The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-01
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This Anglo American alliance propo-
sition is another greatly overworked
invention. The suggestion comes from
Great Britain, and the Englishman
doesn't like the American a little bit.
America is not English in anything
but tongue. And, by the way, we are
holding our own with England in the
use Of the tongue. America is Dutch,
German, Scandinavian, Cuban, Irish,
Dago, African and English, together
with some others regularly enumerat-
ed in the records. While we are large
ly of Saxon origin, England dos not
love us down deep in her heart, nor our
ways. We are destined to be, if we are
not already, Englands principal com
petitor in the commerce Of the world.
Besides, England believes US to be not
only young but bumptiOus, and Eng
land loves the old, solid and aristo-
cratic. We are talking Of the govern
ing element of England, of course.
England holds America to be rough
and uncouth, with only one developed
sense, and that an abnormal love for
the almighty dollar. England worships
at this same shrine six days in the
week. But America never stops for
Sundays. Day and night she is down
on her hunkers to the everlasting
nickle and it's multiple. England view
ed with horror Spanish misrule in
Cuba, no doubt, but England, all the
same, admires old, historic Hispano,
her art and literature, and her blue
blood families, old as her castles. Eng
land has not forgotten the Armada,
and she thinks her established church
far superior to the one with its head
at the home Of the Caesars. But Eng
land hasn't forgotten the Fenians, and
she despises Tammany no less than the
Republican party; and England is not
weeping for sympathy because her re-
puted daughter Columbia, is involved
in war. England's flag floats as close
TO Cuba as America, but it was not
because of the Monroe doctrine that
England did not step in to succOr the
Cubans The Spaniard if a tyrant
abroad, is poor and contented and aris-
tocratic at home, holding a due rever-
ence for all the humbug claims of he
redity America is not only restless !
and aggressive, but is irreverent, if not
extensively impudent when it comes to I
the claims of the governing classes of /
old Europe. Jee Chamberlain's talk
was not Of the heart, but of the head. /
Great Britain and America will stand
together, doubtless, on the Chinese /
question, because their interests are |
one and the same. England and the |
United States understand each other I
better than either does any other ma
tionality, but they know too much of /
their mutual weaknesses to ever fall /
head over heels into an Anglo-Ameri- |
can love alliance with each other. Eng |
land may not have forgotten the Ar
mazda, but she has a much Iivelier rec /
objection Of the way America has for |
fifty years been protesting against /
English rule in Ireland, and the
amounts Of money continuously con-
tributed to the Irish cause, and the en-
couragement afforded the wronged
people of that historic isle Of poets and
heroes by the transatlantic scion that
having repudiated its British parent
age, afterwards rebeled and finally
whipped the alleged mother TO finish.