The Irish standard., 1898-08-27

war for the preservation of the Union by
tens of thousands, and reddcned every
battlefield Of the country in defense of
free institutions?
My friends, stories that these peoples
or governments are now opposed to
Americans are "thumping English lies"
| England controls the press agencies and
manufactures these stories for Ameri-
| can consumption. She saw an oppor-
tunity to make America save her from
tho consequences of her sins, committed
in the face of all Europe for centuries,
| the opportunity Of the war with Spain,
i and it came as Il godsend to her, but we
The reCreant Amcricanism that now
denounces France, assails Russia and
reprOaches Germany, is the same kind
and kidney that gave aid and comfort to
| England in the war of 1912, and will be
met, let us hope, by manifestation of
| the spirit of Andrew jackson that will
cause the Angiomaniacs to be silent and
subdued for another century at least.
What Il; to be gained by an alliance
/
problematical blessings of liberty and
civilization which the Dolivers and
Davises think will be carried around
the earth. This is, we are told a prac-
tical age. How, and in what manner in
the far East is the Yankee to double his
dollar? China is to be opened, and there
will be a rush to scatter the blessings"
/ Russia. Germany. England and France
are, so to speak, upon the ground. All
other fact" says u writer in Golfers
Weekly, should not be lost sight of,
viz: that freedom of access to Chinese
seaports is but one of the opportunities
of profit that will be attainable when the
huge natural resources of the middle
kingdom are thrown open to develop
mcnt." Who is to restore, enlarge and
extend the immense canal system OF
| China, which had been in active ,lSo for
centuries before tho Erie canal was
thought of? Who is to build and equip
the scores of thousands of miles of rail-
way needed for the freight and passen-
ger accommodations OF an Industrious
and frugal people, numbering 100000
900? Who is to supply the Chinese
| lcvies of the future with weapons and
ammunition, or the fleets built under
Russian supervision in Chinese waters,
with arms and guns? Who is to intro
| duce into the hundreds of dcnsely pco-
pied cities gas, electricity and the myri
nd appliances OF civilized life? Who is
| to sell the Chinese agricultursts plow-
ing machines, reaping machines. sewing
machines and threshng machines? Who
is to stimulate Chinese manufactures by
providing them with plants of every
kind of tho latest pattern? There is no
cXaggeration In saying that for one dol
| lar to be earned by us in commerce
proper at Chinese seaports under Eng
lands overwhelming competition, there
| would be Il hundred dollars to be earned,
II through Rnssas good will we were
made tho pnrvcyors and supcrinlend
| cnts OF the appliances and processes
needed to insure China's elevation to
the level Of enlightened nations.
This is the skeleton OF the mere ma
terial side of the question. What of the
moral slde1 Are Davis, Dolliver, GrOs-
vcnor ct al. in favor of having our hith-
erto unsullicd flag spotted by ndorsc-
ment of IIngland's aggrcssivcncss every
where?
Shall we reinvoke the spirit of liberty
| and preach the cant of the blessings of
civilization" i'll favor OF tho broken
treaties with tho gallant hill tribes of
India, and treat n3 "old and thrcadbarc"
the fact that England acknowledged the
South's beligerency before Charles
Francis Adams had landed there to pre-
sent his credentials from Lincoln and
| Seward? Lords and commOners, cardi-
nails and prclatcs are now meeting in
committees on the other side to further
tho fateful project.
Intcrmarriagc with Engands NOR
ally, aye, and physically, rotten nrlstoc-
racy Is sapping the sturdy Amcricanism
which loved liberty for her own sake,
and those who have made their wealth
Off the labors Of our sturdy yeOmcn, or
out Of our political mines, are taking It
with them to England that they may be
suffered, by means thereof to catch even
a faint ray from the aurcole which is
supposed to encirclc a throne.
The growth of this sentiment is
neither sudden nor natural. 1t is the
result of careful planning of a deliberate
and well laid plot, taking in the mill
ionairc, the press and the pulpit. About
three years ago Mr.. Plmsoll, lately de-
ceased, a member of the British parlia-
mcnt, and known popularity as the sail
ors friend" camo to America with the
publicly avowed purpose OF starting an
agitation against the text books used in
the public schools In so far as they had
reference to England and her treatment
OF America before, during and subsc-
quent to the revolution. Mr.. Plimsoll
did not wish the American youth to be
told the story of the revolution of the
spy Andre, of the bribing Of Arnold, OF
the cmplymcnt of the American Indian
against the colonists, this Indian "thc
veriest devil that ever cutched fingers