SOUTH AMERICAN REBELLION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2201, 14 May 1891, Page 2

SOUTH AMERICAN REBELLION.

A most extrasrdinary item of news is that in the cablegrams, which tells us that English syndicates are supplying the smews of war to the rebels of Sooth America. Who would have thought it ? Who would have thought that the English people would do such a thing as supply ammunition and money to enable rebels to carry on war against their lawful Governments? Of course no one would, but yet it is, we believe, a fact that they have done so. We have seen a correspondent’s letter from America, which states that all the trouble has been fomented and fostered by Englishmen. Large syndicates of English capitalists wanted concessions from the Governments of the South American Republics, but they were thwarted in their desires, and consequently they promoted the rebellion. The cablegram from London stating that English syndicates are assisting the rebels confirms the information contained in the American correspondent’s letter, and renders it more than probable that it is true. But after all it is just what English moneyed men have done in all ages and at all times. They lent their money to Egypt, and then sent out soldiers at the expense of the nation to kill Egyptians who would not comply with their wishes. China was quietly mind ing her own business and not interfering with any body, but John Bull saw a chance of selling a few yards of cotton cloth there, and be sent out his soldiers and made China trade with him. When a Civil War broke out in the United States of America John Bull bad bis finger in the pie. There he supported the rebels “ on the sly,” and had to pay dearly for it. Instances of this kind could be multiplied ad libitum. John Bull has always made people trade with him at the point of the bayonet, whether they liked it or not. He has a playful vs ay of pushing trade. First he forms a company to carry on the trade. His intentions are always most benevolent, as his object is not so much for his own

benefit, as for the good of the poor benighted souls he undertakes to civilian, and ’so he goes to work with a bible in one band and a bottle of whiskey in the other. In China he was not satisfied with the bible and whiskey, but insisted on the Chinamen swallowing opium down their throats, and by the way of civilizing them he made -them do it. Very shortly after John’s company has established itself to carry out these benevolent intentions, disagreements arise, and then John sends his soldiers into the country and secures everything for himself. John is wonderfully benevolent when he can get all his own way, but no one is more ready to blow out people’s brains than he is if he is thwarted in his desires. In this colony we have borrowed largely from John and sometimes we talk about bankruptcy and so forth. If we were to repudiate John would land an army of soldiers on our coasts, take possession of every thing, and farm the country on behalf of the capitalists. John cares not a straw for us except in so far we are useful to him, and so if we were wise we would borrow no more money from him lest the day may come when we should not be able to pay.