New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-28
London. June ,. 1893.
ALLIANCE OF ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
REASONS ADVANCED WHY IT SHOULD EX'sT'

REASONS ADVANCED WHY 1T SHOULD fA''''
70 the Editor % The Tribune.
Str. A. there or should be reasons why III
sl,,i,als or nations DO or refrain from DOING any
thing. we who are IN favor o: an alliance WIN
,;reat Britain ~houli give our reasons thereior and
Gee n they viii bear rutny and investgatlon ana
.nfsfy American pride AMI PATRIOTISM IN u"'ns
this tho writer As briefly as the nature OF ue case
viii admit. will group his reasons why inc wv
greatest ration on the globe should unite as far as
-oc,i.,flc and become TO that extent one greater
nation First both are English-speaking ana OK
common origin Second our forms OF cViliEa-
ton arc tho same. and as all our interests centre
IN orr forms 81 civilization we are pra'u'"''
working In harmony n!ong every hne o' hu''""
,rogress the ultimate object OF which IS the per
,nan.n, lettering oi all the conditions which enter
a. factors into human Ike. Thus blood. origin
charnctcristics and a common destiny All point IN
nistakahly 20 a convcrging focus a unity '"a' 10
real AMI not merely theoretical
Or course as Americans We think justly that our
,orn ~ go,crnmcnt Is the best which has been
devised under the sun. but we need not proclaim
,hls truth from the houseOps inasmuch "a the re-
suits proclaim i,-these stand out as plain as tho
sun I'm a coudlcss MONDAY sky. We may with
pardonable pride invite the attention OF the whole
world TO the results accomplished by leaving mans
intellect unfettercd and his actions unresraIhed
except by wise and wholesome laws.
There is not nor can there be. any successful
denial OF the fact that universal education is the
only sure foundation which the temple OF uni
versal liberty can safely stand Neither can 1t be
success July denied that in this Particular we are
the vanguard OF the world. 1t seems pam INA, IN
lettering all the parts We necessarily better me
whole and that TINS Is much better tnan to build
and polish Of the parts alone. ana 10 ignore Dy
neglect the other parts that necessarily enter as
constituents In the whole. This thought pehcVe:
was in the minds 81 The originators OF our form OF
fITgiridTJ and America divided only boy nimsy
barriers run almost exactly parallel IN All ines o,
thought, ende1vor and attainment me pest anu
highest sentmen: of the one nation Is true couIi-
W.. do but there times when We are led With
out knowing IT. Now II II be true that along az
We not openly before the whole word unite ior
common defence against common foes' ior com
mon interests along commercial mes ana IN iac,
along every conceivable lin"f II ls true England
IL old and we are young. but hers Is not the old
age OF decrepitude nor is ours the youthfuness ot
in. swaddling garment. rather must We be lSened
turitv IN bright. proud strength ot glorious
young manhood, fully conscious of our own aml.y
tho wise counses and Mt times the helping hand OF
her from whom We sprang. and she In turn fully
rcciprocating IN kind.
number 30 the best thing We can do IS Ia unite
and let the reasons take OF themselves. AZ
10 the past or that part of II that IL associated
arr own immortal Iongf".low TO say. Let the dead
mast hurry its dead" And not the sclf-imposcd
dutv 81 going into It's gravcNaris TO eNhume the
ncs HESS skeletons FOR companionshp either In the
present or future. Rather ours the duty 10
prove our forms or progressive civilization all
that We claim for them by broadening out to their
nm requirements. and thus prove ourselves worthy
OF the glory and honor that come with the accom-
pllshmcni Of nohl" purposes In and OF themselves
good and laden with good. not FOR ourselves alone.
huf FOR the whole human race as well And surely
n broadening out To- this inclusveness cannot but
Command mo sanction OF even the narrowest minds
included IN II. lillian X DAiiETT.
Ncw-York. June Il. 1895