Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-03

London, Dec. 30-ReVieWS of the
year and the century fill the Weeklies
and the daily papers. In the latter
and broader field the writer's find the
greatest satisfaction in the fact that
Americas part in Englands history
figures prominently. Sir Edwin Arm
old signalizes the new century with a
sonnet in which England greets Co
lumbia in these lines:
II send thee motherly kiss and ben
lion, love me or love me not;
Hap what my hap, my pride and
prayers watch thy bright course be-
gun.
'"Thou dost uphold the lessons
learned from me and speakest my
Shakespeare speech,-God go with
thee"
To which Columbia answers:
eff thy foes too much dare, think
we shall be no more kept asunder,
Than two great clouds in Heaven
that hold the thunder"
That Sir Edwin Arnold's views are
not unanimously shared can be judged
from the letter of Cunningham. Ora
ham, a former member of parliament
who, in July, 1898, wrote a series of
articles that were most insulting to
Americans in the Westminster Ga
Zette, which is given a place of honor
in the Saturday Review. 1t is the
most bitter arraignment of the Anglo
American friendship that has appeared
for many a day. The writer derides
the afterdi1ner speeches of Senator
Depew, Lord Salisbury and others
and declares this friendship has re
suited only in kicks for Great Britain
in the cases of Venezuela, San Juan
Alabama and the Behring awards. He
says: 1--WE went on patting ourselves
upon our diaphragmS, making certain
that all those kicks were but symp
toms of the affection and love the
Americans bore us. In return for oul
moral help, which we gave them IL
their brave Furnishing of their brother
Spaniards, they gave us nothing OF
kindred sort when we started in &c
thrash our brother beers. Lastly, or
top of all condeScensiOns, like colo
bath upon a drunkard, comes the
clauses of the senate in the Hay-Paun
cefote treaty to which we are com
manded to assent and to kick number
20. and | suppose Salisbury is goinE
to turn his ample shoulders to receive
it and assure the kickers of his dis
tfnguished consideration and Thanh
them for the energy with which it i;
bestowed. 1t seems impossible, SO th'
EXPERTS tell us, that the canal could bt
defended even though fortified III cas-
of war, but then the liar, damned llal
and expert, is a comparison Amos
proyerbial in this commercial age. L
looks as if we had voluntarily, by oul
mean. senseless conduct in the Span
ish-Yankee war, placed ourselves II
the position of the man who, haVlnS
lost the world, imagined be ha(
gained his soul, but on consideration
found his prize was a mere hypothe
sis"
In connection with the proposed MIC
araguan canal it is said that when tn
United States definitely decides U
build, one of the greatest ship-buldln'
concerns in England will simultaneous
" open. on one of the gulf ports, al
immense shipyard. Several steel man
ufacutrers are also said to be consld
ering the advisability Of Establishing
American plants. The Manufacturers
Record, speaking in behalf of the Eng
fish trade, says:
THE men who have dominated thu
metaIIurgical interests of the world TO
so many years, whose trade and ram
ifications extend to every c1vlllze'
country, are not the men to yield t
American supremacy without sharln;
I'm it by becoming a factor in America
production. To these giants of indus
try it is not very material whether thu
source of production is England, Penn
sylvania or Alabama. The people o
America should welcome the incoming
of this capital not only for it's materia
benefits, but for that close kinship in
to which the United States and Grea
Britain would be drawn"