The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-09


Achievements of the United States
in the Same Class With Those of
England-the Recent Utterance of
Messrs. Salisbury and Chamberlain
More Remarkable Still - Forging
Links In the Ties of Friendship That
Bind the Two Countries Together.
Charlotte Observer.)
The recent remarkable utterances
of two of Great Britian's living states
men, Salisbury and Chamberlain.
forging links in the friendship bind
ing England and the United States,
and, most probably, presaging event
full alliance between these two great
English-speaking nations. mother
and daughter, have attracted world
wide attention. These two distin-
guished Englishmen have, in their
expressions of friendliness for us,
gone a stones throw beyond any of
their predecessors in high place.
And yet they are but giving utter
ance to a long existent tendency.
Before them, dead statesman, just
laid to rest in Westminster Abbey,
compared the two nations most fav-
orably, not hesitating to put the
achievements of the gigantic but
still growing western republic in the
same class with those of his country.
The following is from the pen OF
Gladstone:
The students of the future in the
tranquil domain of political philos-
ophy will have much to say in the
comparison between American and
British institutions.
There is no parallel in all the re-
cords of the world to the case of that
prolific British mother, who has sent
forth her innumerable children over
all the earth to be the founders OF
half a dozen empires.
"Among the children there is one
whose place in the worlds eye and in
history is superiative; it is the Ameri-
can republic. She is the eldest born.
She has, taking the capacity OF her
land into view, as we'll as its mere
measurement, a natural base for the
greatest continuous empire ever es-
tablished by man. The development
which the republic has effected has
been unexample for its rapidity and
force While other countries have
doubled or at most trebled their pop
ulation, she has risen, during one
century of freedom. in round num-
bers from two millions to forty-five
millions QS78). AS to riches, it is
reasonable to establish from the
decennial stages of progress thus far
achieved a series for the future; and
reckoning upon this basis, 1 suppose
that the very next census, in the
year 1880, will exhibit her to the
world as certainly the wealthiest OF
all the nations. The huge figure OF
thousand millions sterling, which
may be taken roundly as the annual
income of the United Kingdom, has
been reached at surprising rate-a
rate which may perhaps be best ex,
pressed by saying that, ii we could
have started forty or fifty years age
from zero, at the rate of our annual
increment, we should now have
reached our present position. But
while we have been advancing with
this pretentious rapidity, America is
passing us by as if in a canter. YET
even the work of searching the sol
and the bowels of the territory, ano
opening out her enterprise through
out it's vast expanse, is in its infancy
The England and the America OF th'
present are probably the two strong
est nations of the world.
.sIn many and the most fundamental
respects the two still carry in undi
minished, perhaps in increasing
clearness the notes of resemblance
that beseem parent and child.
Both wish for self-government
and, however grave the drawback
under which in one or both it exists
the two have among the great nation
of the world made the most effectua
advances toward the true aim OF ra
tional politics.
The two constitutions of the tw
countries express, indeed, rather tn
differences than the resemblances
the nations. The one is thin
grown, the other thing made; tn
one a praxis, the other poiesis; tn
one an offspring of tendency and in
; determinate time, the other OF cholc
and of an epoch. But as the Britis
constitution is the most suitable OF
ganism which has proceeded from tn
womb and the long CESSATION OF pre-
gressive history, so the America
!, constitution is, so far as l can SCI
> the most wonderful work ever struc
5 off at a given time by the brain an
! purpose of man.
: ..All hostility ever existing betwee
: England and the United States hs
been due to monumental blunders
= deluded men,. Their manifest destin
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