Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-01-25

said: II thsnk God there are no pub
lie schools in Virginia, and hope there
will be non" for some hundred years
YET"
wee. En.land's aristrcracv is en-
li2h.ened. while the rrnr drink the
dregs "s degredat,un aud bitterness.
There is more manhMd. more civil.
cation, more genuine enlightenment In
the rrsnsvaal today than IN the whole
British Emuire.
There ,s held up for our inspection
as "rhe tyrica, Roer" some affect
creature. who would be disowned by
his fellow country men, regardless of
the fact that in any city or community
in America. can ba found scores of
American citizens, who would be q
disgrace to brutes, and whose presence
would dctile hog pen.
We look back less than two score
years, when this nation was In giant
struggle for self preservation, and We
see England, the great and good, con-
niving in every way to help in the
downfall, arms and smmapittons
we're furnished, food stuffs were run
through the blcckad.ng lines, bonds
Issued by the confederacy we're bought
England aud privateers we're fitted
out and when the kearsage met and
defeated the Aishama off the English
coast, we saw English boats pick up
the defeated British crew and speed
9 way to land and safety.
England processes friendship for the
United States.
She would today give the Australian
C 'ntinent If every republic with the
Tighto self-government, could be OBJ
liberated.
For so long as self government ex.
lists, monarchy, however limited, is in
d niger. -
Only few years ago Englands
subjects in Venezuela were mistrested
she claimed the right of intervention
and because a colony or settlement of
her subjects had held peaceful possess
ion for fifty years. she claimed sover.
Ieign TITLE. l;u. the United State,
Isaid: NAY .John, we viii! arbitrate;'
and so it was, aud we tiiid hssff plantin.
peaceful c"l,nies in every c",lntr!
where she can gain access, and soone
or later will b. heard the que rn!ou'
plant. "Aly Subjects Are Not Fairl!
Treated" .,fcxico. Chilli. Peru, Argen-
tine, Bolivia and Nicaragua are in the
INST.
i Britain already owns q foothold il
Honduras. But why is it that som
in the United States sympathizes wit
England in the present struggle?
Simply this: In our war with Spai
England realizing that there could b
but one result, and foreseeing tn
time when the sympathy of tn
American republic would be of II
calculable benefit to her, expressed tn
concern in our behalf: much as til
F small boy tenders to his neigbbor q
apple core when he knows the neies
Dor has NJ time To eat It, and in re-
turn, dem inds y full basket of pa, fec
fruit. Should Britain be successful i
her present effort, and subjugate th
Transvaal. a few years will see her o,
, this side OF the Atlantic ON some pre-
text or other, trying to civillze som
of our South, or Genital America
y brethren.
Let those who are SO much in Low
with the oppressor Of the poor, tn
! foe of civil liberty aud the friend q
!. monarchlcal government, join in tn
glad refrain:
"My good old country thee,
Land just across the sea,
You're dear to me
, love thy vaults and tills,
Thy Lords on castlcd hills.
My heart with rs pture thrills
To think of thee. so
Selsll,
IN As,rDA