Show SECRET ALLIANCES Secretary Hays contention n that no net form of ot secret alliance is poe r the constitution mIght ml t be De taken as na a ae e serious refutation tf m of or Consul charges If It that document ware in better refute re ute with the administration Ne No Neone Neone Noone one supposes a little thing like the constitution would be allowed to tn in the way of ot any scheme cb the politicians clans ians at Washington kt have hilve ve in Ia view If It the constitution seemed to prevent event an en agreement between Chamberlain and McKinley bow how long does cIoN any one ene acquainted with th drift of affairs at atour atour atour our national capital Imagine Il a It would take tak to 0 punch another hole hote through uh our fundamental law Whether it be called an au alliance or ora ora ora a covenant a secret seret understanding or 01 ora ora a promise prom d upon reelection it has haa been but a few fw I days cIas since ince in Lord said aid In hi a speech in tn parliament t Last December the British government made J vigorous overtures overture to two great powers Ger Germany many and the United States for an alliance Such Sueh an alliance then was s solicited No public treaty was waa possible po The best that could be given gIen was a secret promise an an official understanding that the heads of ft f this th government gov t wrapped in the emblem of ot liberty and en entrenched entrenched entrenched trenched behind the bulwarks of or cen centralized centralized power would exert them v to prevent t any official expression of ot oti i sympathy for the Boers Beers Doe or any offer otter of mediation to tt save theta them front from Eng Bap English lish li h rapacity This promise pro may bare bava YO been made In la fact tact British B ti officiate seem to act ad on ott On the that buch buchan uch an arrangement arran t exists It has bu not been bee many 7 weeks week weeks since Joseph Chamberlain said mid in a public speech The union if Ie you please between n these uee two great nations American and British Is hi in indeed Indeed Indeed deed a guarantee of the peace at ot the world Therefore when Macrum states that when I accented a my poet pest as consul at Pretoria I knew hi of any an secret alliance between America merIna a and Great Britain why wb ho W our Anglicized secretary of f state ute become iiO o 0 agitated over it It Chamberlain knew about It It the Ule alliance It Mac Mae Macrum Macrum rum discovered ered evidences ev of It and ai d the least lenat that Ray Hay the mended |