Willmar tribune., 1899-07-26
A STARTLING EDITORIAL. .
Information Regarding the Gigantic
Plot to Seize China for tho i
Benefit Of Trade. ~ +.

s"tos"0Sson W0&9Toun8 tno OSgdneic
Plot to Seize China for tho j
Benefit Of Trade. ~ T.
Tho Purpose Of tho Proposed "AngIo-
Saxon Alliance Against the
World" Made Plain.
The New, York World editorially
gave the following startling informa-
tion in it's issue of last Saturday, un-
the caption of ':Glory Unveiled":
February l, 1899, was thirty-fve
days after Mr.. Mckinley had issued
his unlawful proclamation to the Fill
pinos which made war in the Philip
pines inevitable-the proclamation
that falsely alleged, first, that the
United States had assumed sovereignty
over the Filipinos; second, that the
F'ilipinOs were to have no voice in de-
termining their form Of government or
their political rights: third, that they
must submit without q question and must
become the passive objects of "be-
nevOlent assimilation.
On February 1-thirty-fve days after
Mr.. Mckinley had thus unlawfully at
tempted to make us an Asiatic power
whether we wi)led or no-the British
and Chinese Corporation, Limited, and
| the eAmerican-C China naDevelopment Com
panY. entered into an agreement of
wnlcn tne following is the most start
lug alnong Tho many startling clauses: !:
Each party hereunto Shall use their best
enoeavors to obtain tho support of the
government OF their respective countries to
me common undertaking of the parties ex-
pressed IN these presents, and to render all
Sucn mutual assistance to each other in the
1urtherance OF their Common ENTERPRISE In
the Empire of China as circumstances NAV
require. it being the intention o. these presents
tnat, so Tar as practicable al. possible the
part!es hereto shall actin alliAl. and together
IN all undertakings obtained or prosecuted by
either or both in the Empire of China, whether
OOth parties shall participate in the business
or not
What are these two corporations?
They are two organizations, one of
Englishmen, the other of Americans,
which have obtained from corrupt and
unpatriotic Chinese officials conces-
sions which in effect make China assign
to them all the essential rights of sove-
reignty over the richest, the most
densely populated. the most favorably
located part of the Chinese Empire
territory vast in extent, boundless in
resources. That is, these two organi-
cations have obtained by corrupt
methods from corrupt Chinese officials
rights and privileges which extinguish
Chinese sovereignty in the most desir-
able part of the Chinese Empire.
Who are in these corporations?
In the English corporation, accord
ing to its official statement, we find:
hon,
schllds, the Barings, the Sasoons; several of
those great colonial exploitation companies,
partly commercial and partly banking, in which
lnterested-the great families, the great poll
tlclaEs, the members of the Cabinet and of
both houses of Parliament; John Walter who
British imperialism that is ever urging the
spending of British blood and British money in
promoting private commercial enterprises.
In the American corporation, &C.
cording to its official statement, we
find:
Representatives of most of the great bank
ing lng-ho9ses u.s. OF this country. including J. p Nor
vermilye & Co.: the Vanderbilts and the
Kockefellers: K Don Cameron, Tom Platt, Henry
es3l,s W13icost, It, Thos F. Ryan, Anthony Brady Mar
wind, Of the Coal Trust julius Stursberg OF
the Sugar Trust. Frederick P. Olcott of the
central trust Company, James Stillman of the
6AS"o cAA1O pOW CI1ul oGuuu1rO Bank, Cl0-
ment Griscom of the International Navigation
Company (American lne), &C., Sc
That is, the British corporation is
composed of the men who direct and
only too often use the British Govern
ment for their private ends under the
plea of 'sglory," and the American
corporation is composed of the men
who are most Influential with the Nc
Klnley administration, who contri-
buted vast sums to the Mckinley cam
paign fund of 1896, and to whom the
Mckinley syndicate looks for most
valuable aid in 1900.
1t was the men composing the Brit
lsh corporation who brought England
to the verge of war with Russia a few
months ago All will remember how
Mr.. Walter, disguised as the London
Times, thundered. All will remember
how difficult certain members of his
Cabinet made it for Lord Salisbury to
keep the peace,
And now our syndicators are "feel-
ing the public pulse" for Mr.. McKin-
ley to see how the people will take a
proposal that our government inter-
fere in China to enforce a corrupt con-
cesslOn and to establish protectorate
in China to enable these syndicators
to enrich themselves.
What have the United States to gain
by interference in China?
DO we want a part of the Chinese
Empire which if we took it would al.
ready be vested right, private
possession of small group of Ameri-
can syndicators? Can we in honesty
interfere in the sovereign Chinese state
to enforce a corrupt contract which
China ought to repudiate for her own
sake? Shall we expend American
money and perhaps American blood
in obtaining for few of our private
citizens a monopoly which cannot pos
slb]y benefit the masses of our people,
since all the trade that results will be
in the hands of the monopolists?
Shall we become the monkey to pull
chestputs out of the fire for group
OF syndicators in this country and for
the group of syndicators that controls
to great extent the aristocratic class
government of England?
Is it not rather the truth, as Mr..
Choate said the}other day, th at we are
on friendly terms with all nations and
purpose to remain so? Is it not a
matter of Indifference to US what ma
tion is dominant in China, since, no
matter what nation it may be, we can
sell the Chinese all the goods they
want if our goods and our prices are
the best?
The publication of it's plans and 'pur-
poses by the 'pulse-feeling" syndi-
cate sweeps away the last veil before
those secret springs that haze been
impelling the administration to draw
the American republic away from it's
anlendid natural dastinu and To dnao