Ocober 25. 1800.
THE NEBRASKA' INDEPENDENT.
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LOT .IL.VS C.OOD RELIABLE SUITS at 8i.u0.
TLry are ruaJe with wide Frecch facing and have good linings and
tri rutins. Tfcey are pat together to stay together, and come in reg
tfar hjpe; al-in stout made in four button cutaway wick, like cut-
ra in aa ires iroin to 45. 1 nev would be cheap at 17.50. mi'
deo' special jrice h IIJV9.
LOT J'eo'e dark crar plain all wool smotb surface cassitnere
yt. They ar thbet wearing suits ever mad. GeoWl. not easily
St
Kf4 a&d uri.t' for vrry u--e. The cutting: trimming and making
r ju-st fct tLy should Ik for a suit of thi kind and tou can order
ti,- conSder.t ttt tLey riJl give satisfaction. Four button cutaway
ack rtyl: eirZi to U. for usual Hied uco, a!ro stouts. The price
i orJy M7r for tfcU stiit.
IAJT y-Men'n rare worsted ruit-s. to neat small , ctecki. If we
were cot lar?e buyers we coald not offer this suit for le? than flG.00.
Thm fabric 1 tb highest priced the milU have s-hown this season in
fBr wonted. We he!p you to a lartre arinir in clothincr fov our tre-
m ad era purchase;; porr. Haydea sweial price only f 10.00.
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HAYDEH BROS.' WHOLESALE
HARDY'S COLUMN
Biiy&S
or Itlaads L&giih Pur--Ma
Hired to Shout False
Prophet Poor Araii;&t the Rich
Board of Control Civil Service
Itor Strike Hanna Ktoms It AH
Rich Men Eoy at College Sil
ver Going UpJohn Sherman.
MrKis!-y ! .0 trying to buy the
Duih Wet Indies islands St. Tfco
St. John aad Santa Crux. These
elands Uy fifty or sixty nsik south
east cf Porto Rico. Denmark wants
o be rid cf the Ulanda. after two
hundred year of unprofitable rule.
Why don't Ienniark in them rule
Ccla&4 bits paid out for army sup
plies at New Orleans, over ten million
of dollar. Sixty thousand mules and
horses fcare b-a exported from there.
Mr Klnley should have the credit for
All that, of course.
It U reported there axe five hundred
u.-u hired to talk polities day times
on the streets of St. Paul and Min
neapolis and to shout in McKinley
meetings night.
Th republican need not talk about
fli prophets. We remember John
Thurston prophesied four years age
that ilcKisley would carry Nebraska
by twrtity-Cve thousand, but he was
beaten Ly nearly that cumber.
Tliey oca Bryan of arraying the
tr agilL.it the rich. That is true,
fur the rich are nearly all in the Mc
KitJey party. That is the reason they
ant monarchy so the poor cannot
hange thine by their vote. The
r t' h re already arrayed against the
poor ar ! are constantly demanding
'!ciJ Ui so they can &-iaze them
t.ll harder. Tb gold standard is a
nrh man s reeasure.
It if hope, that our routes legisla
ture will authorize the appointment or
e!-tjon of a state board of control
dl!ar to the fa Iowa. Three men
n that state have control of all the
tat l&Ftittriions. They make all the
arpointrcects and purchase all the
supplies and when they say to a super
intendent go. he iroes. It is their duty
to froni one Institution to another
nd ee that they are rightly man
aed. The text civil service move will be
to pension all the government em
ploye after they Lave worked twenty
Sve ytam That is where licKinley
itm will land us. Pay the clerks four
or five times the wages farm men get,
lei them spend It in high living and
then ron ti cue to tax the farmers that
they may lire on the top sheif the rest
if their days. Away with being born
tn ofre r being permitted to hold
oSee for life. An See holding class
i what we depise. Let them rave
their money and when a new presi
!est comes in go into business for
thrmelves nil earn their own living.
