Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-01-07

wear 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 England's history
figures prominently. Sir Edwin Arm
old signalizes the new century with
sonnet in which England greets Co
lumbia in these lines:
81 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
Shakespeares speech,-God go with
thee"
To which Columbia answers:
eff thy foes too much dare, | think
we shall be no more kept asunder.
Ethan 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 place of honor
in the Saturday Review. 1t is the
most bitter arrangement of the Anglo
American friendship that has appeared
for many a day. The writer derides
the afterd;0ner 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 our
moral help, which we gave them in
their brave furnishing of their brother
Spaniards, they gave us nothing of a
kindred sort when we started IN to
thrash our brother beers. Lastly, on
ton of all condescensions, like cold
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 going
to turn his ample shoulders to receive
il and assure the kickers of his dis
tinguished 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 ~
of war. but then the liar, damned liar
and expert, is a comparison almost
proverbiaI in this commercial age. II
looks as if we had voluntarily by our
mean. senseless conduct in the Span
ish-Yankee war, placed ourselves III
the position of the man who, havlng
lost the world, imagined be mao
gained his soul, but on consideration
found his prize was mere hypothe-
sis
In connection with the proposed MIC
araguan canal it is said that when the
United States definitely decides &C
build, one of the greatest ship-bulldlne
concerns in England will simultaneous
w open. on one of the gulf ports, ar
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
Iish trade, says:
"The men who have dominated the
metallurgical interests of the world fol
so many years, whose trade and ram
ifications extend to every civilized
country, are not the men to yield tc
American supremacy without sharing
m it by becoming factor in Americas
production. To these giants of indus
try it is not very material whether the
source of production is England, Penn
sylvania or Alabama The people Of
America should welcome the incoming
of this capital, not only for its materia
benefits, but for that close kinship in
10 which the United States and Great
Britain would be drawn"