The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-01

$4,000 of her veteran trained soldiers,
until then fought to be invincible, I'M
der her only general, after weeks Of
/ fighting had secured the surrender Of
! Cronje with 5000 men. England'S mill
! ftary strength, it is demonstrated,
| would be valueless to us, and the opin-
/ ion is prevalent that her navy will
| prove as fran a reed to lean upon as
| her boosted battalions are known to
be. England's prestige, no matter what
may be the result in the Transvaal
! has suffered an recoverable shock
! Her weakness is apparent to all the
world, and she now cunningly turns
| for strength and support to the young
giant of the west that a generation
ago she sought to cripple. Against her
! insidious influences the fathers of the
| Republic warned the American peO-
pie. Peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none" said jefferson,
and he summarized what should be our
complete foreign policy. Against Eng
land and her diplomacy We have re-
peatedly been cautioned to be watch
full. We Americans of Irish descent
know England and know her to be in
capable of keeping faith with any peO-
pie. Great Britain has not a friend in
the world. The distruSt of her upon the
continent is deep-seated and deter
mined. It cannot be due TO religious
differences, for Holland and Germany
and Norway and Sweden are as hos
tile to her as France, Austria or Rus
STA. No people in all the world would
enter into a treaty with her expect
ing it to be kept, and for the people
of the United States TO permit their
government to join hands with her
would check perhaps forever the on
ward progress of humanity. Thomas
jefferson said OF her that, lin spite
of treaties she would ever be our IN
envy" Our interest can in no way be
identical with hers. She has ever been
and is our great commercial rival Her
trade policies have ever been opposed
to ours. Her prosperity has been the
result of our adversely. Our merchant
marine was swept from the seas by
her priVateers, and the carrying trade
of the world that once was ours has
passed to the practical monopoly of
her flag. The people of America want
honorable peace. The triumphS they
seek are of trade, and commerce and
arts and literature, and their glories
are happy homes, free affairs and equal
rights During the past sixty years
England has been engaged in constant
warfare, and with two exceptions upon
helpless peoples. More than forty diff
IeIGDL WdTS nave DeGu CaIIleu OIL ny
England during the reign of Queen
Victoria. Ruthless carnage, wholesale
determination, violation of every rule
of civilized warfare have marked the
progress of her arms. Who that seeks
the welfare of humanity can glory in
her achievements? We need not look
beyond the present year. The people OF
India are starving by the million. Has
any honest effort been made by Eng
land To aTIatrfatn thniV diEfrnGGS Has
any loan been fIoated in the United
States to raise funds to feed them?
The life insurance companies of New
York, that promise to pay to their pol
icy holders enormous dividends, have
rushed to put their trust funds into
the precarious British war loan issued
below par and netting but per cent.
The funds from that loan are to be
used to crush the Beers. and are part
of the $500, 100000 that England has al
ready spent to satisfy her greed for
gold and her lust for the land Of the
TransVaal. The cry of Indias stricken
people falls upon deaf ears. The crime
of the Beers is that they pitched their
tents upon the richest strip of land in
The world and that England coveted
their possessions must be avenged.
With the aid Of the American govern
ment and the wealth of America the
embattled farmers fighting for home
and liberty on the Veldts and IN the
Businesses Of South Africa,
with a courage unsurpassed in the
pages of history, may be crushed cut.
The present administration has been
completely subservfent to England. Our
foreign policy is as completely dom
mated by it as If John Hay were in
theory, as he is in fact, under the di-
rection of the British ambassador. That
might have free foot, undis-
turbed, the consideration of our con-
with Canada as to the rights
of our fishermen and miners has been
postponed. To demonstrates
to continental Europe that our govern
ment was ready to back England to
any extent, the Hay-PaunCefote treaty
was submitted to the senate, by which
the dead ClaytOn-Bulwer treaty has
been revived. and the permission era
venly asked from England to build the
canal on American soil
with American money, with the ab1ect
promise that we will never fortify it.
but leave it forever at the mercy OF
Englands guns.
ForgetfuI that the American flag had
waved in triumph in Canada and Mex
co and on the shores of the Mediter-
'anean sea, and had come back with
honor, the president of the United
States, pointing to the Philippines,
iag?" Within the past few days he has
his own inquiry and has Civ
m to England American territory
anger than Rhode Island, and there
has been run up in place of the tram
lied stars and stripes the cross of St
George.
That America may again be 'Tost to
he British" that the republic may be
preserved in all its glory, that our
and shall remain the land of liberty
md law, of equity, of opportunity,
4 unfettered labor. that our starry
,anner shall float over freemen and
lot slaves, over sovereign common
vealths and not dependent servile col
mics, that every foot of soil upon the
american continent that is ours must
,e kept by US, and that there shall be
10 surrender of American rights. the
manhood of America will rally and re-
tore the rule of the American people.
He has sounded forth the trumpet
that shall never call retreat:
lie is sitting out the hearts of men be-
fore his Judgment seat.
IN, be swift my soul to answer him!
Be jubilant my feet!
)ur cause is marching on"