We have a much better opinion of
the strike business cow ince the big
ral diggers strike in Pennsylvania,
f-r they have behaved themselves
tfiisfb better than nsual. Laboring
tatn have injured their own rause by
! leva actions. The carpenters and
but Hers strike fn Chicago a pilars to
r a mixed -up affair. Vtrt-t the con
trawrtora. and lumtjer dealers went into
a rmVie acd no carpenter or Fnu.ll
r.u!der ccuM get any biildirig ma-
GONOVA
. -i fear"
OR REYNOLDS
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n .: :i o Zt p.. as- JSu&day 3 to 5.
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caccer tutuori, and w-n: no knife,
bkd or planter. Addre 13 O street,
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tuctm to fcrlirr a4 rol wt in trak ftr old
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Omaha,
Nebraska.
j teria!. Why cannot a dozen carpenters
or masons take lobs, do all the work
and have all the money and leave the
contractors out in the cold?
Hanna has been In Lincoln and told
us what a bad man Bryan is. His
speeches summed up amounted to this,
that every working man who does not
vote for McKinley and the millionaire
government should be starved. He
told ua Thompson and Rosewater were
men after his own heart and must be
sent to the senate. He left piles of
money with them to buy up the hesi
tating republicans and to hire Bryan
men to stay at .home and husk corn
on election day. Five dollars are to
be paid to every Bryan nan who will
husk all day and not vote.
The howl that if Bryan is elected
and there are any United States
Judges to appoint he will appoint
those favorable to an income tax.
Would that show disrespect of the
court? There never has been a Dred
' Scott decision judge appointed since
thst decision was rendered. We had
a slave drivers' court fcr many years;
now we have had a rich man's court
for several years and it is about time
we had a court of justice. The judges
whom Bryan appoints will not be
owned and controlled by the million
aires, you bet.
Kastern colleges are filled with sons
and daughters of millionaires. The
cost of a college course Is above what
farmers can afford for their children.
A student must expend, money need
lessly to a certain extent or become
the but and jeer of his class. We fear
the tendency is that way here in Ne
braska. Bryan is not acceptable to
the millionaires or their sons and
daughters as seen at Cornell the other
day and al Yale four years ago. Those
same students in the east would kiss
the big toe of the Priuo? of Wales
should he appear among them.
Silver seems to be gradually climb
ing up. England finds she cannot
spare the gold to pay her soldiers and
other expences in India, so she has to
buy silver. It is so in over one-half
the world. Sixteen pounds of silver
will buy just about as much as one
pound of gold in Russia, China. Japan,
Africa, South America or Mexico. The
difference in exchange is equivalent to
a tariff of about 50 per cent. If we
sell goods in Mexico we have got to
take their silver, which is ony wort.,
about half as much on this side. If
thy sell goods to up. they take a
lump of silver which is worth double
when they get home. When Mexico or
any of the other silver countries wants
to buy anytbing of us or of Europe,
they use gold. That is what has
drained all those countries cf gold.
But bat should be noticed most none
of those countries have known any
thing about hard times in the nineties.
Showing that Cleveland was no more
responsible for the hard times than
Harrison or McKinley. The gold
standard did it. Were it not. for the
fact that gold has come this way from
the silver countries, and McKinley's
coining fifty or a hundred millions of
silver dollars together with a large
quantity of gold, Bryan's prophesy
of harder times would have come to
pass.
John Sherman is dead; the man who
has made the American people more
trouble than any other person living
or dead. Had he died In 1572 the coin
ing of silver never would have been
dropped. He was the man who con-
fharples Cream Separators Profit
able dairying.
..CANCERS AND TUMORS..
fared at Home. The only FaSnleas Perma
nent Care appeaiios to intelueoc. En
iwei by tnmisnBd phrsicians. !&nd 6
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Trombriftge, 'lib. Neb.: Mrs. L. E. Ba brock,
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or Latte. CincioDati, Ohio. Mention tbie pa
per. He's with us.
