The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-02-13


lister to Chill, scores the dupes ant
apes among our people, who are trying
to destroy American ideals, in recen
issue of The American.
"It has been we'll said that no people
in the world are so easily cajoled OF
seem to so readily submit to, and
even to so enjoy, being cajoled as the
people of the United States-with, per-
haps, the exception of the French. For
a considerable time prior to the COM
mencement of the BOer war, in 1899,
England was cautiously perfecting her
schemes for the destruction of the
two South African republics, the
'Transvaal and the Orange Free State,
or, rather, for the benevolent assimi-
lation' Of their wondrously rich gold
and diamond mines; and, of course.
she feared interference on the part OF
Russia, Germany and France with her
designs. AS part Of her plan she
started here, by means Of we'll organ
lied groups, composed largely Of nom
citizens, English banking mercantile
dependents, aided by sprinkling of
pro- o-British-Americans, the anglo
SaNon,' two great English-speaking
peoples blood is thicker than water
propaganda, Of which we have had so
many nauseating experiences during
the past few years, recalling forcibly
to the mind Of every lover of American
ideals the words of Thomas Jefferson:
I fear nothing from force, but have
felt that 1 fear more from English
books, English prejudices, English
manners and the apes, the dupes and
designers among our own professional
classes; and also James G.. Blaine's
famous saying that Where admira ton
for England begins, American inspira-
tion ends AS result we had the
international Arbitration conference
held in Washington in 1896, the out
come of which was the arbitration
treaty, negotiated between President
Cleveland and Secretary of State o.
ney, one the one side, and Lord Sails
bury and Sir Julian Pauncefote on the
other, which it was the design of Eng
land to use and which her press did
treat as virtual alliance; and upon
the strength of which Mr.. Balfour, the
present Tory head of the government,
flung defiance in the face of Europe
by his statement that: Combined with
the United States, Great Britain could
stand against any conceivable COM
bination of powers
When the treaty came up for ratifi-
cation in the United States senate,
May 5, 1897, having behind it the
strongest possible personal support of
President Mckinley, that body had
the sound sense and patriotism to re-
ject it. One Of the most eminent of it's
members showed clearly with what
farseeing shrewdness England was
endeavoring to strengthen her isolat-
ed position in Europe by securing a
peace treaty with the United States
which would be construed by the other
nations as an alliance and he asked
the senate whether they were willing
to enter into this conflict of European
politics by becoming an alley of Eng
land and the foe of Russia, Germany,
Austria and France, while another
senator said: eff we ratify this treaty,
within fifteen minutes the news will
be flashed around the world that we
have made what most nations will re-
gard as close and special alliance
with England and we do not want to
put ourselves in that attitude"
The entire agitation for the promo
tion Of this treaty was started and
steered from London, with the aid of a
few of our well-meaning, but misled
and badly entrapped prominent phi
lanthropists, and deep and bitter was
the disappointment in England when
the carefully hatched scheme miscar-
ried.
The New York Herald, in it's Wash
ington correspondence next morning,
said: "Great disappointment is felt by