The Irish standard., 1905-08-12

friend, Russia, all moral aid and sym.
pathy and all the other aid that the
conditions of neutrality will permit.
Russia has been our true and constant
friend in times of need, from the time
that this country was a parcel OF
struggling colonies to the present day,
without a flaw to mar the sublime
friendship till those spurious Ameri.
can editors and correspondents, act
ing as emissaries for our arch-enemy
England, tried to do so by pretending
to be Americans, and as such EXPRESS
ing their fervent sympathy for Japan
through their numerous newspapers,
thus endeavoring to ALLEVIATE the
friendship till those spurious Ameri-
States. 1t was England, our evil
genius, that tried during the Spanish
American war to persuade the United
States to mistrust France and Ger
many and tried further to create hos
tilities between the United States and
those two nations, which had always
been friendly to the United States,
but Kaiser Wilhelm produced the doc.
uments that exposed her perfidy. The
affair was CLOSED over and pretended
to be forgotten, presumably for some
diplomatic reason, but the American
people were not surprised by Eng
lands treachery and were not de-
e~ived by England's pretended friend
ship. because she was never a true
friend to this country, not even when
it was their own colonies. 1t is an in.
eradicable characteristic of the Eng
llsh government to despise those
whom they govern and to bitterly
hate those whom they cannot govern.
But to revert to the present war.
AS the mutterings in Japan have al
ready begun to advocate "Asia for the
Asiatics," England may find itself in
the predicament in which the ma
gician found himself when he raised
his satanic majesty to the wondering
gaze of a numerous audience, later
finding, to his horror, that he could
not compel him to return to the lower
regions. He could not exercise him
nor dispose of him in any way and,
like Banquos ghost, "He would not
down." John Bull, in his eagerness to
weaken Russia, induced Japan to be-
gin this war and furnished Japan with
large amounts of money and other
aid, enabling them to continue the
strife, but John Bull realizes now that
he has helped to raise up more dan
| gerous and progressive, at least, a
| more unconscionable enemy than
Russia. Note, by the way, that the
| nations most successful in rapine,
murder and robbery, are now called
the most progressive nations, by
| those Christians(?) who approve of
such nations, even while engaged in
| their murders and robbery, and such
approval is in many places thundered
| forth, in the English language, from
the pulpit. o, Christianity! What
diabolical schemes, what horrors have
been perpetrated in thy name! Eng
land will soon have a sudden awaken
| ing to the stern reality that Japan is
sending covetous glances toward
| British India. asia for the Asiatics,' y
don't yer kneow? And then it will
be comical I'd observe the sudden re-
vulsion of sentiment of those pseudo
American editors and other pro-Brit-
| ish spurious American citizens The
Japanese will then be no longer men
| toned as "The lovely little brown
men," But they will be mentioned
( and denounced by those spurious
Americans with eloquence, at the
| street corners, as ungrateful wretches,
!, treacherous and loathsome, brown,
pig-eyed pagans; they will be de-
| nounced in thunders from the editorial
chairs, with scornful and derogatory
! epithets, exhausting their vocabulary
of invectives; and they will be de-
! nounced from even the pulpit in deep
| toned sanctimonious condemnations
! of the ingratitude and depravity of the
hideous brown pagan.
Nevertheless, John Bull, the brown
pagan is a very energetic and proges.
| sive individual, with whom you will
very soon have to measure energies