| Show journalism obtuseness occasionally w when ben people who reside among the civilization of the western hemisphere are permitted to read translations from native newspapers of the Orient they soot enciu unter oter fantastic aalee and remarkably inaccurate descriptions of lile life among ine members ot of she caucasian race these accounts are set aown to the tb meager information possessed by the writers writer but much dense ignorance as characterizes the publications by asiatic writers may not be creaso reasonably L ably looked for in a newspaper with general circulation in the vast metropolis of london Lo yet direct proof of its if existence to la given in the follow log ing editorial which in a recent mono of the london echo the signs of the times indicate that be fore he sun nun rites rices rit es on january 1 1900 the great american nation will groan and writhe in an agony of revolution and the streets of all her great cities will be slippery alip pery with blood blonda hundred drops of blow blood tor lor each pin that flashes on the seeks of rich mind and pampered women and ten on drops of blood for each tear lear that bmw baa washed aho face of the poor politics is in so rotten that it stinks adver everybody body knows and no one cares america its is no nolon longer gera a republic it is a plutocracy the president is merely meely the creation of bank diorec ore railroad kings aud and coal barons and it lathe the same with the governors ot of the states the poor whine about their poverty orty and gnaw their crusts of bread but t can always be recited upon to vote lor joir the rich and nine beuthe of them would shoulder their muskets and lay down their lives in defense of the right of the rich to rob them A nation such ais a this in which one million plutocrats tyrannize over sixty millions of lave clave 4 will be either overthrown by a foreign joe foe or die of gangrene the various labor organizations neither think together vote together nor work together sad and they have no money to buy votes voice lawyers and lodges judges soldier police shoot hoot down laboring people and tor are cheered on in their bloody work by monopolies liea and the clergy but the day will soon boon come when there will be a horrible dunce dance to death lighted up by burning houses bouses and the music of cries god and groans and dynamite bombs rich ailers amuse themselves at ai newport and tuxedo poor workers toil loil ceaselessly in the darkness of the mine and the din of the she mill young men and women dawdle over iced champagne and opera parties old men and women pick ro len ion food out of the garbage carp lap doga are driven through central park to take the air children die of overwork in filthy war garrets piety in the white house is enjoying the fruits of bribery infidelity in the tenement houses enduring the ibe punishment of uprightness these theose are the signs of the times in america today signs that point to 10 calamity too dreadful to imag J ipe but which nothing can avert that this big country has ba plenty of abuses abuses a few of f which ar are i e refi referred to in ID the article quoted no DO one will deny but as a descriptive of conditions in ID america the lohof statement as a wb Is ie Is 1 so BO inaccurate as aa to be utterly unworthy of belief to la soy particular some of its references to slaves and poverty would at to a nicety the situation to be found within a few I walk of its 91 falce ca of publications publication and perhaps it la Is a knowledge of thin that enabled the london writer to draw his hie fanciful picture of america the has made bad reading of history it kit it fancies there to la avy any liability of the united stated being overthrown by a korelko to auca an attempt would be a very disastrous experience for the foreigner who tries it further when internal dissensions of serious and widespread character assail the american republic they will arise from not eui heated and evidently not of in this connection by our english co probably has baa reached its ita conclusions by reading some rome of the extremely partisan and couse cone unreliable papers published in this country |
