New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-17
A REBUKE TO LIMOGES.
BISHOP DoANE DENoUNcEs THOSE WHO
HARASs ENGLAND.
THocGfTFUr MEN ABROAD AMAZED. Hp SAYS.
AT THE TONE OF PART OF THE AMERICAN
PREss-THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

IN" ioNh or PARr OF THE AMERICAN
PREss-THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE.
Albany Nov. l6-Bishop William Croswell Doane
vi MS annual address 10 the clergy OF the diocese
OF AlDahy to-day spoke OF the relation of America
10 England In the Lambeth Conference, and was
intense in his condemnation Of what ia called
lngoism Referring to the report on the SUBJ
ject of international arbitration he said;
The strong debate was full Of interest and in
only upon the practical details Of the horrors OF
war and the practice Of arbrs.ion but the
Christian temper, are Of the utmost value. Chris
and about THIS thas they
reaHze. There can be no question but that within
and with some fault on both sides the minds of
men have been accustomed to the thought OF a
possible resort 10 arms the settlement OF inter-
national questions between England and America
Whatever may have been wrong and unwise in tho
not responsible for; but We are responsible and
must be held so. for the things that have been
aroused In America and which has in It incon-
ceiv9ble possibilities Of horror.
II Is unfortunate with that our public men
are by the force OF our constant political changes
unframed either in the arts In the language OK
statesmen forget the art and language Of courtesy.
Always in an unamalsamated civilization like
but are conglomeration OF innumerable nationali-
dangers the one Of assertions OF od.tme preiudces
and antagonisms which have no place in our soil
a no IN h 10 0 reaGn to any other
able political device OF panderng TO some OF these
The mindful men in England look with
adn ne and ssGnishmsnt on what sometimes
tisan newspapers the feeling OF hatred and dis
Ike of England in America | am of the
pie at home. With these extreme Impressions Of
violence the English Government. the English peo-
pie and the English press have been most patient
but, unless we come to recognize more than do
the recklessness Of speech the facility of rousing
preiudices and the danger of provoking the
most patient strength. we may bring about a state
of things infinitely dsgraceful and Infinitely dan
not, nor wh-re the ugly thing which it describes
in England and hat that the e' spirit T which anlmaies
him Is more or less lying dormant and ready to be
/ roused but nobody can doubt its prevalence and
! its unlicensed utterances among US. II Is the
spirit or 81 ar mnd S
credit to our Christianity. In on individual 1, is
most odlous to everybody with whom he comes In
! The theory that the old Revolutionary spirit.
which regarded England as a tyrant Is kept alive
have some weight. II IT has, IT is time that the
schoolbooks were corrected so that children shall
ago is as different from na the England Of to-day
az the America OF this century Is different from
the America OF the Revolution. The theory that
We are siill and smarting under the prevalent
English sympathy with the South during the Civil
# is tho S' sign OF hgSmn lnteeence to recog
nisc that, in the outcome OF that war we have be-
come enough to forgive the people that mis-
| understood US.
The more serious fact is that If we give protec-
ton in America TO people from, other lands who
| accounted themselves oppressed and injured by
foreign governments when they were at home w, we
shall leave their quarrels behind them and that In
America there shall be distinctions of German,
| Americans. or rish-Americans. or Americans OF
any qualification whatever. And for that wretched
party spirit which for the serving OF temporary
political ends is capable Of risking the permanneISt
horrors of an alienation between two nations when
9b2 10 TN 90 T5e o IN
tory and religion there ought TO be- at the polls
in the press from the pulpit snd tne conde
nation and the most incessant rebuke. ! hope we
shall not fail to make application 70 ourselves 20 OF
the splendid utterances of Rudyard kipiing ne
cessiona" which have their lesson for US In AMER
Tea as permanently and as powerfully as TOT Tue
similar spirit IN England:
fn ,6n wa ;is a S Ia s0 NOT rs:. in'
Such boosting ss.. as t Ms GsR ss:
Lord God Of Hosts be With US ye'
In speak,ng OF the results OF the Lambeth Con-
ference and the alleged probability OF the American
Church subordnating itself 10 the English Chnrcr
and the Bishop OF Canterbury. Bishop Doane saio
II has always been quite plain that there hao
been no thought purpose OF suggesting any SUD
ordinate relation Of the chief Bishops OF natona
cburcbos TO the Archbishop OF Canterbury. There
had been much discussion In the papers here, ano
no little alarm and anxiety as TO the creation OK
sort of papacy at Lambeth: but the only ouesuof
intended 10 he considered and the only ouesuot
that was considered was the relation 10 'he A.eh
hisbon of colonial prlmates and bishops, ana o.
ht,hons 4, countries like India and Australia, which
differ somewhat In their organization from I'M
| colonial sees. ~, ...,,,ro ,ror, IN.
/ mil ~ those who know nothing OF the deiioera
lions of the Conference the impression that an I'M
| rond,ng danger to our ecclesiastical npertes "t
rn,,h dlelculty ayerted. The theory OF marc an,
fast organization found little favor anon Ma ' ~
! iPisbons OF any national church and the ldea ~
",tSSfnT5ination Of Connecticut 10 Canterbury "a'
| not so much mooted.