The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-24

This government of ours-not thi:
! people, but this gOVeTnment-is mo-
/ without responsibility for the Boel
war. 1t claims to be neutral. For my
| part I have never looked for or asked
! from it anything better than absolute
neutrality. But this country has moi
| been neutral. There has been difficulty
! between this nation and England over
! the Alaskan boundary. I do not say
| that we ought to have taken advantage
Of other complications in which our OPP
| ponent was involved to push those
| claims unreasonalbly, but do say that
| those claims ought not to have beer
! postponed to give Great Britain bet
ter chauce.
yet they have been so postponed
| because Of the complications in Soutf
Africa Had the administration per
formed its plain duty to the people II
would have enforced those claims anc
the Canadian troops wouldn't have beer
fighting in South Africa today, helping
to put down liberty, for they would
have had their hands full right at home
and that African war would never have
been begun. But the moment that wal
seemed a probability modus Vivendi
was entered into between this country
and England: that is, England was to
choose her own time, not for concedlng
our demands. but for resisting them.
In return for this concession we re-
ceived no advantage. 1t was all in
Englands favor.
"At the banquet last night President
Mckinley said that there was no .alli-
ance between this country and Eng
land. Well, I'm inclined to believe him.
Oaughter) 1t isn't an alliance; it's a
surrender. wild cheers.) It's sur
render of our policy to England.
challenge any supporter of the admin
istration to show one thing in regard
TO this Boer war that the Upited
States government could do in Eng
lands favor that hasn't been done.
The surrender on the Alaskan boun-
dairy. the recall of our consul at Pre-
toria because his mail was opened by
tbe British authorities. and the ap-
pointment of a boy son of the secretary
of state. who received his final instruc-
tions in the foreign Office at London;
all these things have made other ma
tions believe that we are in alliance
with England.
so. in fear. for all those nations that
might have interfered for the sake of
humanity and fairness, have held back.
Some may say that the president might
have done even more for England; that
he might have sent our navy over there
to aid the British. But navies are of no
avail against the Beers. They might
say that the president could have sent
an army there but that would have
involved his calling for volunteers, and
have given to the people of this nation
a chance to show where they stand in
the matter of this unholy war, a
chance that must now be postponed I'M
til next November. If the Lord God Of
Battles and of Justice viii uphold the
Beers so that they may Withstand their
enemies for eight months longer this
nation will show Enthusiastically its SEN
tfments Great cheering) That our
course. the course of the administration,
should be such as to lead Europe to
believe that we are supporting Eng
land is itself a disloyalty to, the people.
and it will be avenged when the oppor-
tunity comes for fTeemen to speak"