The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-08-10


ly perform; and that Difference which
is due from an inferior to superior.
When after generations have passed
they should become capable of exer-
cising the duties of citizenship, give
them the right. In the meantime
hold out to them every inducement to
become good citizens, but show them
that before they can vote they must
earn the right the same as their more
favored white neighbors have done.
1t is dangerous thing to put such II
powerful weapon as the ballot in any
hand before the brain which controls
it shall be taught the true meaning
of the word citizen.
OUR SECRET ALLIANCE WITH
BRITAIN.
That there is q secret alliance be
tween the Mckinley administration
and the Court of St. james, is very
strongly asserted in various quarters.
The knowledge of its existence and
the nature of it's terms would, of
course, be closely guarded as a State
secret, into which the people must not
be per mitted to pry. That it does ex-
list is not only generally believed, but
every recent act of the Republican
a administration, wherein such an al
lance might be brought into play,
greatly strengthens the belief.
This ENHANCEMENT may be very
properly attributed to a newly arisen
doctrine, known as McKinleyism; a
doctrine which no longer inculcates
a patriotic reverence for the faith of
the fathers, but which defiantly sets
up the pernicious theory that a for
sw orn allegiance to organic law is a
proper proceeding, when we want to
hold office and at the same time exer-
else power for which there is no
legal authority. We do not know
whether it be mere coincidence or
cause and effect, but with the advent
of Mckinley, Constitutional govern
Inc MT of the Republic has been boldly
brushed aside for the absolutism Of
imperialistic principles.
That there should be such AN al
lance is tut natural, when the trend
of recent events is compared with the
policy of Britain, in her attempt to
crush the spirit of liberty in Colonial
America. If we but turn back to
1862 we find the British empire gloat-
ing over it's achievements in arms; the
martial spirit of its people aroused;
the Spanish navy tempting prey"
and war with that nation a popular
measure. Havana was attacked by
the navy under Albermarle, Moro
stormed and Cuba taken. Cornish
and Draper reduced Manila, captured
the Philippines and permitted the in
habitants to retain their ELVES, lib
critics and property" for a moneyed
consideration-which, however, was
never paid. In the general roundup,
at Fountainsbleau, Spain yielded East
| and West Florida, and all her posse T.
sions east and south of the Mississippi,
| and was returned Cuba and the
Philippines. The war expenses aris-
ing from this, and the war with France
| which had terminated at the same
time, resulted in a large arrearage of
debt that had to be met. The "cider
tax" was tried but found to be i'm
polite, and a more tyrannical system
| of finance was inaugurateG; the "ob-
| jects of care'' in America were to be.
come the burden bearers of uncon-
stitutional taxation; Naval command
| ers were sworn in as revenue collectors.
The colonial subjects in America re.
sisted; Pitt pleaded their cause, and
most of the ubiquitous impositions"
were abandoned, including the stamp
tax. The right to tax, however, was
still insisted upon; Townsend pro-
cured an act for laying duty upon
articles, aOhen imported into the COL
onieS, and opposition once again
manifested itself; the COLLECTS of care"
had already suffered too long under
the oppression of unconstitutional
government; they declined to listen
to the soft sounding words Of
one of the Ministry when he said I:
And now, will these Americans,
children planted by our care, nourish-
ed by our indulgence will they
lieve us from the heavy weight of
that burden which we lie under?"
They were not to be caught by any
such game of false pretences; they
were smarting under the deprivation
Of the right to be governed in accord
ance with their own consent; the lamp
of liberty was burning as a beacon
light upon the pathway to independ-
ence: the rights guaranteed by 1.-The
immutable avs of nature' must be
preserved, and such steps must be
taken as duty dictated would hold
them in perpetuity. The American
Congress in 1775 said: I'VE, for our
parts, are determined to live free, or
not at all;' and in 1776 they carved
the Colonies into free and independ-
ent States.-The Republican Congress
in 1900 say they are going to make
colonies, hold colonies and tax COL
onies, in the exercise of their own
sweet will and that of their imperial
istic President, in strictly Anglo
American, style, and without consti-
tutional authority.
How natural, then, that there
should be McKinley-John Bull
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