Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-12-13
TAKING IN FOREIGN POSSES
SIONS.

SIONS.
We feel little sorry for Vene
zuela. There are three nations tryins
to steal it-Gcremany, Great Britain
and the United Statess And the
probability is there will be war il
order to carry ont the theft. That
is characteristic with the United
| States as well as with the German
nation and really with all other
nations that have the power. Vene-
zuela is small republic in South
Amreica 1t would not even be a
republic if it had not read some of the
history of the United States. 1t has
lied But it is one of those indefen-
sible countries-subject TO the action
of the powers that be. The powers
| that be are the United States, Great
Britain and Germany. Che of the
three want to gobble up that country
and the gobbling will be done in a
few years.
1t will be noticed that the Isthmian
nal proposition is the bone of COL
te1tion That is what is claimed by
Germany and Great Britain and even
tie United States, but it is a lie 1t
is a lie just like whipping Spain to
get possession of Cuba and the Philip
pine Islands is a lie, and also the ex-
cuse for throwing Lii over the garden
wall and taking possession of the
Hawaiian Islands. The Isthmian
canal business has nothing to do with
it. That is an excuse and a poor one
at that. Germany wants that coun-
try, Great Britain wants it and the
United States Of course wants it.
There is not South American coun-
try that the United States does not
want and not one that it will not try
to induce our young men to fight for.
OF course some of the young men do
not know any better. They are patri-
otto and think they are fighting for
the honor of the stars and stripes.
But they are not. They are fighting
to put in control of some country or
island a lot of thieves. The word
thieves here is used in the abstract.
The Unietd States ran Spain out of
Cuba i'll order to monopolize the sugar
industry of chat country. 1t then sent
a war vessel over to the Philippine
Islansd TO take those islands, before
breakfast, from Spain. 1t knew it
had a dead cinch on Spain because
Spain has no navy. We do not mean
that it has none at all, but it has
none compared to this country. Every
man who has any education at all
knows that there are only three coun-
tries-the United States, Great
Britain and Germany-which have
navies worth mentioning.
Then long time ago the United
States went over into Mexico and sub
dued that country. Thus it got that
territory and called it New Mexico.
There was "A little gold in the ground
of that country and it wanted it just
as it wanted the sugar of Cuba and
the coffee of the Philippines and the
something, we do not know just
what, of the niger republic of
Hawaii Then it took in all the
territories west, pushing the Indian
back to the Pacific ocean, and seems
to be mad because there is little
strip of country called Mexico, inhab-
tied by colored race, which it failed
to gobble up. 1t wants this because
its ground contains little gold
But the United States is not salts
fed nor Germany or Great Britain.
They want everything in sight and
things not in sight. They want al
the small islands of the Pacific and
Atlantic oceans and they are going to
have them if it calls for fight be- |
tween themselves that will be-
the ultimate result. The United |
States now wants Canada, belonging |
10 the Brits, and it will not be a /
dozen years before there is going to
be fuss about it. Canada, which is
larger than the United States, though /
not so wealthy, is our next door
neighbor and of course we want every
thing that is next door and some
things that are not next door.
But what the Progress wishes to
impress upon the mind of the reader
is that the Isthmian canal controversy L
is simply no controversy at all-it is
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