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Co., 4th JL Locust Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
spired with the rich men; at home and I
abroad to demonetize silver so bonds
and all debts would increase in value
as compared with property. He se
cretly worked the bill through con
gress before any.one:else knew it. He
did pot do it because silver was tin
sound money for the silver, dollar was
worth at that time three cents more
than the gold dollar?- He did it to re
duce the number of dollars. After the
passage of the law, had be died in 1S77
silver would have, been reinstated in
1878. But Sherman came in with his
compromise and congress was per
suaded to buy and coin a certain quan
tity of silver , every month; Even
Sherman's bill was to be knocked out
by vetoe and there , is, ho doubt that
he knew it. But President "Hayes'
veto was overborne by congress and
the Sherman . bill became a law not
withstanding the veto. There is no
doubt that President Hayes was
pledged to veto any silver bill or he
never would have been nominated or
counted in after he was beaten. The
millionaires began their rule in 1S73
and are still the rulers of this people.
They rule McKinley just ashey ruled
Cleveland. ... .
MID-ROAD BOODLE
The coundreld Ourrel Among Them
sejve and One-of Them Oives to
' v The Press Letters.
There never was a more disgraceful
thing in all the vileness that has been
recorded in politics in the last hun
dred years than the boodle schemers
of the middle of the roaa persuasion
have presented. Down m Kansas there
wps one Abe Steinberger, the stench
of the foulness of his character per
vaded the whole state and spread over
to the borders of the surrounding
states. At last, 1 he went to a far
southern state where his character
was not known. Lately he has turned
up in the service of Mark Hanna in
Indiana and Ohio, engaged in getting
up middle-of-the-road tickets by pe
tition or in any other way. It appears
that Col. Dick, Mark Hanna's chief in
Ohio, furnished a good deal of funds
iand
.be gobbled nearly : the- wnoie
pile. The consequence was a row
among the thieves and one of them
gave the whole matter awaj' to the
press. The notorious Walter of Ind
ianapolis was one of the chief actors.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 12th
gives a detailed account of the trans
actions of there scoundrels, who have
operated under various names In dif
ferent states. : Scebbins and Stewart
found the thing prettj' rotten in Ne
braska, but it is just as bad in Ohio
and Indiana as anything that Clem
Deaver has worked up in this state.
The Enquirer publishes a batch of
correspondence that passed to and fro
between them which found its .way in
to print because of a falling out
among themselves over a division of
the spoils. The facts have come to
light in time for the innocent victims
upon whose credulity these men were
trading to learn the truth and avoid
the pitfalls that, were ' laid for them
by corrupt and designing men. It is
a verification of the old saying that
when thieves fall out honest men re-
ceive their due.
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THE NEW IMPERIALISM
What It has Done fer Labor in Kngrland
and What It Will do lor Labor
iu America.
. A few days ago Mr. Sidney J. Kent,
state labor , commissioner, returned
from England. He had gone, there as
one of two representatives . from Am
erica to"-the British trade union con
gress that met at the town of Hudders
fleld, England, September 3. Mr.
Kent, while an Englishman born, 'is
bitterly opposed to the Boer war, and
to the New Imperialism, and claims
that it is just as much an issue in Eng
land as in the United States. ,
He also states that the majority of
the congress that he attended were
also opposed to the war. We clip the
following from a long article that he
has prepared concerning his trip and
the work of the congress in which he
introduced part of a speech of John
Burns, M. P.
In view of the issues now pending
in this campaign it will be read with
great interest. V , - . .
The readers of The Independent will
se$ that this paper has kept them well
informed of the condition of affairs in
England. When it said that a large
portion of the people of England was
oppos ed to the Boer war, and especial
ly so were the wage-workers, it stated
a fact. The speech of John Burns, a
part of which is here reprinted, is a
applicable to-William. McKlniey. as it
Is to Cecil Rhodes and; Joe. Chamber
lain. The question '-'-of "rmpe.rialism
has not been better stated by any
writer or speaker, ia this country than
here stated by John Burns.
