The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-02-20
DOES NOT ALWAYS READ Alright.
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| William Mckinley makes a speciality
| of keeping his ear to the ground. He
| thinks thereby that he learns Ameri.
| can sentiment on any given question
and from the information thus gathered
he shapes the administration. But Will
| liam Mckinley does not always read
right. He was especially unfortunate
| in concluding that the American people
were in full sympathy with Great
Britain. He has accordingly shaped his
administration so as to make it appear
that the republic favored English ag-
gression in South Africa.
If William Mckinley were a shrewd
| observer he would make no such mis-
| take. Every young American in the
| acquisition of an education reads neces-
sarily the story Of the war of indepen-
dence. He learns that to maintain its
supremacy in the colonies Great Britain
did not hesitate to employ Hessians and
| to set the scalping savages at work. In
pursuing his education the young
American reads further the story of the
war of ~ and of Great Britain's con-
temptuous treatment of the nascent re-
public. He knows the story of the
humiliation of the young republic by
the burning of it's capital. Pursuing the
SuDJSClb ne COMES uOWU 10 the war IOT
| the preservation of the Union. He
| learns then of the great willingness of
| Britain to witness the disruption of the
Union. Moral support and sympathy
| were given by Great Britain to the
| southern states. Not only was moral
] support given, but actual assistance was
rendered by a so-called neutral power
to the confederate states in the hope
farht hn nf,,1 ,faIN s.l,s
their independence.
These facts are not readily for
| gotten. They create in the mind of
American youth strong retaliatory
sentiment, which is not removed by
the assertion that Great Britain was
friendly to us in our war with Spain.
No shrewd interpreter of American
sentiment could truthfully suppose that
the great America republic, unmindful
of the sentiment engendered by these
acts of hostility, would Of a sudden and
at the demand of the administration at
Washington condone such conduct by
giving enthusiastic sympathy and sup
port to the empire in an effort to destroy
the republics of South Africa
The American republic has good rea-
son to believe that, though there may be
no formal treaty, there is an under
standing between Great Britain and the
Washington authorities which, notwith-
standing the pretense of neutrality
makes for England and it's present ag.
gression in South Africa. The admin.
; istration that makes this blunder ha;
small excuse. The American peopl,
have not forgotten and probably will
never forget the humiliation and dis
aster which Great Britain sought I,
: heap upon the United States. When II
I many ways the administration show
it's sympathy with Great Britain
blunders in the belief that the Ameri
u can people are back of it. 1t has ha,
n It's ear to the ground to very littl
y purpose when 1t reaches the conclusion
Q that the great bulk of the America
:, people have forgotten or are ready I
u condone British aggression in America
own day of trial.
e There is no popularity In this countr
q for an alliance, open or convert wit
the empire that would have mad
y America a helpless dependency an
: ruled IL with an iron rod.
e John Hay may dearly love his queer
= but the American people do not dearl
. love John Hay or the administratio
when both are apologists, more or lei
/ open, for British aggression in sout
Africa.