The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-07

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narily depressing. The British
people are confronted now, as new
or before, with the very sad reali-
zation of some very unpleasant
facts, which ought to be seriously
instructive to this mammoth world
power, even though it must needs
be very CALLING to a. Brfton's pride.
They must realize the absence of
great mon now in the service of the
government as well in the camp as
in the cabinet. They have not a
Gladstone or Disraeli near the
aged Queen Cor rather Empress
they write it now nor have they
Wellington at the head of the army.
Ceasing almost entirely to be an
agricultural people, they must ne
cessarily engineer with great dex-
terity to keep out of the throes of
bread famine.
Sharply hated by the whole of
continental Europe, with all her
strength, she has bullied the weak
or nations SO long that she is kept
all the time on the ragged edge of
a fearful coalition, which is con-
slant menace to this cultured Bril-
gand. In her colonial possessions
SO fully has she failed to assimilate,
by elevating her subjects, that Ire
land, after seven hundred years, is
still kept pinned to her by the bay
onet, while she dare not spare a
single battalion from her loving
subjects in India with which to re-
enforce poor Butler on the banks
of the Tugela in South Africa.
She seemingly relies on the United
States for aid and comfort, by rea-
son of certain prevalent affinities of
blood, currency, military CONNER
cialism and imperialism, She
ought to know that this people has
not forgotten the Colonial struggle,
long and bloody, nor her cunning
duplioity during the war between
the States, nor her opium trade,
nor her cant and hypocrisy on the
slave trade.
England has friends in this coun-
try among the Imperialists, but
monarchy with her is too deeply
bred in the bone for any true lover
of this young republic to sympa-
thize with her in her present straits.
There is an end to everything earth
ly. Even world power has its linn
it's. Does Mckinley believe it2
We shall see. The English people
will go on with the war in South
Africa until they are stopped by the
subjugation of the Beers or by for
eign mediation, This country
will go on with the Mckinley, war.
The United States will not do more
nor less toward mediation than
will England do toward stopping
the cruel Filipino butohery and
land grabbing.
1t would be rather a difficult
matter to prove it, and yet thous-
ands upon thousands of honest and
we'll informed people in this coun-
try believe that there is bargain
between Chamberlain and Cecil
Rhodes as between Mckinley and
Hanna, with secret coalition be-
tween this Administration and
England. However this may be,
both governments are in bad way.
This Administration went to work
to liberate Cuba, and while the bay
onet rule still holds in that beauti-
full island, we are rapidly changing
the form of the government and in
reducing the Philippine islands to
vassalage, four years more of Re-
publican rule will sadly impair, if
not destroy, the liberties of this peo-
pie. This is sad to contemplate.
There lie but one mode of escape.
Change the administration, just as
England ought to change hers, and
thereby end these two blighting
wars, and thus, in some sense, ans
wer the expectations of the Hague
Observation-Disclosures.
The signs Of the times point to
the overthrow of the dominant
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