. I had before leaving the United
States given it as my opinion that the
organized workers of the United King
dora were not in accord with the ac
tion of their government, in respect to
the Transvaal war. This opinion was
substantiated far beyond .my expecta
tions; for one of the very -first aets of
the congress after it-'bad- organizea
was the passage of an amendment to
the parliamentary committee's report,
condemnatory of the war in South
Africa." " .
Mr. Ward, who introduced the res
olution, said:- "The report of the par-
liamentary committee does not, refer
vo me uita.su uu eucti upuu me iruae
and industry of the country resulting
from the cruel and "unnecessary war
now being waged agatnst the two re
publics : m South Africa, and further
protests against the. suppression of
these two independent states at the
dictation of -'the cosmopolitan capital
ists, as a blow -aimeq at the indepen
dence of South. African labor and
against these principles of national
freedom, which have characterised , the
history of thd close of the century.
They knew at the last congress that
Chamberlain and Rnodes were intrigu
ing and engineering to bring this war
about. Even now it is not too late, in
my opinion, to move In the matter.
It was natural that they who desired
to have a voice- in the government of
their own country should sympathize
to some extent with the franchise
phase of the agitation. Everybody
knows no wv by the mere proclamation
of the mouthpiece of the government
annexing these independent states as
a part and parcel of what was called
the British empire, that the franchise
was a mere boev.-and that' the reason
for the war was : to secure the gold
mines of the Transvaal. .
"Practically; $500,000,000 of the tax
payers TOoney has been spent in try
ing to secure the gold fields of South
Africa t for. ?xsmopolitau capitalists,
most of "whom have no patriotism and
no countryl He was surprised that
Enslishment who boasted and gloried
In the fact that they were able to re
form the country: they were born in
without outside Interference, should
sanction such a course: There was
also a question from the labor point of
view. Did they imagine that the
wages under the Rand under Rhodes
and Beit Eckstein would be as high as
those which prevailed under the old
farmers ? It was clearly a question of
wages, and it was the duty of those
who represented the working men of
Great Britain to raise their voice in
defense of these people who w were
rightly struggling to be free." '
In the course of the argument it was
shown that under the-Dutch republic
the wrages were high, and the eight
hour law general in the mines. Strict
laws were enforced protecting life, in
striking contrast to conditions exist
ing under the chartered companies. It
was shown that Cecil Rhodes and his
kind were importing Chinese labor
to supplant white ' men, and that as
much was paid in wages in one day
on the Rand as wTas paid in one week
in Kimberly.
The inconsistency was .hown of
howling for an extended suffrage " in
the Transvaal, ; and yet ; denying the
right of suffrage, to 30 per cent of the
male population of. the United, King
dom of voting age. .
Another resolution passed expressed
good will and fraternal feeling to
wards the workers of France, and de
ploring the . spirit . shown by certain
newspapers and also by Mr. Chamber
lain to create bad 'feeling between the
two people. - This resolution is as fol
lows: iV;... . ,
"The congress ,, deeply regrets thxt
portions of the British and French
press frequently use irritating and
dangerous language towards the gov
ernments and the people of these coun
tries, and learns with satisfaction that
arrangements are being made for the
representation of'-a5 fraternal address
from the -British to French - workmen
at a great demonstration in Paris, and
authorizes the .president- of the con
gress to sign the address on behalf of
the congress, and appoint two mem
bers of the congress to accompany the
deputation to the demonstration in
Paris." . . ... ,. .
The issues in the present election in
Great Britain' are much "the same, as
in the United States. I have shown
the attitude of the. labor organizations
regarding the war in the Transvaal.
This view is shared by radical liberals,
the labor and Irish parties. It is at
present an outspoken and powerful
minority, that may soon become a
majority. ......
The issue in the campaign is called
"the New Imperialism and one read
ily recognizes" how nearly like our
own are the arguments used and the
terms employed by those in opposition
to the governmental policies of the
present' administration.
I give here extracts ' from a speech
delivered at the Battersia Park, May
13, this year, by John Burns, M. P.
"THE NEW IMPERIALISM."
"By this I mean the changed atti
tude and relationship of the British
people to foreign powers, and their
conception of what British foreign and
colonial policy should be. Is there a
change? Yes, it is unmistakable. He
who runs may read thev ominous signs
of change. Is the change for the good?
