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Show A SATUHWALIA OF ANGLO-SAXON CANT AND BLASPHEMY. (From the Irish World.) We are in the holy season that recalls re-calls the song of the angels, who sang "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will." The echoes of that angelic song should forever for-ever ring in the ears of Christendom. Yet we hear of nothing and read of nothing but war, war, war! And the two nations England and the United States that are waging the wars and spreading desolation over the earth are the two nations that mock the wm-Irf with their lying pretenses of carrying the blessings of "peace" and "civilization" "civiliza-tion" and "Christianity" to the peoples for whom their hearts bleed and whom they rob and slaughter and burn- out of house and home in punishment for their sins and for the sake of their conversion! con-version! Could the devil himself, "a liar and a murderer from the beginning," put on the mask of hypocritical righteousness righteous-ness Avith more shameless effron'tery? England's outrages on the rights of weak peoples are nothing strange. Her infamous career of piracy and assassination as-sassination goes back to time immemorial. immemor-ial. She is typetied by the "roaring lion that goes about seeking whom he may devour." It is her "vocation to rob." I But the American republic has had a different character. Standing erect before the wrorld and holding in her right hand her Immortal declaration that "governments derive their jus't powers from the consent of the governed," gov-erned," she shone as the beacon light of liberty for enslaved humanity and the hope of oppressed peoples in their struggle for self-ownership. To this glorious principle America was true for more than a century. In all that time she kept within her own confines, living liv-ing in peace, minding her own business, thinking of no "entangling alliances," with friendship for all and enmity toward to-ward none. Now all this is changed. This republic repub-lic of ours, under McKInley's administration, adminis-tration, is tired of being a republic. She is not content with being a mere nation she wants to be a "world power," as the big marauding nations like to dub themselves. She wants to be an empire. She wants to have foreign for-eign colonies and governors general and (in time) a stately court and an upper class and a lower class and & big standing army to make sure of "our foreign possessions" and to keep the working classes at home on their good behavior. And to insure all this especially es-pecially our foreign possessions it will, of course, be necessary for America to have an ally among the "world powers." pow-ers." And what power could we have as an ally but dear England? It is true that England "plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns and destroyed the lives of our people." It is true that she perpetrated ihese outrages on America again in the war of 1S12 as ?he had done in the Revolutionary Revo-lutionary war. It is true that France achieved independence for us and lifted lift-ed us into nationhood. It is also true that Russia was not wanting to us in the hour of need. But all this counts for nothin'g with us in our presen:t roguery. Isn't England Eng-land our motlher? Aren't Englielhmerj our cousins? Aren't we all "Anglo-Saxons"? "Anglo-Saxons"? Aren't we of the same race and religion"? Haven't we both done great work in "improving ' uncivilized peoples off the eart!h"? Aral aren't we now engaged in tho mis's;on of lifting up tha Filipinos by shooting thetm down, d n them. Are we not destroying destroy-ing ithe:ir towns, looting their churches, dishonoring their women and assassinating assassi-nating their prisoners of war? And, in addition to these wholesome chastisements, chastise-ments, which we are obliged to inflict on them in the spirit cf brotherly love, are we not shipping to them troops of MethddSst and Baptist ministers to rescue res-cue them frcm the errors of Popery and convert them to pure Evangelical Protestantism? Pro-testantism? Aren't our commissioners, appointed, by President McKiriley, to Puerto Rico and the Philippine islands, is-lands, men of the same stripe as these RarvHs,t p.r.d Methodist nreachers? Haven't they Issued proclamations ban-iahing ban-iahing priests, anglicizing the schoolsi and informing the Catholic populations t'hat matrimony would, under the new diS'pensaiUon, be treated no more with the respect due to a holy sacrament? Haven't they Informed priests and nuns that now was their chance that they need no longer respect their vows and go do as they please? But while treating Catholic religious and Catholic peoples in this way (and-lest (and-lest any cue should think we are in any way bigoted) do we not show, at the same time, our extreme liberality in matters cf religion and domestic felicity fe-licity by permitting the Sultan of Sulu to retain, not only his Mahcmetanism, but to safeguard the institution of slavery under the American flag and to protect his harem likewise? All this under treaty. Not only that, but we agree to pay this polygamist. cut of th Unite'd States treasury, a stated sum, for the support cf hi.5 wives and concubines! con-cubines! Isn't this liberty? Isn't this "free trato" in. anything you like under a protectionist president? This is what we, tho junior branch of the Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon race, are doing in Asia, and this !a what cur Anglo-Saxon cousins in England wanted to do in Africa if the Boers would only permit them. But the Beers are r.n ignorant people a stubborn people. Tttey know nothing cf "modern civilization," which shines with such luminosity in the land of Jack the Ripper. Not h in:?! So instead in-stead of receiving Queen Victoria's pompous Lord Generals, who in Her Majesty's name went out there to re-l.eve re-l.eve them of their lands and mines and. the burdens of self-government' those Boers actually whacked them and battered; them, as if those- Lord Gener-ai3.iwere Gener-ai3.iwere 50 many low people. Think I oi it: And po it goes! There you have it all this monstrous travesty on religion on progre'?i, on civilization-. Phinity of Hell! When devil will their Dlaekeet sins put on. thev do stig-gee stig-gee t " At first with heavenly shows. And here are we, the youngest of na-tic-na. but old-fashioned, in, wickeclne a republic rotten before it has ripened' taking as our ideal the pirate empire of the world in her deviltries and blasphemies. blas-phemies. All this, too. in this sa-(ir of "Peace and Gcodi Will!" And because be-cause England is the pirate ahe is, precisely pre-cisely for this very reason we muse imitate her and; be her ally! Such is not our creed. Such can be the creed of no honest man. Wre re- LI1C ana an nis works. We believe ire God. We believe in justice. We believe in liberty for every people ' in their own land. We therefore wih j success, to the Boers, and we pray fo-1 disaster, to England's flag and sham- I and confusion to England's allies be 1 they Who tihey may Iri-sihmen cr Americana, Amer-icana, C-elta or Teutons, Catholics cr 1 Protestants. |