Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-16
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There have been many times in which
we have been tempted to be ill-natured
with England on that portion of its sys-
tenn which has enabled its monographs
to register the drumbeats of Britain all
round the world. The ability to achieve
this exploit challenges the admiration of
the world, and we are certainly behind
no one in cohceding the majesty Of such
. perfection Of machinery, pluck and
bluster-all combined being below the
tremendous acclaim Of Americanism and
pluck which placed an aureola around
the brow of Oliver Hazard Perry, on
Lake Erie.
When we come to our British cousins,
there is absolutely nothing outside Of
gall which can be named in the compar-
ison with any other people. No honest
American can be reproached for
wishing his nation to have
the pluck and 60 which will
resurrect the old romantic days
in which Paulding and Irving have
given their testimonies to the noble
status of the American people. In those
early days the English contingent OF
King George suppressed the heroic era
of the Five Nations, and made the tribes
of the Iroquois simply memorable by
their misfortunes. te
Great Britain-God bless her-is will
ing to suppress any minor developments
of her system. She is willing, after
having absorbed India, to tackle China.
Ali the islands Of the seas are prey for
this great absorbing nation. Having
already assimilated India, there is no
reason why this great ex-sppropriator of
Ill peoples and nations should not grab
China, Japan, Corea and all the other
countries which impinge on the Pacific
ocean. gs
England has not completed her hold
ON these territories because of her mod
esty. If she were to take "move" on
to herself on this trade it would be sup
posed that she wanted the whole earth !;
and the circumstances and her history,
would give great verisimilitude tothis
proposition. The English people, after
having absorbed Egypt, and the island
of Cyprus, have left little, either in the
line of aggression or of classic love lore,
to be appropriated by other lands. The
rude and harsh guns, under the peace
full premiership of Gladstone, which
battered down the fortifcations of Alex
andria, ushered in an episode of proto-
coils and war, which is now represented
by the energetic diplomatic notes which
are being exchanged between the for
eign offices Of France and England.
France, recognizing the peculiar
diplomacy of England, though the Sec
Ond maritime nation of the world, sings
low. That historical country, which
once contested with England the naval
supremacy of the earth. is more than
polite. England, with unwonted .ur-
banity, comedies the French demands in
the Newfoundland fisheries. In view of
the supreme politeness of Great Britain
to the United States, both in the
Bering sea controversies az to the seals,
and as to the Newfoundland cod
fisheries, it would seem that both as to
the United States and France, Great
Britain could not well be other than con-
eiliatory. Should it be other, there
wou2 seem to be little else than war as
the arbitrament of controversy az the
case stands. i
And there would be nothing else than
war had it not been for the splendid
sagacity and craftsmanship of the
United States, which, in the congress OF
Paris, declined to enter that celebrated
Pronunciamento, gathered under the
auspices of Napoleon III, which pro-
n0unced privateering piracy. As the
ease stands today, in the event of war,
the United States, loaded as she is with
money, would only have to employ the
several submarine telegraph agencies to
inaugurate an energetic upheaval under
which the commerce of Great Britain
would perish from off the earth.
Consequently, the people Of the United
States, in the event Of war, could not
only stand upon the methods of Great
Britain with splendid effect, but improve
upon them. Within thirty days after
the declaration Of war the privsteersmen