I s.iy no, a thousand times no. Is this
relationship to be guided back to its
old channels? Is the change, failing
diversion to better view, to - be re
sisted? I believe yes. If not resisted,
the 'New Imperialism' is doomed to
real imperial failure, political dis
honor, national disgrace, and interna
tional discredit. In the past we have
been satisfied with a "splendid insola
tion? It has been our wisest policy.
We have ss a people hitnerto kept
free of alliances", because the alliance
of a free nation with military powers
was imcompatible with out free in
stitutions. Our insular position did
not need them, our naval supremacy
rendered them unnecessary. We have
held aloof from dynastic quarrels, and
in so doing have been able to devote
to trade, commerce, industry and col
onization what others gave to pre
tenders, conscription and war.
'Our looms, forges, iron, coal and
shipping alone have made our trade.
Our sailors and engineers carried our,
argosies , into . eyery sea. The excel
lence of bur goqds opened all ports to
our "commerce, their cheapness gave
us entrance to all countries, their dur
ability maintained their position. The
civilian mind, the judicial instinct, the
engineering talent; the industrial apti--tude
laid aH" countries under bur com
mercial tribute. . Result, without war,
with aggression i he products of peace
have mainly made this country
wealthier than the wild disordered im
perialism now . in vogue could ever
have secured., . - This policy of trade
and non-intervention has altered, and
a change has come over our country
statesmen and people. Our statesmen
have abandoned, the quiet, restrained
and diplomatic attitude. - The best tra
ditions of negotiations are abandoned;
responsible ministers, tell friendly
states they have to mend their man
ners because a, few scurrilous journal
ists in Paris abuse their trust and in
sult the queen. In the language of
one paper. 'China is to be crushed into
civilization. 'Our parliament, less
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critical, has almost ceased to be a de
liberative assembly; we are now guid
ed by the crowd through the driven
and cowardly medium of a jingo gov
ernment. Parliament exercises no ef
fective control over peace or war, as it
is generally not sitting when war. is
Imminent or declared. We are now
governed by the crown, the' ministry,
the cabinet, the soldier and the per
manent official. The 'one free voice in
Europe, so far as this war is conT
cerned, has " been dumb. Parliament
has abdicated; the political Hooligan
rules at home. We are on the eve of
seeing John Bull become John Bull-y
abroad. Our people have become hys
terical, the streets have been filled
with people khaki clad, khaki mad.
khaki bad. clamoring for a war they
cannot afford, shouting for aggression
they cannot justify, the soldier and the
sailor- have for the moment usurped
the judgment seat." The sensational
journalist inflames :he popular mind,
and excites international hatred.
There is real nd serious danger in
this, as was seen by Tennyson when
he wrote:
" 'Step by step we gained a freedom,
Known to Europe, known to all,
Sten by step we ross to greatness,
Through the tonguesters we may
fall.
"Our policies have become more ag
gressive, as witnessed by Chitral, Ti
rah, Khartoum, Benin, Ashanti, Af
rica, east, west, north and south, and
China. Our army growing, our navy
increasing, the defences of the empire
now reach the large total of 400,000,
000. Conscription by easy. installments
already embarked upon; the volun
teer act broken; on every side war,
war's alarm, and preparations for fu
ture wars. An industrial people have
become imperialized, a peaceful people
militarized, a. splendidly ' insolated
maritime nation is fast becoming a
world wide land power with over land
responsibilities it cannot discharge
from its naval base. Worse even than
this, our poets, who were the 'idle
signers of an empty day,' 'now cry
havoc, and let ship tba dogs of war.
Our journalists, whose duty it is to
subdue rather than excite, join in the
ever swelling chorus for expansion, ag
gression and disordered jingoism.
