Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-12


ton dispatches.
These extracts are significant of inf1u-
ences at work which are fraught with
possibilities of serious danger to the
peace and prosperity of the American
peoples
The Washington dispatch intimates the
truly imperial power welded by Presi-
dent Mckinley quite apart from Con-
gress-with garrisons in Cuba and Porto
Rico, an army in the Philippines and per-
haps another in China under his individ-
ual command.
The clipping from the Investor reflects
a propaganda carried on for nearly two
years past and suggests the pressure
which during that time has been steadily
exerted upon Mr.. Mckinley to induce
him to use his unprecedented imperialis-
tic power by assuming an aggressive po-
sition in the Chinese Empire
Nearly two years ago a syndicate of
American financiers and politicians, or
ganized largely through the efforts of the
late Senator Calvin s. Brice to obtain
concessions from the Chinese govern
ment, felt that it could operate more eff
fectively If it had the immediate and
forcfble backing of the Washington adj
ministration. This syndicate, which in
cluded the Standard Oil magnates, j. p.
Morgan and a score of Wall street mil
honaires and corporations entered into a
compact with a British syndicate SINH
larly organized ito obtain contracts. de-
crees and concessions and to exploit
railway and other public works in China
and of which Lord Rothschild and the
Lord Mayor of London and a score of
Lombard street bankers and promoters
were members.
BY the terms of the contract made be-
tween these two syndicates each agreed
| to offer TO the other "a participation of
one-half of its own interest in any bust
| ness hereafter obtained by it in the EN-
| pire of China" The motive of the par
| ties to the compact as set forth in the
| ''whereases' was to secure 1.-The united
action of their respective governments, -
and each side pledged itself to ''use their
best endeavors to obtain the support of
! the government of their respective coun-
/ tries to the common undertaking" 1t
was further set forth that it was the in
! tention of the contract that 1.-The parties
shall act in alliance and together in all
! undertakings obtained or prosecuted by
either or both In the Empire of China,
whether both parties shall participate in
| the business or not" This. so far as
known, is the only tangible form the
Anglo-Ameriean alliance has yet as
| sumed.
| That American citizens should look to
(. their government for protection OF their
! rights in the prosecution of their legiti-
F! mate enterprises in a foreign land is per-
! fectly proper; but here the most power
! full combination of corporations and mil
lionaires in the country pledged TO obtain
| the united action of the Washington gov
| eminent with that of another country Ia
| enforce, contracts, DEGREES and conces-
! sions" in distant China, is obtained pos
sibly through INSCRIPTIONS officials-con-
| tracts in which neither the members OF
| the syndicate nor any other American cit
izen might have one penny's interest In
other words, il occasion. arises they are
to help induce the United States govern
ment to help pull chestnuts out Of the
Chinese fire for the British syndicate
The notion so sedulouxiy propagated
that our trade was suffering because the
/ United States was not meddline In THE
Internal affairs Of China IS made ridicu-
Ions M ~ increase - our commerc<