The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-16

stretching from his office to the ends of
the earth. And with this hand, when
ever the dog of war is about to spring,
he jerks him back and says, Down,
| Cerberus!"
1t is in the light of these facts and
principles that the bellicose shoutings
and fulminations of 1896, heard in the
legislative halls and echoed from all
the sounding boards of journalism in
Europe and America, are to be inter-
preted These shoutings signify nothing
| at all. They are vox ct praettrea nil,
this for the reason that the cartridges
used in the fusillade have no lead in
them. They are blank Shylock is very
willing that the war agitation shall
blow high and sindle to certain stage,
but he is on the alert to keep the fire
under control and smother it whenever
it portends real conflagration.
1t is in this sense that the nations
! have been going to war of late France
and Russia have been getting ready to
crush Germany. England and Russia
have been on the eve of hostilities.
England and Germany have been about
to try the decision Of the sword Eng
land and the United States have put on
the panoply of battle. The United States
and Spain have had a war about Cuba
in the newspapers and the senate. So
on to the end of the category Of rumors
and outgivngs of imminent and uni
versal war.
This clamor has amounted to nothing,
for the simple and sole reason that Shy
lock will not support it. So far as party
is concerned, the ruse of the war trumpet
has availed but little. Deep down in
the bottom of the agitation and turmoil
of the time has been the conservative
veto of the peace loving Shylock, who
knows full well that his bond is already
as large as the world will carry. He,
knows when he has sufficiently strained
the credit and the patience of mankind
He knows what will come if he at
tempts to renew the war play among
any of the great nations. He knows that
France can bear no more; that Germany
has enough; that Russia must quit for
her own interest and for his; that Eng
land dare not add to her already intol-
cradle burden; that even the party rid
| den United States, with all her patriot
ism and democracy, is at the end Of the
| journey of debt, and that any further
addition to the American incubus will
| end either in the strangulation of lib
erty or in the insurrection of the people
| or both
1t is for this reason that Shylock,
philanthropist and benefactor, has
changed his immemorial policy. 1t is
for this that, from being the promoter
of universal war, he has become the ad-
vocate of universal peace. His course is
strictly logical His detection from the
international party of war and politics
to the party of strict business is in per-
! feet accordance with the noble princi-
| Piles by which he has ever been inspired.
| ShylOck is for himself. He is all things
to all men If by any means he may
| gain some. To him it is matter of per-
feet Indifference whether he be secre-
tary of war or secretary of the peace So
ciety. He joints the one or the other &C
cording to the rate Of exchange and the
extent and variety of his coupons.
1t is for these reasons that Rothschild
has become Friend. His conversion is
not at all inconsistent. He can perform
| the peace act as we'll as the war act
Indeed he can perform both parts at
once. In the same day he subscribes for
the building of an arsenal and for a
new addition of Summers speech on
THE True Grandeur of Nations" To
him it is all one whether the world
blooms with gardens, ripens with
oranges, smiles with harvests of wheat
or whether it is trodden into mire and
blood under the raging charges of cav
airy and the explosion of horrid shells
that is, it is all one to him if his cou-
pons are promptly paid and his bond
extended.
| ShylOck is now member in good
| standing of the Society For the Promo
| ton CT Universal Peace. He has invited
| Morgan and LaZard Freres and Car
negie and Havemeyer and Rockefeller
to join The invitation to Pullman has
| lapsed. Shylock is doing good service
1t is to his interest. He is willing to
| preach, and he breaches. The spirit
moves him. He is firmly persuaded that
nations should war no more He does
| not intend that any shall fight, for the
| reason that that would make it neces-
| sary for him to lend them his gold He
cannot lend them any more gold for
| fear he will never get it back again.
His old policy of involving mankind in
wars in order to have his moneys
doubled by scarcity and usurious inter-
! est has exhausted itself, and times are
hard. 1t only remains to see what new
scheme Shylock will invent in his pres
ent character of philanthropist and Sec
rotary of the yearly meeting.
A New Financial Scheme.
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