The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-30
viii Not Be Parties to EngIand's
Plans for Chinese Partition.
CANNOT PREVAIL IN AMERICA
Any Party Which Commits ITSELF -
the ImperiaIis,ic Policy VIII DO
Wiped Out OF ENistcnce-Thc
Fla. OF America Does Not
Stand for What the Lon
don Times Approves.

ST. LOUIS. MO, April g9.-Thc VEST
lihe Post will tomorrow print an arts
Gle in the English language, defining the
policy of all German papers In this coun-
try regarding Americanism against i'm
per.alism. The article. IN part, follows:
Time and again the attempt has been
made 10 supplant American repuAlicanism
with imperialism. Time and again Ame-
rican patriotism and that high and far
seeing love of mankind, which unites
men Of all countries in common BROTH
erhood, have rallied and won against 1t.
when half a century ago, We had the
same cries of Manifest Destiny the
'conQuerlng Saxon expansion. and all the
rest We are hearing over again, Ameri-
cans. as radically opposed 10 each other
in most things, as were Calhoun and
Corwin. Joined with Clay. Webster. Low-
ell. Clayton and Clemens against H.
THEIR PRAISE NOT WANTED.
"What American can read this without
an indignant refusal - consent that the
blood OF these. once our allies. shall so
saturate the soil on which they were
born, that We may DO praised by ths
London Times for our noble work for
progress In furthcrng British plans for
Remembering and rObbing China.
John NJ. clayton. himself, the author
OF the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and open
- in favor Of cooperating with England
In business was openly opposed TO hav-
ing anything % DO with the political
methods of British Imperialism.
what is there in stalwart Americans
ism ats native Americanism II you Wild
except what German-Americans are say
ing now In declaring that they gave up
home and friends and came thousands OF
miles into an unknown country for the
deep loVe-not Of British colouials. but
OF American republcanism
'"ro that they are loyal now and AL
ways 10 Americanism, 10 liberty. to pro-
gress TO freedom from militaryism. to
the expectation 10 time 10 time when
the. world would be no longer shackled
by Imperialism with its bayonets and fet-
ters. q that German Americans who re-
nounced Imperialism In Europe are as
devoted now as they were hfty years
ago when they listened 10 Seward as he
said OF these same eNpansionists:
" Sir. They have sent the American
eagle abroad bearing not the olive
branch, but "a shackle IN his talons.
WHAT THE FLAG MEANS.
"The flag Of this great republic stands
nOw-nOt for what the London Times ap-
proves-but for what it meant when Sc
ward stood under it to utter this inn
mortal sentence
"Such repubncanism as that was not
his. nor is Il that OF any loyal German
American or Of any other American who
is loyal 10 his flag and To his country.
May Heaven forbid that it should ever
be- May the time never come when tho
American people viii applaud those who
drabble a nag dedicated 10 freedom ana
human progress I'm tho blood Of men who
die on their own soil resisting the same
principle of British Imperialism against
which America triumphed az Yorktown
and New orleans.
CAN NEVER PREVAIL.
''Such ideas will never prevail IN
America. Any party which commits itself
10 them will be wiped out Of existence.
Any leader who attempts 20 check civil
lizaton and progress under American in
stitutions and through American princi-
piles will be repudisted aud disgraced:
any foreign nation which. for its own
brutal and selfish purposes. attempts 10
use the American people as a catspaw
iu schemes OF fraud and violence, viii
find itself the victim Of the reactions Of
its own maley0lent scheming. Justice.
liberty. progress through justice and lib
ertv until the whole world Is elevated
by our national life as it has been by
the Individual life ~ Washlngton-that
Is the manifest destiny of America; for
that the flag stands. and for that Ger
man-Amcricans are willing now~as they
have always been-to stake everything.
knowing that when issues arc made
against liberty and in favor Of imperial-
ism everything f. M stake for them. tns
American fag and FOR all that IS worthy
OF survival In the world.