The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-01

burgh committee recently advised as
war measure the permanent storage
of $4,000, 900 bushels. Each nation in
Europe is today more dependent on
America than on any other single ma
tion. Hence, If we make necessary
trade alliances with England, TO pro-
tect our European, Asiastic and Afri-
can commerce, We can defy the rest
of the world to do it's worst; and it
can do nothing.
AN AID TO PEACE.
Another Unitarian basis for alliance
Is the maintenance of peace. The at
titude of the European powers is now
best described not as anti-American,
nor even anti-Brtsh, but as broadly
hostile to the Anglo-Saxon race. They
all dread concerted Anglo-American
action. And England knows and
America knows that all the nations
together could never stand against it.
Europe will invite no open breach with
two gigantic world powers, conscious
of their innate strength and elated by
the recent victories of American arms
backed by the moral support OF Eng
land. But peace fosters trade, and
trade demands peace. In short, the en-
pire is peace, it means peace, 1t needs
peace; and the same is true of the
republic. The interests of the two peo-
Piles in trade and peace are common
and supreme. A mere determination
for peace will impress it effectually
wherever the power of the race eX-
tends, and such a guarantee of peace
will go a long way to make war i'm
possible and settle the affairs OF the
two nations in conformity with the
principles of natural justice.
An alliance between England and
America to adjust their controversies
by means of enlightened arbitration
have already been introduced into prac-
tical politics. The time is opportune
for it's re-introduction. If the friendly
sentiments at Westminister and Wash
ington should be promptly utilized to
enact a treaty of arbitration, such an
alliance would be justified on every
ground of common and reciprocal in
terests, would have the moral and po-
litical support of both nations, and
would establish more beneficent pre-
cedent for the international adjustment
of the affairs of mankind.
If war should give way to arbitration,
and under peaceful primacy one race
should dominate. can we doubt for an
instant that. irrespective of common
interests, common national sentiments
would compel united action and make
the Saxon supreme? 1t is not con-
ceivable that England or America
would contemplate with equanimity
Slavic domination of the world; Rus
sian word language instead of our own
tongue; the despotism of the czar in
stead of personal liberty, cherished
by our race even before Magma Charta.
The grandest thought of the century
is this conveyance of the Anglo-Saxon
race. The AnGlo-SaXon race occupies
all the lands. fair to look upon." in
Asia and Africa and America and the
Isles of the Sea. 1t is 5000 900 strong.
1t rules 3l0,000,0 900 more. Within all it's
borders, human intelligence has the
freest exercise, public conscience is the
most powerful, law is the most re-
spected, crime meets the swiftest pun
ishment, and the energies of the race
are combined in evolving the highest
good of mankind; and England and
America; it's two branches, isolated
from the rest of the world and that iso-
lation increasing, but no longer isolated
from each other, will hereafter in all
divisions of the worlds affairs be found
together, fostering common interests,
cherishing common sentiments, and
pursuing common action, for their
common good. ---.-