s5,...... ,....
The fact that surprises me most Is that
in the Hobbies and about town generally
the change of opinion Is even more radical
than in congress. General Money of the
house committee on foreign affairs. just
before going home to fight for the Missis-
sippi senatorship, hit big nail on the
head when he said: "Amerioans do not
understand English opinion and think
that Englishmen generally hate us very
much rs the Irish In this country hate
England, and the explanation of it Is very
simple. Our wars with Great Britain
were both wars of Independence, and
therefore to us the most important of all
wars in history, but to tho English they
were only 2 out of some so national
wars. Tine second ono Is looked upon by
i Englishmen rs a mere inter)ude In the
great Napoleonio contest, and so an Eng
lishlnan. no more thinks of hating us than
sof hating the Danes or the Highland
Scotch, with whom he fought SO long
ago. In fact, Englishlnen Of the literary
and philosophical classes, and travelled
EDglishnlen generally, look upon us as
their countrymen almost as much rs they
do upon the SCOTCH" Dr. Andrew d.
White of the Venezuela boundary COM
mission goes even farther and presents
some highly novel views Of the relations
q of the two people, but reserves the right
Ito express his views in his own time and
way. ys% Y A.. IA esss5s a.
Il. ,..# "A Pessimistic View. .., !. II.
Z ''Senator Wolcott spoke more persons
minds than he had any idea of, said one
Of the new western members whom shall
presently quote more at length. land once
more we sec how one bold man seems to
change public opinion only because he
speaks out what SO many arc thinking.
One of the first things discovered in my
political career was that there are always
plenty of plain people in the country who
are thinking as they ought to think, but
do not know how to tell it, and the politi-
oian who expresses their opinions better
than they could do it themselves gets their
votes" Senator John l.. Wilson takes an
original and unique view Of this, as he
does Of most questions, and while had to
smile at his vehemence and quaint phrase
ology the general effect Of his views was
depressing. We were talking Of the VOL
colt speech and the general conditions OF
business and the effect thereon OF the
Venezuela complication, when he suddenly
broke out: cts all claptrap, this exagger-
alton of the Monroe doctrine-in fact there
Is no such thing as the Monroe doctrine
now. It's obsolete. But the war with
England is bound to come. am sorry to
say It, but 1t is bound to come" =, NJ
"What, without any cause on our partS",
ooh, there are always plenty OF causes
for war, and only hope that we can post
pone it to q more convenient season. This
country Is akin full of fighting blood. We
are young, ambitious and ache with
strength. And then millions OF people
want something more exciting, and mil
lions more think that q war would help
their business. The farmers are getting
awfully tired Of these low prices and are
sick with hope deferred. Our civil war
misled great many people, and they
think that war with England would
work the same way, but 1t would probably
have just the opposite effect. All these
forces, however, would not bring war,
but there are other causes, and soon or late
we must fight"
''What other causesP
IN: Bristling with Belligerency.
"You might put it in one word-con-
tact. British power is steadily and rapidly
expanding, and the United States is grow
ing still more rapidly, and there arc more
points of Irritating contact every year.
The British are hemming us in, and our
people don't like it. They may not mean
anything by it, but they are doing 1t just
the same. In the islands to the south and
southeast of us and all along our northern
border they are piling up Notifications
which bristle with cannon. What's the
sense in their doing all that II, as they say,
they are determined never to have trouble
with usP Take our northern boundary
and look at the strongholds Of British
power manned with the very latest and
best artillery and dotting the whole line
from Halifax to Esquimault. What the
mischief are those posts there forP Great
Britain cannot pretend tnat any otner
power could get at her from this side. My
constituents look over the line and see
those frowning Notifications, and they
reason the matter this way, Those fellows
talk mighty nice, but what are their guns
pointed at us for2' And we are getting
nearer to each other all over the world.
By and by some cockey British captain
and all those British sea captains are
sockey-wjll run against one OF our vessels
up In the straits, and shots will be ex-
changed, and there will be war. We have
too many points Of contact, and we are too
much alike. Neither side will give an
inch. And as to our common language, I
look on that az the greatest danger, for
when we blackguard each other all the
people understand 1t. We read their books
and papers and they read ours, and every
little asgravation looks big from tho other