The Tucson citizen., 1902-05-16


in an American trust, Mr.. Carnegie
told him that the sea is open to all,
and that 1t is too big to be cornered
even by our phenomenal Napoleons OF
finance, Carnegie is a canny comfort
er, but Judging by the utterances of
the London press, the Briton is in no
mood to be consoied. He prefers to
take a gloomy view of life and to sus-
pect that the end OF the universe is ap-
preaching, because his own little is
land is losing its supremacy
Another comforting observation
which Mr. Carnegie made in London
was to this effect You must some day
turn your faces to your kin beyond
the sea. You are not a European
power in the future, but will join with
your own race in the west. Fortunate
~ the feeling toward the old home
was never SO cordial. Race patriotism
has taken root" Indeed! We are
afraid that Mr.. Carnegie, In the kind
ness of his heart, is giving John Bull
more taffy' than common sense.
There are many millions of people In
the United States to whom Great Brit
ain was never the "old home Our
citizens of German birth or descent,
and there are many of them are not
bound by sentimentalities to England.
Their race patriotism is certainly not
of the "Anglo-Sa type. The sons
of the Emerald isle. and their descend
ants--and there are many of them
are not yearning to degree that Is
noticeable to be brought into closer
relations with London. Our citizens
of Russian, Swedish French, Italian.
Hungarian. Grecian and Norwegian de-
scent. do not sneeae when King Ed
ward takes snuff. Then there are
from eight to ten millions of Afro
Americans not imbued with Anglo
Saxon IDEAS, the great majority of
whom do not know whether England
is in the tropics or situated near the
north pole. We have also a fair
sprinkling of people OF Mexican de-
scent who have never exhibited any
racial fondness for England and can
hardly be counted on to display ex-
treme friendliness for the ''old home"
in an emergency. There are some of the
pronounced racial types in the United
States. II there should be what Mr..
Carnegie calls a revival of race pa
riotism'the various manifestations of
Ii would be as bewildering as the con-
fusion OF tongues when the Tower OF
Babel was In process OF construction.
Mr. Carnegie. no doubt means we'll
when he dispenses optimism in Lon
don They need words OF solaee and
encouragement In the metropolis OF
Britain, and Mr. Carnegie Is to be
commended for his effort to dispel the
gloom But let him not raise false
hopes about racial patriotism.
There is American patriotism on this
side of the Atlantic-lots of it-and
just now 1t is asserting itself in
way which grieves our commercial and
industrial rivals. The United States
has started out to conquer the mar
kets of the world. In making the
conquest 1t will ignore all sentimental
considerations. 1t will drive as hard
bargain with the Anglo-Saxon "at
home" as with the Teutonic, Gallic.
Slavic and African. "old homes" of a
large proportion of its citizens. That
is the plain truth and John Bull would
be wise to take 1t to heart and govern
himself accordingly. There is no "old
home" sentimentalty in this pushing
and heterogeneous republic, nothwith-
standing Mr. Carnegie's touching re-
marks to the contrary.