The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-07-13
JONATHAN AND JOHN BULL.

JONA THAN AND JUnN BULL.
An alliance with Great Britain by
the United states Is almost inevitably
a matter of instinct whether or not 1t
| is embodied i'm documentary form. No
two nations that ever entered into any
sort of an agreement were less likely 10
make a thin. superficial or sentimental
contract. There is no arbitration trea-
~ between the two great English
speaking nations yet both are pledged
to arbitration as a policy and upon oc-
casion arising between one another
would repeat the world famous expert
ment that resulted in the Geneva
award. Neither nation Is in any dan
ger of entering into an iron clad con-
tract wherein the give and take pro-
visions shall not be quite equally bal
anced and IL need not be at all dis
couraging to promoters of such COM
pact if 1t fails while the unwritten
agreements. prompted by the blood
that is thicker than water, many in
divisible racial characteristics in COM
mon, the unsentimcntal genius OF in
dustry and public policy. develop
apace.
America is younger England, NOV
ing i'm a wider range with freer step.
Excepting the immigrants of alien ton
CUES. her people have the same blood
and traditions. tho same literature and
habits. the same proud history and
aims, as the mother country. In re-
ligion, in political and municipal free
dom, in inventive genius and com
mercial and industrial eagcrness.
they are alike. Great Britain's
total purchases from the United
States from April 30th. 1897. To April
Soth, as9s, amounted to GllS0oO .o0O or
nearly one half of the total American
exports, in other words. almost as much
as was purchased by all the rest of the
world Her colonies and India pur-
chased in the preceding year III per
cent. Thus about go per cent. of all
their exports were bought by Great
Britain and other parts Of the British
Empire. AS the balance OF trade is
very largely in their favor, the differ
ence provides them with the means of
making cash investments in any part
OF the world. and of purchasing in
other countries. II need be, beyond the
amount OF their exports to them. Thus
their immense commcrce and vast
wealth. distributed throughout the
earth. give England and the United
States common aim-the welfare and
Of all nations. They are
therefore eminently qualified 10 become
the joint repositories of peace and the
guarantors OF the worlds best inter-
ests.
Great Britain and the United States
possess together one-half of the whole
habitable part of the globe. and nearly
of all It's inhabitants. or the
latter about one hundred and ten mill
lions are of European blood, and of a
hundred millions OF these the English
language is their mother tongue.
Their commercial shipping greatly
exceeds that of all the rest OF the world
together. Their ships of war amount
to Az (of which $40 are British), and
exceed by so the united navies of
France. Russia, Germany and italy.
1t will thus be evident that, united,
no power would venture to attack
them. and that they would probably
prove irresistible to any possible COM
OF powers. seeing that their
combined resources are well-nigh mex
But IL is notorious that they
ire the material and intellectual ad-
yressive nations on the earth, IL we
compare their extent, their wealth, and
population. Their great ruling motives
ire the material and intellectual ad.
OF the people. Both these
ire Incompatible with war; and flour
sh during peace.
Under such circumstances there Is
! considerable de facto Anglo Amer
can" alliance today. and 1t is bound to
row.