The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-18
BACK Of BLOODY EUROPEAN WAR
LIES ENcLAND's CREED FOR GOLD
~ EDGAR IL,FF.

~ EDGAR lLlFF..
Back Of the frightful European war
Hes the shadow OF England's undying
commercial greed. Every school boy
student Of American history knows
full well the trail Of British gold. It
corrupted the most gallant Of all the
American Revolutionary soldiers and
made his name the synonym OF trea-
son-Benedict Arnold. Before the lure
OF this hateful British gold tempted
him Arnold'S name as q patriot and
brave officer was loved and honored
on two continents. This Aselfsame cor
rupting gold paid European royal men,
dicants for the scum and dregs Of
society and sent the wretched victims
over here. AZ Hessian Soldiers under
English officers to fight people strug-
Cling under Warrington for liberty.
This gold paid Catherine Of Russia
for forty-thousand hireling troops to
fight against American manhood and
independence, but Frederick the
traffic and prevented the transporta-
ton OF the army.
From the earliest times England has
declared that in colonial trade. and
in all commerce on land and sea, she
would have no other gods before her.
Her treatment Of the American colo
niles is history that brings the blush
OF shame and flush OF indignation to
every true American heart. 1t is a long
long story and II the American school
books have not been expurgated by
pro-English publishing houses In this
country every school boy knows this
story Of humiliation, treachery. Gu
pidity, infamy and rank injustice.
Sample Of Greed.
From thousand historical instan-
ces of England's commercial greed and
intolerant treatment Of all business
competitors let US mention but one.
The Dutch settlers in America held
their colonial possessions in New York
by as good right as the Enuglish, the
French or the Spanish. AS long as the
Dutch were quiet and smoked their
pipes and drank their schnapps In
content they were not molested. But
when the awoke to the opportuni-
ties of trade the English lion growled.
In 1864 the British Lords OF Trade"
declared that the Dutch were the
greatest enemies of English business
on earth and must be suppressed.
When England and Holland we're at
profound peace these Lords of Trade"
secretly sent a fleet Of four men-of-
war to American shores and drove the
Dutch out of New York 'in an un-
necessarily brutal manner" and per
petrated a crime against friendly ma
ton whose only offense was greater
| success In commerce" ~
This is just exactly what hurts Eng
land today, German success In the
worlds business. The historians ]
am following are an American and an
Englishman. The latter, Sir George
Otto Trevelyan, has recently published
his six volume history of THE Amer
lean Revolution" 1t is fair and impair
tial and does not shield or condone
the crimes OF his own country In its
ambition to crush out all competition.
The American historian am following
is Lyon Gardiner Tyler in his Eng
land in America" volume six OF the
American Nation" series, work OF
~ volumes by twenty-six Of Ameri-
cas- most eminent historians. These
historians agree that the Dutch cpl
sode forms "a series Of unprincipled
secret actions scarcely equalled in the
worlds history" And for what? To
make business for England? To keep
her people employed? To keep up the
pcmp and glitter Of royalty? What is
the outcome of all their centuries OF
English exploitation of the worlds
commerce? The answer comes from
the lips Of the Englishman. David
Lloyd George. in explaining the Eng
lish Budget OF 1909:
Poverty is q greater peril to Eng
1o,o than tho uyQr.nnwaF nf Ger.
many. UP to this time English civili-
cation socially has been a failure. III
my mind not Germany but the poverty
of the English masses is to be feared.
No one can walk through the streets
of East London where thousands of
men are listlessly leaning against the
wall, looking with blank, hopeless gaze
on the light of day, without feeling
of horror. Are these the streets Of
a civilized, Christian city or are they
the pavements of He'll? These men
belong to a disinherited, degraded race
of men. They are the children of the
serfs and slaves Of other periods of
human history. They have exhausted
their life energy in promoting the
wealth of England, and now England
turns them out to die in shame and
sorrow. These men and women who
have done the hard, rough work that
renders the higher life of the privileg-
ed classes possible, are deprived of
the comforts and necessities of life,
they are despised by those they serve
and die in pauper beds and are bur
led in pauper graves"
Panama Canal Incident.
Now when we proposed to build the
Panama canal the English Lords and
Regents said "by our leave. gentle
men," and we begged to be excused
for our impertinence and signed a
treaty to get the permission. When we
| foolishly thought we might exempt our
ccastwise shippers from tolls on the
canal England cried, mo! No! That
will never dol" and we repealed our
law Of tolls exemption. When we Just
merely suggested the purchase of the
interned German ships at Hoboken,
SO that we might have few merchant
marine vessels, England screamed,
"Oh, my dear Sirs, that is utterly un-
! thinkable! The money would 60 to