The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-13

l the British patriotism of Professor Morse Stephens, of the State Univer- sity at Berkeley, California. this, in a. few generations, will be accepted as the correct version.
 England beat the Spanfards at Manila! This isn't generally known and I got it in the strictest confidence from d certain admiral in Chicago
 when Dewey gave the whole secret
 This writer tells his readers that Dewey went all the way to Mania without ascertaining if he had certain guns and ammunition. In consterna- tion, Dewey sent to Admiral Seymour
 of the British Squadron in Manila Bay and obtained the guns and Bri- ish were whipped
 He says that Dewey was confused as to what to do in the battle and | signalled seymour, who from the Bri- tish flagship directed the American
 admiral how to proceed. signalling, Fire your port broadside.' and in reference to one Spanish ship Admiral Seymour directed Admiral Dewey not to fire, but to ''bIow her out of the water''
 The closing reference to the battle of Manila Bay is as follows:
 And now you have for the first time the true story of how the Eng fish beat the Spaniards at Manila This book, which so pleased the late King, and which was read so widely in England, did not miss it's mark the ever-grOwing tendency Of the Eng fish public to accept as final that the absorption of America by Great Bri- tain would be simply matter of a 1 few years.
 Referring to the United States be- ing skil1fuIIy steered into British wa ters, one is astOunded to read that | courageous President Roosevelt realizes the decaying tendencies of the United States of America 4 skiIful pilot is at the helm. and he is not uT~ aware of the danger . but his assistants. what of them ?'' (the Sen 1 ate).
 Continuing. he says he hopes the President will +'wear ship ere it is too late, and steer the ship into the safe and deep waters beyond CEzng- land). His book ends with the ex- pressiOn of a certain conviction that America and Great Britain would f'gO far off, and full paged curse on the United States and it's citizens;
 Land of sallow, scurrving men
 Land of bribery and corruptioni F. Land of the greasy food! .t4- Thrice cursed art thoaI'' But these British plans for the | United States, with the assistance of | Andrew Carnegie'S executive ability | and money the treason of members of | the Benedict Arnold Peace Society," and the willing cooperation Of the 'ire-writerS Of the History of the Uni | ted States,'' have gone sadly amucIS | on account of the threatened war be- | tween England and Germany. The | matter of the arbitration treaty with l England has been unduly and inde- | gently rushed. much to MT. Carnegie's l dispIeasure; this indelicate haste was i caused by the hysterical announce ment of Lord Charles Beresford, the | hero of many naval parade. that l the British Navy was not what 1t l seemed: that the Navy was without | essary units: and in the event of war ] with Germany the British Navy would ! be a present to the enemy Plans for the peaceful, or otherwise, lso1o 0f TTl overwhelmed with the fear that Ger many would give unto herself a pres ent of the British Navy and possibly even more While the plans of Car negian Peace were not scheduled to be ripe for a test until 1915. the fear | of war with Germany in the imme- diate present forced the issue with such feverish haste that more than one cat was let out of the bag of di- people any heavier than she was tax ing them. and even if she had had
 the necessary funds at her command to buildR Navy that would com m0aC5 with Germany's. she did not RS7Vs time Germany was ready to SprIugs and England had little faith in the against the German navy she dare
 not expect the Japanese navy to fight
 ship to ship with the Russian navy,
 for fear they might remenosr o-c scores. and forget they were fighting
 for England, and turn their guns up on each other There was only one
  Germany'S hand, and that was the ar bitration treaty. between England and
 the United States. and the possible
 ratification of that treaty by the D.
 S. Senate The treaty was sprung upon the Senate. just as reciprocity
 with Canada was. and 1t d1d not oc-
 cur to the British Government. that
 there would be any difficulty in quiet
 Iv slipping the treaty through the Sen
 ate and quickly Widening it into a
 defensive and offensive alliance
 There have been times 1n the his
 tory of the United States when thez country has not only been threatened
 with enemies from without, but also from traitors from within
 There have been times when the -U.- s. Senate has taken upon itself the functions of 8 Court of Iupea chment..
 If war is to come between EnglanC- and Germany. let us keep our hands off While deploriug war and the hor- TOTS of war, we must choose HetWeen the lesser of two eviIs-the killing Of some
 thousands in battle. or the continual oppreSsing and muTdering and toTtur-
 land and Germany would mean the
 killing of perhaps a few thousand men
 but it would also mean Liberty TOT
 $50 GOO 600 oppressed natives Of India
 for LOGO 100 Irish, Liberty for the
 struggling Egyptians from AteEandrla
 to the SOudan. It rn1"nT even mean
 the Peace of the World-the break
 in the trail of blood!
 From the Soudan ID London Theo-
 dore Roosevelt huTrahe6 for F.7vlsn1s
 in Egypt he told a patriotic and hr9Ve
 people to be 'lov9l 10 fhe British
 Indian was CraatI Ask the Jndiausl
 Ast the Eevpt5ans! and you
 m5ght also ask MT. Morgan Schuster.
 Hands off
 GENERAL. sTprKE OF T0NDON
 MINERS SEEMS INEVITABLE