Evening star., 1898-07-16
HANDS ACROSS THE SEA.
One Enslishman Who Says They Are
All with Us.

To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
L have on more than one occasion with
great delight. visited your beautiful city,
where / have relatives and many friends
and experienced much pleasure in going
over your institutions hence, whenever
opportunity has offered during my travels
1 have never failed to advertise you to-
your hearts content. and certainly the
tribute is we'll deserved. Having there
fore such an affinity with your people,
feel impressed at this time to address a
few lines to you on the subject of the war.
and IL were near your metropolis now I
would go right away to the White House
and shake hands with the representative
of the American people, the President and
offer him congratulations on the splendid
way matters have been arranged and the
outlook generally. j have been running
around the globe great deal during the
last few years, exercising my powers OF
observation, and in the latter three or
four months. that Is. from the commence
ment OF your trouble with the dons j
have heard but one note sounded by every
individual atom OF English-sDeaking peo-
pie with whom 1 have come into contact
the slst OF which has been and is hearty,
deep-feit sympathy with your country In,
this great upset. We are all lust like that
niriy years back, at Australia, a friend of
mine was forever putting the idea forward
e''N tifS l1us iisil-Spedk4DkT races must even
tudily unite. with the certain result that
we should gain our own methods in push
ing Forward tie progress of the inhabi-
tants OF this little spheroid of ours. We
shall use our power IN order to exempify
the teachings of the greatest master and
philosopher who ever walked our planet
Christ We will raise tine down-trodden.
put nnal stop to tortures and crueltiess
OF all kinds, inQuisitions Benins Ashant,s
whether 1T be at Cuba. the Philippines or
eIseWhefe and. en- passapt, your Spanish
tyrant Is not to be headed. You cannot
give him start. We know MIN of old
ana he is now experiencing somewhat of
the inevitable laws of retribution or COM
pensaton for his past misdeeds. We felt
good, tell You, when you made your first
prance forward in this war and we knew
that our government and people Just made.
sign lit was quite sufficient. fully signifi-
can't that We were watching your interests
ana meant to stand by you in the event
OF any unlooked-for contingency or dis
aster arising We practically said: I'VE
are alongside of you, Uncle Sam. We Will
be thar. Hands off. all you vultures who
would like to interfere or take a hand if
you dared do SO and count us in it" How
lovely, and yet it wa only what many os
your journals announced some time ago
when bit Of a combination threatened our
old nation. The special flying squadron
we turned out SO smartly, yet SO quietly,
70 20 sho" Its teeth Here We are It said.
Come one: come ALL
You m.y pat him the crown and stroke him
down,
but beware how you tread upon his tall
Wen, at that particular juncture the car
rlon crows knew full well that Jonathan
ana Mr.. Bull would be shoulder TO shou!-
der, blade by blade" IL necessary, and
they cogitated. Yes. they did, sir: they
do SO now. tell you, stranger that lie So
Wen, then. they Chew the cud'' with a
vengeance now, for they calculate that n
lou can invent, organize, fight and con-
quer by land and by sea, as you have late
ly done all around the show what oh,
what would be the music they would have
TO lace IL IL became necessary for us with
you to take in hand any foreign combina-
tion of powers.
wind up by telling You that these my
sentiments although SO imperfectly noted
ana eXpounded. represent the views OF the
great majority of our race.
We say again, Hands across the sea"
We congratulate your President and all
the American people. We honor your Dew
eys, your Simpsons, Skaters. Schleys and
all the rest of them, officers and men. We
deplcre the loss of the brave who fell but
we feel well assured that their names will
stand out On the roll of fame for all time
and that their dear families will be well
cared for by you.
VIM. PHILIP BECHERVAISE,
Ballarat, Victoria. Australia.