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other peoples, killing their energies.
rendering them incapable of fulfilling
their own mission or of attaining
moral and spiritual perfection through
the aid of noble deeds.
A Curse to Mankind.
A curse, to mankind was and is the
policy pursued by. Great Britain for
the last two centuries, Through blood
and tears is she making her progress
through the world; but, unfortunately.
other European nations and the great
American Republic have had until late
| ly too much to do in their respective
| countries to admit of their paying at
tention to the fate of the people OF In
dla, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, the
| British sections of Africa, China and
| Ireland. Darkest England' has never
I been put before the world in her true
| character; her talk and pretense of
! furthering the cause of civilization and
! humanity having thrown a veil over
! British misdeeds. But Lord Beacorls-
fields policy in Turkey. like that of
Mr.. Chamberlain in the Transyaal. af-
fords striking example of the general
CndEdCIST OF NIredt bT1Idlh QOuDLIut
services to civilization. With a view
| to opening a way tosIndia through the
n countries in possession of the Ottoman
Empire, Great Britain played double
game with the Sultans. On the one
hand she gave them assistance in their
suicidal policy of trampling upon, keep
ing under foot and massacring the
IL Christian population of the Empire.
and on the other, she called forth the
righteous indignation of Europe
against the Turks, thus holding the
Ottoman Empire in her power and
, pocketing all she could take. The Ar
menians, the Cretans, the Egyptians.
the. Slay population of Turkey could
all tell a sinister tale of their suffer
, ings, which benefited only England.
I The general idea of British politicians
4 was to shut in the Ottoman Empire, by
; the creation of independent States,
; against any one coming from the north.
thereby leaving themselves free hand
for grasping Cyprus, Egypt and Arabia,
the possession of which would render
i them masters of the Persian Gulf and
8 the whole of the Indian Ocean.
BY southern ways Great Britain is
O creeping to the north, making the En-
4 glish pressure Irresistible The tight
o ening of the English grasp on South
; Africa, coming as it does after the con-
Il quest of the Soudan, gives England new
a strength on the Indian Ocean, brings
II the English nearer to India, to the Per-
r. sian Gulf, to Arabia, to the Far East
" in short, this is the English answer to
r. Gegmany;,ss colonial aetixjty and to the
y taking by the United States Or 1fhs
n Philippine Islands, ~ -,
stl Such is exactly the course ofsfhe Ehl
glish policy which / predicted three
r years ago when wrote the article on
n "The Robbers of Posterity." I now
IF actually read in one of the London
.r periodicals an article in which the
a author put forth exactly the same idea
is of the strengthening of the English do
!. minion over the Indian Ocean, and, as
!. a consequence, over the Persian Gulf
D A Ca, eer Of Conquest.
1t But there is more in the present po-
Is litical movement of England than is ap-
Is parent at first sight.
10 All / have described above regarding
of England's preoccupation about Indis
n shows by itself that the present displa,
a. of British force is bound to be followed
Id by others in various directions, ant
VS. that the English have started on I
eff career of military conquest. He wh,
sh has drunk of blood, shall drink i
10 againi" is the French saying. Mr.
n Chamberlain has been made tn
ed spokesman of the present ministry
n For years he has sought to strengthen
SIX the ties binding the colonies to tn
T. mother country by creating colonia
er Zollverein. Having, however, failed il
ia this task. the British ministry turne
of their activity to arousing a specia
| fo1 vii .,-4fa
n ularly English and having no con
C. Germ with the colonies. This colonia
an patriotism was called imperialism
is which was made so broad as TO includ
of the United States on the same ground
.M as Canada, in the task of working fo
the achievement of pan-British idea
The "Ang1o-Saxon" cry was also raise
with the same aim.
It must be Acknowledged that tn
English ministry are fighting againi
real dangers, although they do nj
realize that they are engaged in a
attempt to oppose the force of event
The centre of political and commel
cial power. which was once located
London and Paris has shifted. und'
the pressure of events, to the west an
to the east-to America, where II
United States are contending with Il
II
coat, and to the centres OF the Europes
Continent. Berlin and st. Petersbur
on which Continent England tries
fight Russia with the aid of German
The strupgie in each case must pro-
utterly futile, at all events In the f
ture as history unlooses the fore
which underly the worlds polite
structure; but the struggle may
rendered proftless in the present
well. if the nations interested realt
the meaning of passing events al
make 1t rlain TO England that the tin
of her undisputed dominion over Il
world has come to an end.
MobIlizing the Empire.
The present Transvaal war has Il
following meaning to the British Ell
pire. Bearing in mind, on the ol
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