The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-05-06
GERMAN-AMER1cANs HEARD FROM.


1t can now be safely asserted that
there will be no alliance, offensive or
defensive, between the United States
and Great Britain. The Mckinley ad-
ministration has been the most pro-
British within the recollection OF the
Oldest inhabitant With John Hay as
secretary OF state and Joseph H. Choate
as minister to London the British ina
giDed that they could Use this country
as a partner in iniquity to intimidate
the powers OF Europe. They now rea-
lie that they were laboring under a
fond delusion, and that they must face
their enemies without any assistance
from this republic. Anxiousfas the Nc
Kirleyites have been for an understand
ing" with England they now think it
advisable to keep from any entanglc-
nlent. They thought it safe to defy the
ahtagonism of the Irish element, but
they halt when the German element We
hcnlently protests against an Anglo
American coalition. The Americans Of
Irish and German extraction have
joined together against any afiliation
with England, whom they heartily de-
test. Mass meetings have been held in
the principal cities against any Anglo
Saxon scheme to implicate this country
III war. Instantaneous and German
Americans have been loud in their pro-
tests, and their protests have been heard
by the Republican politicians with fear
and trembling. Men of both nationali-
ties are always ready to defend America
witf their lives, but unless forcibly COM
PEELED they would not fight under two
flags for the promotion of Anglo-Saxon
domination over countries in the eastern
hemisphere.
The Westliche Post, of St. Louis, has
spoken the sentiments OF the German
Americans OF the entire country in an
article printed by it in the English Ian
grage for the enlightenment OF the
American people. In its issue of last
Sunday it attacks the policy OF imperial
ism in the strongest manner and utterly
repudiates it. 1t declares that the Ger
ma:Americans left their homes and
came thousands OF miles into an un-
known country to escape imperialism
and embrace Americanisn. To that,
says the Post, they are loyal now and
always, but British colonialism they do
not want. 1t then goes on to show the
dislike of German-Americans for Nc
Kinley's Philippine policy and says:
May the time never come when tine
American people will applaud those
who drabble flag dedicated to freedom
and human progress in the blood of men
who die on their own soil resisting tile
same principle of British imperialism
against which America triumphed at
Yorktown and New Orleans Such
ideas will never prevail in America.
Any party which commits itself to them
will be wiped out OF existence. Any
leader who attempts to check civiliza-
ton and progress under American in
situations and through American prin-
ciples will be repudiated and disgraced.
Any foreign nation which, for its own
brutal and selfish purposes, attempts to
Use the American people as cats paw
in schemes Of fraud and violence, will
find itself the victim of reactions OF its
own malevolent scheming. Justice, lib
erty, progress-true justice and liberty
until the whole world is elevated by our
national life as it has been by the indi-
vidual life of Washington-that is the
manifest destiny OF America. For that
the flag stands, and for that German
Americans are willing now, as they have
always been, to stake everything, know
ing that when issues are made against
liberty and in favor of imperialism,
everything is at stake for them, the
American flag and for all that is worthy
of survival in the world"
These noble utterances will produce a
wholesome effect on the Mckinley ad-
ministration. A large percentage of
German-American voters belong to the
republican party, and they will be lost
to Mckinley or any other candidate for
the presidency who favors imperialism
and expansion. In Ohio these citizens
are already organizing to defeat him for
denomination. He will do we'll to heed
their circumstances.
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