The Florence tribune., 1899-03-25
IMPERIALISM.
[Traaslated ct Liberty Castle, Pinal Co.,, AIiz., March F. 1898. by the Only
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 Ariz.. March F. 1899. by the Only Erankl
 A French Imperialist talks, and this is what he says: My eountrymen may look at America and see what France might have been, and doubtless would be to-day, the strongest, the richest and the proudest nation in the world-yes, in fact, she might be the mistress of the world if her rulers at the close of the last century had been statesmen of large capacity and busi- ness foresight, such as are the pres ent rulers in the American States, in- stead of the sentimental noodles that they were. France would not now be obliged to sit quiet in her little seven- by-nine potato patch while her great rival, the child of her nursing, is walk ing of with the best part of two hemispheres. Oh, that the Great Napoleon the first had sat in the place of t2e inbecile Louis, when those rebel colonies were in revolt against the authority of their King. Would he have been so silly as to free them from the British yoke out of pure sympathy only7 Would he have spent his leisure to fit out fleet and equipan army and send it over there just for the fun-of driving out She Britous? And when the job was done, pick up his traps and sail away, satisfied with empty thanks for his pay? Not much. Old Bucny wasn't built that way neither is bis American prototype, Wm. Mckinley. Like the latter, he would have in- structed his Generals to make no undue concessions to Washington and his ragged rebels; that he would deal with them in due time. Then after John Bull was driven from the country, he would have paid him twenty millions for the chance to get whack at those Yankee swamp foxes himself. Then he would have said to Washington and the other barlarians, 'You and your country now belong to me; paid twenty millions for you and you must submit to my military rule till see it to change it."
 Then, instead of taking his fleets and his armies back to France he would have sent reenforcements over and garrisoned every available point. Then 1 if those anarchist rebels made any kick and refused to be civilized, he would have knocked hail Columbia out of them just as Mckinley is now knocking it into those other savages in the Philippines. Then as warning to future would-he revolutionists and to thoroughly and permanently impress the wholesome lesson on the minds of of the ignorant rabble, that the law. fully and divinely constitute1 authori- ties must be obeyed and are not to be trified with, he would have promptly guillotined such leaders as Washing ton, Paine, Jefferson, Franklin, the Adamses and others. Had this been done that bloody page in our history that every Frenchman of noble lineage must ever regard with horror and with shame, would have never been written, because the real instigators of the 1 famous, or rather the infamous, tragedy of 1798 would not have an existence, and their anarchistic Declaration of Independence would have been sup pressed, and the great North Ameri- can continent, with it's vast and boundless resources and its thrifty people, would to-day be 6 province of France, yielding billions of revenue annually to our treasury. All this was within our grasp after the. British surrender at Yorktown, and would be ours to-day if Napoleon or Me- Kinley had sat on the throne of France at that time, with wide-awake ex- pansionists in command of the army and navy, like Dewey, Sampson, Merritt, Otis ct al., who will take care that the rebel leaders Aguinaldo, Agoncillo, Gomez, Garcia & Co. do not escape to raise future iusurrections, as Washing ton and his confederates were allowed to do at the close of the 18th century. And the thought that this immense wealth, beyond the power of man to compute, was basely surrendered by the sickly Louis and the sentimental Lafayette and the once proud nobility reduced tc tho common herd, to be- come the jest of the rabbls, is enough to drive Frenehman of noble antece- dents to desperation.
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