Iron County register., 1900-06-07
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fire on the back of the administration
in his speech the other day, excoriat-
ing il for its un-American course In
Withholding not only sympathy and
mediation from the struggling Boer
republics, whose liberties England has
been engaged in numbering for the
past seven months, but In holding out
TO the nations of the world the impress
sion that the United States govern
ment approves the brutal course pur-
sued by Great Britain. Scathing and
deserved censure coming from a Re-
publican naturally made the cuckoo
senators sqirm and wriggle much
more than if the fire of criticism
had proceeded from a Democratic
source. Mr.. Lodge of Massachusetts
took up the cudgels in defense of the
administration by denying that there
is, or ever has been, any secret under
standing between the government of
England and our own, as Senator We'll
lington alleged, and offered, as a
proof that there Is not. the equivocal
statement of the secretary of state that
'.under the nature of our government
no such pact could exist"
That is not only not proof, but it is
poor evidence.
That Secretary Hay is an equivocator
has been made manifest to every citi-
of this country. by his actions and
statements in the Macrum case. He
dismissed faithful official from the
consular service. appointing his own
son in his place, to prevent his COIL
plants against the high handed con-
duct of the British government in open
ing the official letters, and making
public the cipher dispatches of the
United States government, and after
ward took technical advantage of a
condition which the secretary of state
himself had created to evasively report
to congress that he chad no official
knowledge of the charges made by Mr..
Macrum, when, at the same time,
it was patent to everybody that MIR.
Hay knew, not only from the testimony
of the envelops torn open by the British
censor at Durham and resealed with the
royal seal of the queen and the attest
on them of the British official that had
opened and examined the contents, but
from other equally reliable evidence,
that Macrum spoke the truth.
There is no open alliance with Great
Britain on the part of the Mckinley ad
ministration, but almost everything
that has come to the surface in the for
eign relations of this government since
the seizure through, ,duplieity and force
of the sovereignty of the Philippines
points to that conclusion, especially
the violation of all precedents in throt-
Ting official expressions of sympathy
for the Beers, the diplomatic trickery
by which Secretary Hay prevented
concert of effort on the of the leading
governments looking to mediation,
and the surrender of our rights to
British interests attempted in the stip-
ulations of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
Not only is the belief that there is a
secret understanding universal among
all classes of people OF this country. but
It is so fixed in the minds of the cit
liens that it will take something more
convincing than unsupported declara-
tions made by Secretary Hay, Senator
Lodge and every other member of the
anglo-maniacal and imperialistic clique
that is directing the politics, foreign
and domestic, of the administration
and of Congress, to create the con-
trary impression City Times.