The Republican journal., 1902-01-23
TIE APPROXIMATION OF ENGLAND

DRl HdI Oh tHt SlOlN Was Iul lOlu. ~
writer in the January Forum on ''The
AmericaniZation Of England says that
Whatever the terms employed, the
essential fact, and one that is every day
more and more widely recognized, is
that the United States is coming to ex-
ert the most profound influence on the
commercial. social and political life of
the mother country. In a word, Great
Britain is becoming AmericaniZed.'
His movement we are told, had its in
ception about five years ago, but its
principal growth has been within the
past three years. 1T began as trade
invasion, which rapidly grew into a
trade conquest, until today the youngest
manufacturing nation of the world in
many lines of production dominates the
markets of the oldest aud strongest of
all commercial powers The transfer
nation has been SO surprising, such a
sudden reversal of the state of affairs
hitherto prevailing, that ON neither side
Of the Atlantic is its extent fully ap-
Dreciated'
Tie sales Of American locomotives
10 British railways, the awarding of
contracts for electrical construction
iemand Tor cur printing presses, type
setting and stereotyping machinery. sew
-Hg machines, shoes, food products. etc,
lave had frequent mention III the news
papers. The movement does not stop
there. Tie writer in the Forum says:
One consequence of our inroads upon
Ihe British markets is that thousands
II Americans. representing hundreds
ot lines OF commercial production. are
long a thriving business in London
3nf the other prncipal cities OF John
5uns domain. When one adds to these
lie thousands - some two hundred
thousand altogether-Who yearly throng
across the Atlantic on pleasure
quests and fill the London hotels to
-oTtltloWing, it is not surprisingftiat
%le inevitable contact between the two
.ajlonalitles is resulting in the acquire
Went by tile Englishman of some of the
characteristics of his Yankee cousin.
he extent to which this process has
'l Fanced. as 1t reveals itself to obses-
axiom III every part of Great Britain.
surprising. Tie reversal of opinion
las Aeen so sudden that it has carried
he British public to much greater
suGtAs than it would have done had it
roeeeded more slowly.
This accounts in part. at least. for the
enaIkaLe manifestations of sorrow
tNJ sympathy over the assassination
0f death of President Mckinley
throughout King Edwards domain: for
lie equanimity with which Sir Thomas
Llpton's failure to lift the Americas
cup was received; and for the kindness
and courtesy which greet the Ameri- |
can tourist today i'll every part of
Great Britain. The two nations are
certainly coming closer together !
Blood is thicker than water
Hunton's Magazine for December
axes another view Of the situation, !
under the caption of "England's Serious :
Plight 1t says: The English nation
today is facing a crisis which has
vital relation to the whole future of
die British empire The crisis is three !
3olG- military, financial and Industrial"
Ihe military situation is included be- ,
'allet the B0er war lis revealing an
astonishing and unsupported laggard-
ness and inetliciency in British military
methods ana organizations, which will .
nave to be speedily and radically re-
FOlmed if the empire is to be regarded
is lMpregnabie in the old matter-of I
course way" Then, as to finances:
although war expenditures are alb
sorblng 4 considerable amount of sur
Nlus funds, British capital seems
destined TO face All Increasing difficulty
1t finding profitable investment"
II there were an adequate expansion
II domestic industries going on, this
surplus capital might be absorbed at
nome. out on the contrary, for the first
Sme since the beginning of the factory
system. England is dropping behind in
the race for industrial and commercial
supremacy. England's foreign trade is
showing an actual decline, and this is
Ot course reacting on domestic indus
grles' Gunton's well says; 1T would
be a calamity to civilization if these
tendencies should continue to such an
extent as to seriously weaken England's
power ard influence among the nations.
Ne country, with the exception of the
United States, is able to do so much for
World progress or to exert SO wholesome
IN influence Ill the settlement of world
problems in the next few decades To
England and the l. nited States falls
the task OF uplifting the standard of
civilization throughout
the world, and the relations between
chem should be such that each should
rejoice in the wholesome progress of the
other. What England needs. and inn
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