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THE MEANING OF IT.
AMERICA AND ENGLAND TO
FREE THE WORLD.
What an Old Soldier Sees in the
Future for Man
kind.
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The Titanic war of 1861 to 1850
found the people Of America unmlh-
tary. indeed anti-military and the Gov
ernment unprepared and bewildered by
uncertainty Of loyalty of its own army
and navy. And yet they fought the
grandest war Of history, grand not
only in a moral sense but a military
sense as we'll The effect upon the ma
tions Of Europe was startling. me
common people, worn out with the OPP
preston and domination Of monarchs,
mobiles, militarism and accursed bureau-
cracy took heart and said America
raised the first cry of freedom in I1o,
and now they repeat it and show that
a free people are a great people or pa
triots and fighting men" And the
monarchs and other barnacleS on the
ship Of state saw it, and saw it with
deep concern, lest their people should
also wish to be free and upset thrones.
tear off stolen insignia of false rank,
clean out the Augean Stables of rotten
and supercilious off1cedom and put
every common man on the plane OF
equal rights, equal political chances
and equal taxation. Only England,
which gained its freedom under that
glorious rebel Oliver Cromwell, was not
perturbed and shaken because Eng
land. though not wholly prepared for
such freedom as the American, yet is
free.
In the heart of every absolutist En-
peror, Czar, Kaiser and Kinglet and
down through reigning Grand Dukes
and High-Borns and Excellencies, and
Dukes, Marquises, Counts and all the
ruck Of humbug titles, through aristo-
crat army and navy officers in COM
mand over wretched conscripts robbed
of life's best opportunities and chances,
and more especially through sordid,
mercenary, leech-like officialdom Of life
tenure with emoluments) and Of course
the only press permitted by censors.
viz. the Reptile Press. ran the terror
and dread, that the dumb creatures,
the mere hopelessly toiling, producing
for royal, noble and official consump-
ton Of all good things and rendering
up ali of them beyond the barest -sus-
tenance, would get the deadly Ameri-
can idea that Governments are created
by Gods will for the people and not
the people for Governments to plunder
and oppress.
From the end of the rebellion till now
all these tax-eaters entrenched in title
and power have, from the bejeweled as
sassination-dreadin Czar to the last
made High-born subaltem of an infan-
try regiment just come into his right
to slap grizzled old veterans in battal-
ion ranks for a button loose or a strap
askew, all Of them have been, are and
will be till their end comes working,
scheming, writing and particularly
printing in censored papers every low,
false, defamatory scrap they can pick
out from the filth of some American
and practically all European papers
anything and everything to misrepre-
sent, belittle and blacken America and
Americans and when short Of quotable
matter to fabricate it.
The writer of this, himself an Amer
lean army officer, who has lived much
in Europe and knows European armies
and officers, knows it as a now stale
boast of nearly every such officer that
they, with their battalions are ready
and eager to spring upon the young
Giant of the West and throttle him
and incidentally Though the actual
prime motive) throttle freedom so that
Kaisers and face-slapping Lieuten-
ants and sleek bureau officials shall go
on gorging and fattening on the blood
of their people. The Lieutenants do
not understand why they are not per-
mitted to launch their battalions at
the Yankee Pigs" and so have much
sport at pig-sticking, together with the
joys of pillage and loot. But the gray
headed old spiders and vultures known
as Cars and Kings Ministers know ex-
actly why they have not yet made that
attack for which they have been pre-
pairing since 1776, and yearly see be-
coming more difficult as America grows
by leaps and bounds in population,
riches and all the potentialities of
great military and naval power. And
the reason is that the honest mans
heart Of the everyday Englishman
(their papers of certain kinds to the
contrary Notwithstanding won't let the
British Government join the coalition
Of Kings, Cor Devils Alliance) but
would turn out any ministry daring to
propose IT and supplant them by a
government more likely to fight for
America than against 1t.
Among the real fearless, independent
press of England (and that is by far the
greater part Of the whole for months
past the columns have rung with words