Graham guardian., 1902-05-23

| oIucer lsn net
"Yes."
And you are an American citi-
zen, ] take III"
"Yes."
"And British officer gives you,
an American citizen, orders on a
bit of American territory that you
shall not allow an American citi-
zen to cross this American terri.
tory without pass from the Brit
ish officer who doesn't own foot
Of this soilI"
"Yes-now see here" he broke
out in the midst of the questioning,
81 can't help doing what l am told
to do, can.I."
THAT is to say they have Brit
ish camp here on this American
territory aud spy might get in?"
"well, anyway you will see that
they have got to protect them
selves in guarding this most i'm
portant base of supplies in the
world at the present moment, a.
complete camp of British officers" ,"
And so a British hireling drove
an American citizen from Ameri
can soil where British soldiers fed
from American bayonets years ago.
This sort of thing is what John
HAY and Mark Hanna and their
like call being neutral. l read the
other day about an old colored
preacher who described hell to his
congregation after the foil wing
fashion: "Brethern, has been
asked how hot is hell and / will
say dat if you took all the wood in
York state and all de coal in Penn
sylvany and poured on dat heap
all de oil in de world and set dat
all on fire and den took man out
Oh hell and put him into dat burn
ing mass, he would freeze to def
OATS how hot hell is" Consider.
ing that John and Mark are surely |
headed that way we don't think
that's hardly hot enough. But
then maybe it's all right after all.
Teddy Roosevelt is Boer and he
doesn't seem to find any fault with
such conditions. It's hardly prob
able that Teddy could be wrong in
anything Maybe we are just
prejudiced against England be-
cause she tried to lick us every
time she got chance till she found
she wasn't big enough. Mark
Hanna says England has lovely
form of government and thinks we
ought to have one like it.
Andrew Carnegie says England
and the United States ought to
consolidate. He thinks we ought
to admit England and Scotland and
Wales and Ireland as states and
annex Canada. He thinks we will
do so in time. The only trouble
with Andy's theory is that it don't
agree with the notions of his trust
brethern who are running things.
He thinks the whole cheese would
be sort of free and easy republic.
The rest of them are holding out
for an inco porated monarchy in
which they are to hold all the
stock. Mark Hanna was asked at
a banquet recently ifhe does not de
spite his wealth and bonors-still
have some ungrat fed wish and he
replied; "Yes; my wish is that
might eat what please and COM
pei some democrat to digest it,"
Mark intended that as a joke, bnt
it really embodies his ideal of gov
ernment. He wants to have the
pleasure and let his fellow man
bear the burden. Mark would like
A government Of lords and serfs |
ike they have in Russia. Russia :
has nice government. Just now
here comes from her province of !,
Alai--wbich comprises the high
ands Of Siberia and the granary {
If the nation--the wall that fam Il
ne accompanied by scurvy and
Uphold are devastating the peas +
'ntry. Why should these poor |
lewis living in the garden spot of t
Siberia starve? Why did the peo- .
lie starve in India and Ireland? =
Because they are supporting in $
dleness horde of lazy loafing |