Middletown transcript., 1916-08-12
p1DDLErOwE. DEL, AUG. Is. .lSlsA
E.NGIISH BLUNDERING

LII NJ LudO ACluuSN AAi
"A Sir Hugh Easement, showed poor
Judgment in wishing to exchange the
tvrannous English frying pan for the
far more tyrannical German hot Goals,
vet. for all that it was stupendous
blunder upon England's part to hang
him, and still another blunder, with
cold malice that pursued even his poor
dead clay, to deny him burial at the
hands of those who loved him.
This opinion of ours happens to agree
with that of all the world outside the
self-righteous Isle of Britain, and SO we
may safely conclude our opinion is just
Butyour lordly Englishman is nothing
fif not arbitrary and unjust, not to say
+ downright brutal at times. This I'M
placable Briton of 1916 thus viciously
avenging himself on this forlorn Celtic
dreamer of liberty, is the same Brlton
who blew Sepoys from before their
cannon throats to cool the ardor OF
Indian patriots who dared to think
themselves worthy to enjoy the same
freedom that is the Englishman's proud
boast.
He is the same John Bull who made it
a hanging matter for poor Indian
peasant to evaporate few pounds OF
sea water in order to get salt; the very
same Christian English hog that twice
at the cannon's mouth forced 400 mil
lions of heather Chinese to cultivate the
awful vice of opium.
incidentally, we Americans can recall
that this same brutal John Bull tyranny
twice hired the merciless Indian savages
with tomahawk and scalping knife to
subdue us for attempting to secure the
same blessing of freedom for whose
mad quest Sir Roger died.
We recall also the systematic horrors
! of Dartmoor, and the deliberate, con-
tehptious vandalism that once fired the
White House, together with the long
- - ~zsqqnies recited at length in
that unahsS erable Indictment Of
England's tyrarxy-The Declaration of
independence.
And our united rebellion" of rs
differs only from this crazy fiasco of a
divided Ireland in that it was successful.
Otherwise, our "Mr George Washing
ton, as English generals vainly tried to
snub him, had tasted the same ignobe
British hemp as that which throttled
Door Sir Roger. And our fathers well
knew this, as witness Franklin's grim
Jest on that hot July day in Carpenter S
Hall-"We must hang together, or we
will hang separately.
For that matter, at this very moment,
thanks to the feeble conduct of our af-
fairs that invites insult and oppression
on every hand, we are enjoying an IL
lustration of the same precious English
doctrine (of which the German is only
an improved copy that "might makes
right, in the repeated seizure OF our
vessels, the outrageous violation of our
mails. even to the private official cor
respondence of our foreign ministers
Had the late Edward VII, who de-
spite his youthful tomfoOleries, as King
made himself far more than the usual
roval figure-head, been alive England
had been spared this blunder for his
broad sense of the fitness of things
would have seen the plain injustice OF
hanging the rebel Easement and his
Catholic lieutenants, and letting the
Protestant rebel Carson and the rest,
go scott free.
Perhaps, tho, this precious royal
manikin who as George V is disporting
himself in the idle role Of "king'', is q
victim of the inherent folly of the
Georges so scorchingly pictured by
Thackeray in his ''Four Georges. ."
This ancestral folly of the Georges,
whose exhibition in 1776 by that pig
headed idiot, George III, cost England
her finest crown jewel and spurred
America on to its great destiny, is after
all Germanic legacy, for his is the
Hanoverian line. in which his royal for
bears not so very far back, could not
even speak the English language. AT
any rate the Easement execution is a
blunder that pleases Germany nightly,
and grieves every friend of England's.
Houv,Ev PoIonrae