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Show ENGLAND DECLARED A SHYLOCK. In the Greenbacker's Convention at Peoria, Ill., on Wednesday, after the long but not new resolutions had been carried, a blustering resolution was passed to the effect that. "The scheme of England in endeavoring to absorb and subjugate Egypt is equally characteristic of England as a ‘Shylock' and pirate, and deserves the execration of all mankind. "That if the United States does not enter an emphatic protest it will be an evidence that the Shylocks, if not pirates, already control our capital as well as the British throne: "That the attitude of indifference of the United States toward the oppressed Russian Nihilists and persecuted Irish is unworthy of a republic, shameful to the United States as a nation, and misrepresents and belies the sentiment of the American people, and would brand us as soulless demagogues: "That Arabi Bey is engaged in another and distant field by different methods in fighting bond holders, tax-eaters and Shylocks, as well as the forlorn hope of liberty in Europe and that he has the hearty sympathy of the convention." |