New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-13
AN ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE.
HoDGsoN PRATT SUGGESTS PERMANENT Bu

AN ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE.
hoDGsoN PRATT SUGGESTS A PERMANENT BIZ
REAu TO DEVELOP FRIENDLY RELATIONS.
10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Allow me. as an Encishuan WIN ha. ooms
70 TINS country on an Grand resembling that OF
samuel Plimsoll. to say a few words anent your
editorial on the causes Of American dislike for Eng
land As regards those causes and their adequacy
am Obliged to express general concurrence with
your view OF the matter: but. as I said at the re-
ceHt Monawk conference on interna tonal arb,tra-
ZION, there are Engishmen and Engshmen Just as
there are Americans and Americans. The supercil-
ious and hypercritical judgments expressed by
part OF the English press with regard to American
aHairs by no means represent the whole OF that
press. and submit that there has been an immense
improvement Of late years. Moreover newspapers
which represent the and the Radical party
have never been guilty Of the offensive spirit to
which you refer. Let me also call your attention to
the fact that there Is no journal In England when
Is in more favor with men OF the highest culture.
with statesmen and thinkers than THE Spectator"
That journal gave strong and consistent support
OF the North throughout the Civil War and Ia I
think. uniformly fair In Its treatment Of American
questions ! 60 further. and say that the general
isenhg OF the Engiisn people toward tnelr american
liness and respect.
things sss a d ar besnd 10 e o the
mark Of our high calling and to work for true in
telNduOndl unity. one or the means or accomplish
Ing that end is to organize practical and definite
methods for arresting the spread OF those mutual
MISUNDERSTANDING and misrepresentation which 50
constantly occur, and which mischievous as
they often unfounded.
1t seems to me that these two nations-one peo-
Pile with their common heritage Of great truths and
great aims in the sphere OF social and political ac-
tion are. In measure, trustees for the progress OF
mankind. For their own welfare and for that Of the
world they should walk hand In hand in the van OF
nations. The blatant j.ngos who in every land
crafty their own vanity and spleen by rdlcuns
foreigners" are no more true types of their re-
spective countries than Lord Dunraven or Mrs.
Trollope are types Of English character and Ltera.
ture Every people has its special defects as well as
virtues; and welfare. based on nternattonal unity
and cooperation. Is not to be obtained by dwelling
on the mote in our brothers. eye while we forget the
beam in our own eye.
have a practical object in u,tering these tru-
.sms. II is 10 ask consideration OF a proposal TO
form q permanent Anglo American committee or
bureau with branches in London and New-York.
Its work should be to maintain constant communi-
cation respecting all questions which affect
interests material and political. and 10 re-
move dangerous misrepresentation as TO each others
policy. projects and proceedings have had the ad-
vantage of discussing this proposal with several
foremost citizens OF your country during the last
three weeks, and II has met with approval
HODGSON PRATT,
Chairman International Arbitration and Peace As
sociaton, London.
Boston, July 8, 1896.