The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-05

IF my Mediterranean fleet. Austria
why do you go ont of your way TO mix
in this fight? Kindly bear in mind
that the Danube can be assembled by
my gunboats Germany, you nave
everything to lose and nothing to gain
by a contest. Britain desires peace, but
you must OF interfere against the Uni
ted States You must not aid the dy-
ing despotism of Spain. Britain, re-
peat, desires peace; but L charge you
all "in the name of God, take heed how
you awake her sleeping sword of war"
'Uncle Sam and have had our diff
ferences, it is true, ever since he left
my bed and board and set UP house
keeping for himself. In 1872 L violated
his nag upon the high seas, and he gave
me a receipt in full at New Orleans and
Lundy's Lane. He kindly returned the
favor and violated my flag on the deck
of the Trent in 1861, and when, in not
blood, / was writing a message Of war
to the Commons, Victoria laid her
Woman'S hand upon my arm Not
now. JOHN said she not while Amer
lea is in the trey s;. &c her new birth OF
freedom shall -. ish guns be loaded
to help siaVety
'sIJncIe Sam protested against my
Venezuelan surveying party a few
years ago, and / growled. But could
MT afford to fight him for half a dozen
VeneZuelaS' you see, so L packed up
my theodolites and tore up my maps
and recognized the Monroe doctrine
and agreed to arbitrate.
"tAmerica and England have not al
ways been as friendly as close relations
ought to be, and L dare say that there
has been provocation on both sides. In
the great civil war ! was a good deal
nasty. closed Exeter Hall and stop
ped sympathizing with the poor black
slaves, and ships built with English
money, and manned by English sailors,
drove American commerce from the
Atlantic, and lit the Arctic ocean with
the flames Of American whalers. But
the Yankee ship Kearsarge forced the
Alabama to fight and dotted the Brit
iSh Channel with her fragments. And
after that. don't you know, ] paid a
small bill of fifteen millions of dollars
for my conduct. Uncle Sam has not
been in turn altogether fair with me
In my contest in South Africa he sym
pathized with the Beers. In my contest
in North Africa he sympathized with
Ell Nahdi, and whenever 1 have trou-
bles in Ireland he always sympathize.
with Ell Paddy.
Sometimes his orators and newspa-
pers have twisted the tail of my lior
until the poor old beast roared his dis
gust, and sometimes my writer's hav,
picked at the pin feathers of his eagle
until the enraged bird was ready t
claw the letter II" out of the alpha
bet
"But these differences are at las
trihing. Americans own equally will
Engtishmen the giories Of Cressy ant
Agincourt. Of NaSeby and Marstol
Moor. The orators who have made tn
arches of Westminster ring, the poet
who have sung TO the ages, the dra
matists and noyelists ard artists O
England belong to America as well, TO
we speak the self-Same tongue,
" That Milton wrote, that Chatham
spoke.
And Burns and Shakespeare sung
again, business is business, DON
you know. and my money is in Ameri
l can mines, and cattle ranges, and rail
roads, and sugar stock. America feed
my mills with cotton and my operative
} with wheat. and is beginning to fee
= my furnaces with coal When my din
ner is placed on the table and ! cary
/, the meat. bless my soul. ! don't right
2 know whether TO have the band pla
2 The Roast Beef of Old England" O
The Refrigerated Steer of Yanke
8 Doodle, and after all. don't you know
T Cod Save the King aud My Country
t It's Of Thee are sung to the same mu
. sic. am not quarreIsome. but reall!