The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-08-06
FoRElGNE RS DO UNDERSTAND.


air of superior wisdom, that foreigners
have not properly understood the speech
of Joseph Chamberlain on the Anglo
Saxon alliance, in which he said: "And
L even go SO far as to say that, terrible
as war may be, even war itself would
be cheaply purchased if in a great and
noble cause the stars and stripes and
the union jack should wave together
| over an Anglo-SaXon alliance" The
Times says that the Liberal renegade
was perfectly understood in England
and in the United States, except by a
portion of our foreign populations as rep
resented in their newspapers published
here" OF course, s'our foreign popula-
tlons, meaning American citizens of
Irish and German descent and birth, are
not supposed to possess the high intelli-
gence of the Anglo-Saxons to compre-
bend the language of the Birmingham
screWmaker How could they be expect
ed to understand British politicians?
The Yankees of Anglo-Saxon origin can
l..
He did not mean anything by what he
said. He was talking in a metaphorical
sense. But some stupid Americans
whose forefathers came over in the May
Hover and not in Cunard steamers
thoroughly understood Mr.. Chamberlain.
One Of them says: can alliance with
England for any purpose would he
stencil i'll the nostrils of the human race;
and if the stars and stripes and the
union jack-the emblem of freedom and
the emblem of .tyranny-should float to-
gether in war for humanity, it would
be a spectacle so amazing, union so
unnatural, so repulsive, that it would
create confusion in heaven, panic on
earth, and commissions in hell"
That sort Of language must crate
harshly on the delicate ears CT the editor
of the Times, the man who recently sang
God Save the Queen" when travelling
| on pass over the Canadian Pacific.
"They (the foreigners) inferred that
what was meant (by Chamberlain was
an alliance in the continental sense"
says the sagacious editor of the Times,
They had good reasons to draw such an
inference. Chamberlain in his speech
| referred to European alliances, and said:
I'VE stand alone, and we may be coll
frontcd with such combination as I
have indicated to you"-meaning Russia
n6 N oil t1o
United States, not sentimental one, but
a real, active alliance by which the
army and navy of Uncle Sam would as
sist John Bull against his European en-
emies, is what Chamberlain had upper
most in his mind at the time. He and
the rest of the Britishers would not care
continental for any other kind of alli-
ance. OF what benefit would any other
alliance be to them?
The Times, like the rest of it's Anglo
Saxon contemporaries, thinks that Eng
lands professions of friendship kept the
European powers from siding with
Spain in the present war. We have new
er seen sufficient cause for entertaining
such views; but then we are not Anglo
Saxon, for which we thank God with all
our heart. There has never been hint
Of armed alliance" quoth the Times.
There have been many hints in the Eng
lish press, and had we time we could
produce them. Such egotistical utter
ances as we find in the Times article en-
titled, Foreigners DO Not Understand"
are unworthy of an American paper that
pretends to be broad and liberal in it's
views on public affairs.