Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-09
REPUBLICAN TREASON.


Within q year Whitelaw Reid made
IN authorized official visit to the court
of St. James. His message was one of
congratulation to the queen, that she
had been spared through q long and
eventful reign. The president Of the
United States did not particularly COM
pliment Queen Victoria when he sent
Whitelaw Reid upon this mission, for
within few years Whitelaw Reid has
presented himself to the American peo-
pie as a candidate for the vice presi-
dency and had been repudiated; still,
with the quality for rich mems sons,
which with Mckinley amounts to a
mania, Reid, son-in-law of Millionaire
Mills, was selected for mission which
could just as well have been performed
by Son-in-law Hay, the duly accredited
minister to st. James. Hay is another
instance of the presidents fondness
for people with purse. Other in
stances have been multiplied almost
without number in the recent appoint
ment by Mckinley of callow youth, in
experienced and therefore incapable, to
staff appointments in the army, where
by trained soldiers, educated at the ex-
pense of the government, are now the
subordinates of young gentlemen who
look upon war as quite the thing, you
know. They had no recommendation
but the family pull. Whitelaw Reid,
much impressed by his reception at
Windsor castle, is talking glittering
generalities about an alliance of this
nation with Great Britain and pleading
rather needlessly that no arrant selfish
ness on our part suggests the connec-
ton. No such suggestion has been
formally or officially made, but Mr.. Reid
is endeavoring to give it form and body,
echoing therein the remarks of Joe
Chamberlain. An alliance with Eng
land would not be selfish on our part
because in any such combination we
would be the pack horse. England does
not mean to help US in a war with
Spain and we need no help therein.
England has already proclaimed her
neutrality. But when the Spanish war
is over England would have something
for US to do. She would direct our af-
fairs in certain sense. The very first
of her directions to us would be to in
crease our navy commensurately with
her own, and to sail with her round
the globe wherever her interests
were threatened. It is marvellous that
Whitelaw Reid, who is an. arrant pro-
tectionist, has not learned from Eng
land that a useful policy for this coun-
try would be commercial freedom. He
is not good enough to explain how a
protection nation yoked for offensive
operations with a free trade nation
would have any particular benefit.
England is the best customer we have
for surplus cereals and breadstuffs.
Why she takes so much of US is a
simple problem. Under the accursed
gold standard we must pay England
$300,0OO,000 a year in interest. As we
have not got the gold she takes the
products of our soil at the rate of so
per cent. their American value. Eng
land enjoys this state of things, i'm
mensely. She has mouths to feed and
they must be fed. We have no use for
her manufactured products, because we
rely under our policy upon our home
market, and we have no need for her
warships unless we propose to become,
like her, a footpad among nations,
knocking down and robbing the weak
est of them and in the name of Chris
tianity establishing tyranny wherever
we gain foothold.