Washington sentinel., 1899-11-04

ism. to liberty, to progress; to tree
dom from mll.tarism, to the eX
pectatlon Of a time to come whel
the world will be no longer snack
led by imperialism, with its bay
onets and fetters--to that, German
Americans who renounCe imperial
ism in Europe are as devoted nov
as they were fifty years ago, wher
they listene,l to Seward, as he sale
OF these same 'ex ansi onists:' Sir
they have sent the American eagle
abroad, bearing not the olive
branch, but shackle in his talons.
THE flag OF this great republic
stands now-not for what the Lon
don Times approves-but for what
it meant when Seward stood under
il to utter this immortal sentence.
What would he have said Of the
policy OF buying slaves by the mil
lion and killing them under the
flag by the thousand because they
do not willingly submit to be
| shackled2
"Such republcanism as that
was not his, nor is it that Of any
loyal German American or Of any
other American, who is loyal to
his flag and to his country. May
heaven forbid that it ever should
be. May the time never come
when the American people will ap-
plaud those who drabble a flag
dedicated to freedom and human
progress IN the blood OF men who
die on their own soil resisting the
same principle of British imperial
ism against which America tri-
umphed at Yorktown and New
Orleans.
"Such ideaj will never prevail
in America. Any party which
commits itself to them will be
wiped out OF existence Any leader
who attempts to check civilization
and progress under American in
stitutions and through American
principles will be repudiated and
disgraced; any foreign nation
which, for is own brutal and sell
fish purposes, attempts to use the
American people tor a cat's.paw in
schemes OF fraud and violence, will
find itself the victim Of the reac-
tions OF its own malevolent schem
ing. Justice, liberty, until the
whole world is elevated by our
national life as it has been by the
individual life of Wash ngton--
that is the manifest destiny of
America; for that the flag stands,
and Tor that German Americans
are willing now as they have al
ways been to stake everything,
knowing that when issues are made
against liberty and in Iavor OF i'm
perialism, everything is at stake,
for them. for the Ameri an flag and
for all that is worthy Of survival in
the world.
"Witbin the last few years Amer
lcan corporations involving real
and supposititious values to the
extent OF hundreds OF millions
have been organized by Mr.. J.
Pierpont Morgan and other resi-
dent agents Of London capital on
an English basis.
These far-sighted 6nanciers are
attempting to make predominant
in cur dome jtic and foreign poll.
cies such policies as will best suit
the members of the English aris-
tocracY, landed and commercial,
who have made these investments.
This, in the first place.
Incidentally, they are attempt.
ing to commit America to a renun-
citation OF Americanism in order
to stop American agitation in favor
OF Ireland, and also to Jam the
United States up against Germany
as a means OF preventing Germany
from checking in Africa such scan
dalous-such infamous robbery as
Cecil Rhodes and his thieving i'm
perialjsts atte mpted against the
gallant republicans Of the Trans
Vaal when the German Emperor
stopped them.
"What American is there who
can think without indignation OF
this atrocious conspiracy against
the liberties OF america and the
peace of the world2 Who, retain
ing a vestIge OF regard Tor the
America OF Washington and Jefer-
son, Lincoln, Sumner and Seward,
will not hide his face when he sees
those London imperialIsts cabling
their villainous orders to America.
can set our armies to cutting the
throats OF our late allies on their
own soil in order to give England
a better chance OF operations
against China, while as the result