The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-26
He SCORES ENGLAND
Captain Woke Writes a
ScathiHg Explanation,
ENGLAND Is A BULLY
Perverts News Dispatches Re-
Iating to Germany

German-American regiment. the article
is as follows:
1--WE derive our news relating to Euro
pean affairs mainly from England; in
deed it may be safely claimed that nine
1enths of all European matter which is
not copied bodily from English news
papers, but is cabled and written for
publication in the press of this country,
comes from London. and since there is
no direct ine between Berlin and our
country the correspondents of the Amer
ican news agencies at that place send
their matter to London where to all ap-
pearances. it is, as rule, handled to
suit the purposes Of the English before
II is forwarded to us.
The relations between the Germans
and the English have for several years
past been strained, and this has been the
reason why the numerous English writer's
employed by the daily press of this coun-
try have been so unfriendly and unchar-
table toward the Germans that at times
It has appeared as if all the menda cious
scribbers in the whole kingdom, moved
by one common impulse. had been gath
cred together for the sole purpose of
arrangement between our country and
Germany.
The policy Of the German government.
as wei as the conduct Of the German
people and their relations towards US
and other nations have been the subject
of persistent misrepresentation and
faIsehoods. Actual facts have been con-
stantly perverted and stories have been
invented and spread among our Ameri-
can readers of which only the wickedest
scandal bearers could be guilty. Many
Of these falsehOOds find their way from
time to time into the editorial columns
OF q number of our dailies. where they
are treated as positive truths, and these
papers do not hesitate at times to eX-
hibit toward Germans the same vile spirit
which characterizes the source from
which the scandals flow.
"Since the estrangement Of the Ger
man empire the progress which It's peo-
pie have made in charging their COM
merce and industries and in increasing
their general welfare has challenged the
admiration of the world. The goods
made in Germany are everywhere in
favor; the English have been driven out
Of the market in many places, not only
in foreign countries, but also in their
own colonies and in their own kingdom.
Alarmed at this phenomenal success,
and carefully examining the causes, a
few Of the best English publicists, Ernest
Edwin Williams and others lie forced
TO admit that II is alone due to the
superior intelligence and sturdier cslarac-
ter of the German people. This causes
the English much anxiety, and in their
sordid greed they stoop to a systematic
course of shameless villihcation and SLAM
der.
I'm their desperate efforts, therefore,
to stop the Germans from further en-
croachments upon the sphere of the Eng
lish industrials and capitalists, to whom
they owe their bread and butter these
scandal mongers seek to fill other ma
lions. particularly our American people,
with dislike of the Germans. in order
that the advantage of our markets may
not TO be lost to the English.
This is precisely what crops out at
times in their own journals and it is the
same unspeakable vile conduct which
only a generation ago this same vermin
exhibited toward our people when. at
the outbreak Of the civil war, the injury
10 the English cotton trade and the fur
Their fact that at that very time the
northern states of the Union were start
ing to make gigantic strides in the devel-
opment Of vast industries, thereby threat
ening TO become powerful competitors of
the English. they arrayed themselves on
the side of our enemies and became im>
piacably hostile, dangerous and vicious.
When last fall the Germans. for the
protection of their commerce in the east,
managed by peaceful negotiations with
the Chinese empire to obtain possession
of harbor on the Asiatic coast an ad-
vantage which the English had only been
able to secure as the result Of two bloody
wars the latter raised the hue and cry
that the Germans intended to establish
barbarous trade restrictions and to shut
cut all other nations from their sphere
of power in the Asiatic waters.
This was assiduously circulated in the /
newspapers Of this country, a number of
which, protesting Il believe it, called
Vehcmently upol the federal government /
to JOIN liberal England" in preventing 1
the alleged scheme.
There vas nothing in the former con- I
duct et the German government nor in /
the genius Of the German people, who (
have always been known as prudent /
traders. that justified the silly charge
against them. and the fact is that il
was alone prompted by the sordid selfish /
ness Of the English. anxious as they were
10 prevent their successful rivals from
gaining a Political foothold where they
mad already, as peaceful merchants. Sc /
cured large trade interests.
strictions by keeping out others in the /
chinese Ocean were only harbored by the /
English The cruelty and rapacity with .
wnlcc years ago they threw their wolf !
like tanss into the sides Of The poor Chi +
nese should not be lost sight Of They
acquired some Of their most valuable pos
sessions N China as the result of the
most infamous war on record. carried on .
ny them, as ii was. for the base purpose /
Of preventing the mandarins from inaib- /
iting the deoauching and death-ueallng /
lraiiic IN opium. because II was 50 profit /
able 10 the English traders
We are told wherever England colo 4
nizes she civilizes and brings happiness /
and oontentment. The truth IS that she
grants as much liberty as she is OBLIGED /
10 do and no more. Her colonists n 4
Carada ana Australia enjoy a fair meas /
ure OF autonomy. because they would not /
remain dependencies Of England short OF 1
Il, but in India and elsewhere she rules /
with unprecedented brutality, taking from
that one country alone over q million !
and quarter dollars each dav 10 fatten
her big lords and rich industrials. while
thousands upon thousands Of the wretch
ca people Of India with all their pinch5ng
frugality, die annually Of starvation.