"The greed of gold, the lust of ter
ritory, the violent attack of megalo
mania induced oy the New Imperial
ism has completely changed our na
tional ethical aims, and the violent)
subjection of native races in the Sou
dan, the subjection of the semi-savage,
and the overpowering of prim
itive, pastoral , white people by the
British and American arms in recent
years. See the change that has come
over liberalism as now defined by cer
tain liberal leaders. It used to stand
for peace, retrenchment and reform.
To pander to the New Imperialism the
'liberal imperialist now cries for a
'bigger navy, than the tories. a bigger
army on a " business footing; talk
meekly about arbitration, but connives
at war, preaches peace, but condones
violent warlike confiscation of terri
tory, providing the people who own it
are incapable of its defence; run away
from the Turk who kills 100,000 Ar
menians, but winks at Chitral, and
Ashanti; gives Heligoland and Samoa
to Germany because it is big; see Fin
land and the Transvaal crushed be
cause they are small. But there is a
worse sign of deterioration in the
growing centralization that springs
from the New Imperialism. This, if
not checked." will tend to break up the
automatic control that free communi
ties have hitherto enjoyed. Roman
imperialism , divided the world into
master and slave; Caesarism became
synonymous with autocracy; Bona
parte meant .militarism; Jingoism
means the dominion of a soulless plu
tocracy. Fericles regarded the state
as the embodiment cf culture; the Em
peror of Germany interprets the state
as militarized ;bureauocracy, resting
alternately . on force and patronage;
the old liberals regarded the state as
the medium of making laws and the
protection of life and property; the
New Imperialist ; interprets the state
as taking other people's country and
someone else's property. Their pro
gram seems to be what Matthew Ar
nold feared:"
"An upper class materialized,
, A middle class vulgarized,
A working class brutalized.
"And I would add all of them jin
goized. Their "ideal is to place the
whole of the world either under the
dominion of the unit buccaneer, the
marauding state, or the chartered com
pany. Its destiny in the hands of the
soulless plutocrat to whom nationality
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lire tt make Oyer loco fartfy Appliances and tator
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Skill in thn construction tndtiMef tinpla Tbor-Tinf to it of
Bat bqwrtuei, and uf aid to tb 4erlopmcBl of thit Autarky
' i !wy very wticome. The volum htr praDtcl baada in lubl
klal aud ratfatleaa for tha aujr and rapid oiaatructioa ot a lance num.
bar of BOaaia4aeTBlaea aithin the raca of ail. It ia an (Tardaf
kaadbaak ppacU t both iadoara and aatdaara Mid eontama the bat
Idea rtnrrea irsm m acwrw ui cuw
onTnniencea and appliapca deacnoed inthuwork aeu(raat romforta
to hoth aaaa and baat It ta certain that ere-T rOBTaastra twmr. n.
deaer, aaaaahaUar IB Iact,ru7 m
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aoea will find vary atiirh of lairraai ! ia this vnluma. For eon.
yvnicio in refr-mce. tba vartoua coiitnTancca and Iabor-avinff davit-
bii claniSci atwirr thr rvnml hadinra, namrlT, Farm Caavea
hms-Fara laaUaacM, aa4 raea, fiata mm BfHlw. aoout eqwiy
omdrd aa to th i aoaee uaMl. and altocather occupying v46 Paaa. Hrra,
wabeliev. for the rat tiauia catherad totthar a aaaaa or latoraiatlaa
upon tea, ruaa aad kratna, and taare u alaaa caapter on fcaee law
and aaa oa eamatry krWcaa aad cnlvarta. '' ' --"
. ILLUSTRATinNS In Homfma.lt CoDtnrea thrre are aowa 10
luvyinniiuno. IllartraUoaa, an ittnti of mora than on to
ach pan. Thia mora atat-meot ot th numbvt m aa aTMoae of ih praa .
ttoaMHty of tha work. The iUtwtrattont -are talaly drawa and airaly '
. r"r . ...
