Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-21


or needless wars. At the present mo
ment Europe is an armed camp read!
for slaughter. OF her sixty million
men twelve million are trained sol
diers. And the New World has re.
Gently entered on the fatal career o.
the Old. But Il remote and compar
atively insignificant contest is suf
ficient to dislocate the delicate socia
machinery of every civilized state
and a dilatory contest carries famine
to the hearths of the poor, thousands
of miles from the conflict. In various
countries in both hemispheres, starv-
ing men and women are rioting fol
bread; what they really want is
peace.
Can nothing be done, then, to max "a
war more difficult? Is the Golden
Age to be merely a poetic dream,
never to be in any degree realized?
We trust not. For, if we mistake not
the first faint streak of the brig e.
dawn is breaking. In both the o..
and the New World men of clea
heads and generous hearts are look
ing forward to a confederation of the
English-speaking peoples. And the
slightest consideration of the matter
must convince every unprejudiced
mind that the speedy accomplish
ment of an Auglo-American ALI
ance, based upon sound, equitable
and permanent principles, will lay
the foundation of a new era, one
which, perchance, may be crowned
by universal and perennial peace.
America is only younger Eng
land, moving in wider range and
with freer step. Excepting the im-
migrants of alien tongues, her people
have the same blood and traditions,
the same literature and habits, the
same proud history aims, as the
mother country. In religion, in po-
litical and municipal freedom, in
inventive genius and commercial and
industrial eagerness, they are alike.
Great Britain's purchases from the
United States from April 3Oth, 1907,
to April 3Oth, 1888, amounted to
ellS,OOO, 900, or nearly one half of the
total American exports, i'm other
words, almost as much as was pur-
chased by all the rest of the world.
Her Colonies and India purchased in
the preceding year II per cent. Thus
about 60 per cent. of all their exports
We're bought by Great Britain and
other parts of the British Empire.
AS the balance of trade is very large
ly in their favour, the difference pro-
vides them with the means of max
ing cash Investments in any part of
the world, and of purchasing in other
if need be, beyond the
of their exports to them.
Thus their immense commerce and
vast wealth, distributed throughout
the earth, give England and the
United States a common aim-the
welfare and prosperity of all nations.
They are therefore eminently quail
flied to become the joint repositories
of peace and the guarantors of the
best interests.
Great Britain and the United States
possess together one half of the whole
part of the globe, and near
ly one third of all its inhabitants. OF
the latter about one hundred and
ten millions are of European blood,
and of a hundred millions of these
the English language is their mother
tongue.
Their commercial shipping greatly
exceeds that of all the rest of the
world together. Their ships of war
to Az (of which 379 are
and exceed by 90 the united
navIes of France, Russia, Germany,
and Italy.
1t will thus be evident that, united,
no power would venture to attack
them, and that they would probably
prove irresistible to any possible
of powers, seeing that
their combined resources are we'll
nigh inexhaustible. But it is notori-
Gus that they are the least military
and least aggressive nations on the
earth, II we compare their extent,
their wealth, and population. Their
great ruling motives are the material
and intellectual advancement Of the
people. Both these are incompatible
with war, and flourish during peace.
1t is to these incentives alone, there
f0rey.hat we must look tlr a rev wal
of the goideT .ge. And Providence
has so placed it in the power of the
race, to lead the way
in this grand work, that it would be
If not fatal, to refuse it.
1t is always unsafe to prophesy,
we may venture to fore
cast the probable outcome of an
Anglo-American alliance, instituted
for mutual defence, and to keep the
peace. In the first place, ev-
cry country whose intelligence en-
ables it to perceive that it's interests
also are best promoted by repressing
will desire to share in the
of such an alliance.
France and Germany would bury
their animosities, and compete with
each other, and with ourselves, in
friendly rivalries only. Austria, Italy,
and the minor States would follow.
One power alone might have cause to
regard this InternatiOnakpOlicy with
hatred, since it would arrest her ca
reer of conquest, and destroy her
hope of universal domination. BY a
long course of cruelty, perfidy, ,treach-
cry, and the lowest political arts, and
through the resources of a great mil
itary despotism, she has advanced
east and west from the Baltic to Beh-
ripu,s Gtra;tc In n eolid au1 uubrnE q m