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Show NO ALLIANCE. The Washington Post plainly warns our Anglo-men that the moment they abandon their sub-cellar tactics and come out in the open to fight for an English alliance they will be confronted confront-ed by a storm of opposition that will sweep everything before it. The American Amer-ican people simply will not tolerate having their country made England's J catspaw, and woe betide the political j party that adopts such a suicidal pol icy. The people of this country have j hitherto been tolerant of the hints - i thrown out about a possible "Anglo- I Saxon union." reinforced by an alli- 1 ance with Japan. The persons who I have been blatantly advocating this j have been regarded as other cranks are I regarded who are in the habit of cham- I pioning their special fads on every pos- I sible occasion. Let the alliance busi ness, however, pass from the academic stage into the field of practical politics, and this good-natured tokrance will be at an end. There will be such a popular popu-lar upheaval as the .country has not witnessed since the guns of Sumter proclaimed pro-claimed that the question of -slavery was to be decided: by the arbitrament of the sword. The 'Washington Post does not indulge in the language of exaggeration when it says: "The proposition, heretofore occasionally occasion-ally hinted at. but never regarded with popular favor, , of an alliance between the United States-, Great Britain and Japan, is not unlikely to be developed, in the near future, into a great and exciting issue. In its self-evident greatness it will. If or when It comes, dwarf nil other questions of foreign or domestic policy. In its capacity to produce excitement it will have no equal. If any suggestion as to national pclicy could be depended upon to excite, to startle, not to say shock, the people of this country, it would bo the proposition, propo-sition, seriously pressed, of such a departure de-parture from the counsels of Washington Washing-ton as that." This, picture is not overdrawn. Eighty millions of Americans are not prepared to turn a deaf ear to the sage counsels ; of Washington to gratify aandful of denationalized Anglo-maniacs. Anv alliance al-liance proposed by the latter will be fought to the bitter end. Lt the issue of alliance and non-alliance be once made fairly and squarely, and the result re-sult will not long lemain in doubt. England's Eng-land's friends in this country will be beaten ignominlously from the field. If such an issue as our Washington contemporary intimates will arise in 1he near future, so much the better.! It will be well to hive it out. once ajid fnt'ver. with our A:ijJo-tnaniaes. who for years have been diligently mining and countermining. The Washington Post thu- describes the reception they will meet with when' they come out into the daylight: "To the contention that our unfortunate, unfortu-nate, our deplorable departure from the traditions and precedents in acquiring sovereignty over the 'Philippine Islands and their R.OOO.OOO of people-necessitates this departure, as one false step calls for another, the people may not have a satisfactory answer, for they see that in the event of war with Japan Ja-pan our retention of the Philippines would bo extremely difficult, if not quite impossible. But no argument would reconcile this nation to anv foreign for-eign alliance. The people, not only the ."plain people" but the other kinds, with few exceptions, would make any admini-trfltion or party extremely uncomfortable un-comfortable if u should attempt to con-1 con-1 summate such an international com pact. Still, we think the ssue is coming com-ing is well on Its way. and will arrive before many months shall have passed." The fulfillment of the prediction made ? the Washington Post should not find us unprepared. Irish-Americans, acting cither individually qr in their organized organ-ized capacity as Irish societies, should be ready to to operate with all patriotic patri-otic Americans to prevent, the successful success-ful carrying out of a conspiracy big with danger to our common count rv. Let no alliance be the rallving cry to muster under the name banner .all Americans who believe that the highest high-est Interests of the Republic imperatively impera-tively demand fhat we remain loyal ! to policy marked out bv Wnshlng- ton In his Farewell Address. It re- 1 mains for us only to make up oar , mind to defeat the alliance plans of J 1ne Anglo-maniacs. If wo do so the 1 ' victory will rest wlt.lt uk, and , America 1 'i!l e Faved ftoni the gravest of per- I lis. The Irish Worl.t. |