Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-07-27

islands without the consent of the
American people, preferring to assume
the responsibility himself rather than
call Congress together, which is the
proper body to deal with such matters.
In view of all the facts in the case can
there be anything more sickening than
the insolence of the commercial press
and the small cringing sycophants who
edit Republican machine organs when
they affect to disparage the action of
intelligent, honorable and brave Amer
leans who raise their voice against the
iniquity OF Imperialism and the per-
fidy of the administration.
But we hear some little soul exclaim:
"We must conquer the Philippines and
invade the Orient because our govern
ment has undertaken the work and we
must stand by our government or we
are not patriots" Such talk is all
stuff and nonsense. The government
of the United States is the people of
tie United States and they have not
yet spoken upon this question. Such
little souls may clamor that the Amer
lean nation must do wrong because
Mckinley, under the direction OF the
Pierpont Morgans, has formed secret
alliance with Great Britain to invade
China, but such clamor only proves
the incapacity of those who make it
for the work of self-governmeut. We
deny that the American people have
any responsibility in this matter until
after it has been submitted to them
and they have acted upon it.
The power welded by billions of
wealth is being exemplifed in the con-
troll of the commercial press of the
country in the interest of colonial
policy, militarism and the ultimate
overthrow of our republic because a
syndicate of millionaires desire to use
the power of the government to aid
them in their work of exploitation in
the Orient.
But some little soul exclaims with a
piping voice: Il am for expansion"
and points to the growth of the United
States as vindlcatiou of that policy.
Expansion is the reaching for unset
tied territory where American homes
and families with churches, school
houses and all the paraphernalia of
American civilization, may be estab-
lished and multiply to be ultimately
made into States of the American
union. 1t is not expansion to invade
overpopulated Asia and introduce mo-
tive power and labor-saving machinery
in order that plutocracy may erect
factories and employ five hundred
thousand Mongolians to do the manu-
featuring of the world. Such expan-
sion will degrade and ultimately de-
stroy the labor, not only OF America.
but of Europe as we'll.
Russia already has a railroad across
a large portion of Siberia, crossing
Russia and penetrating into the heart
of China. The Siberian wheat fields,
larger in extent and of equal produc-
tiveness with the prairie states OF the
West, will furnish the food supply for
the millions of China, and American
farmers can never be benefited from
our operations in that quarter of the
globe. The facts are that If great
syndicate of American capitalists join
ed with those OF Great Britain is able
to use the power of our government in
with that of Great Britain
to bully the powers and secure a large
slice of China they will make a vast
of money building railroads
and erecting factories, to be operated
by Chinese cheap labor, which in the
end will sound the death knell of the
higher civilizations of Europe and
America National Wdtchmdn.