The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-16

twist the British lions tail until in his I imagination he can hear above the ap- plause of the audience the beast roaring with pain. This sort of thing, reasons courage and patriotism. Speakers who | are older, who have had more experience and more opportunity to learn, to ac- quire accurate information, and who chronic incapacty to mentally digest the | facts of history and their meaning in the broader and deeper sense, sometimes in- dulge In this verbal process but these are growing fewer Even Carl Schurz, an ardent champion of the Boers, in ad- dressing q pro-Boer meeting recently, said: T am not an Anglophobe. On the contrary. T, have always greatly apprs- achieved by the English people for lib- erty and civilization. am one of those who heartily rejoiced at the subsistence in this country of the old and more or less unreaseHins prejudice against Eng land, and have often publicly said so. [ witnessed with sineerest satisfaction the disappearance from our popular ora tory of the cheap trick Of twisting the British lions tail,' and hailed with joy the growth of a real friendship between the two nations"
 There is no reason why there should not be friendship between the two na- There is no enmity, but there is natural and legitimate rivalry in the industrial world. and.there Is on the part of each that vigilance which & 1t Is wise .h in every every colonies rebelled the war fought by George III was not approved by the English people. and many of the distin- guished noblemen and statesmen of the time opposed it, It was Kings war and Kings mistake.
 No nation can be relied on as the friend of another when selfish interests and advantages interpose. In the rivalry n continent a figure. Among all the nations Of Europe England is the best friend of the United States. Among all the nations of the friendship and sympathy are England and the United States. 1t Is natural that this should be so. Allied closely by kin- ship of race, by ties of blood, by a conn lsnsusss soms ns s%aEig snosFhigs Of hasss @
 characteristics, and inspired and guided by the same ambition weich has carried them high and far in the work of civili- zation and beyond that of all other na- tons In the matter of the truest free dom and the wisest liberty, 1t is not re-
 marka bla that they should stand to- gether, in so, far as two such nations may stand together. amid the world Of nations.
 These are facts which the demagogue cannot obscure. Formerly when Demo- crats urged reform of the tarin Repub- lican demagogues sought te arouse pre- judice by asserting that the tariff reform CTS were the tools and agents of free trade England Stupid as was this false hood, many ignorant persons accepted 1t as a fact. In 1896 when the free silver fever reached its most virulent stage 1t was s-charged by sagebrush statesmen that the English money-changers had this country by the throat and that> if
 the free silver cause failed Lombard Street would simply reduce the Ameri- can people to a state of slavery. There is not a reader of these lines who hasn't heart that sort of talk How cheap and foolish it all was. Yet many good people of ordinary intelligence honestly and firmly believed 1t. ...
 There are not in this day. we are per- suaded. many men possessing both sim cerfty and sufficient knowledge and wis dom to warrant them In posing as public teachers or leaders who would even for the sake of a little applause resort to what Carl Schnrz very aptly terms the cheap trick of twisting the British lions tall" No matter who may indulge in or applaud it, it is no evidence of either courage. patriotism or intelligence.