New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-02
The English Speaking Races.

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/ Ofpolitical relations do. not pre-
sumo to speak Some may be Of
opinion that, ifthe United States hold,
as they are likely to hold their politi-
cal unity a state Of such vast dimen-
sions, with wealth in all likelihood
more than proportinate, will be
menacing, or even perilous to the
| European world.
| [ donotsharet these fears. London,
with it's 100000 of people, is far
! better governed, far more under con
troll than when it had but one-fourth
Of its present population. / for one
am SO sanguine as to believe that, long
before it has six or eight millions, it
| will have acquired and viii be in the
familiar use of, the estimable privi-
leges of ocalselfg government atpresent
wanting to it and will be governed a
great deal better still.
Government is, / apprehend, more
highly organized nowin the United
States than when they had one-twen-
tieth or one-t tenth of their present
population. Happily for mankind,
the period Of large territorial con-
quests seems to be drawing rapidly
toward a, close, and the available
surface of the planet is limited so as
| to forbid an extensive revival.
The internal difficulties of the
States, as we hope, have vanished.
Their causes of contention with Eu-
ropean powers, which were mainly
with ourselves, have been, one by one
in course of removal, so as to justify
the belief that occasions of offense
can only be furnished hereafter by a
spirit Of wanton prov ocation suchas
would lie beyond all the ordinary
limits of human folly.
do not understand prospective
European difficulties. But they APP
pear to be wholly European, and
they do not reach across the broad
Atlantic which is, upon the whole,
apart from other incidents, a mighty
guarantee for peace There has been
no war across the ocean for more
than seventy years; why should there
be one for seventy, or twice seventy
more? 1t would bepresump tuous to
/ say there will not and cannot be an
unforeseen controversy; but it need
not be presumptuous to hold that
there are no British, no European
reasons for foreseeing one. Especial
~ if the same true and fine instinct.
which taught Americans that the
Union must be one from New En-
/ gland to the Gulf of Mexico, and from
the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific,
| shall also with the lesson of thus
far" teach them as effectually the les
son Of mo farther and help them
more and more to realize the enor-
nous advantage of continuous terri
tory.
It is in the same cheerful spirit that
I would touch a second political
i question, with which some British
minds may be troubled, Will the
uprising nations, which are still de-
] Tendencies on the British crown, con-
tinue for another century to own it's
supremacy? My answer is simply
this: Hope they may; I know Of no.
reason why they should not; why the.
elastic relations, which now happily
subsist, should not continue to find
room and verge enough for including
and adjusting such novelties as may
arise.
1t is true that some great war.
might stir up a new class Of difficult
ties, but | do not despair of finding
the resources OF civilization to be suf-
fcent for solving them. In the recent
history of colonial relations. centri-
/ petal has been stronger than centri-
fugal force; and the vague possible
ties Ct separation have thus far been
dWlndling and not growing. with the
lapse of time
i Even SO it is that according to my
Judgment and experience there is an
i approximation actually at work, be-
/ tween Englishmen and Americans.
They are being drawn nearer and
/ nearer to one another, not by any
* artificial contriYances, but with the
]! cords of man"
Notin proof but in illustration of
/ this sentiment, | may refer to the in
i creasing number of marriages be-
| tween English and Americans, and
Il the entire genial character OF their
social result. All my life long have
i in a wide and varied circle seen and
shared the intercourse of the two
countries.
1 It is not the same as it was. tt
i has been yisibly softened, melloWed,
/ ripened. An American stranger is to.
us more and more like a British.
I stranger and hope that a British.
stranger is more and more like an
American stranger. # there is a
silspace between, it is a narrowing
]. space. The great idea Of common.
I Inheritance, and to a large extent Of
/ common prospects, more and more
yulates, our relations, and makes
#Ieasy and familiar the conditions of
mutual approach. If not the actual
sens yet something like the actual