The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-04-10
THE TWO COUNTRIES GROWING
CLOSER

4 dispatch from NeH Orleans states
that tho local representatives OF the Lon
dan LIVERPOOL and Globe Insurance Com
pany have received cablegram from the
home Office IN England iastructing them
TO permit any Of the employees who may
desire 10 join the United States troops
In the event Of war with Spain, and 10
assure them that their salaries will be
continued by the company during the ser
vice. lie dispatch is without quaihca-
ton and the person sending It evidently
believed Il was true. But whether fact
or net there was mauitcstly something
behind IL that worked in the direction
stated and IN that point Of view. 1t serves
TO draw especial attention 10 the nearness
Of the relations between the people OF
England and the people of America. Fool
ish men have been pra;ing immensely for
a number of years about Eng ,and's de-
sire 10 Cypress America through her
character Of the great creditor nation,
and that she may sell here her goods
manufactured 10y pauper labor. But the
sensible aad conservative men Of both
courtrlcs lave perceived all along that
there was no sort or ground for enmity
or divergence Of interests between The
TWO countries. but that with feelings and
aspirations alike. the interests Of both
countries are identical. and that in time
their relations would grow so close that
The dividing line between them as two
countries would he Httle more than an
imaginary one.
Of al The groundless talk we heard in
the discussion of free silver we think the
most unreasonable Except always, OF
course. the notion that the government
could make nfty cents worth of silver as
valuable as a dollars worth Of gold. was
the eternal clatter OF some men that Eng
land. being he great creditor nation
wanted to Cypress us by insisting upon
the gold standard because she thereby
made money so much scarccr. and. there
fore so much doarer. The men who put
this notion forward really believed that
We paid our interest due in England with
gold dol airs. But much money as we do
pay there every year, We never SEND a
single gold dollar 10 pay 1t with. Our
merchants ship cotton 5ni wheat there,
which they sell for credits stated in gold
pounds.
a corporation here owing interest in
England buys a oil Of exchange against
one OF their creditors from the American
shippers. and sends 1t there. and that
credit Is applied 10 the payment OF the
Interest which IS paid by checks and not
one dollar Of god is ever used in the
transaction. Il IS 70 be hoped that the
cad Of tbs clamor for free silver
viii soon come. and that cause Of irrita-
tier between Eaglan1 and the free silver
part OF our people will disappear.
The tariff. too. viii not cut much OF a
Agure IN a shcrt time so that the hum
buggery that Las been built upon that will
soon disappear During the long per.oG
IN which We have had a protective tariff
manufactures IN this country have been
50 stlmula ed that they can now supply
Ear more than Americans can consume
and they must have foreign market or
perish upon the hands OF their producers.
we can never have an advantageous for.
eign market whist we maintain a pro-
tective tariff People will not buy from
Us unless they can sell 10 Us. Our manu-
facturers. therefore. who procured the
passage Of the protective tarln act, viii
q; no distant cay. be calling upon Con-
gress &c repeal It. 50 that they may sell
IN foreign markets upon equal terms with
English and other foreign manufacturers.
This cause OF dlscord between the two
countries is. therefore. rapidly disappear
ing.
AS FOR the good feellng--what the
French call entente cordlale-between the
two people our recent experience has
given TIE most complete and the most
satisfactory proof 0. that There might
havs been soma rssl attempt sy the Con-
ti.na:S! Powers 70 ala Spain IN our con-
test wish her. but for the position taken
~ the English government But tia:
government properly put its foot down
aud noticed EusspI that its sympathies