The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-08-25

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heroic leader of the Beers, had con.
tributed 100000 to the Bryan cam
paign fund, and that Webster Davis
brought 10000 of this sum away from
Pretoria.
Now this was clumsy invention.
1t was, of course intended not only to
increase the popular hostility in Eng
land for the Bocr cause but to encour-
age the Republicans on this side of
the water to continue to support the
British side of the contention against
the Dutch farmers. The inventors of
the fable did not realize that the Amer.
lean people are not as dull and as
dense of intellect as the Britishers,
and they would sec ut Il glance the alb
surdity of the concoction.
Just fancy poor Paul Kruger, hunt
cd by Roberts and his generals from
place to place, his sources of supply
cut off in all directions, with no power
to raise revenue, with an empty trea>
sury, beset on all sides with dangers
and difficulties, just fancy, we repeat,
the venerable president of the Boer re.
public sending $2.50OOOO in cash to
help elect Il president in the richest
and most powerful republic on the
face of the earth! That is what the
London papers and the other organs
of McKinleyism ask the American PEG,
pie to believe.
| This yarn, with the other one re-
Gently exploited that the Filipino junta
had contributed $3.000,O0O to the Bryan
campaign fund, is designed to do more
than influence Englishmen and their
allies in this country against the South
African patriots. 1t is intended to
cover up some tidy subscriptions which
English capitalists are making to Han
mas campaign fund through their trust
and syndicate associates in this coun-
try. Not only official England but
commercial England is deeply inter.
ested in the pending campaign. The
capitalists of Lombard street are deep,
~ Interested in franchises in Cuba.
They are interested in the isthmian
canal. They are interested in the
Alaskan gold fields. They are interest
ell in China. Consequently they are de-
slrous that the Hanna Mckinley ay
regime shall be perpetuated.
There Is no reason to ask the cause
of this deep and abiding interest in the
success of the present administration.
Mr.. Hay and Mr.. Root have encour-
aged British syndicates to unite with
American syndicates in securing valu.
able franchises in Cuba Our govern.
ment will compel the constitutional
convention to recognize the perma-
nency of these grants. Mr.. Hay made
IL treaty with Lord Pauncefote by the
provisions of which this country was
to build canal across Nicaragua and
open it to British commerce, agreeing
not to fortify it. He has recently Civ
Ell one of the richest strips of Alaskan
territory to Great Britain as a free
gift. And are we not doing England's
work in China? If it were not for the
activity of Mckinley and Hay in bad
sering the Chinese government and
sending troops TO aid in reducing Pc
kin. England would be virtually alone.
Now she can content herself with
sending a small force to the East while
she employs all her energies in crush
ing the Beers.
England Knows that her dominance
of the foreign policy of the United
States will cease the moment Bryan is
elected. The rich supply Of plums
which she has been gathering will be
shut off. There will be no longer a
secret alliance between Washington
and London. There will be no Hay
Pauncefote treaty to give over the
intcr-Oceanic canal to John Bull. The
Alaskan territory which we bought
from Russia will be kept and guarded
and defended as American territory.
The United States will let England do
her own dirty work without the help
Of II craven, Slavish administration ut
Washington. Is it not plain why Eng
land is so deeply interested in our
election?