Show i CHICKENS CHICKENS' COMING HOME TO ROOST I It is said on high authority that England grows more and i more ore dissatisfied th the ore she considers the secret tre treaty ty between et Russia and and Japan Japa When Japan had bad driven the Russians back to marly their own territory and and- destro destroyed ed Russia's 4 fleets through the initiative o of President Roosevelt Roose Roose- v velt elt t and the support of some of the great powers a treaty was agreed upon and signed by the representatives representatives of R Russia sia and Japan and ratified b bv by botH governments The Tire officer in command of the Russian army rm i in Manchuria begged his government government govern govern- ment ment l not oi to make peace peace with Japan asserting his b belief lief that thit in the tie next battle he defeat the Japanese and begin to recover all that had been l lost st st. But Russia was as nearly in a state of chaos and Russia signed t the e treaty That Japan was nearly at the end of her res re re- s and not especially confident o the future was vas clear cicar when as a victorious power she signed a treaty a that did not provide one dollar of indemnity indemnity nit y to her for fOl all ll her losses Great Britain that thata a 8 as a it rule looks after her own affairs somewhat r was l looking oking on and shortly after peace was as announced the world learned that she had IMd made an offensive and defensive alliance with I J p pan n the alliance to continue some ten years With lie lle new prestige Japan proceeded to put linos linis around the eastern and of Asia Asia and within three years ears took from England Eng Eng- b land d and Germany all the profits that hat their ships lid lud b before fore th time enjoyed in those waters And now England's England 8 ally has made a secret treaty with he lie her old enemy and the tile more Great Britain conter contemplates that treaty the more sh I- I r rt n that it m moans means ans that she is practically shut of th Oracle rade of both Korea and and Manchuria l and has a fierce competitor for the trade of China No matter how suave may be the explanations of the Japanese ambassador or that the open door is still open that no trade r restrictions are in the way that Japan heartily indorses Mr 11 Cobden s 's sublime idea of f unrestricted d trade the sorry fact remains th that t her het export trade trad in a country on which she sheso fui 11 for so so- much i is gone V Worse lim hot her trade with with India and the Straits Settlements is being more and more interfered with by her lIei ally on whom she had counted for so much In that same connection another of her own chickens is coming home to roost with a a. vengeance I It was a few of her thieves on Bond street that first whis ed cd to two or or- three American statesmen statesmen statesmen states I men the feasibility of demonetizing silver and ana the hb profits which the interest gather gatherers rs would reap by such an arrangement When the iniquity was was' consummated in the United States and its sinister effects were so apparent that there was grave danger danger danger dan dan- ger that the American people would insist upon having the shameful legislation repealed England closed her India mints minh as a further proof that silv silver r was dot ot good money She he did that and watched while poor wretches died of starvation in India because they could dould no longer have their silver coined into rupees with which to buy bread Later in 1897 after the the- p people ople of the thc United States had elected I a president on a platform promising to make an international effert effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort fert to have silver restored as primary money an and 1 after that president had sent a commission to carry earry out the tile promise of the platform after the commission had been successful in Paris and the French minister of finance had gone gone- with the American commis commission ion to London to consummate the agreement on lines ines marked out by England's England 8 chancellor of the exchequer r tho thoe e same Bond street thieves joined by the Indian council in London and by our secretary of the treasury L Lyman Lyman Ly- Ly man Gage defeated the arrangement Now Japan and China and Russia in Asia pay the same weight I of silver to their laborers and for their raw material material mate mate- rial that they always have with the result that not only is England's export trade cut off in China and Japan but Japan can send her goods down to the Straits Settlements and to India itself and sell them hem jit ut least 40 per pcr cent cent- che cheaper pel than England can And while the United States is in the same bout boat while our government was a principal in the gigantic steal still it is pleasant to see England squirm squirm- as she sees that chicken which she fondly believed had been fricasseed come home to roost |