Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04

France and Russia has happily foiled
these machination designs, and the
European concert to which her con-
duct has given vice has rendered pow
erless her isolated action.
Take again the course pursued by
England In regard to the war between
China and Japan; 1t has been a piece
with her policy in regard TO Turkey,
and has been attended by utter fall
ure; and when, to her surprise, Ger
many acted in harmony with the Cab
inets Of Paris and Petersburg, she
again found herself excluded from ar
rangementst, all the advantages of
which. as a result of the wise policy
pursued by the allied powers, have
turned to their own profit.
With regard also to Madagascar,
she stirred up every possible kind OF
trouble in order to discourage France,
and she was responsible for whatever
resistance was offered by the Horas,
to whom, as to the Siamese, she had
promised her assistance. She had,
however, no intention in abandoning
them to their fate when she saw that
France was determined at whatever
cost, to gain the mastery in Madagas-
car as in Siam, where she had men of
war ready, so she claimed, to fight the
French feet, which in spite of such an
arrogant and threatening language,
Went straight up to the Siamese capt.
tai without firing a shot.
A nation. as we'll as an individual.
should always be slow to employ the
language or menace. and English ar
rogance is not at all good model for
imitation. The truth is. as we now
see, that England was never prepared
for war, and in presence OF such a
positive fact, her threats were neither
wise nor timely and when she under
took to bulldoze such a power as Rus
STA, she ought to have been aware that
it might lead to very dangerous con-
sequences.
fury England has been bluffing the
world which now realizing her real
strength. is no more afraid of her.
Since Victoria assembled her throne,
England has had thirty-two different
wars and yet we hear a great deal
about the peaceful reign of this good
Queen Victoria. What has England
gained by such narrow and selfish
policy? Being no more an object of
terror for any of the great powers, she
has become an object of suspicion to
every nation with whom it was her
interest to cultivate good and friendly
relations, and every day she is becom-
ing more and more isolated in a world
thoroughly disguised with her unprin-
cipled and selfish ambition. 1t was
her interest on every ground to main
tain the closest friendship with her
neighbor across the channel She has,
however, awaited herself of every pos
slble opportunity in every quarter of
the globe to display irreconcilable
hostility towards France. Everywhere
she has regarded the latters enemies
as her own friends, and when no en-
mites were in existence she has en-
deayored to create them in order to
hinder the development of French in
fiuence. She has made use of the pre-
stige which was the result OF her f.
nancial or material strength and Of
whatever authority she enjoyed with
the world, in order to check the nat
ural expansion of all her neighbors in
at the. present moment she has every
thing to fear from Russia, Germany
and France, and we soon shall see how
she Will meet their near Intervention
in favor of the Beers.
Victoria is old, very old. After hav-
ing been worshiped by her Lords,
shadow of a queen, she is now but the
mere shadow OF woman She will
soon pass away or disappear with the
vain crown of mighty empire on her
feeble white head. 1t is to be hoped
that her last days will not be troubled
too much, for the Irish themselves
will remember that she is a woman.
But her eldest son, so easy as to NOR
ais, will inherit a heavy task, and IL
he ever becomes king of Great Britain
and Emperor of India, seeing that he
was born to bear these two crowns on
his bald head, he will soon find out
the weight and responsibilities of a
King and Emperor in our epoch. His
new titles will in no degree disarm
his enemies, and those who despised
him when he was merely Prince Of
Wales, will not be disposed to esteem
and honor him when King. And il
the monarchy has its enemies. can 1t
be imagined that England will have
none? Is Ireland, her only victim?
And are the peoples whom she has civ
ilized and conquered grateful for her
civilization and her laws? Will her
immense possessions in the whole
world, calm and submissive at the
present time, allow her to sleep in
peace and to traffic with impunity?
Is not the great octopus vulnerable in
all its tentacles and will 1t be able to
ward off all the assaults which will be
made upon 1t when the hour of reck-
oning and justice. shall strike at the
great dial of humanity?
England has grossly deceived and
is still deceiving grossly. Her morals
are those of covetousness, without
greatness or generosity; cold. calcu-
lating and heartless. She has no
friend on earth. Her government is
the sincere expression of her feeling,
and of her system and with her Irish
difficulties, her conquered and only
half faithful possessions her multiple
and complex interests, her lords and
law, of a former age, her great wealth