New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-09-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d.

great states of Iowa and Ohio declare in
strong terms against the unauthorized
and entangling alliance which the Nc
Kinley Administration has taken up with
the Tory government of Great Britain.
Americans have no hostility to the Eng
lish people, but the warning note of
these two platforms will not be sound
ed in vain. Only three votes saved the
country from the ratification by the Sem
ate of the Olney -Pauncefote treaty three
years ago.
That treaty would have tied the Unit
ed States without tying Great Britain.
A similar one, even more favorable to
Great Britain is in contemplation by Nc
Kinley. The interests of Trusts and Cap
ital dominate the White House against
the masses Of the American people. The
interests of the greatest aggregation OF
capital in the world dominate the pres
ent British government. 1t is only natu-
raj that these two great Tory admin
strations should seek an alliance for
mutual protection. Men alone are patri-,
otto; money never is.
Great Britain has twenty points of
| friction with the rest of the world where
the United States has one, and the chanc.
es of her becoming involved in war are
IN the same proportion. Obviously then
the advantage of an Alliance with Great
Britain lies overwhelmingly with that
country. The scheme il, her behalf is
played with greet shrewdness. Four
fifths of the foreign news of the world,
which reaches the United States, comes
through London and is there garbled,
cut and colored to aid British inter-
ests. The American public must not lie
permitted to learn the truth about any
European country. We are led to be-
lieve that Russia is still in the depths of
despotic barbarism when in fact it is ad-
vanclng with tremendous strides IN
every direction to take it's place as one
of the foremost and M ost liberal nations
of the world. Germany is pictured as au
armed and insolent soldier when in fact
it is hive of busy industry, whose
manufactures are dlsplacing British
wares in every quarter of the globe, who
is leading the world IN science, whose
school system is a model for the world
to pattern and whose government owner
ship OF railroads and public utilities has
absolutely prevented the existence of the
powerful trusts and corporations, which
in this country have become greater than
the government itself Imperial Ger
many exacts from wealth an income tax
which ii applied in the United States,
with equal rigor, would pay the entire
expenses of the Federal government.
Capltalistic Great Britain and caritalist-
ic America are in alliance to keep such
facts as these from the eyes and ears of
the public: ~~ys
A signal instance of the way in which
news is colored by Londonis found in
the Trausvaal difficulty. Nearly all the
news which has reached the United
States would indicate that the British
government was amicably seeking to
protect the inalienable rights of certain
of her subjects from the barbarous and
brutal treatment OF the Boer govern
ment. But here are the facts:
The Transvaal, country the size of
France, stands in the way of Great Brit
aims advance toward Central Africa.
Cecil Rhodes, late Premier of South
Africa, is at the head of a gigantic cor
poration with innumerable ramifcations,
which has invested hundreds of millions
of dollars in all sorts of land, mining
and railroad schemes in South Africa,
with the expectation of realizing billions
of dollars on the investment. His con-
Germ has never paid dividend and is in
danger OF financial collapse, which
will shake the money markets of the
world as they have never been shaken
before. His only safety lies in gigantic
scheme of robbery which involves the
destruction of the Transvaal Republic.
To do this it was necessary to pick a
quarrel. Within the Transvaal thers has
developed within the last ten years the
most extensive and valuable gold min
ing properties in the world, four billion
dollars worth of gold is already in sight,
an amount equal to two-thirds of the
worlds present gold supply. Instead Of
seinng upon this enormous property by
the right Of eminent domain, as it had a