The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-01


freedom for which their fathers battled
and died. and whose triumph has made
this republic the hope of humanity.
And in this mighty Union of sovereign
states conceived" as Lincoln phrased
it, lin liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are free and
equal that for more than a century
has been the guiding star of Civiliza-
ton, to whom the oppressed of the
earth turned with confidence and en-
thusiasm that the rights of a strug-
! Cling people would be upheld as against
! the claims of a monarch, the battle for
liberty and humanity is again to be
fought.
The greatness of America, it's toler-
ance of religious differences, it's cloth
/ ing with sovereignty the Iowly and the
mighty it's maintenance of equality, of
opportunity, of equal rights before the
law, is the result of the combined eff
| forts of Celt and Saxon, Teuton and
! Gaul. Catholic and Protestant, Jew and
Gentle. From every portion of the
| globe, attracted by the rewards that
follow industry. and the glory of living
in land of liberty, have come the am
bilious, the chivalrous, the flower of
| the earth
| BY the mysterious alchemy of God
the blOod-streams of a hundred races
have here been blended, and there has
! been evolved the hberty-loving Amer
! lean citizen. We contend that he stands
as the exclusive product of no particu-
lar race, and we protest against the
{ 1mpudennt claim set up that the Ger
man, the Irish, the Dutch the French.
the men who settled New York, Penn
sylvania, Maryland and the Carolinas,
and whose descendants people the great
west, are Anglo Saxons. We deny that
England is the mother country We
affirm that the overwhelming mass of
the population of the United States
springs from people who never owed al
legiance TO her. How can she be the
mother country? What is the record
of her loving and kindly care? Prior to
1776 we have it, on the authority of the
Declaration of Independence, that she
''ravaSed our coasts, burned our towns
and destroyed the lives of our people,"
During the revolution her troops and
her paid Indian allies massacred the
women and children of the Wyoming
valley and she armed every savage tribe
from Canada to New Orlenas to war
against US. Her soldiers butchered the
Continental prisoners at PaoM, and her
jaiLsrs allowed American prisoners Of
war to die by thousands of starvation
IN the prison hulkS in the harbor of
New York. Not satisfied with stopping
our vessels upon the high seas and
forcing into her service our seamen.
in 1914 her armies, under General Ross,
burned the Capitol at Washington. with
all the early records of the infant re-
public. In 1847, when we were at war
with Mexico, she tried to seize Liver
California. In 1861, within three weeks
after Fort Sumter was fired upon, she
was the first nation in the world to
rush to grant belligerent rights to the
southern confederacy. In 1863 she fitted
out her Alabamas, her Florfdas, and
the horde of English-owned pirates
that preyed upon our commerce and
swept our merchant marine from the
seas.
From '63 to 1900 she has spent her
treasures by the millions to make inn
pregnable Bermudas, Halifax and Van
couver as menaceS to US. She has SUD-
ported Canada in every raid upon our
fisheries and upheld her in every exor-
bltant demand and act of aggression
upon our miners.
AT the breaking out of the Spanish
American war her press denounced us
with vindictive malignity. The civil
1zat1on of CervanteS and Calderon and
Nelasquez was compared with what it
symboltzed as the corn and oil and iron
pigs of America
From out her harbor of Hongkong.
in 1898. she ordered Dewey and his fleet. |
and she only spoke of us with respect |
when his guns Numbered victory at !
Manila, and she saw visions of the |
coming again of the day when a Barry. |
a Stewart, Perry and a Macdonough |
would crush again her navies and a |
John Paul Jones would sweep in tri- |
umph the English channel.
When we speak the truth of England. |
when we repeat the wise injunctions of |
Washington contained in his farewell
address, when we point to the flames of
the burning Capitol, at which Goth and
Vandal would have stood aghast, but l.
for which the English general received
the thanks of the English parliament,
when We remember that within the last
thirty-five years England has paid to
us $15,OOO,OO0 for wrongs done to us
rather than go to war; then we recall
the criticisms of President Grant of her
unjust treatment of the Union, as con-
tanned in his inaugural address; that [
portion of the press of America whose
opinions upon any subject foreign or
domestic may be purchased bv the
highest bidder and which is now COM
pletely under the domination of Eng
llsh influence proclaims that the oppo-
nentS OF the proposed Anglo-American |
alliance that would fetter forever Am
erica and crush the aspirations of the
irish people for liberty, are traitors and
demagogues. These Tory journals ar
rogate to themselves the right to make
Of us partners in England's infamous
ralds upon liberty and giving way to
the maudlin sentiment that is now run
1lng through the vulgar, the newly
rich, the ambitious to shine in the vi
'lous society of degraded London, their
columns reek with stories of alleged
American sympathy and a demand for
In ofhc1al union between this country
and England. The scheme has been
wonderfully planned. Immediately fol-
owing the discovery of the certainty
II our success in the Spanish war. Eng
ana, with knowledge of her utter
r1endlesSnesS upon the continent of
Europe, set in motion the machinery to
secure the help of America in her pro
POSED extinction of the South African
Republics and her aggressions in the
asst. With that object, she caused to
,e industriously circulated through her
ore1gn correspondents and news agen-
les that England was our only friend |
Mysterious statements from anonymous
luthorlties passed current of proposed ,
intervention on behalf of Spain by
'arious continental powers, which were !
My checked by English diplomacy.
me government of Germany was sim !
led out for especial obloque. and al
hough by millions of ties of kindred
We are knitted in bonds of Tiendship
the people of that great empire, they
we're made the butt of the administra-
ions ridicule and ''Hoch der Kaiserl"
vas the favorite defamation at the
glo-American official gatherings.
he whole story of German or French {
nfrlendliness is malicious fabrica-
ion. No human being can present the
1ghtest proof from any responsible
ource of any continental intervention {
yer thwarted by England, or proof
hat any such intervention was ever
We did not need England.s neip at