The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-10-19
A PRETTY PICTURE.
Imagine a Union Between Amer
ica and England.
The PrepOsterous Proposition of an
English TheOrist = National
Elements That Would
Not. AssimiIate.

takes, to show that the union of the
United States and England into one
nation, with one government, would be
an untold blessing, and advances g.
number of reasons for his belief. I'm
time of war" he says, 1.-The combined
fleets would be able to defy any possi-
BILE combination, and with coahng sta
tions within the readiest reach they
could sweep the seas of their enemies
shipping, and convenient ports for
prizes would abound. AS for the armies,
it is said that the United States could
put 100000 men on a war footing.
Add that to our own total of, say $780,
900, which, in time of war, could be
greatly added ato, we could provide
united military force of some 100000
men, and face enormous odds by vir-
tue of the incalculable resources of the
two richest nations in the world. Com
mercially we could almost absolutely
control the trade of the world and be
independent of supplies from other ma
tions, seeing that what the states lack
in shipping they provide in boundless
tracts of land that can furnish every
thing that can be desired The surplus
population of Brisain, too, would find
abundant scope in the undeyeloped soil
of America. Then, in respect to size,
the new nation would present an area
of 1854, ABB square miles Omitted
States, 3,470,O0O; Britain, 9.071 ,OOO)-
more than the whole of Africa, and
more than three times the advantage of
oneness of interests, the oneness of
language, the sympathies of blood
kinship, similarity in almost every con-
ceivable direction. The united nation
would be able to dominate alike the
worlds councils, its trade, its doings-
in fact, what the Anglo-Saxon people
said would practically be the law of
mankind"
Nothing, of course, could be more re-
mote than the possibility of such
union. However, it brings up questions
and conjectures that are most inter
esting. In the first place there would
have to be a compromise between the
two countries as to the form of govern
ment. Every one of Uncle Sans sub
jects is a sovereign unto himself, and
nothing could be more odious to him
than to acknowledge allegiance to one
who rules by divine right. Likewise
would it be difficult to engraft in the
breast of the average Englishman that
love of independence, liberty and rev.
erence for free institutions that is born
in every American. 1t is hard for the
Briton to understand that the strength
of a nation may lie in the unified loyal
ty of all its citizens, without depend
ence upon any family born to the pur-
pie, upon tradition, upon the glamour
that, in monarchy, surrounds the gov
ernmental head. Hence modification
of the two governments that would best
equaIize the widely divergent condi-
tions would have to be effected. Natur-
ally, some of the features of this gov
ernment would be retained, and no
doubt civil service would be one of
them, as it is essentially an offspring
of royalty. Imagine, if you can, the
prince of Wales or the duke of York
eagerly scanning the newspapers the
morning after an examination TO see
if they had passed. Or, with equal
solemnity, try to picture our own DR..
Depew in all the gorgeousness of gold
! lace and knicker'bockers, bowling and
scraping around the ruler neither
president nor king, but portion of
! both-as a gentleman in waiting.
Tt is ridiculous to suppose that, with
all these incongruities. and with moth
| ing whatever in common between the
IWO SYSTEMS Vi government tndt lnear
union could by any possible chance ever
be brought about. Since the 13 little
colonies dissolved from the mother
country something over 100 years ago,
this nation has made a phenomenal
growth in everything, but in no one
thing has there been greater expan-
sion than in patriotism. In a com
mensurate degree has grown the dis
like for monarchies and the trappings
! of royalty.
It's roseate picture this theorist
across the water paints, but it can
never, never be realized-Cincinnat
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