The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-07-15
Written for :" The Enquirsr.'
Anglo Am erican Alliance.


The ancient poets tell us there was
once time when the great god Saturn
reigned in Italy, and bestowed happi-
ness and tranquility over all the earth.
The husbandman gathered in peace the
fruits OF his labor, and the fields smiled
with plentcous harvcsts. The liberal
arts were scdulously cultivated and
every horne was the abode of innocence
Comparing this blissful state with their
own degenerate rule Of blood and iron,
in which all the vices had supplanted
virtue, they have handed it down to
us as 1.-The Golden Age" which, they
deplored, could never come again.
This retrospective fable, however, of
Pagan writer's, the Hebrew Prophet
saw as future reality. In his vision,
the God of Peace was to take the place
of the heathcn deity, land to teach us
of His ways. u. And He shall Judge
among the nations and shall rebuke
many prulrl AMI t..,y >..a.l b at their
swords into plou1hshar, and their
spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more
1t is possible that this glowing
propheSy of Isaiah, although delivered
twenty-siN centuries ago, may yet be
fulfilled, but not, as he imagined,
through religious influence. No more
potential personality than Jesus Christ
has ever appeared, yet nineteen ccntu-
ries of His teaching have done little or
nothing to suppress war, even among
His professed followers Age after age
the earth has been drenched with the
blood of Christians, slain by their
brethren; and those who bore His name
have at such times been animated hy
the hatreds and ierocity of heather
savages. The increased intelligence
and accumulated knowledge of the most
civilized nations have been exercised
in developing greater means of de-
struction, and the fruits of every in
dustry and the lives ofhapless millions
have been sqandered in wanton or
needless wars. At the present moment
Europe is an armed camp ready for
slaughter. OF her sixty million men
twelve millions are trained soldiers.
And the New World has recently en-
tered on the fatal career of the Old.
But remote and comparatively insig-
nificant contest is sufficient to dislocate
the delicate social machinery of every
civilized state, and dilatory contest
carries famine to the hearths of the
poor. thousands of miles from the con-
tict. In various countries in both
hemispheres, starving men and women
ale rioting for bread; what they really
want is peace.
Can nothing be done, then, to make
war more difficult? Is the Golden A ge
to be merely poetic dream, never to
be in any degree realized! We trust
not. For, if we mistake not, the first
faint streak of the brighter dawn is
breaking. In both the Old and the
New World men of clear heads and
generous hearts are looking forward to
a confederation of the English-speaking
peoples. And the slightest considera-
tion of the matter must convince every
unprejudiced mind that the speedy ac-
complishment of an Anglo-American
Alliance, based upon sound, equitable,
and permanent principles, Will lay the
perchance, may be crowned by univer-
sal and perennial peace.
America is only a younger England,
moving in a wider range with 4 freer
step. Excepting the immigrants OF
alien tongues, her people have the same
blood and traditions, the same litcra-
turc and habits, the same proud his
tory and aims. as the mother country.
In religion, in political and municipal
freedom, in inventive genius and COM
mercial and industrial eagerness, they
are alike. Great Britain's purchases
from the United States from April
Both, 1897, to April Both, 1898,
amounted to 100000, or nearly
one-half of the total American exports,
in other words, almost as much as was
purchased by all the rest Of the world.
Her Colonies and India purchased in
the preceding year ! per cent. Thus
about go per cent. of all their exports
were bought by Great Britain and 9TH
er parts of the British Empire. AS
the balance of trade is very largely in
their favor, the difference provides them
with the means of making cash invest
ments in any part of the world, and of
purchasing in other countries, if need
be, beyond the amount Of their cN-
ports to them. Thus their immense
commerce and vast wealth, distributed
throughout the earth, give England
and the United States common aim
the welfare and prosperity of all ma
tions. They are therefore cminently
qualified to become the joint deposi-
, tories of peace and the gnarantors OF
the worlds best interests.
Great Britain and the United States
possess together onc-half Of the whole