The Lamar register., 1898-11-09
FRIENDSHIP TO ALL.
OUR POSITION TOWARD THE
GREAT NATIONS.
Even sham of UnosuaI Friendship for
the AnTio-saIons would Injurs Our
Trade An over the CiynIzed World
Mus, Hold Aioof.


OF extolling the idea of Anglo Amer
lean alliance. OF course. this talk
could come from none save the shoddy
American, except 1t be from the pur-
chased newspapers and pulpits under
foreign domination. The Chicago Inter
ocean, paper that is not owned IN
England. has this TO say about a re-
cent incident:
Rev. DIR. Hills demonstrated again
last Sunday the utter incapacity OF
clerical declaimers OF his type to han
die the higher questions of state pol
Icy. While hundreds OF the ablest
ministers of the country have come
to the support of a resolute and dis
tinctiye Americanism. DR.. Hills, who
last spring spoke against the war with
Spain, nov desires that an Anglo
American alliance be one of the results
OF our victory, His characterization
Of the impulses. motives, and achieve
ments OF the Ensiish-speaking people
is superneially correct. but he seems
to be utterly unconscious OF the fact
that the arguments he puts forward
and the illustrations he uses are all in
favor OF English domination and
against American interests This Is the
greatest fault with all the cheap ad-
yocates OF an alliance.
DR.. Hills contends that the strate-
gie position Of America and England
proclaims leadership as the ultimate
destiny OF the Eugiish-speaking peo-
pies In case Of war England and
America, BY uniting their forces. will
possess all the pivotal harbors that
control the continents" he says, and
then mentions as the strategic points
OF the world the Strait OF Gibraltar
the susz canal. the great harbor OF
India, the ST. Lawrence river on our
north and the entrance to the Mexican
gulf on our south. This Is an effective
grouping. but Dr. Hills falls to mem
tion the singular fact that Of these
strategic positions four are In the pos
session Of Great Britain. and that the
other will not be in the possession of
the United States until We control Cn-
bA and Porto Rico.
Another point made by DR.. Hills is
that the lines OF commerce. as well as
those OF defense, are in the hands OF
the Euglish-speaking people. The sta
tistIes show that the lines Of COM
merce are in the hands of Great Brit
ain and that her naval power and her
commercial sinews are being strained
TO maintain them against all the world.
Most particularly are her commercial
people Jealous of and hostile to pow
er like the United States. which Is
struggling for supremacy in the same
field as England. The manufacturers.
merchants. and producers of England
have succeeded up TO this time in drty-
ing the American merchant marine
from the seas. They will continue in
this policy. The English-speaking peo-
pies control the lines Of commerce. but
England has the lions share and gives
no sign OF relinquishing IL even to
please us.
Or. Hills says that today England
and America control four-ffths of the
fresh water OF the globe He forgets TO
remark that in this division England
has taken three-ffths, leaving America
one-ffth. He forgets. also. to mention
the fact that in the line of great lakes
between hAkL&Hh anu 49,
tory Great Britain is so Jealous OF
American power that abe will not per-
init us to maintain more than one gun
boat. where our interests demand half
a dozen. Despite this fact DIR. Hills
refers to a decisive battle l40 years
ago as an example OF Anglo-American
sympathy and power, Why does he go
back t4O years. Why not speak Of last
week. when we learned that England
had projected new chain of forts
along the Canadian frontier? These
forts can be intended but for one ma
ton. and that nation is the United
states. Americans and Englishmen
NAV have fought side by side at Que
bee 14O years ago, but the Englishmen
of today prepare for an event in which
instead Of fighting shoulder to shoul-
der they would fight face to face.
DR.. Hills suggests that If we would
send men like Seth Low. ex-President
: Cleveland, Lyman Abbott, and Joseph
Choate to speak to England from the
/ American point of view, the whole
! world would be made to stop and listen
for one day, at least. to noble plea
for the rights and liberty of the peo-
nile This utterance sounds like irony.
hut we shall accept II as made in good