The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-04-01

by our old quarrel Win mexico, we
know, to our cost, Of the savage
blows struck at US by England during
the Civil War in the efforts to divide
the country, Of the aid given to the
of the sweeping of our
flag from the sea by the commerce |
built, manned and armed in
England, and the destruction Of our
marine-in the interest OF
that we now pay to her
a toll of nearly $300,000,000 year in
freight charges upon our seaborne
and we have seen the ef-
forts, unsuccessful but adroit, in the
recent Spanish War made through the
British Ambassador to embroil us with
all the nations of Europe and prevent
us from bringing liberty to Cuba. But
Americans are forgiving and toll
Grant people. England for years past
has worked, openly and secretly, to re-
write our history; to teach us to for
get the past and to make US believe
that the leopard had changed his spots
and that England has become the
friend of America.
Pro-British Propaganda in the United
States.
For a generation past we have been
flooded with literature; overrun with
lecturers; Numbered at from pulpits
and hectored from controlled editorial
sanctums to convince us that we could
not or should not stand alone, and
that we had a divine mission, in COM
mon with England, to spread the gos-
pei of "Anglo-Saxon civilization" and
the cult of British world supremacy.
It would be idle to assert that many
Americans have not been carried
away by this new doctrine, or to deny
that English agents have for many
of US largely succeeded in rewriting
American history.
British Hostility and Antagonism Un-
changed.
But England never for one moment
during this time has swerved from
her changeless course of hostility and
antagonism to America and to the old
teachings of Americanism.
Never more strongly than at this
moment has she been prepared for
armed conflict against these United
States whenever the moment for ac-
ton shall seem to her to have ar
rived.
Today she is armed and prepared
for aggression against us at three of
the four corners of our country. At
Halifax, at Esquimault and at Ber-
muda her huge naval stations and
Notifications are aimed directly at
these United States. For thousands
of miles along the Canadian front her
military railroad stands as a contin-
uing menace to us in time Of war.
Her fleets patrol our coasts, violate
our neutrality and may on an hours
notice, menace our great cities. In
her interest powerful influences have,
within the last two years, obtained
for her from the bands of a reluctant
Congress joint control over the Pana-
ma Canal, planned by American gen.
ius, built by American labor and
financed with American millions. To.
day Canada is an armed camp actual
ly at war with European countries
with which we are at peace-looking
to us, in case of defeat, for protection
under the Monroe Doctrine and with
war minister who has just openly
proclaimed that within the near fu-
ture he may be called upon to lead
his fellow-colonists against tyrant
in Washington" Nor is this new doc
trine Cor England, for as Chamberlain,
her chosen spokesman, said less than
twenty years ago, England must re.
gard the existence Of republican insti.
buttons in territory contiguous to hers
as a menace to her Empire" If that
were true of the two little republics
which she destroyed in South Africa,
what must be her feeling towards a
country whose frontier touches hers
for thousands of miles?
EngIand's Outrageous Conduct To
ward Us During the Present War.
But it is in her conduct of the pres
ent war that she has flung caution to
the winds and openly and brazenly
ridden rough-shod over our neutral
rights and our self-respect as a nation
vitality dependent upon us for food
and for all resources Of war, she has
whined for assistance from us while
getting our supplies and at the same
time boldly invading the rights whose
recognition was wrung from her by
our fearless mariners in the war Of
1912; cried out to us in one voice fol
help and aid, and in another sheer
ingly tainted us with taking gold fol
our merchandise. She has in violation
not alone of our rights but of all the
unquestioned rules Of internationa
law changed the laws Of contrabant
in her own favor; she has, without
establishing a blockade seized, de
tanned, and injured cargoes sent by
us to neutral countries; stopped, cen