Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-22

The average British review is as in
sular as St. Giles cockney and as pom
derous as a witticism in Punch, but
while the current Fortnightly Is not
without these characteristics 1t almost
pays to plod through 1t in order to
reach the instructively frank explana-
ton by one writer Of the way in which
England really subjugates the world.
He is discussing the problem of financ-
ing the proposed Chinese loan and the
danger that it may be taken by a
Franco Russian syndicate.
1T is clear" says the contributor,
who, by the way, is one of the best
equipped English writers on interna-
tional relations, that If our immense
interests in China are to be adequately
protected we must not allow the empire
to be the exclusive vassal of any for
eign power or group of powers, and this
is what must occur in thinly disguis-
ed form if we abstain from competing
with the state-guaranteed loan-mon-
gering of Russia and France at Pekin.
We can safely and even profit
ably lend the money without rendering
an increase of the burdens on trade
necessary, and since the loan would be
calculated to strengthen our interests
at Pekin, and thus advance our inter-
ests in the far East, 1t was manifestly
our duty to undertake it,"
The debtor is the abject vassal the
world over. Man or nation, it is the
same; he who owes the debt is the
serf of it's holder. Interest has added
almost as much territory to the British
empire as was ever won by the British
sword. Egypt is the exclusive vas
sal" of Britain, because Egypt fell into
the hands of Lombard street money
lenders. China will go the same way,
unless her rulers make the unimpor-
tant choice of preferring the Roth
schilds that dominate French finance
to the branch of the same family which
rules Lombard street.
BY the way, how great proportion
of United States bonds, national, state
or corporation, are held in England?
And how far Is discernible the purpose
of Great Britain to use her rights as
a creditor to strengthen her influence
at Washington. as she hopes to at
Pekin, to control our currency system
and to dominate our politics New
York Journal.
Workingmen, in thinking of the Lat
timer murders, never to be officially
avenged, need not feel that the lives of
the murdered men were entirely vast
ed. 1t is true that justice has been out
ragged and that certain score some
day to be wiped out Is little bigger
than it was. But some good has been
done. 1t is not likely that such
killing will occur again for many days.
1t is probable that the next coward
armed with repeating rifle will hest
tate, fearing that murderer No. 2 may
not fare as we'll as No. /. Public opin-
ion has crystallized about this Pennsyl-
vania murder affair. Murder on cash
basis will probably receive setback,
despite the verdict.
OF course, no such verdict could
have been rendered in England or in
France, where the rights of ordinary
men are now recognized. They were
not recognized in France at one time.
But the most ordinary kind of men got
a sort of habit of cutting off heads in
discriminatory, and as it turned out
that the heads belonged to persons of
high degree, the memory of that affair
has stuck.
r In England the ordinary British per-
son has reminded the powers so often
of his presence, sometimes by cutting
off a kings head, sometimes in other
playful ways, that he is considered
quite a serious quantity. The American
locomotive engineers, at their last
strike, managed to make 1t clear that
they are not to be trified with; the
men of Pittsburg made themselves felt,
and incidentally defeated Republican
candidate for the presidency. These
are indications. that the American or
kinary man IL gradually establishing