The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-24

900. 900, Australia 4S,000,000. South At
RIGA $4,000, 000 Great Britain and Ire
land 20, 600 000." Altogether in his esti-
mate there will be 1000, 900. 900. sub
stantially the same in language, insti-
tutions and ideas. What will be the
nature OF the society which 100 years
from now will be thus widespread? II
will be fundamentally the same in
manners and ideas with but slight diff
ference due to the climate and the SOIL
There will be few savages, no serfs or
slaves, no one without civilization. All
will be able to write and read. have
homes of their own, hold enough land
to yield to intelligent industry good
support. They will have no social or
political superior: they will manage
for themselves their own business; II
will be Abraham Lincoln's government
of the people, by the people and for
the people. Society. legislation, ad-
ministration of affairs will be to them
a most effective means of education.
At the head of all. though not neces-
sarily in one nationality with the rest
will stand the United States. our presf-
dent the foremost man, American ideas
regulating the whole vast society.
The dream, says the nation, is per-
haps rather wild, but we doubt IL any
one can read 1t without, when he lays
1t down, finding 1t very hard to furnish
a good reason for doubling ii. Such
union / maintain Is a necessity ana
should not long be delayed. America
is, in the opinion of some, threatened
by an invasion of Asiatic hordes whose
coming, when once started, Will be as
resistless as the mountain torrent A
lion Is a superior animal to a sheep,
but thousand sheep could easily push
the monarch of the forest over a preci-
pice. Think you that England would
a NV nd al A naariCa To he
thus deluged. No, a thousand times
no, for blood is richer than water and
1t would be contrary to the dictates OF
humanity for England to stay passive
while America was in trouble. What
! II in a few short years Russia should
attempt to be a dominant power in
Europe. Shall we calmly say that the
Anglo-Saxon race has no duty before
II in view of such facts? 1t would be
humiliation unspeakable to see the
car installed in his position as dicta-
| tor with submissive English races
croucbing at his footstool.
Here again blood is thicker than
| water and America could never stand
! idly by while such insults were offered
I to the mother country. Pride is bad
: motive to which to appeal. 1 believe
that the welfare of the human race is
: bound up with the development of An
/ glo- Saxon freedom. At present the
Anglo Saxon world is sharply sundered,
the inharmonious PARTS holding one an
other aloof, and though substantially
/ one in language, literature, institu-
| lions and every detail of life, nursing
old prejudices that promote a harmful
fret. Old prejudices, aye, there's the
rub! God speed the day when these
prejudices can be wiped out, but right
, here is the place and right now is the
time when in behalf of the English.
when on behalf of an Anglo-Saxon
union, i suggest in all love and char
ity, with all respect for the admiration
of the American people and American
institutions, with my best efforts ex-
| erted to lay aside all prejudice and
malice that the English are not al
ways treated justly by Americans.
know that the majority of Americans
will indorse my word, and deprecate IN
strong terms, perhaps in stronger
terms than mine the method to which
| I refer. That the conduct OF Great
Britain was reprehensible and thor
oughly unjustifiable, in not allowing
her American colonists representation,
that she exercised tyranny in its most
vicious form we English admit, that
! the revolutionary war was squarely
fought and fairly won by brave Amer
lean heroes we admit, and we revere
the memory of George Washington ana
| triotism.
1t was English justice and English
| courage in the breasts of these pat
riots that led them to victory, but, and
quote the words of an American,
1--WE train our children as we were
trained ourselves to execrate all things
British, to think only of Englands ty-
ranny. Do we not know that more than
half of England were in the revolu-
ton really on our side regarding ouI
| cause as their own, and that the des-
cendants of the great masses who felt
with us, who prayed for us and who
I rejoiced in our success now hold Eng
land in their own hands" Are our
| children taught this latter doctrine
| Are they not rather taught that all
England was against the colonists and
! that IL is almost impossible for the
! English nation to recognize courage
and Justice? Old wounds, old hatreds
old prejudices should be healed and oui
text books in United States history
should give credit where credit is just
~ due Sometimes orators for politi-
cal effect indulge in the pastime OF
twisting the lions TAIL but don't you
know what Edmund Burke says OF
such as these. He says Because hal
dozen grasshoppers under fern make
the field ring with their important
chink, whilst thousands of great cat
tie, repoSed beneath the shadoW OF tn'
|, British oak chew the cud and are ST.
lent, pray do not imagine that thos'
who make the noise are the only in
, habitants of the field that. of course
they are many in number, or that afte
. all they are other than the littl
shriveled, meager, hopping, though
loud and troublesome insects of tn
hour" Too frequently the children ii
our public schools are taught to hat
England and are told that to-day Grea
/ Britain is the reproach of the civilize'
world.
Now this is all unnecessary an'
; tends to retard the wish of this uniol
: Of the English speaking races Of tn
world / do not believe that thi
| opening of old wounds is conclusive I
the march of civilization. 1t is no
considered Christian, charitable or pat
riotic any longer to wave the blood
shirt of the rebellion. why should II b
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