Winy aponniinateiy 1 ft-S toy i 11
I aa book ta akataMiaiiy aoaaa tn
is but a figment,; and has only a pas
sion for freedom where there Is gold
or concerns himself with franchise
only where -diamonds abound. In - a
word .the Nev., Imperialist practices
and gets the people's army and navy
to enforce its sordid vulgar ideas.. A
nation which countenances that, is
doomed, a people that connives at it is
already half way on the road to slav
ery. A working class that does not re-,
sist it is destined to be taught the
sharpest lesson they ever received.
"Now. we come to" the New Imperial
ist. . This person, is in favor of any
act of force, fraud or folly that ex
tends the empire. Not the ethics of
robbery, but the inexpediency of be
ing honest and respecting your neigh
bor's rights weighs with him. Bigness
with him is greatness, strength with
him is power. - The ease with which
encroachment can be effected is its
justification, and. reward. He talks
glibly of eating his Christmas dinner
at Pretoria, when" our soldiers have to
do the fighting; he looks upon war as
a tropical picnic conducted in the spir
it of a football match. The judgment
of the New Imperialist is shown by
their chief, Cecil Rhodes, saying tho
'Boers would not fight, others of his
school saying . they could not shoot,
and most famous of all sayings if we
gave them a good beating they would
ADD THE NEW IMPERIALSM
live in brotherly love with us. These
ignorant people, untaught by exper
ience and history, forget that America
really hates us to this day for our at
tempt on their self-government 120
years ago. Ireland dislikes us because
we did 100 years ago what Cecil
Rhodes has done to the Dutch in South
Africa. France distrusts us because
out of the past . 600 years we hav;
waged war against her for 260 years.
We have turned her out of America.
India, Egypt, beaten her on sea and
land, and I see no sign of reconcilia
tion till our. unreasoning suspicion of
presS-niade: hatred of France subsides.
Certainly her attitude to us shows that
conquest does not irake for peace, noc
subjection j for friendship, as will be
proved if Ithe Boers, are similarly
treated.
"The Boers must be civilized,' when
the -fact is the South African republic,
till Rhodes cursed them by his pres
ence and that of his cosmopolitan pas
cals, never had a goal, work house or
pauper, whilst London has 400,000 per
sons living ; in" one ", room tenements,
and possess all the adjuncts of com--mercialized
progress in the shape of
prisons, penitentiary, asylums . and
work houses.1--The - New Imperialist
wants the; absorption of the republics
In the Interests. of 'morality and prog
ress, when , the.f act is there are as
many women on the streets of London
eating the crumb " of charity, or the
loaf of lust, as there are soldiers in
both Boer armies. Go to war for a
franchise in.Africat when half of the
adults at. home (and all of the females)
either cannot or will not vote at all.
The New Imperialist .talks about equal
rights for. all-white men, and denies
self-eovernmert and refuses to con-
f cede ever ' to London the compliment.
to the franchise, namely, the free un
fettered control of its municipal Jife
and the ownership of all its monop
olies. He talks about oppressed Brit
ons in Johannesburg earning 24s a
day,-and in the cause of 'equal rights
for all white men dismissed 300 Wool
rich laborers because they ask for 24s
per week.
"He has a magnified sense of Brit
ain's civilizing mission; with him to
acquire territory is sufficient, to grab
is to govern.- He does believe in free
dom's cause, as, far away as Transvaal
is. but neglects our neighbor, Ireland.
which through lack of self-government
based upon the: economical needs of
her people, has- reduced her popula
tion from nina to five millions in, fifty
years. But J the New Imperialist is
keener on' populating the borders of
the Karoo Desert than he is on de
veloping potentially. fertile Ireland, or
arresting the decay of derelict Exxes
near at home. He sees no danger in
famine-stricken India, whose misfor
tunes are less due to the elements than
to" an artificially cieated poverty
brought about-by the drain that the
British imposes upon the Indian peo
ple by her costly government, he light
ly sees its natives dying of starvation,
while money that should be. relieving
their necessities is being wasted for
the industrial enslavement of black
and white labor in South Africa. The
New Imperialist Is invariable an ig
norant and always a vulgar person;
he affirms that territory means trade.
