Middletown transcript., 1920-05-29
DEAR, GENEROUS ENGLAND,
I@pEKING, April Is (by nail.

ment, is pressing with strong
hand for the complete removal of
the opium curse from China. Large
quantities Of opium seized by the
Chinese Customs and local authori
ties continue to be burnt by order
Of the Government. On January
q last, more than 1913 pounds of
opium, with value Of $S92, 760,
were destroyed at Shanghai in the
presence Of Chinese and foreign
officials President Hsu has issued
several mandates enjoining the au-'
thorities to spare no efforts in pre-
venting the recrudescence of poppy
cultivation and the revival Of the
opium habit.-F0reign Neacs."
Nearly one-half million dollars worth
of the deadly opium burned in one
province alone Not ;, bad for a
''heathen'' nation. Over half century
ago those ''heathen" Chinese tried to
Danish the opium curse from their land,
but godly England would not allow it,
and in 1910 when ''the poor heather in
his blindness" tried to prevent the i'm
portation into his land of the soul-and-
body-destroying drug, christian"
England with her pious cannon bonn
barded the Chinese port of Hong Kong
and forced the Chinese to sell their
souls to the opium devil in order that
Christian English traders might get
great gain thereby !!
Napoleon called England "a nation of
shop-keepers, and this epithet true
then has been true ever since. Why
has the bloody infidel Turk been allow
ed to cut Christian throats for over a
century? Because Turkish rentes,
largely held English investors, yielded
very handsome profit indeed, and the
Turks little pastime of Sitting the
jugulars of the helpless Christian peo-
pies must not be interfered with. Ger
tainly not, for then Turkish rentes
would fall
England's selfish character is still
kept in pristine hoggishness. Bristles
are eternal in the hide of the English
man. England issued from the World
War enormously enriched. acquiring
the dominion of nearly all Africa. and
much of Asia; the lions share of the
spoils Of war, besides an open field for
the exploitation of Palestine, Asia
Minor, Syria, etc.
She is enraged that America is daring
to dispute her former autocracy of the
sea and seeking to acquire share of
the worlds foreign trade and commerce
once largely hers. :.--.
The latest illustrations of British
bristles might surprise US did we not Of
old know her true nature. England
says the United States should present
her and her allies the SIC, ,00O, ,O00, 900 of
monies they borrowed; that the United
States ought to assume Germany's
huge war debt of $40, 900, 600, 900
more, and take the per6dious Huns
slow notes-more ''scraps of paper"
in return
It will only saddle debt of $3.50, ,OOO,-
600 yearly upon our land 4! Meanwhile
Uncle Sam is ''playing the sucker to
greedy England, she will be getting fat
as butter off dear Germany's trade
as shown by the following:
paris, May 7.-That Great
Britain has stolen wide march on
the United States and France in
the resumption of business relations
with Germany is the opinion ex-
pressed by French merchants who
have tried to buy goods across the
Rhine. In q great majority of
cases, the merchants report, the
German manufacturer replies to in
quiry that his plant will be tied up
for long time to come by contracts
with British customers"
Again, we should assume the man
date over Armenia at cost of about
three-quarters of billion more, besides
q standing army of 200, 900 or more
quartered there, in shape to participate
IN the fine Greco Turkish war already
started, and still another between Ar
menia and the Turks. In a special
message to Congress MIR. Wilson has
asked power to assume this cheap man.
date over Armenia
Yes we ought, for England SO dearly
loves US. A few recent samples of
that love. A short time ago British
theatre mob broke up a play and Kissed
an American singer, Miss Laurette
Taylor; about the same time a mob Of
chivalrous English students, more fond
Of drink than fair play, mobbed an
American temperance orator and NAL
! treated him so shamefully as to cost
him the loss Of an eye-the famous
"Pussyfoot johnson.
Everybody recalls the brutal insult
sonce paid the sainted Lincoln by Eng
lands leading illustrated paper Puck,
when the artist caricatured him as an
ape Not long ago one of Puck's art
lists repeated the insult by representing
Uncle Sar as bloated gambler sneer-
ing at poor starving Armenian wo-
man and roughly bidding her to ''go to
work r. This on the heels of America 8
princely gifts to Europe's sufferers, not
to speak of the unequalled generosity
Of the yet richer gift of the blood Of
her heroic sons freely offered upon
European battlefields- ''Those stingy
> Yankees r 0, yes, by all means let
Uncle Sam crack his back that ''Rule
Brittania" may still shine the undimmed
maxim OF Briton greed