The Irish standard., 1897-10-16
MORE BRITISH CLUSTERING.

In recent issue we replied to the
fierce threats made by the London
Globe against the peace and dignity of
the United States Another London edi-
tor has seen fit to give this country
piece of his mind, and all on account
OF John Sherman. 1t appears that the
aged secretary of state has a very irri-
tating and offensive way of addressing
Lord Salisbury on the Behrng seal
question. His letters are not coached
in that reverential and diplomatic style
in which man of SalisDury's exalted
station should be addressed. At least.
so thinks the editor of Vanity Fair, In
his note Of May 10 Mr.. Sherman strong
ly intimated that the British govern
ment, in utter disregard Of the Paris
award, was taking no action 70 prevent
the wholesale slaughter of the seals.
The British press at once set up a
howl. the London Times being The loud
est of the lot. How dare John Sherman
charge the British government with
shirking the obligations imposed upon
it by tribunal called into existence at
its own solicitation? He was in his
se:ility or he would not have written
SO, exclaimed the British Thundcrcr of
Thrcalnccdlc street. And ignoring The
Paris award in toto, the British organ
brazenly said: "a combination of cap
itaists in the United States are jealous
OF the success with which, In spite Of
unfair interference, British scalers have
been able to carry on .haii industry"
The fashionable society paper, Vanity
Fair in whose columns arc rccorde | the
sayings and doings of the nobility.
came out in recent issue and declared
that John Bull had "a terribly danger
what it says for the amusement of cur
readers. The writer evidently forgats
the trouncing administered in l77G and
1912.
I'm former attempts to ruiile cur tenn
Per the secretary OF state has had the
good sense not to go too far. 1t now
looks rs if he had just overstepped the
limits of our extraordinary patience,
for IL we really mean to maintain our
united empire. il all the embraces ex
changed, If all the honeyed wor.ls, all
the cheers and rejoicing Of which we
have lately partaken mean anything,
then it is quite certain that we cannot
allow our colonies to be menacel even
by a country made by our blood and
our good strong arms. This time it
looks as If we would have to do same
thing to suppress the Yankees. Unless
this constant annoyance from Washing
ton shall cease. unless the Americans
arc taught to peacefully recognize that
we are a great and powerful nation,
gunpowder will have to be used. We
do not want to see the United States
put back many years. We are not in
the slightest degree anxious to make
history for them, but America mat
understand that there are bounds to
our good nature, and that We haSa q
terribly dangerous temper underlying
our usually unrutilel placidity. temper
it will not be good for her to rouse
Unhappily. hatred breeds hatred. The
Englishman is beginning to loathe him
whom he once honored with The name
of cousin. If the American people hate
the English and the English return the
dislike, what can result: We would
not prophecy: we rather pray for the
return of American sanity in time to
cure the folies of youth. America
after all is little better that mere
baby"
What unmitigated nonsense is this: