The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-02

lions for the Democratic party and free trade for England. England IS s great trader, the greatest the Wor1a ever saw; but 1t was ahenrd to suppose that she ever bought, or attempted 70 buy, an American eivction.
 When the tariff issue gave place 70 ie to 1 the parties again chanssu places Bryan and Champ Ciark twiss- ,.- eA the British Hons tail as vigorously as InraIis or Foraker had ever cut inc caper In the name of protection According to that fine old fellow. Richard P. Bland. who could no more harbor an insincerity than he could in- vent perpetual notion--accordtng 70 ''Silver Dick" the only thing In theznn. iyerse that was meaner than Wal street was Lombard street. The Crime of s7s" was laid on England. and mii- lions of men believed it. and when Hrvan was beaten in 1896 those same
 millions were assured that they ana their posterity had been sold Into slavery for British gold"
 The Spanish war came and we heara q deal about the relative thickness oi blood and water, and there IS no donn. that England was on our side, not for love of us, but because 1t was pro- foundest policy. The rest of Europe was against us, and there Is not room for much doubt that the "powers ot the continent would have cfioked ussoff Spain if they had believed that Eng land would only be neutral; but Eng land with uhn ecessArg ostentation put the Channel fleet In motion. IL was merely a stroke of policy on the part of MT. John Bull. and he is expert at that game.
 After the treaty of Paris there is no doubt that England encouraged us to "expand." and she was more interested in that question than in any we ever undertook. We speak her language; we have adopted her policy. What ie the inevitable consequence? Why, vir- tual alliance. even If she has to fling in Canada" when the pear is ripe. The onlyI trouble is, will Canada suffer her self to be "ffung fnT'' She now has the protection of the British navy with out cost. As a part of the American Union she would be taxed for a navy Tn short, England has no friends except her colonies, though she and France are getting on a basis of good under standing. and her alliance with Japan is a bargain of mutual advantage. Ger many would lick her tomorrow if she thought she was man enough to do it.
 But when the war in South Africa came. 75 per cent of our people were lOT the BOSFbs anu now Wt ulu iiOWA with flendish glee over their early vic tories! How we did flock 10 the thea ter In this town of Washington to sit entranced under the spell of Webster Davis spasmodic and hysteric elo- quence. and laid it on the patriotic in- pulses of Webs great heart that he got stage fright on that immense occasion. De Wet was magnified into a Forrest: Botha was Stonewall Jackson; the Transvaai was Greece and Poland and Ireland. and England was everything that was despotic. and more. too. Bnt England was grimly resolved and hiF- tory teaches that when England Is in that humor. snd united at home. a set tiement in her favor is only duestton of time. and so 1t was now. Of course. we throw it up to her that she has had allies in her big wars; that Marlbor- ouRh was aided hv Eugene. and with out Eugene the armies of France would have prevailed. But what would Eu- gene have done without Marlborough We are not left in doubt What did Eugene do without Marlborough? And the same problem is presented In Chat hams first ministry. It Is quite likely that England would have won the 'seven Years War" without Frederick the Great: but 1t is absolutely certain that Frederick would have lost his crown and his realm without England Again, it was England who beat Ma poleon. and but for her the Corsicap demi- god would have mastered the world By orders in council she made all the oceans and all the seas British lakes, and no flag but hers sailed the deep. What Lucan said of Cardigan