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The Brutal British Ministry

The Brutal British Ministry
The worlds history fails to show a
more brutal ministry than has been at
The head OF the British empire for the
past centuries. No crime against the
rights of humanity has been too cruel
II its grasping greed for power and
plumber would be thereby promoted.
Subjugated peoples and provinces
nave seen the products of their labor
carried away.by the rapacious robber,
while they who produced it have been
left to starvation and death. Ireland.
subjugated province of the empire.
has had repeated famines with thous-
ands of deaths from starvation, not
because its people had failed to pro-
ouce an abundant supply, but because
IL mad been gathered up and carried
away to satisfy the greed of the Brit
lsh ministry and it's supporters in the
person OF landlords In the famine of
1874 IN Ireland millions of bushels of
grain from all parts of the United
States were donated and sent itsstarv
ing people, thousands and thousands
OF whom persisted from hunger, and
tiiao very year more than four times
Illsfuantity required to provide all
1.-THE wants of its people was carried
away from them to satisfy English
landlords and to fill the English
exchequer with portion of the mil
lions given its crowned head, its min
istry and other legalized plunderers of
the Irish people.
The civilization it introduced into
China at the muzzle of its guns was
continuation of the import of opium
in exchange for such of the products
and wares of China as the English
trade desired. The we1fage. u 0lao
RRs62afhy S Gvh SnhsE4s s. the British
ministry, its sole ambition centerfng
in the pounds, shillings and pence that
would inure to it's ministry, its
wealthy merchants and ship owners.
Egypt is another example of British
spoilation and plumber. For loan of
S45 100000 dollars to the Khedive. sl5,-
Ou0,OO0 of which went to English |
agents who negotiated the loan. the
British ministry has taken possession
OF and owns the Suez canal controlling
the trade of the Orient, has stationed
British soldiers at all it's ports of entry
collecting annually over s3O,OOOOOO,
which is used chiefly to pay the SOL
dleTs who keep its people in bondage
and for interest on the loan.
India with its 240,0O0,0O0 inhabi-
tantS and almost boundless resources
is the subject of British spoilation. |
plumber and robbery. The years of its
famine from 1876 to 1879 over two mil
lions of its people persisted from hun
ger and beside the army maintained
to hold its people in subsection over
80 million pounds sterling was annual
ly paid to the British ministry. over
SlS3,000,O00, enough to have fed every
hungry mouth in India. The taxes
the British ministry impose, unless
paid, not only authorize the contisca-
zion OF the estate but the imprison-
ment of the delinquent, which de-
mand is enforced by British soldiers
maintained in India at the cost of it's
people.
AT the present time it is reported |
that over 50,OOO,OOO of its subjects
are destitute of food, but the brutal
British ministry has its eyes fixed on
the gold and diamond fields of South
Africa and can devote neither time or
money to its starving subjects.
In the war for American independ-
ence the brutal British ministry
turned the ruthless srvages upon the
inhabitants of the western frontier,
led by British officers and in their
murderous midnight attacks neither
age, sex or condition was spared from
The tomahawk and the scalping knife
OF which the Wyoming massacre was a
specimen, of the refined barbarity of
that piratical and barbarous ministry.
In the war of 1872 the same spirit of
brutality and murder was relentlessly
pursued. The village of Buffalo, n.
T., then frontier village OF the state,
was burned by the British and In
dians, and every man, woman and
child found there barbarously MUIR
dered. Settlements had extended
west through Ohio, Michigan and In
diana, at which the same barbarities
were enacted until the defeat of the
British and Indians at the battle of
Tippecanoe, which put an end to the
ferocity of Tecumseh and his allies
the British in the west. Americans
remember that the brutal British
ministry burned to the ground the
City of Washington and the federal
capital, they remember the story of
the horrors of Valley Forge, the i'm
pressment Of American seamen, the
purchase os Benedict Arnold, the effort
of its brutal ministry to destroy this