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he United States and Others.
There is no man better qualified 10
talk English "as she is spoke" than
the Ri Hon. Sir Charles w. Dixie. P.
c, NJ p. He has talked his views into
the Forum for January in very in
teresting way on the subject of The
Future Relations of Great Britain and
the United States" and at the end
of his talk the future relations do not
appear to be any more clearly outlined
than before he began his talk
The recent development of a propos-
ed alliance between Great Britain and
the United States has had the effect
of bringing out from different English
and other heads varying degrees of
views according to the intelligence
they possessed, and among all there
has been some kindly advice directed
to the government of the United States
as to the policy that should be pursued
in dealing with Great Britain
Sir Charles is an intelligent man,
quite pleasing in few ways; but
his record which have failed to COM
mend him to public approval He is
certainly not one of those foreign
statesmen upon whom the United
States feels like leaning in an emer-
gency.
Sir Charles says, in talking to the
editor of the Forum: LAS I pointed out
TO him, the great difficulty is that the
future policy of the United States is
the unknown" Well, this seems to
be matter of general knowledge The
future policy of the United States,
with respect to its treatment of colo
NAL affairs, is most assuredly quite
unknown.
From this point Sir Charles passes
into the open door difficulty" as he
styles it. The open door" policy, as
understood by Englishmen, is to let
them go in on equal terms with our
own country and cheat US always as
best they can.
Sir Charles asks: Would the United
States, under any circumstances, go
beyond the point which might involve
a conceivable risk of war against
France and Russia?' Why, of course
the United States has a chip on it's
shoulder right along. Brother Jona-
than has already knocked spots out of
Spain. why not turn in on the other
fellows, like Johnny Crapeaud or the
Russian Bear. This administration is
in for fight, and the sooner Sir Charles
knows it the better for him.
But, passing from small talk to that
which is more serious, the United
States stands today for the strongest
power on earth, and anything that Sir
Charles Dixie or any other English
man may say will not change that po-
sition. But, when he tries to make it
appear that the spirit of the bully is
going to be carried on the shoulder of
the American, so far as it applies to
treatment of China, he is altogether
wrong. The American is not an Eng
lish bully.
He says, amongst other things: The
policy of the United States will be
founded upon the necessities Of the
United States, and you can judge Of
these
The policy of the United States will
never be founded upon the necessities
righteous Judgment of the people of
the United States based on the con-
science of the population. There has
never been a time in the history Of
the United States when any intelligent
critic has been justified in asserting
that the United States, as a nation,
has advanced its interests on the pure
line of necessity and in spirit of
obliviousness to justice, and that con-
dition will never come in it's dealings
with China or any other power.
Sir Charles says: There is no power
in she world which is going to make
an enemy of the United States and
which will thwart her own views in
her own territory. even in the Pa
cific"
Sir Charles is perfectly correct in
this statement.
The fact Of the matter is the English
people do not thoroughly appreciate
the position of Americans in connec-
ton with their enlarged influence re-
sulting from the late war; and the fact
might just as well be stated that the
American people themselves do not al
together appreciate the advantage
which they have gained in the worlds
estimation. They are climbing up, so
to speak, to the point from which they
can make survey of just what sur
rounds them.
And what does their vision encount-
er? a mass of new problems to be
solved. 1t may be that all these are
in the interests of the advancement of
but they are nevertheless
important subjects for consideration.
There is no doubt that Sir Charles
Dixie in his review wrote conscien-
tiously. but he certainly presented his
views in very scattering style and at
last fell down upon prophecy, which
he made away back In 1S66-67 as fol-
lows: In Greater Britain the doc
trine which I attempted to lay down
was that the English speaking lands
should attract larger share of the at
tention of the inhabitants of the United
Kingdom; that in all these. whether
subject or not subject to the British
rule, the English race was essential
ly the same in its most marked charac-