Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-16
Bishop Doane Strongly and Unspar-
ingly Denounces It.
FRUIT OF EXTREME PARTY SPIRIT
Suggested That Text Books of the
Schools Are Responsible.
AROUSING OF PREJUDICES

ALBANY, November 16.-Bishop William
Croswell Doane, in his annual address to
the clergy of the diocese of Albany today,
speaking Of the relation of America to
England in the Lambeth conference, was
very intense in his condemnation Of what
is called 'jingoism." Relating to the report
upon the subject Of international arbitra-
ton. he said:
Ihere can be no question that within the
last two or three years, from various
causes and with some fault on both Sides
the minds Of men have been accustomed to
the thought of a possible resort to arms
as the settlement of national questions be-
tween England and America. Whatever
may have been wrong and unwise in the
utterances and attitude over there, you
and are not responsible for; but we are
responsible, and must be held so, for the
things that have been said and done and
for the spirit that has been reused in
America, and which has in it inconceivable
possibilities of horror. 1t is unfortunate
with us that our public men are by the
force of our constant political changes I'M
trained either in the arts or in the language
OF diplomacy. 1t is still more unfortunate
when statesmen forget the art and lam
guage of courtesy. Always in an unamal-
gamated civilization like ours when we
nave not yet become one nation, but are a
conglomerate of innumerable nationalities
only In process of assimilation there are
two dangers, the one of assertions of old
time prejudices and antagonisms, which
have no place in our soil, and no reference
TO our relations to any other country in the
world; and the other the objectionable DO
lftical device of pandering to some of these
transplanted parties.
The English Amazed.
1.-The more mindful men in England look
with amazement and aStonishment on what
sometimes seems to them the unbridled
violence of our partisan newspapers the
feeling of hatred and dislike of England
In America. 1 am sure of the absence of
all such feeling among thoughtful people at
home. With these extreme expressions of
violence, the English government, the
English people and the English press have
been most patient; but unless we come to
recognize more than we do the reckless
ness or speech, the facility of rousing
preJudices, and the danger of proyo.,ng
even the most patient strength, we NAV
prlhs ABOUT a state of things infinitely dis
graceIul and infinitely dangerous to our
Cnrlstanlty and our civilization.
Just where the word .jngo' came from
matters not, nor where the ugly thing
which it describes originated. l am quite
well aware that he exists In England, and
that the spirit which animates him is more
or less lying dormant and ready to be
reused; but nobody can doubt its preva-
lence and its unlicensed utterances among
u.s. 1t Is the spirit of boastfulness, SELFISH
ness, arrogance, conceit. 1t Is unworthy of
our manhood and a discredit 70 our Chris
tianity. In an individual it is most odious
to everybody with whom he comes in con-
tact The theory that the old revolution
ary spirit which regarded England as ty-
rant, Is kept alive by the study of our
school books of history may have some
weight.
Text Books Possibly Wrong.
''If it has, it is time that the school
DOCKS were corrected; SO that children shall
be taught that the England of a hundred
years ago Is as different from the England
OF today as the America of this century is
dlnerent from the America of the revolu-
tlon. The theory that we are still sore and
smarting under the prevalent English SYM
pathy with the south during the civil war
may have some weight If it be true sure
ly 1t Is the sign of high-mnded Intelligence
10 recognize that in the outcome of that
war we have become strong enough to for
give the people that misunderstood U.S. The
more serious fact. which ought to be both
restrained and rebuked, is that If we give
protection In America to people from other
lands who accounted themselves oppressed
and injured by foreign governments when
tney were at home, we have the right to
demand from them that they shall leave
their quarrels behind them, and that in
Am erica there shall be no distinctions of
German-Americans, or Irish-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 permanent horrors
OF an alienation between two pations which
are absolutely one. in origin, in character.
in interest. in responsibility from God. in
laI guage, in history and in religion, there
ought to be at the polls in the press, from
the pulpit and the personal intercourse of
intelligent men the sternest condemnation
and the most incessant rebuke.
This is a matter in which men of intel
ligence and influence are deeply concerned
No greater outrage can be conceivable, and
no more lasting and serious injury to all
the best interests of humanity throughout
the world, than the severance or even the
straining Of the close tie which binds
America to England. A war would be only
less fratricidal war than our unfortunate
rebellion; but the prevention of it must be
not by the machinery of statecraft and cab
II ct counsel, but by the cultivation of the
true spirit and temper of the peoples of
beth nations"