The record-union., 1898-03-20
England and America.

| provaI and satisfaction born of national,
4 local and ancestral pride that | have
read your patriotic and commendaDle
| sentiments which have freqently ap-
peared in your editorial columns OF
| late in appreciation of the sympathy
and friendship expressed by our Eng
/ lish cousins for this country and our
relations with Spain and Cuba, and this
recalls to mind the following eloquent
/ tribute to America and her sailors,
which appeared in the London '.Tele-
graph soon otter the wrecking or our
war vessels in a hurricane at the Sa-
moan Islands some years ago, and which
article | considered we'll worth preSerV-
ing and at the present time / judge VIII
be appreciated by yourselves and read
with interest by your most patriotic, un-
prejudiced subscribers. It is entitled:
The Cheer of the Trenton
English Opinions Consider the scene
and the matchless heroism and gener-
osity of this Yankee crew. Almost sure
OF instant death themselves they could
see the Queens ship fighting the hurri-
cane and appreciate the gallantry or the
effort with the generous pleasure or
| true marines. We do not know In all
naval records any sound which makes
finer music upon the ear than the cheer
of the Trenton's men. 1t was distressed
manhood greeting triumphant man
hood, the doomed saluting the saved. 1t
was pluclxier and more human than any
cry raised upon the deck of victorious
line of battleship. 1t can never De Tor
gotten, must never be forgotten by Eng
! lishmen speaking of Americans. That
! dauntless cheer to the Calliope was the
expression of immortal courage"
Captain Kane's tribute to American
seamen:
Throughout the whole of the gale
nothing effected the crew of the Call
ope and myself SO much as when pass
ing the American flagship Trenton,
which was lying helpless, with nothing
to guard her from complete destruction.
| The American Admiral and his men
gave us three such ringing cheers that
! they called forth tears from many or
our eyes. They pierced deep into my
heart, and / will ever remember that
mighty outburst of fellow-feeling which
I felt came from the bottom of the
hearts of the noble and gallant Admiral
and his men,"
In speaking of American sailors the
gallant Captain Of the Calliope said:
God bless America and her noble sail
orsi If the Americans stand as nobly
to their guns as they bravely faced tre-
mendous hurricane the United states
need fear for nothing"
Generous sentiments most eloQuently
expressed. A beautiful tribute of appre-
citation which Eglishmen above all other
foreign nationaities know how to ex-
press and extend in their usual honest
sincerity Sentiments which often cause
the honest rank and file of American cit
izens soldiers and sailors to blush with
shame as they contrast them with the
cowardly mercenary expressions or
some of our worst political and news
paper demagogues who purposely and
persistently misrepresentg genuine, honest
American and English sentiments and
thereby Esau-like barter their birth
right and country's welfare for mess
of serving, political pottage
through catering to race prejudices IN
order to influence, control and use the
vote of the rabble and thus all the sooner
be placed in position to satisfy their
selfish greed at the expense of their
country's interests, and in justification
of their coarse prate about British
ACKNOWLEDGMENT through extension of
territory
There is yet a great amount of badly
governed territory occupied by both
civilized and barbarous races the in
habitants of which would be better off
if under England's rule and protection,
for wherever her flag waves slavery dis
appears and civilization, enlighten-
ment and good government follow in her
footsteps. Of how many other nations
can we say as much? England promptly
protects her citizens abroad as we'll as
at home, and recognizing self-preserva-
ton as the first law of anture, she gov
erns herself accordingly; hence her
strong. enduring Government Can We
truthfully say as much of our own?
! If she fights, her soldiers and sailors
are sufficiently brave to do so in the
open field and sea and never resort to
the cowardly, inhuman practice of
starving and Staying n-combatants.
If victorious, she is a generous con-
queror If defeated, she retires from
the field in good order and accepts the
situation as best becomes an opponent,
leaving the enemy to enjoy the results of
his victory-as in our own revolutionary
war.
In schoolboy days, after reading the
history of that war, I entertained more
boyish prejudice and cherished more
enmity against England than any other
nation on earth. Since arriving at man
hood I have progressed out of my boy
ishness to think as man, but it is very
evident that there are very many men
at the present day who are but boys
of larger growth" Yet notwithstand-
ing the many petty annoyances of mis-
representation and abuse which have
been undeservedly heaped upon the
mother country by her own as well as
our own citizens, the glorious old ma
ton. conscious of her strength and in
tegrity. backed by the most powerful
army and navy in the world, calmly
looks on and makes all due allowance for
partisan meanness, knowing, as we do,
| that the masses of our sons of the revo-
luton are not only friendly but earn
estIy repudiate the statements and acts
of very many unreliable newspapers
and shortsighted, selfish and prejudiced
politicians.
Old England, the cradle and home of
civilization and enlightenment! Not
withstanding our past differences, proud
of our early ancestry, maintain that an
alliance with the mother country is nat
ural should be sought for. cherished
and maintained for all time, both for our
own mutual welfare and safety, as well
as for the good of the world at large.
/ The accomplishment of this would be
fitting keystone to the grand arch Of
progression at the close of the present
century. These are stirring times; will
our statesmen be equal to the occasion
and acquit themselves in manner as
patriotic and creditable as when they