The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-06-29
To Scare the Public Fictitious Re-
ports. Circulated by the Republic
cans -Purpose is to Secure the
Reelection of Mckinley.
Il. A. WHITE, in Brockton Diamohd.l


tary Roots recent statement that the
United States would yet have to fight in
defense of the Monroe doctrine, Senator
Lodge makes the assertion in the Senate
that there are already complications
which will compel the United States TO
take active and energetic measures in de-
Tense of that principle.
This is all laundering for purpose,
and that purpose is simply to secure the
reelection of McKinly. The Monroe
doctrine is menaced by no power save
Great Britain and is endangered by no
one SO much as by Mckinley himself.
Had Mckinley occupied the White House
instead of Cleveland Great Britain would
today be in possession of the mouth of
the Orinoco and over third of the in
terror territory Of Venezuela. There has
been no point of contention in which the
interests of the United States have been
jeopardized by Great Britain since Nc
Kinley entered the White House that the
1Ahh@AA(oh ROSlhlOu ID 0Ot WOtSG Ou Ludu
when Mckinley took the oath of Office.
But the one nation toward whom both
Secretary Root and Senator Lodge are
pointing is Germany. Why? Because
the German-American vote has so far left
the Republican party on the issues of iu,-
perialism, militarism and the pro- British
attitude of the administration that only
the most powerful counterstroke can pos
sibly Offset that detection. There are over
1000, 900 voters i'll this country who are
either of German birth or German de
scent. They have been the most power.
full factor in carrying the great middle
west for the Republican party. Their
steadfast adherence to Republican for
tunes in the past has secured the election
of every Republican president since Grant
left the White House. Their detection in
1884 and 1899 brought about the election
of Cleveland. This year more than either
of the years mentioned the Germans have
turned their backs upon the Republican
party. The efforts now being made in
Washington to have the public believe
that the German empire is hostile to the
United States will emphasize the detection
of the German American party.
Germany is not hostile to the United
States nor to the Monroe doctrine. There
is ample and sufficient evidence that
McKinley's anti-German campaign is a
part of his pro- British policy which has
its inspiration in London. Lord Sails
bury has seen German enterprise and
technical skill uprooting and wedding out
inferior British products in all the prin
cipal markets of the world. German
technical schools and scientific methods
have made Germany the worlds leader in
all processes involving synthetic chem
istry and its application to the arts and
sciences.
Only by exciting the hostility ofthe
English speaking peoples of the world
against Germany can England save her
markets. Even should Great Britain pre-
serve her territorial integrity her once
overwhelming commercial superiority is
doomed. There is no line Of manufacture
i'll which she is not losing her hold. Be-
tween German science and American
ingenuity the industries of Great Britain,
hampered by antiquated methods and
lack of enterprise, are being ground as
between the upper and neither milestone.
Conscious of her weakness and unable to
avert the commercial disaster, Great
Britain is using her vast control over the
cables and the newspapers in both hemls
pheres to sow the poison of suspicion
between the two great nations which
threaten her most. In the United States
she breaches the danger of German ag-
erosion. In Germany abe whispers the
danger of boundless American ambition
In the United States Lord Salisbnry's
willing tools are told to declare that the
seizure of the Philippines by the United
States was absolutely necessary to curb
German aggressiveness in The orient. In
Germany Lord Salisbury's subsidized
organs are made to foam at the mouth
over the "interloping" disposition of the
United States in the far east. Yet there
is no question but what Lord Salisbury
egged Mckinley on to take the Philip
pines and then, turning on his heel, sold
out American interests in Samoa to
Germany.
The puppets of the American state de.
partment dance like Punch and Judy
whenever Lord Salisbury pulls the string.
1t is pitiful to acknowledge, bnt there
has been absolutely not single event in
the International history of McKinley's
which has not been in
spired aud controlled from London. 1t is
impossible TO name one to the contrary Of
this statement.
Mckinley hauled down the flag and
under the modus vivendi gave Great
Britain slice of the Alaska panhandle to
which she was not entitled.
Mckinley took the Philippines on
Lord Salisbury's suggestion against the
best advice and sentiment of his own
party and has alreody lost 1000 lives and
sunk $3.50. 100000 in the hopeless task of
their conquest.
Mckinley allowed Lord Salisbury TO |
actually write the terms of the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty whereby the Clayton. |
Bulwer treaty is resurrecled from the
grave and the actual control of the Mic |
lraguan canal is practically vested in |