The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1898-11-25
FRIENDSHIP TO ALL.
OUR POSITION TOWARD THE
GREAT NATIONS,
Essn sham Of Unusust Friendship for
tho Ausio--ssons Would inlurs oar
Trade An over the Civilized World
-Must Hold AiooL q

American. except % De- from the pur-
chased newspapers and pulpits under /
foreign domination. Tho Chicago Inter /
Ocean. a paper that Is not owned in
England has this TO say about a re-
cent incident.
Rev. Dr. Hills demonstrated again |
last Sunday the utter incapacity OF |
clerical dcclalmers OF hia type to han
die the higher questions OF state poll
ley. While hundreds Of the ablest
ministers OF the country have come
to the support OF rosoluio and DIS
tinctlvc Amcricanlsm. Dr. Hills. who |
last spring spoke against the war with
Spain. now desires that an Anglo
American alliance be- one Of the results
OF our victory His Characterization
Of the impulses. motives, and achieve
monts OF the English speaking people
Is specifically correct. but he seems
to be utterly unconscious OF the iaot
that the arguments he puts forward
and the illustrations he uses are all IN
favor OF English domination and
against American interests This Ia tho
greatest fault with all the cheap ad-
yocates OF an alliance.
DR.. Hills contends that the strate-
glo position Of America and England
proclalms Leadership as the ultimate
destiny OF the English-speaking poo
pies. "ln case Of war England ana
America, by uniting their forces, will
possess all the pivotal harbora that
control the continents." he says, and
then mentions as tho strategic points
OF the world the Strait OF Gibraltar,
the suez canal. the great harbor OF
India, the ~. Lawrence river on our
north and the entrance TO the Mexican
gulf on our south. This 10 an effective
grouping but DR.. HILLS falls to men
ton the singular fact that OF theae
strategic positions four are In the pos
session OF Great Britain. and that the
other will not be In the possession OF
tho United States until We control Gu
ba and Porto Rico.
Another point made by DIR. Hills Is
that the lines OF commerce. AZ well as
those OF defense. are In the hands OF
the Engllsh-speaking people. The sta
,istlcs show that the lines OF COM
morce are In tho hands OF Great Brit
ain. and that her naval power and her
commercial slnews are being strained
10 maintain them against all the world.
Most particularly are her commercial
people Jealous OF and hostile 10 a pow
err like the United States, which Is
struggling for supremacy In the same
Geld az England. The manufacturers,
merchants. and producers OF England
have succeeded up 10 this time In drlv-
ing the American merchant marine
from the seas. They will continue In
this policy. The English-speaklng poo-
Piles control tho lines OF commerce, but
England has the Hons share and gives
40 sign OF rellnquishlng Il even TO
please as.
Dr. Hills says that today England
and America control four-hftha OF tho
fresh water OF the globe. He forgets 10
remark that IN this division England
has taken three-lftha, leaving America
one-nfth. lie forgeta. also. 10 mention
the fact that in the line OF great lakes
between British and American terri
tory Great Britain Is 30 Jealous OF
American power that she Will not per
init us 10 maintain more than one gun
boat. where our interests demand half
dozen. Despite this fact Dr. Hills
refers 10 n decisive battle 40 years
ago AZ an example OF Anglo-Amerloan
sympathy and power. Why does he 90
back $40 years. Why not speak OF last
week. when we learned that England
had projected new chain OF forts
along the Canadian frontler2 These
forts can be intended but for one ma
,ion. and that nation Is the United
States. Americans and Engllshmen
may have fought side by side at Que
bee $40 years ago but the Engllshmen
OF today prepare for an event In which,
instead OF fighting shoulder to shout
der. they would fight face to face.
DR.. Hills suggests that II we would
send men like Seth Low, ex-Presldeni
Cleveland. Lyman Abbott, and Joseph
Choate to speak TO England from tho
American point OF view, the whole
world would be made TO stop and listen
for one day, at least, 10 a noble plea
FOR the rights and liberty OF the peo-
pie. This utterance sounds like irony
but we shall accept Il as made in good
fifth. Mont OF the men named by DR.
Hills have stood In the past with ex'
Minister Phelps, who told US last win
ter that II was impossible for Amerio
ever 10 be a naval power or greai
commercial power on the seas, almpl,
because Americans were naturally un'
at for naval or nautical enterprise. In
stead OF representing American senti
mont, instead OF speaking for Ameri
can aspiration, these men have rarely
missed an opportunity TO smother
= American sentiment or TO discourage
. the American spirit At tho very crlsil
! OF the war they were not In sympathy
. with any national aspiration. The alb
|. surdlty OF suggesting that such mel
} be sent abroad as expononts OF th'
! Amerlcanism OF this day Is evident u
p everybody except Or. Hills and few
: other day-dreamlng Anglomaniacs,
I An alliance between Great Brltail
$ and the United States would put upol
. the American people the eonstan
Q shadow OF wars that menace the Brit
9 lsh people II would advance the In