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Show THE COALITION FABRICATION. BY T. ST. JOHN GAFFNEY IN MARCH DONAHOE'S. What has been the object. I as-k, of this subserviency to a European power which has always been our consistent and untiring enemy? Why should American citizens be so anxious to ; credit England with a part in our victories vic-tories during the late war. and fit-tribute fit-tribute to her moral support, the achievements of our army and navy? How insufferably truckling in spirit appear citizens who make use of a statement, branded time and again by the highest authorities as a falsehood, which has the effect of exhibiting their country before the world as a protected weakling. It is my intention in this article to show that this so-called coalition was not of continental, but of English manufacture; man-ufacture; that it found its origin in papers notoriously under the control of the British foreign office, for the purpose of working an unscrupulous imposture upon the credulity of the American people. This fact I will prove by the unanimous voice of the ambassadors of the powers directly-concerned, directly-concerned, by the statement of our secretary of state. John Hay, and also by the reiterated statements of our own ambassadors accredited at Paris. Berlin I and St. Petersburg. I will show that I at no time during the war with Spain did England decline to join the other j powers in a move for intervention. I will show that no such action on the part of Great Britain ever took place, and that the impeachment of the continued con-tinued friendliness of the other powers pow-ers is due to a carefully planned conspiracy con-spiracy of the pro-English news agencies. agen-cies. At no time was there a purpose on the part of the great powers to interpose in-terpose against the United States, so that there was never an occasion for such a demonstration of English friendship friend-ship as has been so. assiduously presented. pre-sented. The story, although very widely wide-ly circulated and generally accepted as a fact, is nothing les3 than a pure fab- j rication, and for the truth of history, j as well as for the removal of the I groundless reflection upon the attitude of the European powers, it should no I longer be accepted aa a part of ta I records of the wax. ' j |