Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-16

| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS rchangel Railway COM
| pany will shortly extend its line from Ar
| changed to a point on the coast of the
| Gulf of Menzen. Archangel is open to nav
! igation only some four months in the year,
whereas the point chosen for the extern
sion, at the embouchure of the river Kuloy
| into the gulf. is open the whole year round
| to the Arctic ocean.
| The White Mans Burden.
Three speeches were made last Saturday
| night, all touching the same chord, which
is the popular one still in this country. Mr..
| Chamberlain at Birmingham, speaking of
| Imperialism and of Great Britain's "mis-
! SION to conquer, administer and civilize,
| said: What has been the result of this
| mission hitherto? l call impartial wit
ness. Admiral Dewey, to testify. Admiral
Dewey said that one of the mightiest fac
| tors of the civilization of the world is the
| imperial policy of England. 1t will not be
any longer the imperial policy of England
alone. All the nations that have sprung
| from our loins will take their share in the
| task which has hitherto fallen on our
| shoulders alone. We have the sympathy
| and the ever-growing power of our great
| colonies always at our backs, and now
| see our cousins across the Atlantic the
United States of America, entering the lists
and sharing the task which might nave
proved too heavy for alone. Under these
circumstances the first business of this
government is to draw closer the bonds
which unite us to the other members of
the English-speaking race, and to promote
their cooperation in the great work OF
civilization which appears to be the mis-
sion of the Anglo Saxon race This senti-
| ment was greeted with cheers by his hear
erS.
Mr.. Long, the president of the board of
agriculture, at Newcastle said pretty much
the same thing. He was urging the neces-
sity of large navy to keep the ocean
waterways open in time of war in order
that Great Britain might not have her food
supply cut off, and he added: I'VE must
be prepared to meet any possible combina-
ton of other nations that could be brought
against us. / glad of the improved re-
lations with our cousins across the Attain
tic, who speak the same language, are
sprung from the same stock, and who cher
ish the same traditions as we do. These
relations have grown up during the tenure
of office Of the present government, and
they have produced an understanding from
which l confident great good will come
to us, to the Americans and to the world
at large, because I believe the meaning of
that increased friendlness is that the En-
glish-speakng race in America has realized
that they are blood relations of our own,
has taken to heart the old saying that
blood is, after all, thicker than water. and
has firmly resolved that if Great Britain
has to face difficulties in regard to the at
titude assumed toward her by other coun-
tries she should not face them alone, but
in alliance with her wealthy and vastly
populous sister country. the republic of
America. l am confident, seeing that the
two countries are pursuing the same poll
cy. and have the same ends in view, they
must be friends firm and true one to the
other"
Interesting Comparisons.
This speech received no less appreciation
than Mr.. Chamberlains. 1t was reserved
for our naval attache, Lieut.. Colwell, to
evoke the greatest enthusiasm by his speech
on the Anglo-SaXon race at the dinner in
LC ndon of the Institution of Junior Engi-
neers. Lieut.. Colwell spoke of the small
impression made by the Romans in Britain,
and how the Anglo-Saxon race absorbed
other elements and produced dominant
race.
Il have often heard it said,' he went on,
that in America the old race stock mas got
rather lost amid foreign immigration This
is no more true than it would be to say that
the English had one ancestry. In America
that stock has called to itself its kindred
from this country, and suhjugated them.
and the same process that has gone on in
this country is going on there, only a little
more quickly. 1t has taken 600 years to
amalga mate them here but only 200 years
across the Atlantic; and there the alien
has no place The race is one of the Anglo
Saxon and its kindred, the race that will, in
time, dominate the world. The adventur-
Gus spirit, the love of liberty, the habits of
order and industry. the severe morality
which no other race on earth possesses, are
the guarantees that the race will go for
ward and that where it plants a colony,
that colony will remain. The sea is the
heritage of the race-itS ancestors We're
sea rovers-or robbers-if they chose They
took the isle of the sea, and their descend
ants seem to have followed in their foot
steps a Latin race attempted to take
these islands, centuries later, but its ar
mazda was defeated. That was the begin
ming of the amalgamated sea rovers as a
world power, and the beginning of the end
ofLatin empire. Three hundred and tenyears
later. to a month, colony was sent out
by that Anglo-Saxon amalgamation, a colo
ny which has grown up, defeated an ar
mazda of exactly the same power, and ended
that Latin empire" This greeted with
loud and repeated cheers. There are"
continued he, 'SS,00,OO0 of Anglo-Sax5ns
on the North American continent not
counting alien races. Will the Anglo-SaxOn
race DONNA tie the earth, and will its lam
guage become the dominant one? According
to sta tbs tfcianS, there would be in a hundred
years on that continent 7O0000,gO0. and in
two hundred years two thousand five hum
dred millions; while the mixed and alien
races would have grown to SSO00oOo So
long as the race holds to the sea traditions
OF Its ancestors it is sure to become the
dominant race, and its language Will be the
one universally spoken
These three speeches and their reception
serve to give an idea of how strong the
Ahglo-Aniercan sentiment is as Workabl
quantity. Scarcely a public speaker but
makes some allusion to it. Perhaps il will
not all disappear in froth, and NAV come 10
something yet. 1t has stood no strain how
ever, yet
Submarine Boat
The French world Is all aeog at present
over its new submarine beat, the Zede. and
subscriptions are being raised by the Paris
daily papers to create more of these peace
makers. The new Zede type is intended TO |
run entirely below the surface, coming to !
the top only for breath and observation. |
British naval architects, however do not |
think much of the new French wonder Mr. |
narrow, the great torpedo boat builder has
expressed his entire disbelief in the value
OF the submarine. The new French boats
Oh the naval type are intended to run on the
surface, with the coming tower well above
the water.
How Tar these are open to the grave |
practlcal objections which exist in the case |
OF the GuStaVe Zede remains to he seen
The approach of such boat at night wouId |
pe hard to detect, and it might do much
mlSchlef II II once entered harbor In Mr. |
1arrow's opinion the submarine boar is |
only useful against stationary vessels. In |
the case of vessel in motion sufficiently |
accurate guiding would be impossible. As |
far as stationary vessels are concerned. |
submarine torpedo boats which have come |