TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1916-05-29

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matter that you possess the bank OF the
river II l hold the bndgcheadf What
care ! that you have the hinterland It /
hold the port which supplies It with the
articles Of commerce. Britain makes
a showing OF generosity by not grab
bling everything al once. She bides her
time until she shall be able 20 organize
the natives Of the ports TO attack their
brethren Of the hinterland She sup
plies the gold and the officers. The
natives bleed that the rising sun may
ever greet the Union jack. a score OF
subject nations breed for the sole pur-
pose OF supplying men, women and chill
dren to find gold for the British trader.
The native is protected only as he Is
useful to commerce.
Commercial greed Is characteristic Of
the British. Ii was the cause OF all
their coalitions against Napoleon. Yet
so conservative are the islanders they
will not change their methods to meet
modern conditions until forced 70 do 50
by a diminished volume Of trade. Japan
and Germany make their commercial
high-schools an important part OF their
educational systems. The English in a
haphaxard way follow suit. The Ger
man consul studies trade conditions, and
reports 10 his government which inn
mediately informs all manufacturers and
merchants that an observance of some
little frill will increase the volume Of
commerce. The British consul may do
likewise, but he does not do IT as SCI
entihcally, nor as effectively. II may be
remarked in passing that an American
consul will not do what he can get out
of doing. An American consul is in
sulting in his brusqueness, a British
consul invites you to tea or tthn, a Ger
man consul gets down to the real BUSH
ness Of helping you to solve your prob
lens. So German trade increases by
leaps and bounds, and the British sulk
thereat. "A German is fully two or three
years younger than a corresponding
Engiishman when he becomes an ef-
fective factor in work or business.
Peace spelled ifretrieyable disaster to
British trade supremacy. Hence As
quith urged Russia to start the war.
Asquith and Grey are the evil geniuses
of England, with Churchill a close
third.
That British trade is for the British
is an illusion. II is for the upper
the rich, the ~aristocrats. There
IS no country in all the world, outside Of
England's Asiatic holdings, where the
Of wealth and pauperism is
more marked. The ~aristocratc govern
ment OF free England has produced the
horrible London Sums. The lowest Of
the English classes is only equaied by
the Chinese beggar, or the Hindostan
Economic liberty in England is
not for the masses OF the nation, and
sad to relate, this is one of our inheri-
tances from the mother country. No
government can be called good that is
not mostly concerned in uplifting the
of the people. A government
that caters to the rich alone is bad.
The plant IS more important than a
for other flowers will form in
due time. The gilded aristocracy OF
is grand to look upon, but it
could be exterminated and then repro
duced in a single generation from stock
in Whitechapel Civilization
does not consist in magnificent palaces
and parks for the rich, while the COM
mon people must be herded in novels,
but this is what the traveller first notes
merry England. Let us pity the land
that copies E~nglands economic ideals.
The political liberty lauded in Eng
ish literature was also for the upper
the mobiles and the gentry. The
have gradually brought them
TO believe that without themselves
would have persisted from the
.arth. They form a mutual admiration
which, BY repeating to each other
tales about English liberty, has
TO believe those stories To
,e true. Yet Perhdious Albion from
Toulon to Waterloo fought TO destroy
he liberties created by the French rev.
and at the Congress of Vienna
.%omplacently smiled 10 see Finland ard
put in chains as the price Of
retaining her share of the loot
The middle class in England did not
the meaning of liberty until 1882,
the rotten borouRhs were ousted
Much Of the enmity England has az
Ways expressed for the United States
vas simply the hatred OF a wealthy aris-
for the masses striving to OBJ
ain a Just measure Of political and
economic freedom. Did England hear
he shrek Of Freedom when Kosciusko
The English would have helped d.
tide the United States during the Civil
War, but for fear the North would get
Canada, and all subsequent friendship
hey have shown for this country has
,een dictated by the sole fact that 1T
IS THE DESTINY OF THE UNIT
Ed STATES TO ANNEX CANADA
The empire would like the republic to
its action, which the Notifications
il Esquimault, Point Lewis. and Hail
AK show TO be expected and inevitable.
at no period Of its history has
,een free from continental politics. The
.arly English kings, being vzssals OF
he French kings for continental hefs,
the game by intriguing with the
great lords against the crown Of
france. The game ended at Bonvines.
int intermarriages between the French
md English royal families brought
lbcut other causes for interference in
French politics, Until Taibots death at
-astilion dispclled forever the Anglo-
Saxon dream Of dominion on the con-
The lessons learned In these
vars were not forgotten, and whenever
has wished 10 injurc an enemy
n Europe she has paid other states to
Ight that enemy. Every coalition against
france for centuries was engineered by
Albion. The policy was not
Lnnlicahlr IL The continent alone. but