It " does not.' He : declares J that trade
SI
ill
TV . V"."-
men ia au arpanmenta. mi
intareate'd is iabor-aarliig ouit-
mmm
... . .
iaca, . 'ihe rajraUr fnet ia iootnta.
iiiaatiaataa ai
the !
follows the flag, which Is not truo, as
7 per cent of our trade is with for
eigners, ana zt per cent witn tne Jiru
lsh Empire; 83 per cent of our trade is
in' the :Temperate zone, with what the
Imperialist calls our natural enemies,
and 17 per cent only is in the tropics
the tjingo objective of our aggreesion
and expansion. The order of trade Is
America first, Germany, second, France
third, , Russia, fourth. Holland fifth,
Austria sixth and Africa seventh.
"He buys newspapers and cable ag-
encfe's.-' "-He? floats companies at $"
shares; so as to distribute over! the
wide spheres of influence the interest ot
men for war that his financial scheme,
needs. He1 nominated through ' his
newspapers and political friends mem
bers of a committee of inquiry; by
which his own disloyal and criminal
acts are to.be judged. He does not
hesitate to subsidize religious bodies,
subscribed to political parties at home
and abroad." He runs savage South
African shows at Olympia to stimulate
the war fever,-subsidizes war plays.
converts legislators, bribes voters and
makes them by the thousand at the
Cape, and as the Investors Review
truly says May 12, 1900, exercises! the
most subtle and dangerous power. The
world Is becoming more and men the
happy hunting' ground of financial
combinations : and syndicates. They
run newspapers, manufacture opioion.
improvise cries, revolutionize institutions,-
make wars-and set Europe by
the ears. This base, bloody and bru
tal war is the direct result of New Im
perialism which has done all ' these
things. ; This stain.upon our national
honor is the deliberately organized
product", of the mercenary Rhodiisian
agitator, and the interested stirred-up
of strife. This war ia a second Jame
son raid at the national expense,; car
ried out by your 1 soldiers by braver
men than the raiders of 1895. It; has
a cash basis, it has a capitalist aim.
and will-only" benefit those who use
place, privilege and -power to accom
plish sordid ends. , Its policy Is based
upon the view of: "
"'Why. that's the end of wealth!
t , thrust riches outward
And remain beggars within; contem
plate nothing. I
But the vile, sordid things of time,
place and money,
And let the noble and the precious go.'
"The New. Imperialist by this war
has exposed , his aim, methods and
working, and has therefore placed you
dn your guard for future guidance. It
will lose you 50,000 men killed, dis
abled and stricken with disease It
will delay social reform, Industrial
amelioration, and political change.
The money for old age pensions will
be swallowed up by the cost of this
war, , which may reach $1,000,000,000.
It will mean bad trade, bad feeling, in
ternational jealousy and universal and
suspicion of the path the nation is
treading, and bring you back from tho
transient excitement, the dangeroas air
lufements of a military imperialism
that 'unchecked, tinfrahished and per
sisted' in will destroy in a short time
what it has taken a thousand years to
create. There are fortunately sign
that a better feeling is at hand. ; Our
soldiers afthe front have learned; that
Africa is 'a land of lies,' as Winston
Churchiil said. By , contact with th
Boer he is disillusioned and is al
ready showing a strong contempt for
the base purposes, low aims and sordid
people in whose interest his valor has
been prostituted and his suffering
wasted.. r -The arrival home ol! our
army means, I believe, the return' of
130,003 uniformed pro-Boers, who have
been used in the" interest not cf pa
triotism, but of a soulless plutocracy
the head and front of the New Im
perialism that has caused this war for
purposes that are as immoral an this
war! la unjust. : I rejoice that Batter
sea has resisted, this gilded impoatur';
I ajn proud of. a district that allows
me to denounce it unmolested. I be
lieve, when the time comes for it to
be judged, the New Imperialiem will
receive in this district the condemnation-
it heartily deserves at the hands
of free workmen, who in their fis;ht
for a greater London, and a higher so
cial life at home, repudiate ; the mo
tives, methods and madness of this
last crime the New Imperialism has
committee in England's name abroad."
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