The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-01-05

at the beginning of this year, and
everywhere, from New York to New
Orleans, found ninety-nine Ameri-
cans out of every hundred sympathiz-
ing with the Beers in their plucky and
determined struggle for liberty and in
dependence. Their skill and bravery
appealed to nation who, some hun
dred years ago, themselves fought sue
cessfully for their freedom.
Yet, as had many times the oppor-
tunity of telling American audiences:
SIN the Anglo-Boer struggle, it is not
the Beers, but the English, who are
fighting for what your ancestors
fought so successfully during the war
of independence-the liberty of the cit
zen and good and honest government.
l have sympathy for the Beers, on ac-
count of their ignorant patriotism and
| bravery, but, for the sake of humanity
! and civilization, hope the English
| will VIM
1t is true that get applause for this
statement: it is true that the presidents
of many American universities thanked
! me for putting the truth and the facts
! of the question plainly before the stu
| dents, but am afraid l made very
few converts to the pro-English cause,
| although believe was more success
full on the platform in America than in
France, where got admirably Missed
| and had several narrow escapes of be-
ing mobbed for expressing my rather
pro- English sentiments.
The more charitable of my compatri-
OTIS said it was only fair for French.
man who had long enjoyed the hospi-
tality of the English to speak we'll of
them abroad. Some went as far as to
suggest that was probably in the pay
of Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain.
However all this may be. my point is
this: l don't care what few Ameri-
can millionaireS who prefer England
to America who crawl on all tours be-
LolC lulC IInelSll WIZ
would think it beneath their dignity to
give their daughters to honest Ameri-
cans and prefer to get some English
noblemans coat-of-arms out Of pawn
with their daughters and their dollars
Il say don't care what these people
may say to the contrary, my firm con-
toxic a,,I
absolute every time that 1 travel
throughout the United States, is that
there is very little love to spare in
America for the English people. And
this state of things will exist as long
as the Americans build their patriotism
on their successes of 1776 and 1912
against the English, and so long as
school books published in America
teach American children that the Eng
lish are the hereditary foes OF their
country.
Add also to this that not one-third
of the people of the United States are
of English extraction. The Germans
and Scandinavians are not kith and
kin, and the Irish are. tooth and nail
Now, if You don't believe me, let me
wish you had been lin America, as
was, during the Venezuelan squabble.
some five years ago. and you will be
convinced of the truth of my state
ment.
But I must leave aside all these po-
litical considerations, and also the
question whether American and Eng
| fish men love each other or not, for l
was very near forgetting that the sub
ject of this article is what American
and English Women Think of Each
| Other" Here again, as in the case of
the men, we must not speak of the
aristocracy and the plutocracy of the
two countries. Those people are cos
mopolitan; besides they travel and they
get rid of their international pref
udices.
But what about the good -worthy
masses of the people; say, at least.
nine-tenths of the populations of Amer
lea and England?
Well, love to tell what I think to be
the truth frankly and plainly. I am
not Il rich man-far from it-but I now
see my way to easily paying my butch
er's bills for the rest of my life, and l
can afford to say what l mean. If YOU
don't like it, and want something else,
please apply elsewhere for compli-
ments. platitudes and falsehoods.
am absolutely convinced that most
American women despise English wo-
men. and that most English women
cordially hate American women. And
as it is much more fiattering to be
hated than to lie despised. it is the
American women who seem to me the
better served of the two.
In the eyes of the English women
who have not travelled in America or
had the good fortune of mixing in Eu-
rope with the best American women.
and who. in good womanly fashion.
stick fast to their prejudiced notions,
the daughters of Brother Jonathan are
bumptious. vulgar. overdressed, loud.
asSertive. indifferent mothers selfish
wives, bad housekeepers, oil: else I'M
bearable prigs and blue stockings. And
YOU will hear them deliver Judgment