The Irish standard., 1900-07-28
tents and then spread the information

tents and then spread the information
among their pupils.
This is an extraordinary proceeding
on the part of the United States govern
ment, which has repeatedly declared
that it has assumed an attitude of strict
neutrality between the British and the
Beers during the South African war.
The reason why the administration per-
mits the Bureau of Education to be
made an English adjunct in the dissem-
ination of pro-British literature at this
time is to offset the effect among the
voters of the country of the plank in the
Kansas City platform, which reads as
follows:
Believing in the principles OF self
government, and rejecting, as did our
forefathers, the claim of monarchy, we
view with indignation the purpose of
England to overwhelm with force the
South African republics. Speaking, as
we do, for the entire American nation
except its Republican officeholders, mad
for all free men everywhere, we extend
our sympathies to the heroic burghers
in their unequal struggle to maintain
their liberty and independence"
The Mckinley managers have adopt
ed this reprehensible method of creating
prejudice against the Boer republics and
OF imbuing the minds of the teachers
and pupils of the country with Anglo
Saxon ideas. Hanna or Heath or some
body else high in authority in the Re-
publican national committee is respon-
sible for using the department of edit
cation for this un-American work
Complaints have been frequently made
against the text books on English his
tory in the public schools, and even text
books on American history have been
severely criticised because of lauding
England too much at the expense of
historic truth; but these pamphlets sent
out by the Republican managers of the
campaign are written and published by
Englishmen in the modern Babylon to
justify Great Britain in waging war
OF conquest and spoliation against the
two little republics Of South Africa.
The disclosure made by ]. D. Via OF
Virginia, an employe in the geological
survey, in reference to these pamphlets,
has alarmed the Anglomaniacs. Rep
resentative Richardson says it is an 81
legal distribution of pro-English litera-
ture," and the Democratic COMPRESSION
al committee has issued statement in
which it says:
The administration, by defending
England's action and condemning that
of the Beers, has shown that its pre-
tensions to neutrality in this deplora-
bic war were absolutely false and that
it has really sympathized with England
from the beginning. This also explains
why England has been permitted by the
administration to do many things that
should have been resented. There have
been violations of international law
injurious to the cause OF the Beers, such
as the seizure of articles OF American
production, not contraband OF war, and
the purchase OF war material in this
country by Great Britain. The admin
istration is guilty of serious offense."
1t is supposed that the postage on the
British documents has been paid by
Marcus Aurelius Hanna out of the cam
paign funds. The vigilance OF the Dem
ocrats has spoiled the game. Ii West
ern teachers receive the pamphlets they
will know to whom they are indebted
for them and pay no attention to the
printed instructions requesting them to
read them thoroughly and impart the
false information they contain to the
innocent youth OF the West. The adj
ministration must use its newspapers
and stump speakers instead of the public
school teachers to defend it's course on
the Anglo-Bocr war during the cam
paign.