The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-26

her large cities the most squalid poverty
and misery, at which humanity STANDS
aghast, her aristocracy all around those
cities revei in unheard of wealth and
| luxury. Let US pause before we permit
a former enemy. with a most unsayory
record, to fngra ate itself into our favors,
not only by heaping upon US now fulsome
batteries. but by maligning others WHO
were our constant and sincere friends.
Lee the newspaper men OF our country
emancipate their minds from the corrupt
ing influence which the English nave
welded here already too long for the
good of our people. Il is neither prudent
nor just that we should allow the Eng
lish, as We have done right along, to
tell US whs, other nations are doing and
what they think Of US; let those nations
speak for themselves. An adversary never
makes an honest spokesman.
We ask no special considerations for
the Germans. They are strong and
manly enough to fight their own battles;
but since they do not carry their grudges
against others over to this soil, we should
neither permit the English to make our
fair land the dumping ground for their
jealous disposition and ugly quarrels.
But ttis IS what they have done ever
since they began to recognize that their
perffdous poiIcy has brought upon them
the wrath of ali Europe.
They have thus inflicted upon our peo-
pie a grevous injury. because it's calm
judgment is being clouded, the voice of
reason has in many places been husFed
and marsh and unjust prejudices have
taa
rUpting power of English capital in Eu-
rope as well as in the United States. Let
the men who aid and abet in the spread
ing OF a dangerous contagion beware that
the love of justice which has distin-
guished our people ever since we threw
off the cruel yoke of England cannot be
rooted out, and that their nefarious
scheme to lure US into an alliance with
our hereditary foe and thereby to dis
grace LIE sacred memory of the heroes
of the revolution and of the immortal
Lincoln and Seward, by insisting that all
other nations on earth are our enemies
and the English our only friends, will
suffer most ignominious defeat.
I'VE are told that the English are our
Anglo-Saxon cousins whose language we
speak and whose customs we cherish,
wherefore we should form closer union
with them. Do we not all know that
until recently they hardly ever recognized
US as their 'Anglo-Saxon cousins that in
former times they had nothing but con-
tempt for US and that their cruel taunts
to which we were then constantly ex-
posed were only a degree more offensive |
than tht obsequiousness with which they
now cringe before us? Only on one con-
spicuous occasion during the civil war
did they speak to us as their Anglo |
Saxon cousins and that when towards |
the close of the struggle they sent US
public appeal, fambuoyantly addressed |
by The People of tht United Kingdomof |
Great Britain and Ireland to the People |
Of the United tSates of America, and |
beginning with the touching phrase: We |
are of the same race, and many of you |
are our brothers. Can we not therefore, |
come to you as peacemakers and address
YOU as friends? And then these vile !
nypocrites had the unspeakable insolence /
to falsify history. and to say to us that
there was no difference between the at
-empted secession of the southern people |
and the breaking away of the American
colonies from the mother country and
therefore we should let the south go, and I
its independence.
IAN alliance with England would not
only be an unspeakable folly, but an I'M
heard of infamy. Where is the nation
hat has ever had an alliance with that
1ower,, and has come out of it either with
profit or with honor? When we were
weak and in the throes Of bloody inter
lal strife, England treated US with re-
ined cruelty and treachery; now that
We are strong and invincible, she humbly
iues for most cordial relations and an
alliance that henceforth she may share
n our glory and we in her infamy."