Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-12-17
GREED OF ENGLAND.
CUNNING CIVILIZATION WITH
GOLD STANDARD.
dow She Has Become the "Arbiter OF
Nations'-Absorbs the Wealth and
tho Vitality of All Who Trade with

Avery, wrote a singing answer which
also appears below:
"No fact of contemporaneou history
Is better known perhaps than the mar
velous growth and expansion of the
British empire during the last sixty
years. 1t is not the circumstance that
a single monarch has reigned for sixty
years that is so wonderful; nor even
that she has done so without for 4
day losing the enthusiastic regard and
sympathy of her people; but it is that
during her reign a small kingdom has
expanded into a mighty empire EN-
bracing large part of the world, and
Infinitely more of it's civilization,
wealth and progress than any previous
empire of ancient or modern times.
Steps have been taken to make the
celebration an object lesson Of world
wide significance; of this and in this
will be its novelty and its chief appeal
to the imagination"
When an object lesson of such mag
nltude and briliancy is prepared to
attract the attention and admiration
Of the world, it would seem proper TO
scrutinize somewhat carefully the
methods by which such grand results
have been obtained, that we may de-
eide whether the object lesson be one
more agreeable and gracious to APP
prove and applaud, than to criticise
and condemn. We would honor the
Queen. We would honor also the null
titude of noble men and women who
are her subjects. No country contains
more illustrious statesmen, broader
philanthropists, or more earnest,
Christians, than Great Britain. 1t is
when we consider her as a governing
power-when we weigh her methods of
self-aggrandizement in the scales of
justice and righteousness, that we find
ourselves obliged to limit and qualify,
not only our admiration, but our APP
prevail. History, written or unwrit-
ten, records that long ago Great
Britain, (Which for brevity | shall call
England) became dissatisfied with her
general progress. She was ambitious.
She desired supremacy in the world.
How could she obtain it, was the prob
lem which she set herself to solve.
She saw herself a small country. She
could not raise her bread and material
for manufacture must be largely i'm
ported. Neither by agriculture nor
manufactures, therefore, could her pur-
pose be accomplished. 1t must be by
finance.
Thereupon she devised and executed
plans which have given her the mon
etary control of the world. She has
become the "arbiter of nations" for
whoever controls the money of ma
ton, controls its liberty and it's des-
need not describe in detail. Suffice it
that she first demonetized her silver,
bought all the gold that she could find
for sale in the world and then quietly
persuaded other nations to demonetize
their silver, and buy her gold. These
are some of the methods by which Eng
land, octopus-like, has caught and
holds her victims in relentless grasp.
For proof that England absorbs the
wealth and the vitality of any people
SO unfortunate as to come within her
power, we have only to recall the his
tory and observe the conditions in
Ireland, in India, in Egypt and now TO
consider the cause of her willingness
to stand as guard-to practically hold
the hands Of weaker and nobler ma
ton, while the 'unspeakable Turk" in
flicts upon her terrible and unmerited
And this, while the ap-
peals of the humane in her own and
in other countries, and the cries of the
sufferers are ringing in her ears!
There are those who remember the
terrible Sepoy rebellion in India, when
intelligent, educated revolving soldiers,
against an oppression no longer en-
were chained to the mouths
Of cannon and blown to atoms! If one
Is interested in know what relentless,
let him read Spelling the Egyptians"
written by j. Seymour Keay, an Eng
lishman and a liberal who lived many
years in Egypt and the east 1t is
compilation from the
British blue books" and therefore Of
fetal. In predatory note to the
American edition, the publisher &c. P.
Sons, 1882 says: "The au-
thor's statement which is based line
upon line on the authority Of the Of
fetal documents, constitutes one of
the most damning arrangements that
has ever been made of the acts of
Christian nation and throws light up
on some at least of the causes of the
bitter hatred of Europeans which
found such fatal expression in the
of Alexandria" The Rev. DR..
John H. Barrows had not read Spoil
ing the Egyptians" when in writing to
the Chicago Interior few months ago
from Alexandria, he said Tin substance
I cannot give his words) "The Eng
Iish failed to gain the love of the
but they succeeded in miti-
eating the oppression which the native
rulers had before practiced upon the
helpless laborers." For merciless, I'M
cruelty, British rule in Egypt |