Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-08-16
ENGLAND's OPEN FRIEND.
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of Emglish Diplomacy.

Lawrence DAILY News: uGu any
man predicted on March !, 1897, that
in two years from that date Presi-
dent Mckinley would have been
known around the world us the friend
and ally of England, he would have
been put down as either joker or n
lunatic. But as somebody has aptly
said, we, as u nation, have lived a
hundred years since Mr.. Mckinley
took the oath to uphold the constitu-
ton as chief executive of the nation.
From this solemn obligation, faith
fully kept by all his predecessors, Mr..
Mckinley has departed, and this ac-
cusation is not made by his political
opponents alone, but by the yery old
est and wisest statesmen of his own
party.
MIR. Mckinley was suspected of pro-
English leanings during the discus
sion of the Anglo-Amcrican arbitra-
ton treaty in 1897, but the defeat of
that disguise for alliance i'll the SEN
ate disposed of the matter for a time.
Then came the war with Spain and
the suspicion became certainty. The
defeat Of the arbitration treaty was
bad blow to England, who stood
then, for the first time i'll her history,
without u powerful friend on the con-
tinent of Europe, but the Spanish
American war offered hef desperate
chance to offset European hostility,
and she seized that chance. English
politicians, knowing that they had ac-
tive allies here, then conceived, or
ganized and put in motion the most
gigantic scheme Of palpahle lying OF
the century, having for it's object the
estrangement of the United States
from the nations Of Europe who had
helped to build and protect them. AZ
II part of the scheme England posed Mt
the same time as Uncle Sans long
lost mother, who had turned up in the
nick of time to save her big boy from
conspiracy Matching in Europe for
his destruction.
This gross display of hypocrisy
would have been ridiculous failure
and source of amusement to man
kind but for the astounding attitude
of the administration toward Eng
lands empty professions of friend-
ship and insulting airs of patronage.
President Mckinley accepted both
with humiliating readiness, casting
American traditions and American
PRIDE to the WlHuS. nc uSseI0co siiS
national friends of Washington, Jack
son and Lincoln for the brutal enemy
of 1870, 1912 and 1860. He became IN
Anglo-saxon, and with his prestige
back of them the slsullers of the arbi-
tration treaty preached Anglo-Ameri-
can alliance from the housetops.
The Anglomaniac chorus encour-
aged the man with the acute and at
tentive ear, and through the open
door" held invitingly ajar by smiling
John, with an alluring picture Of i'm
perial splendor hung inside, William
Mckinley walked into full-fedged An
glo-Amcrican alliance. With William
the Wobbler safely on his side of the
door, willy John let slip the dogs of
war in South Africa and called upon
his new ally to help him blot a couple
of weak republics from the face OF
the earth.
From the beginning of our govern
ment we have never so fully deserved
the contempt of mankind for patron
age of evil and antagonism to good as
at this moment. Never before have
we been both outraging the rights of
free people ourselves and supporting
Others in doing the same. And all
this is the evil work of one man on
whom the people will have to pass at
the polls next November.