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SAYS We NEED
ia GOOD BEATING
Bi1eIoW Dec ares in Would Re-
create Real Patriotism.
TALKS OF MEXICAN CRISIS


Traveller and Historian Says Europe
Believes Us Mcr-i Mad, InsoIent
and Half civiiz !.
Philadelphia, Nv. Il - Poultney
Bill Glow, traveller, H.: IN, journalist
and friend of the -: =. who, after
long period OF ..,-.j, ...4..a Gbroad, is
one of the b. s.; gal.:'ei IN e!icans to
give us Il, Eur 70 vie, , int on
the Mexican al i, sad IN this city
city that intCrven ion sh u.d be well
coined by true Americans IS merely
another step toward tie everlasting
drubbing that is essential TO recreate
decent spirit and real pa. iotism in the
United States.
The first thought in EuloG ean minds.
Mr. Bigelow said. would be 10 question
why the United States sho9ld assume
to go to war in order to benefit the
civil and industrial condition Of hordes
of semi e5 AM u. e,ly neglect
large part OF its o" L population which
is relatively no better Off,
The attitude of Europe toward the
OulCGu D, Nc saul II tSl I S--1h5So
a whit since 1876 There hey SIT re-
gard us as reckless, dan Eer2us giant,
blundering W.T. the worst nlisn1anaged
government under the sun and likely
to stumble into aEy soft Of d sas.rous
mix-up.
The hidden powers hat have direct
ed the Washington government. have
done everything to instill in European
minds the conviction that this is
half-civilized nation, over rich, insolent
in the possession of too much money
| and dead to the real elements of life
and intellectual progress.
Mr.. Bigelow said he wasn't ready to
criticise this government for its pres
ent attitude in Mexico. President Will
son, in playing waiting game, was
| following good historic precedent, and
doubtless had his reasons. 1nterven-
| ton will be all very we'll if we do it in
| a proper way and not as the invasion
| of Cuba was effected. when all the po-
| litfcal scum and rabble of every con-
gressional district was saddled on the
army to pile up the expense and make
us the eighth wonder of the world.
Mexico, he said, and the manner in
which we are, involved, is by no means
the most serious issue facing Ameri-
cans What we should do, instead of
attempting to force our raw and I'M
| finished views upon the world, is to
set about putting our own house in Or
der and caring for the welfare of our
own people as the European govern
ments are doing Then we might make
some passable claim to patriotism.
"You will see," Mr.. Bigelow said,
eff you study history, that all revOlu-
| tions have started with the abuse and
underpayment of the little man. The
| English have found in their colonies
| that one sure way to preserve peace
is to give the people work and pay
them for it. Revolutions, as / said, be
gin with the abuse of the small man,
ana with his exploitation. We are all
m&ney-mad here. Men are exploited
nowhere else as they are exploited in
this country For what rason? God
/ knows We don't know what to do
with our piles of money once we have
acquired it. This country is due for a
lot of trouble in the next fifty years.
l don't know whether it will come from
] the inside or from the outside, but it
will come.
1 "But don't ask any Intelligent Eu-
ropean to believe you when you boast
| of American enlightenment. They have
nothing but the utmost contempt for
our politicians and our political sys-
tenn. They hate and mistrust us as a
rule. Intelligent Russians who have
been amazed beyond speech at our at,
| tempts to dictate their internal policy
hate us. Germans, fifty years ago, con,
sidered this the land Of liberty, hope,
opportunity and idealism. Now you
can't find a German who has good
word to say for America. You can
| thank your energetic capitalists, the
money mad generally, who have pros
tituted a government and a country
that should have been light to lead
| all the world"