People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — EUROPEAN GREED. [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN GREED.

It has been announced that there is a conspiracy to put a German Prince on the throne of Brazil backed by England and Germany. If this is true Europe is a hog with an insatiable appetite. We give her our girls, with their fortunes; she owns our industries; she bleeds us for gold with which to run the government: she holds our bonds which she paid for in paper and we are paying interest on them in gold; she owns us body and soul and now she wants to set up housekeeping, according to her methods, on the coqtinent. Well, the United States will probably object. to the establishment of a throne in Brazil and if the attempt is made, another Maxamillian fiasco will likely result. And yet it seems to be the height ; of absurdity for the government to give our own country to Europe, but fight to keep her from gobbling other and less important countries, certainly less important to us. The con dition of our own atfairs would seem to require all the energy that the government can exert. The Monroe doctrine is important, but the American people seriously object to giving up all they possess and then be driven to fight for the preservation of other people’s rights.—Farmers V oice. We are the only steam laundry in towD, Spitler & Knight.