Show D OOM OM OF BRITISH SUPREMACY IN TRADE TRADE I l. l WRITTEN O ON WALL SAYS LABOUCHERE I r t LONDON May ray 1 Henry i.-Henry Henry Labouchere t 1 Jl In this weeks week's Truth under the heading I of and the Moral tells 1 the the British nation that Its supremacy vt is not only in trade and commerce r ti threatened but but doomed and that It will t take all aU the best efforts of which the empire is capable to prevent a retrograde retro retro- 1 f I which if it i it begins gins gra grade e movement J. J increase r e year by year Mr Laa La- La 4 YS a z i J e imp impartial observer it is a aI ato I I. I to watch the I i tI I f. ijohn IJ ohr h Bull Dull at aUthe atthe the march pf pi the T h For Jor a n nt generation t a- a past the gospel of salv salvation Uon of m ltd by the agency of British cap- cap ld f been as been preached with sincere con- con lion on Whether it was a dying nat na- na t ro e or Asia a a. sickly 1 South America an on of Africa peopled by idolaters g d cannibals or even a pov poverty strick- strick 5 British colony the means of regenerAtion regene- regene rAtion were always the same let Brit- Brit capital and British enterprise ex- ex the patient thoroughly and there be an end to nil all his diseases poUt poUt- J. J 1 ital hl economic or social For fifty years TP preached this gospel gospel- and acted upon I it religiously Now comes a little turnIng turning turn turn- ing lag pf of the tables Americans in their turn now aspire sto ito to regenerate the world by American and American enterprise They practice upon pon us the doctrine which we sp applied to the rest of mankind J or t. t r the h pr lay sac sac- hands s po t te e. e shipping Pp g by y means 4 s of df f which Britannia rules toe waves KNo Wonder W der John Bull is Is In a a. comic state of const consternation Instead of the he Is becoming exploited c. c q r V we seek to extend the area f our di-our our commerce and of our Increments tb acquiring control of countries which l have tv no o population of people who have haveri ri Slants ik the manufacturers and in- in of Germany and America find Ahls country the finest opening in the thed tod d While we sink millions In the through the Instruction of railways Ai Afcan an continent which cannot yield rt within the life of the present e. e z ion or perhaps the next the capitalist discovers remune- remune 1 investment for his millions In ving the means of locomotion in London In trade and com com- corn corn- r 1 ce l i not only threatened but butt d. d tt t fhe he pres present nt crisis of our economic I ry what are the objects which ch ly occupy our minds The regener regene- regene r tion of South Africa by the t that accursed land of British I c r and thI and labor the expansion of our L at t the expense of ot labor market squandering time money and energy on empty th empty ostentation of the coronation coronation coro coro- nation station ceremony which will suspend t i industry dislocate trade and divert t public thought from matters of pressing pressing prest pres pres- i sing and vital import t I At the moment while we are thus I p I Mr Ir Morgan anc an and J his colleagues S descend upon us seeking seeking- what they theyS S may devour Almost within an hour of I the Kings King's feast come forth the fingers f I o of a mans man's hand and write upon the j wall It needs no prophet In this CaSek case caseI caseto I k tc to interpret the warning It is easy to toC C- C read the warning and not difficult to accept and act upon it 0 Shall we attend to it at once or ot oshall shall r ue 6 finish our dur ur wine and think about the 1 f per after after ns' the dinner |