The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-06
WHY WE DEFY ENGLAND.

to that London arbitration convention,
held the other day, and still more of
deceit and strategy. England always
did despise America and of late her
people hate US. Any protestations TO
the contrary is but hypocrisy. Eng
lish papers have as a rule referred to
the people of the United States with
an ill-concealed sheer. The contempt
of the aristocracy, of the Hterai and
the cockney, alike, has always been
akin to brutality. They have patron
lied only when danger seemed threat
ening, as for instance in that arbitra-
ton convention. Even that conven-
ton was largely composed of women.
Representative Englishmen were only
there through such proxies as tele-
grams and letters. President Cleve-
lands message TO congress was flip
PANTY referred to by the English press,
and in no other way. The Saturday
Review, one of England's greatest jour
mails, sneeringly declared that in the
event of war three-fourths of the in
duStries Of the United States would be
destroyed and all our cities along six
thousand miles Of sea coast be utterly
annihilated. The Spectator and other
papers called US jingos, and signalized
the Venezuela demand as but a dodge
to catch votes for the administration.
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as being ON par with Russia in its
civilization. Nine out of ten, promi-
nent Englishmen visiting this country,
either insult US while here or do SO
through the prints on returning home,
nor was even Charles Dickens an ex-
ceptiOn Morley Roberts, a short time
since, in writing upon an international
copyright law, to the Saturday Review,
said: "In the first place no English
man with imperial instincts can look
with anything but contempt on the
Monroe doctrine" and that, mo dog OF
a republic can open it's mouth to bark
but by English good leave" He then
went on to say that as an English
man he looks forward to time when
the heterogeneous plutocratic fabric of
the United States shall go to pieces in
social and political revolt whereupon
England will come to her own again.
Referring 20 the memorial signed in the
interest of arbitration he wrote that il
will be time enough to speak decenuy
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informed of the why and for what all
this scare was created. AS for litera-
ture, Roberts says that not one in ten
thousand in this ill-mannered country
know what even good manners are.
And so along up to the unexpected is
suance of the German emperor'S pro-
nunciato touching the autonomy Of the
Transvaal republic, these English pub
locations let no day pass without its
slur at the "pretentionS" of the United
States. In the face of facts and
figures, despite our undisputed great
ness in population, in area, in wealth,
in commerce and in everything which
goes to make up a great nation of adj
vanced civilization, the average Eng
hshman goes on estimating the United
States as unworthy serious cOnsidera-
ton, simply because, it seems, we are
not ruled by a crown and hereditary
aristocracy sustained by an army.
There is just one satisfying refec-
ton for all this, and that is, there is no
love lost so far as America is concern
ed. We indeed may be of the same
common blood but the conditions are
different Having a different and su-
periOr heritage, and strong fusion OF
new blood from the more enterprising
pioneers of other nations, all English
men, from prime minister down, and
from prime minister up, including the
royal family, will sooner or later learn
that Americas power is equal to her
hatred of British bumptiousness.
America is as great as the greatest in
everything, not only, but she is con-
scious of much superiority. This be
ing true we do not care for either Eng
lands love or hate. America is a
frst-claSs power on the earth. The
sooner England so recognizes and acts
the better it will be for England. As
for the United States, it will make no
difference whether we hold either the
love or respect of England. England has
the most, the all, to gain from such
friendship. Without our friendship it
is inevitable that she loses the Domin-
ion of Canada. Race affinity does not,
cannot count The people of the
Unied States are not English, they are
only English speaking. If therefore
England holds to her present Supercil-
ious temper and contempt for the
United States she will have collision
with the Monroe doctrine sooner or
later that will leave her humbled be-
fore the world with much Of her past
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