The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-12-12
DUKE OF MANCHESTER
Says an Anglo-SaxoD Alliance Must Come
For Benefit of Both Countries.
f. b. G..
(New York Journal)

lINtW lOlh JOulh
/ cannot put off longer writing on the
subject which is nearest my heart of
any that 1 am likely to write about
while I am in America-the Anglo
American alliance.
1 don't want to appeal to you, my
readers, df have any), from a senti-
mental and romantic point of view. l
want to force it home to your minds
as we'll as your hearts. / want to try,
If possible, to show that it is the nat
ural outcome which we must expect and
the natural result which must ensue If
the world continues in it's present path.
No nation of the world in the present
day makes an alliance solely for senti-
mental reasons. The time for sentiment
between nations is past. Nothing OBJ
tains nowadays except business, and the
soul of business is reciprocity.
I hope to show you that reciprocity
exists. But if, further, sentiment and
natural feeling run in harmony with
business, how much more the thing is
desirable. Years ago there was in En-
gland a ministry which represented
nothing in particular (since the ballot
was not then in force), harassed by
wars, with premier at its head whose
bills were dictated according to the
state of his gout. The only power of We
to over the ministry was a crazy king
And they passed law-an unjust law,
an unrighteous law, let me admit it at
once-imposing an iniqutous tax on a
self-supporting people.
1t was foolish, criminally foolish; but
the person who has never done foolish
thing the ministry that has never pass
ed foolish measure-these may be the
first to cast a stone. 1t reminds me of
nothing so much as two brothers, ore,
standing off lot Of strange boys, call
ing the other names because he has a
headache and feels cross, and that other
one bearing malice because Of his bro
ther's act.
So much for the sentimental side-I am
not good at sentiment-and now for the
business side.
1. 1t would be absolutely impossible
for America and England to go to war.
If America finds such difficulty in sub
DUNG a few thousands of Filipinos, If
England finds such difficulty in defeat
ing the Beers, what would each nation
do against an enemy who could put mil
lions of men in the field? What has
initiated against both these nations in
distance from the field of action, and the
5000 miles between the two is big step
also.
2. England depends to an enormous
extent on America for food stuffs. In or
binary times, l may say, mainly. In
case of war with America, this, of
course, would stop, and although in
course of time the deficit would be sup
fn1 ale vHnr To fai
tent, yet it would seriously embarrass
us, at least at first.
On the other hand, Americas best
! customer is easily England, and she
could no more afford to quarrel with
England than England with her For
the most powerful nation nowadays is
the nation that has the most money.
| But think what we could do together.
Think of the two great Anglo-Saxon
nations, speaking the same language,
| blood of one blood, bone of one bone;
the two greatest commercial nations the
world has probably ever seen; the ma
tions which trade most with one ano-
ther; the peoples who for the last few
years, am glad to say, have been get
ting closer and closer to each other
think of them, hand to hand, heart tc
| nedrIb JOlHeu together III InS ClOSeSl
bonds of mutual esteem and mutua
advantage. What could they not do?
Then, indeed, there would be chanc,
to talk of general peace; then coulC
they determine whether they should al
low a war; and constitute an appea
court for the world. For with thu
weight of both these nations cast in tn,
scales there is no possible combination
likely to dispute with them.
Never, / am glad to say, has thi
been nearer realized than today. Their
is an understanding. No one can den.
that now. Americas ambassador ha
confirmed England's minister in saying
so, and neither government has contra
dicted it.
But want to see this bond knit close
and cemented for all time. / want t
see the handle and the head shrunk to
gether to make the hammer / say
want 1t, but feel that every English
man and every American who has tn
/ best feeling of his country at hear
, must want 1t too.
: 1t must come, In spite of attempts
SOW dissension between us by other In
, terested nations. For blood is thicke
, than water. and self-interest is stron