The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-07-27
Friday, July ~, 1900.
A Blind Beast of Prey.

Our imperial policy which Pres
ident Mckinley, under the direc-
ton of Hanna and the Anglo
American China Developing Com
pany, has begun to bear fruit
something like Dead Sea apples.
The millionaire capitalists of the
United States have been cajoled by
the same class of English who have
been appropriating the property of
other peoples for couple of cen
turtles, to join them in a grand
exploiting enterprise in China.
This scheme was Matched as soon as
Dewey had smashed the Spanish
fleet in the harbor of Manila.
Mckinley proved a plant tool in
the hands of these men and imme-
diately led the country into war
to subdue the inhabitants of the
archipelago, country which was
entirely unknown till after Dewey's
victory, to five out of six persons of
the United States.
The latest tragedy of this China
exploiting enterprise has been the
frightful massacre by the uprising
Chinese mob, of all foreigners,
which threatens to drag all chisten-
dom into war against the Celestials.
The result of the war policy
entered Into by Mckinley at the
instigation of the party of blind
greed, has been the bloody fruits of
tnat policy since the dawn of re-
corded history.
4 No nation has ever made such
advance in wealth and power as
the United States in the short
period of national life has by their
peaceful, industrious, popular sys-
tenn of government. Our simple,
nnostentatious policy has proclaim
ed to the worlds people that all
mankind had an inalienable right
to liberty. The nation practiced
this and that silent unobtrusive
policy has shaken every throne in
Europe and caused kings and no.
bility to quake with fear, and the
hearts of the masses to bound with
hope.
In an evil hour and under the
spell of an evil genius, the govern
ment at Washington was converted
from the practice of a simple re-
public to the ways of moneyed
oligarchy. All was changed and
armies were sent to the other side
of the globe to subdue and enslave
ten millions of people, whose most
intelligent welcomed the "fag OF
the free' as the sign of their deliv-
eranae from Spanish bondage.
They asked to be aided by the
great Republic which all the world
had heard of, to gain a condition of
liberty and selfgovernment. They
asked for aid and advice to enable
them to found such republic on
the shores of Asia, that they might
enlighten the people of the Old
World and point out the path OF
freedom to them, who had languish
ed in slavery for Thousands of years.
They asked for the bread of free
dom and the ruler of the great
Republic gave them a stone. In
place of liberty and free people
he proclaimed colonies and subjects
to be the new policy of the now
Imperial Republic. Porto Rico
was fitted out with royal governors
from ihe throne at Washington.
The liberty loving Filipinos were
sent sword and commands to sub.
init to the yoke Of the new masters
or suffer determination.
Hanna proclaimed gleefully that
the policy of the altered republic
was the spread of American civ
ilization and Christianity "with
per cent +" Greed has usurped
the seat Of the GODDESS of liberty in
the Great Republic, and per cent
il the fire that is consuming its
vitals.
Without firing a gun or lifting a
sword a new republic could have
been established ON the coast OF
Asia whose trade would have come
TO our shores, impelled by gratitude
for the helping hand and kind
counsel held cut to the people in
their hour Of need. Hate for the
wrongs heaped upon them and the
slaughter Of their people will for
ever repel the people, who would
gladly have been our friends, and
the bulk Of their trade. Thus greed
In It's blind, grasping nature de-
siroys In place Of securing its object