The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
JOHN BULL AS | SEE HIM.

at least leave few pair of pants for
the proprietor to gap at WAen he opens
up in the morning. But John, with
the gluttonous greed of an Arkansaw
hog, takes everything in sight; he
leaves his innocent victims nothing
but his civilization and the skunk like
odOr of his virtues.
When there are no gold mines to rob,
or diamond fields to plunder, or some
defenseless people to coerce and bur-
den with taxes, John, just to keep his
hand in practice, jumps over into Ii
Hung Changes country and kicks in
China shop and you all know or at
least can imagine the havoc and de
struction caused by a bull in china
shop.
Now as my time is limited to ten
minutes, it will be impossible for me
to enumerate all of Johns virtues, for
the list is lengthy one and one that
old Nick himself might envy.
My friend in his paper of two weeks
ago paid glowing tribute to the
strength, courage, endurance and fight
ing abilities of the English soldiers,
and boastingly stated that England, in
all her wars, came out victorious.
Now is it possible that my friend
has never read of the scrap that took
place some years ago between J. Bull
of England and sturdy young Amer
lean named Uncle Sam? Just for my
friends special benefit 1 will now give
a brief sketch of that fight. l will not
go into details and give the battle by
rounds, but merely state that the first
few rounds were hotly contested-but
finally the opportunity that Sa mmy had
been waiting for presented itself and
with one of those old time George
Washington upper cuts, Sammy swung
with his right boot and drove Johns
spinal column through the roof of his
hat and then tackled the stars and
stripes to it.
The member of Glass ID also stated
that all of the British colonies are at
peace and in sympathy with her
Majesty's government. Now there is
no doubt but that the people of British
India are at "peace" with the home
government. They have kick COM
ing, but are too near to deaths door
from starvation to raise a foot to
make it. India has a population four
times greater than that of the United
States, but her people have neither
voice nor a vote in the destiny of their
own country.
During our late war with Spain we
read and heard much about the cruel
ties of the treacherOus Spaniard and
the way they put captives to death
with the CHASTITY CARROT From the
pages of history we have learned of the
workings of the rack, that awful en-
gine of torture; we have heard of the
torture, pain and death, inflicted on
human beings in various countries
with the thumbscrew and pilory: we
have read of the Zulu with his
murderous war club-but all of those
barbarous and inhuman instruments
of death and torture are mere toys
compared to the pitch cap, an inven-
tion that was conceived in the blood
thirsty brain Of an EngIishman, that
was put to practical use with a venge-
ance upon poor defenseless women
and children in Ireland.
The pitch cap in shape was made
something after the pattern of our
modern skull cap, but the material
used in its construction was leather
and iron. The crown of this cap on
the inside was smeared over with a
thick coat of pitch or hot tar and
drawn down over the head of woman
or child, as the case might be- When
the pitch cooled, the cap was pulled off
and with it came the hair, scalp and
flesh of the poor victim. This is the
nation that encouraged her soldiers