The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-02-15
JANus-EAcED AND JupAs-l1KE.

English statesmen and English mould.
ers of public opinion have been I'M
ceasingly DINING into the ears Of the
world that during the Spanish-Amer-
lean war the United States had but
one friend among the great powers of
Europe and that was Great Britain.
Not only that, but it has been re-
ported again and again by Anglo
SaXons on both sides of the Atlantic
that We're it not for England the other
European powers would have CON-
bined at the outbreak of the war to
crush the United States out of exis.
tence. BY constant repetition this
British buncombe was accepted as a
historic fact by the Anglomaniacs of
America, and editors and authors di-
lated on the friendship of the
mother country" to her fair daugh-
ter, Columbia, in the day of her peril
and advocated an Anglo-American al
lance against all the powers of Eu-
rope
"A Minnesota statesman, who is now
no more, was so deceived by English
protestations of friendship that he de-
clared the Anglo Saxons could whip
creation if they fought together. and
that the earth and the fairness thereof
belonged to them. AS he filled a Dip
lomatic position at the time his lingo
istic utterances caused CONSERVATION
among the statesmen of Europe and
the Orient. But the grim reaper came
ana hushed his voice forever. At the
height Of his fame his spirit took it's
flight to that undiscovered country
from whose bourne no traveller re-
turns" and the man whose bellicose
utterances nearly brought on interna-
tlonal complications is now the prey of
worms, and his memory is almost for
gotten in the North Star state.
England's friendship for America
has turned out to be only "a mockery,
delusion, and snare" Instead of
trying to hold other nations back
from jumping on the United States,
"perfidious Albion" was acting the
part Of Judas in urging the European
powers on two occasions in behalf of
Spain and against this country. Such
Anglo-American organs as the Boston
Herald and the New York Sun have
at last been undeceiyed. The former
editorially exposes the British plot to
ruin the industrial development of the
United States and shows that CONT
mental powers-Germany, France and
Russia-thwarted it. Says the Her.
aid:
ut is now time to proclaim the
truth from the housetops. The entire
Spanish war was plot started by
England for the purpose of enabling
it, through the cooperation of the con-
tinental powers, to regain possession
OF the control over America that it
lost at the time Of the Revolutionary
war, and to also acquire large hold
ings in Central and South America.
1t had assumed that the great nations
of continental Europe would be suffic-
iently covetous to assist it If they
We're accorded shares in the division of
the spoils; but these true-hearted
lovers of American democratic institu-
lions resisted the base appeals which
We're addressed to them; they
thwarted the English attempt to bring
about our national dissolution, and
are, therefore, deserving of the I'M
bounded thanks Of the American peo-
pie, rs, for their dastardly conduct,
the English are entitled to Americas
everlasting contempt"
The New York Sun, in leading ar
ticle, reviews the recent dispute over
England's friendship to the United
States in 1898, and says:
First, did the British Foreign Of.
fee authorize Lord Pauncefote to urge
the presentation Of second and
threatening note desired by Austria.
or did Lord Pauncefote, in so doing,
act on his own responsibility? If
Lord Pauncefote acted on his own re-
sponsibility, and the British govern
ment refused to sanction the pro-
posed coercive note before it heard of
Germany's refusal, it is surprising
that he should have been retained in
post where, by urging without in
structions coercive note, he had
evinced an animus toward the United
States by no means likely to sweeten
the relations of our country to Great
Britain. If, on the other hand, Lord
Pauncefote, in urging the proposed
second note, did but obey the orders of
the British Foreign office, and if
these orders were not countermanded
until Germany's refusal to take any
part in the business was known in
London, then it is evident that our
alleged debt to Great Britain is of a
derisory character. It seems manifest
that on the horns of this alternative
either Lord Pauncefote or the British
Foreign Office is threatened with i'm
palement."