The age-herald., 1900-12-30
AMERICAS PART IN
 ENGLISH HISTORY Bitter Arraignment of Friendly Anglo-American Feeling.
KICKS AS REWARD KINDNESS
Great Britain Will Not Yield to Amer ica's Supremacy in Industrial De-
 veIopment Without Sharing It. The New Racing Yacht.

London, December 29-Reviews of the year and century fill the weeklies and daily papers. In the latter and the broader field the writers find great satisfaction that Americas part in England's history figures prominently Sir Edward Arnold signalizes the new century with sonnet. Greeting Columbia England says
 'I send thee motherly kiss and benizon,
 love me or love me not
 'Hap what may hap, my pride and pray
 CTS watch thy bright course begun; ''Thou dost uphold the lessons learned
 from me and speakest my Shakespeare's
 speech-God go with thee"
 Columbia answers:
 of thy foes too much dare, I think we
 shall be no more kept asunder
 '"Than two great clouds of heaven that
 hold the thunder"
 That Sir Edward Arnolds views are not unanimously shared can be judged from letter of MT. Cunningham Graham Ca for mer member of Parliament), who, dn July, 1898, wrote a series of articles most insult ing to Americans in the Westminster Ga zette, which is given a place of honor in The Saturday Review.
 It Is the most bitter arraignment of An glo-American friendship that has appeared for many a day. The writer derides the after dinner speeches of Senator Depew, Lord Salisbury and others and declares this friendship has resulted only in kicks for Great Britain inrthe cases of Venezue- la, San Juan, Alabama and .Behring awards. He save:
 aAffectionate Kicks.
 we went on batting ourselves upon our kA4.. kicks were but symptoms of affection and love the Americans bore us. In return for our moral help, which we gave them in their brave punching of their brother Spaniards they gave us nothing of kin dred sort when we started in to thrash our brother Boers. Lastly, on top of all our condecensions, like a cold bath. upon a drunkard, come the clauses of the Senate in the HayPauncefote treaty, to which We are commanded to consent to kick No 20, and I suppose Lord Salisbury is going to turn his ample shoulders to re- ceive 1t and assure the kickers of his dis tingushed consideration and thank them for the energy with which 1t Is bestowed. It seems impossible, so the experts tell us, that the canal could be defended, even though fortified, in case of war, but then tllo liaI damned liar and expert Is a com parison almost proverbial in this commer- cial age. It looks as if we had voluntarily, Dy our mean ana SenSeleSS conduct In the Spanish Yankee war, placed ourselves in the position of man who, having lost the world imagined he had gained his soul, but on consideration found his prize was mere hypothesis.
 In connection with the proposed Nicara- qua canal 1t is said that when the United States definitely decides to build, one of the greatest ship-building concerns in Eng land will simultaneously open on one of the gulf ports an immense shipyard. Sev- eral steel manufacturers are also said to be considering the advisablity of estab- fishing American plants.
 The Manufacturers Record, speaking in behalf of English trade, says:
 '"rhe men who have dominated the met e!lurgcal interests of the world for so many years, whose treaty notifications extend to every civilized country. are not the men to yield to Americas supremacy without shar- ing in 1t by becoming factor in America 8 prosecution. To these giants of industry 1t is not very material whether the source of production Is England or Pennsylvania or Alabama. The people of America should welcome the incoming of this capital not only for its material benefits but for that