St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-16
ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE.
Correspondent Who Thinks 1t Very
Desirable.

To the Editor Of the Globe.
Thirty years ago the United States, wearied
to the point of exhaustion by one of the great
est internecine wars that ever taxed the en-
ergies and resources of nation, closed its
shores of Sleep beneath the brooding wings
Of the Angel of Peace. The twin brothers,
North and South, again united, slept side by
side; dreaming creative dreams Of the Won
drous march of industry and the arts; seeing
mighty visions of a wonderful development
splendid progress, an unparalleled prosperity;
creeping, in their peaceful slumber, beneath
the Wind-toSSed beniSon of the flag of our
union, nearer and ever nearer each to each,
enmity and strife forgotten in glorious broth
erhood, until arms in blue were interlocked
with those in gray, and the fair Southern head
was pillowed on the Northern breast. For
wise men forgive, and they were of one blood.
But, in that long period of repose, the
tion, lulled to sense of security by the paean
of the peace pipes, forgot that there might be
rude awakenings. harsh disturbance of its
well-earned rest, by sharper, keener set of
notes; forgot that the tattoo of peace has al
ways been followed, at longer or shorter inter-
val by wars wild reveille-majestic symphony
of war, which plays its fierce, mad, blood
stirring music upon an organ whose pipes are
hot rife barrels; whose bellows are filled with
the blast of exploding gunpowder, whose keys
are trigger and lanyard, whose steps are the
tremolo of the death-cry and the voX humana
of the charging cheer, and whose tones and
semi-tones are the Shrek of shrapnel and
SHE'LL the roar Of batteries, the crash of vol
leys and the whit and sibilant whisper of the
flying bullet.
It has been written and spoken to infnity-
to the point of nausea-'In time Of peace, pre-
pare for war" 1t is somewhat barbarous
maxim; but, so far in the worlds life, it has
proven automatic Might it not be rewritten
Ito hold as much of truth and less of talons)
to read: In time of peace, by wise alliance,
make war impossible?'
Twice, of late, the United States has had
complications with other countries, one of
which misunderstanding, but for the strong
underlying common sense and feeling of kim
ship that are inherent in the Anglo-SaXon race,
might have had serious and far-reaching con-
sequences, setting back the clock of civiliza-
tion century. The other imbrogio is mat
ter of comparatively small moment, and, if
our wrong g-headed, hot-blooded, windy little
antagonist should be silly enough to fling the
gage of battle to us, we could detail one of the
smaller states tgame Rhode Island or plucky
little Delaware-the latter has a whipping
post to spank her. Ouida wrote somewhere
a clever fable concerning the creation of the
people just referred to. 1t is something, but
not exactly, like this: The gods took the
heart of lion, the head of a BULL drop of
water, handful of salt, pinch of earth and
an oar, and dropped them on an island Up
sprang an Anglo-Saxon, brave, obstinate,
thirsty, with wit enough, a monstrous appe-
tite for land and an unquenchable desire to
fence in the sea. Later, these same industri-
Gus deites laid hands upon a bladder filled
with wind, in which they put feather from
peacocks tail, the tooth of wolf and
snakes fang. From the ground whereon it
fell there sprang race-boastful, arrogant,
cruel ana treacnerouS-a race that has spat
on "Old Glory" before this. Look at it's past
history. The conquest of Mexico was a car
nival of avarice, treachery, cruelty blood
lust, oppression and crime; daring, fercely
brave thing, if you will, but, at the same
time, brutal, cowardly. In Peru this race out
did itself, in the exercise of it's ethnic pc
culiarities, and out-Heroded Herod Think of
the horrors of the inquisition; follow the
track of torch and sword through Holland
see, by the glare of the auto-da-fe rack and
thumb-screw, scaffold and ak, hot pincers and
ron-maiden; hear the awful cry that rends
the startedsair from millions of men done to
death by hellish torment of ravished, tor
tured, murdered women, of babes slaughtered
at their mothers breasts; behold three fends
king, priest, soldier, with no of
whom hath hell a demon vile enough to
couple. Today the wolf tooth is blunt and
loose in the socket the snake fang atrophed
ana dropping serum, not venom; and nothing
is left but the peacock feather and the bladder
OF wind. petty, pitiful, priest-ridden people,
moribund and out of date, clutching in impo-
tent rage and greed at the throat of rich and
beautiful island, which soon will shake off
the palSied claws and take her rightful place
among free states. All hail, little sister.
We wish thee well.
And, now, to the matter of alliance The
English-speaking race is in the of civil
iZation and progress, and it is, perhaps nat
urally, regarded by most of the other ma
tons with more or less of jealousy, suspicion
and ill-will; but after all is said and done,
it has been, and is, the worlds best friend:
it has given mankind greater sum of bene-
fits than all the other people of earth; and
it will continue to be the pioneer in the fut-
ure development of humanity.
This development and progress could be
fostered and accelerated by a league between
the freest best-governed, most advanced peo-
pie under the sum- The British empire and
the United States are naturally allies. The
merely political organiZa Cfon of Great Brit
ain is monarchy-the figment of crown
the figurehead of a queen or king the simua-
crum Of an Imperialism; but the Englishman