The times., 1897-12-28
America and Europe.

In recent statement IN Inc I1neS
Senator Morgan has shown that the
current attitude of our European CONNER,
ciai rivals In making a solid front against
us on the Asiat tic coast of the Pacific, while
ultimately aimed at our possible future
growth to tlomina tion over the worlds trade
by way of the Nicaragua Canal under Amer
lean control proximateiy is designed to
meet the commercial war which we have
declared upon Europe through the Dingley
trust and monopoly tariff. This is a yiew
OF the ma tier which IL highly is important
that our statesmen and economists,
as well as all thinking citizens, should
take into account.
National tIride and dignity and the vital
interests of a great nation of more than
seventy million OF people should make
us indifferent to the warlike consequences
of any policy imposed upon US by the neces-
sities OF the struggle OF life in which, as
a people, we are compelledto engag ge against
Others; always supposing that what we do is
dictated by the good OF the country. But
upon any such grounds. 1t is not the re
suit of demand for revenue, since we
know only toe well that the system imposed
by the Republican Administration does
it hampers trade and prosperity simply and
solely to make national commerce sub
servieLt 10 the profit of the obnoxious and
oppressive Industrial and financial com
binations which contributed the millions
necessary TO the purchase of Nj. McKinley's
election.
Thus, to pay campaign debts, and TO
open new credits OF greater magnitude
with the porpoI ations and billion aires
counted upon to buy future elections, the
commercial war with western Europe
has been pIecipitated, and we see one
of its earliest and most ominous effects
In this connection, it is only fair to give
the Administration its due. MI Mckinley
certainly, and the influences in control
of him perhaps, did not understand the
In fulfiliment of these election trust
and monopoly contracts. Judging from
past tradition and history, he and they
were deluded into the belief that, because
Great Britain ana the Rothschilds were
willing to stand an interregnUm of trust
and monopoly looting Of the American
people for the more important purpose
OF securing an Administration committed
to the gold standard. that, therefore, the
powers OF continental Europe equally
would be pleased to see revolutionary
movement against the equilibrium of the
worlds trade, which would take bread
out OF the mouths OF European millions.
without ary excusable result in advancing
the prosperity or happiness OF the teeming
population Of our own land.
AS events transpire, this was RepIE
lican sowing of the wind OF political wiki!
oats, nd tho whirlwind har vest is IN
sight before US. II is too late TO avert
some, possibly most of its hideous conse-
quences; because the party now in power,
ground to infamy between the upper and
neither milIstones of financial domination
from London and fiscal control by monop-
olistic home robber corporations and syn
dicates, is helpless 10 exercise the demons
it has raised and to which it has sold
itself.
Yet all is not lost, so the people, and
the party OF the people, can rise to the
occasion. We must answer the European
front in A sia with a bristling American
front III America. We must have Hawaii.
the Nicaragua Canal, and paramount in
fluence in the Caribbean Sea, or we shall
be bottled up. We must not lie down,
to let our competitors bind, and walk
over usi Because we have been betrayed
to foreign influences by two Administra-
tions, that is not reason why we should
not prepare FOR one of popular and patriotic
character in 1900, and prepare, also, for
the demonstration to the world of the
courage and determination of the American |
Union to have and to maintain it's right |
in the family of nations, that such change |
would lead TO.
The days OF Valley Forge were dark |
ones for tiR people. Then, as now, it |
looked as if foreign slavery were certain |
TO be forced upon US, beyond hope OF es |
cape But sturdy American patriotism, |
and the friendship and assistance of |
great power inimical to our oppressor. |
wed the da Y; and. from that time to
the destruction OF our Constitutional money
by the purchasing power of the same
British enemy in 1878, we Were free,
prosperous and ha ppy-