The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-04-21
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Christian World Uondon): Mr., Al
fred Austin's muse is this week happily.
inspired. The verses in which he
calls for union between England and
America are not only vigorous, but we'll
timed. They voice a sentiment which,
we believe. lies deep In Innumerable
bosoms on both sides OF the Atlantic.
The horizons Of both countries Just
now are clouded, and 1t Is significant
that In our. hour Of anxiety they should
!nstinctively turn toward each other.
Our own people have long been ready
for this Improvement, and now Amer
lea. after q period OF distrust and mis-
understanding, is giving abundant EVIL
dence OF q similar feeling. 1t is not
this time only the thoughtful, cultured
and religious half of the United States
the half on which We could always
rely-but also the less rejecting public,
which reads the sensational papers and
fills the music halls, that halls the new
fraternity. { We hear OF theatres being
decorated with the union Jack, inter-
tw!ned with the stars and stripes, and
Of God Save the Queen and Hail
Columbia" being sung together amid
frantic enthusiasm.
r 1t may be said that demonstrations
OF this kind are the result simply of q
suddenly discovered identity of inter-
ests in q situation critical for both ma
tons. and are not to be permanently
relied on. Part Of these manifestations
are doubtless of this character, but
there Is, We believe. behind them a vast
and growing body OF feeling in the
states. US In this country, OF another
and more Trustworthy kind. 1t Is not
for nothing that for years the greatest
religious, social and phIiauthropIc
bodies OF both lands have been in con-
slant intercourse and co-operatIon; that
the two peoples have been reading the
same literatures and drawing insplra-,
ton from the same teachers; that they
have been showing solidarity OF
thought and faith and life TO which no
other nations of the world can present
q parallel. We are less than thirty
miles from France, while 5000 miles
separate us from America, but the
Briton feels and understands every
throb of the American heart, while a
gulf almost Unreasonable yawns be-
tween him and his continental neigh
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1t Is this tie Of blood, this intimate
fellowship between the whole inner life
of the two. peoples, which makes us
realize that while the policy Of Great
Britain has been to hold aloof from
continental alliances, some such bond
between us and the great western re-
public would be Mt once, most natural
and most desirable. II would mean a
worlds alliance Of the Anglo-Saxon
race, and that would mean the surcst
Of guarantees for the worlds peace and
progress Their united power and poll
Icy might be relied on to be exercised
In the interests OF International order
and well-bcing, and would be q menace
which none could afford to despise
against any attempted Infraction OF
those interests. Those who have the
ear Of the public, whether IN the pull
pit on the platform. or In the press.
can, we are persuaded, labor for no
worther object, for none more likely to
be fruitful In bencficcnt results, than
the. Fastening the contamination OF this
union Of hearts.