The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-08-01
The Anglo-American Allianc,

The Anglo-American Alliance.
For more than two years it has
been charged by men of the high
est standing at the national capital
that secret alliance exists between
the present Administration and the,
British Government. through which
the foreign policy of the United
States has been, and is, dominated
by Great Britain. Prominent
members of both houses of Con-
gress and many men of national
reputation and influence have OPEN
ly made and reiterated this asser-
ton, in Congress, in the columns
of the press, and from the platform.
The Administration spokesman
have met this charge with ridicule
and invective, but have been utter
ly unable to refute it categorically
and satisfactorily. The entire
friend of public events since the &C.
cession of this Administration to
power has corroborated this start
ing charge in every detail; and the
policy of Secretary Hay has brought
out and exemplified the true state
of affairs with such clearness and
effrontery that even the most ar.
dent supporters of the Administra-
ton have found it we'll nigh i'm
possible to deceive themselves as to
the facts.
Nevertheless, the country at large
has been loath to believe that a
policy so abhorrent to American
institutions and traditions could
have been foisted upon the coun-
try; and the people have hesitated
to credit the evidence of the Ad-
ministration's own acts, in the alb
sence of specific proof But that
proof has just been obtained from a
unexpected source and in such
form that there is no logner any
room for doubt or denial.
Through an accident which
seems almost Providential, con-
spiracy came to light in Washing
ton last week which will startle and
arouse the whole country to a sense
of the bitter humiliation which this
Administration has deliberately in
vited; and the terrible danger
which menaces our free ilstitu-
tions.
The Bureau of Education, which
is branch of the Interior Depart
ment, has been engaged for weeks
in sending out sets of six pamph-
lets and leaflets to all school teach
ers of the middle west and north
west. These documents bear the
following captions:
"The British case against the
Door Republic.
Letters to Senator Hoar ON the
Transvaal War, by John Bellows
"Boers and blacks"
"The treatment of Cape Beers
by the English Government and
the treatment of the English by.
the Boer Government
"The witness of the Churches"
"The future of South Africa"
These documents were issued by
the Imperial South African Asso-
citation, 66 Victoria Street, West
minister s. w, London" The
strictest secrecy was enjoined up
on all the government employees
engaged in this nefarious work.
and they were prevented, SO far as
possible, from knowing the charac.
ter of the documents they were
spreading broadcast over the coun-
try at the public expense. But
murder will out" and an accident
revealed the plot. Copies of these
documents, with all the evidence
pertaining to their circulation by
this government on behalf of the
British Crown, are now in the
hands of prominent men in Wash
ington and the government Off
cials in charge of the work have
made no attempt at denial of the
facts.
A more dastardly betrayal of
nations confidence was never per
petrated. The Mckinley Admin
istration, anxious to befriend Great
Britain and to excuse its own sym
pathy with the Imperialists now
engaged in destroying the little
South African Republics, is en-
gagged in circulating millions of |
imperialistic documents, prepared
by the British government, in this
country. And worse than all. the