The Irish standard., 1900-01-13

irlenoship to the United States during
the late war with Spain, the great hear.
OF America beats warmly for England
in her warfare on ireemen. The British
are beginning to think they have been
imposed upon by the correspondents, as
may be seen i'll the following paragraph,
in the London Saturday Review:
We fear no accurate prescntment oi
the real feeling OF the United States re-
garding the war reaches this country,
but there is no doubt the balance is
against us. The administration organs
and financial organs are still strongly
with us, but the latter are beginning to
waver because the war is beginning to
lnjure trade. 1t must not be forgotten
how completely the administration is
in the hands of the great financiers and
trust companies
The Saturday Review is more sapient
than some OF its local contemporaries.
McKinley's organs and the Wall street
organs are undoubtedly with the Eng
lish; but as the Mckinley administra-
ton lis in the hands of the great finan-
ciers and trust companies" and is COM
pletely dominated by them, the organs
OF the money power back of Mckinley
ARE beginning to waver, because the
war is beginning to injure trade" The
London paper is quite shrewd in its re-
marks and says what is absolutely true.
The Friendship" which exists between
the British and the Americans OF Anglo
Saxon predictions is based on selfish
ness and soon vanishes. There is moth
ing permanent in the friendship" of
Anglo-Saxon spectators and money
changers, and we'll does the Saturday
Review realize the fact. Such "friend-
ship is entirely worthless to nations, as
we'll as to individuals When the fnan-
cial organs waver in their sympathy
with England, Mckinley will waver,
too, and so will Hay, Choate and the
rest OF them.
AS for the American people, whom
these worthless misrepresent, they are
unwavering in their hostility to British
rapaciy and sympathize spontaneously
with the brave people OF South Africa
who, like themselves, have enjoyed the
blessings OF self-government and are
fighting to retain their independence
against overwhelming odds.
The notable meeting held in St. Paul.
last Saturday night, gave an emphatic
contradiction to the editorial utterances
of the Dispatch and Pioneer Press,
which are more British than American.
The governor OF the state voiced the
sentiments OF the citizens of the COM
monwealth in his address, and Ex-At-
torney General Clapp elected the
warmest demonstrations OF approval by
his eloquent plea for the Beers. The
resolutions passed by the meeting amid
cheers should be read in England by
Joe Chamberlain. They emphatically
deny his claim that the American people
are in sympathy with his efforts to crush
out the Boer republics in the blood Of
the people. They blame him and Cecil
Rhodes for bringing on the war and de-
nounce them as the villains of the
tragedy. They exonerate the English
people from blame and place it where
it properly belongs. In the near future
a similar meeting will be held in Min
neapolis in the interest of the Boer
cause There is big change in public
sentiment in favor OF republican against
colonial government in South Africa,
and it is the earnest hope OF all true
Americans that democracy will prevail
in that quarter of the globe.