The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-05-08

United states comes back, accord an
ing to my experience, with two I'M r'' X
pressions, which are 50 strong that r.
that they overshadow all others w
One is the excessive kindness whichI.u y
is shown to individual Englishmen u
The other is Of the bitter feeling" "
which appears to exist both in the r :
press and among the public against u
his own country. The present rs
ebulition is only one OF those recar- u
rent crises which have marked the u
: whole history OF the two nations. v
The feeling is always smolderlng, Il
and the least breath OF discussion Z
sets il in a blaze. | believe, and
have long believed, that the great s
: est danger which can threaten our
= empire is the existence of this spir
Of hostility in a nation which Is al "
ready great and powerful, but which
3 i destined To be far more so In the
u future. Our statesmen have stooi
$ too long with their faces toward the
q East. TO discern our best hopes
q as well as our gravest dangers, they
p must turn them the other way
y As to the cause of this feeling, 1T
~ i not so unreasonable as English
ID men usually contend. 1t is the
T. fashion among us to apportion the
Is blame between the IRISH American
and the politician who is IN search
of his vote. But no such super
fetal explanation as this can cover
b. the fact that the governors OF thirty
nc American States should uhhesra
ay tingly indorse a presidential mes.
se. sage which obviously leads stiaigh,,
,g- 70 war A dislike so widely spread
Of and so fierce in its expression car
1t not be explained by the imported
ap- animosity of the Celtic lrlshman.
md To understand the American
il. view Of Great Britain one must rea'
per such an American History as wou'
,rm he nsed in the schools, and accel
the the statements with the same abs'
,ich lutte faith and patriotic bias wnic
orse our own school boys would sho
h e in a British narration OF our rei'
that t;ons with France. American M
the tory. as far as its foreign policy
peo- concerned, resolves itself almost el
tirelv into series Of wrangles VII
Great Britain, in many OF whic
we must now ourselves confess I'M
. ~ we were absolutely in the wron
,nng Few Englishnen could be ioui
Iror, now to contend that we were Jus
IA fed inthose views Of taxation VIM
NJ 10 brought on the first American W.
-, 70 or in the question OF searching ne
tral vessels, which was the ma
har. cause of the second. This war
onro 1872 would possibly only occu
can two pages out OF 900 IN an Ehg''
!. - history. but it bulks very large
-, an American one, and has
Pas. many bitter memories behind it.
~ Se Then there was the surly attltu
or,e which England adopted towards
States after they had won their
dependence, the repeated frc'i'
during the Napoleonic epoch,
the attack upon an American ing
a'ooll =: bv a British tifty-gun ship IN y
:... ~. Of peace. After the war there
iaf'' the Florida dispute in the time
TO- "a Andrew Jackson, the question
s.ii the Oregon line, the settlement
anu = g the Maine and New Brunswick ! |,
-" y and finally the hostile attl'ua
-, most Of our press at the time Oh
saiooh civil war. Since then we have
re .ne two burning questions, that OF
- - ~. W Alabama claims and that VI
- M mn Bering sea fisheries, culmlna'in
"no This OF Venezuela. The histor
non s his country as it presents itse
golu AN American is simply long
I'm ~ gestion OF quarrels with curse
Rr~' and how can it be wondered at
has now reached that chronic
us for oi sensi'''. a,,;,. ontyrown
and it We nav. 10 IA case of the Frencl
We re- If we are to blame a. con
!, !" III ~ nitv for some, at least, OF these
w what ior'u.'"se - ~ blame as in,
under are esen ~, - ,..;de spread bite
hington ua's -. ! sal, AGAINST US. We
e every "n'on ,a,m unprudgine
q blush ne'.i .s.i, n.. nra;se for the
IS come =, .'h;ch our kinsmen
n Of the thn's 49, unwearyinp ind
,eeting' u'ie' ';.,,,as n peace. their a,
len are 'n.n 80 ,he;r UNPARALLELED
shall not envy VIZ" sas,sned upon the
nething. AVA aa,a;is and oyerlooke
= backs ruue s."hah;nd In our 81
Sidney gfea' .,,a,;on la., of AN expect,
upon the floor, we lost slgh'
arm from versal suffrage and equal