The Irish standard., 1900-09-15
like himself Van SAINT was sure to be


Teddy made no reference to the
brave Dutchmen of South Africa who
have been fighting against overwhelm-
ing odds for the past year, and who
are being barbarously butchered by
the British. Is it possible that the
Dutchmen of Southern Michigan are
not proud Of the .valor of their kins-
men inssouth Africa? OF course, they
are proudsof it. Then, why didn't
Teddy. .anade to the Beers? The only
reason is that the Mckinley admins
tration has been against them and for
their oppressors and that Teddy is a
degenerate Dutchman who prefers en-
pires to republics and sympathizes
with the mighty Anglo-Saxons.
The Minnesota Dutchman who is a
candidate for governor has manifested
no sympathy with the race from
which he has sprung any more than
has Teddy. He was invited to attend
the great pro-Boer meeting in Min
neapolis last spring and put in no ap-
pearance. He was subsequently asked
to attend the great meeting in st. Paul
in honor of the Boer delegates and
kept away. He has not uttered one
word of sympathy for his kindred
since the beginning of the Anglo Boer
war. The Republican party leaders
have been pro-British and Van SAINT
must be pro-British, too. He must be
anti-Dutch because Mckinley and his
managers are anti-Dutch. What a
contemplate creature Van SAINT must
be to keep silent while men of his own
flesh and blood are trampled to death
by the armed legions of Britain!
Does Van SAINT favor an Anglo
American alliance? OF course, he
does. His managers favor it and so
must he. Tams Bixby, who secured
furlough from the Mckinley admin
istration to assume charge of the Min
nesota campaign, is an ardent advo.
cate of an alliance with England.
Though he ridiculed Van SAINT for
aspiring to the gubernatorial nomina-
tion two years ago he is now doing his
utmost to elect him. During the state
campaign of 1898 Bixby in the Red
Wing Republican, of which he is
editor and proprietor, doomed the
Anglo American alliance with might
and main. In his paper of May q
of that year he said in part:
"The alliance between the two great
branches of the Anglo-Saxon race is
becoming something more than mere
theory or speculation. 1t is already
far advanced to the rank of fact. And
in this, too. we find one of the results
of war which is worth no small meas
ure of the loss of blood and treasure
that we are likely to sustain.
"What the Anglo-Saxon race has
done, as represented by the triumphs
of Englishmen and Americans in the
four quarters of the globe, is the war;
rant for calling this the race of the
future. But Europe has other an
swers; and already they who hate the
Anglo-Saxon and would crush him are
drawing closer their alliances and lay
ing their plots and counterplots.
When the enemy closes up his lines,
that should be the signal for order of
battle on our part; and the Anglo.
Saxon can meet the coming assault
| only by union of forces that shall
sway the world.
'The memory of ancient contests has
kept us foolishly apart. The time has
come now to lay those aside, and Eng
land has magnanimously led the way.
In this time of our danger, she has
stood between us and the hate of Eu-
rope, and her statesmen do not hesi-
tate to prophesy the future alliance as
their accepted policy. Let us accept
the hand so freely offered. We of the
same blood must stand together
against the world; and with England
and America holding firm alliance, the
very gates of hell and the wrath of
Goth and Vandal shall not prevail
against them"
We cannot believe that American
citizens of Dutch birth or descent see
anything to admire in either Roosevelt
or Van SAINT. These two worthless
have eXemplified in their conduct chat
blood is not thicker than water. In
stead of expressing sympathy with
men of their own race who founded
republics on the American plan in the
wilderness of South Africa they have
unnaturally remained deaf to the
voice of justice and consanguinity."
Men of other races cannot respect
these knight-errants of Imperialism
and will consign them to mer1ted OBJ iv-
ion on the ides of November.
BERATING CONGRESSMAN LEN1z.
Like an old woman at the Billings
gate fish market the Minneapolis
Tribune applies all the foul names in
its vocabulary to COnrrncSmon Tontx