Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-07

alton, but 1t has been our strength, oui
glory, our salvation.
And are we now to reverse the policy
Of a century-that policy which has
made us the wonder of the world?
We are invited to take De first ster
in that primrose path Of daFfiance which
leads to the eternal bonfire. And whexe
will we stop?
Hawaii is first, then south to Caps
Horn, northward to the pole, westward
until the starry banner of the republic
will float in CORY triumph over the most
ancient capitals of the orient, eastward
to an ~unceasing and ruinous conflict
with all Europe.
No reason can be urged for annexing
the Sandwich Islands which will not
apply with equal force to the annexa-
ton of something else and everything
else.
"The Pearl of the Pacific" is the be-
ginning of the end, then ''the Gem of
| the Antilles for if we need an island
in the Pacific why not IL also n the
Atlantic?
Indeed that pre-eminent twister OF
| the British lions caudal appendage,
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Nahant,
is not to be satisfied with the one island
| of Cuba in the West Indies, so he has
introduced a bill to purchase the islands
of st. Thomas, st. Croix and st. John,
and many here are talking of annexing
Porto Rico, the Philippines, the Cana
-, n,d SLo rarnI;na fsIopdS
The lingo Bacillus at Work.
The lingo bacillus is indefatigable in
its work. Every day or two some
prophetic lingo, in the endeavor to ex-
eel all his tribe, proposes to annex the
five seething, bubbling, eruptive Central
| American republics. Jingoism appears
to be more contagious than the measles,
the smallpox or the black plague, and
let us fervently pray that it will not
also prove more fatal. [Applause.
That eminent publicist, orator and
author, Henry watterson, has capped
the climax of jingoism by proposing to
annex Ireland. Somebody else asked
"Marse Henry why we should squan-
der time and money annexing Ireland
when we have already annexed the vast
majority Of the IrislH
One of my Missouri friends-a preach
err in my church at that
Mr.. Walker of Observation-Disclosures
| church is that?
Mr.. Clark Of Missouri-The Christian
church, vulgarly called the C~ampbellite.
Mr.. johnson of Indiana-The fact
| that you are in communication with a
preacher shows that antiannexationists
are not outside the pale of salvation.
Mr.. Clark of Missouri Continuing
Wrote me last week to immortalize my
self by proposing in this house to parti-
ton Spain, giving the largest slices to
France and Portugal, with a piece
around Gibraltar to England big enough
to keep the British lion from roaring.
You jingoes here are mere babes and
sucklings beside my reverend brother
from Missouri. You need to be fed on
strong meat in huge chunks for a long
time to bring you up to his exalted
standard.
If we annex Hawaii and you, Mr..
Speaker, should preside here 20 years
hence, it may be that you will have a
polyglot house, and it will be your
painful duty to recognize ''the gentle
man from Patagonia, "'the gentleman
from Cuba, " "the gentleman from San
to Domingo ''the gentleman from
Korea" ''the gentleman from Hong
kong" ''the gentleman from Fiji"
"the gentleman from Greenland, I" or,
with fear and trembling, ''the gentle
man from the cannibal islands, who
will gaze upon you with watering
mouth and cleaning teeth.
In that stupendous day there will be
a new officer within these historic walls,
whose title will be interpreter to the
speaker" for your ears will be assailed
by speech in as many discordant voices
as were heard at the confusion of
tongues on the plain Of Shinar at the
foot of the unfinished Tower Of Babel.
The English Alliance.
Jingoisn is more rapid in its progress
than quick consumption. So yirulent is
it that many are now advocating an al
lance with Enthusiastically the
most preposterous idea that was ever
matched in the brain of a Are we to
give no heed to the lessons of history!
Are we to scout the wisdom of the ia
theirs? Are we to take leave of our senses
because we are engaged in a struggle
with a third rate power, which If vigor-
ously pressed will be gloriously con-
cluded in time to celebrate u triumph
on the 4th of next July? Who is to be
the gamer by such an arrangement
Certainly not America. Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain's gush about what an in.
spring spectacle it would be to see oul
soldiers and British troops fighting to.
gether under the star spangled banner
and the union jack may be wisdom
from his standpoint, but from ours it ii
sheer nonsense--unmitigated bosh. Aft
er thrashing Spain we have no enemies
to fight, but England has a superabun'
dance of them. Like the poor, they art
always with her, because John Bulls
longing eyes are always fixed on some
body else's possessions.
An alliance with England! Have gen
tlemen considered what a partnership
with that quarrelsome nation means? il
means that our armies would soon b.
fighting against the French in Africa
against the Russians in Afghanistan
against the Germans in China, agains'
the japanese in Korea, against the ltsl
ians in the Mediterranean, against the
Austrians on the Danube and agains
the Turks in the Golden Horn. The hes
blood of America would enrich foreign
soil from the Punjab to st. Petersburg
and from the Cape of Good Hope to thu
Land of the Midnight Sun. That is jim
goism run mad. Is not that a ravishinl
picture? What mothers and fathers arr
willing to so sacrifice their sons? VIII
is going to pay the piper for such a wilt
dance? How a we be made happier
more prosperous or nor puissant By
such an amazing performance Tim
and time again we have expressed oul
sympathy with downtrodden Ireland b,
speeches, by resolutions, by public meet
ings, by large contributions of cash, b.
livery other method known among mel
Squire Hudson Dead.
Thomas 81, Hudson, an old and hon