American Diplomacy?
Bah!
Look at the manner in which Great Britain used us as her depot of supplies during the Boer War.
She held John Hay in the hollow of her hand, and with our aid crushed the republics of South Africa.
Fables and Symbols. By Clemence De La Baere, Sacramento, Cal.
Those who love truth and humor served up in the literary form of the fable, will find this an entertaining little volume. There is much wit and wisdom packed away in these stories; and they reveal a thorough knowledge of human nature and of present conditions.
Garrison the Non-Resistant. By Ernest Crosby. The Public Publishing Co., Chicago.
When a Southern writer eulogizes such a bitter foe to his people as was William Lloyd Garrison, his words will bear the same discount as must be given to the words of a Southern ex-Brigadier, when he goes North and tells pleased audiences, “I am glad you whipped us.”
The truth is the South does not love Garrison and is not glad she was “whipped.”
When Mr. Crosby frankly states, as he does in this book, that Garrison had no sympathy whatever for the sufferings of the white laborers of the land, he put his finger upon the trait which caused Garrison’s great unpopularity in the South.