The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-03-22
VINO WILL SAVE THE ANGLO.SAxON7


The following article from the
poignant pen Of the editor Of the New
Orleans Times Democrat handles a
live and mcaty subject in a mastery
manner. 1t meets exactly with the
views of the SENTINEL and We there
fore reprint it in full. The article
says:
what's the matter with the Anglo
Saxon?
With Brother John repeatedly de-
feated in South Africa and with
brother Jonathan ANONYMOUSLY baf-
fed in the Philippines, 1t would seem
to d~isinterested critics that this thing
called "Anglo-American civilization
isn't quite what it's Cracked up to
be-"
1t is becoming painfully evident
that both Great Britain and the Unit
ed States are being 'shamed" by what
Kipling calls "a little people weak but
apt in the field" and that even the
most ruthless ravages of wal cannot
win complete success either for John
Bull or for Uncle Sam.
The reason why both England and
America have thus far failed in this
war business Of theirs is that both
these nations deserve to be beaten. 1t
was never intended that the countries
of Alfred Chatham and Gladstone,
and of Washington, Jefferson and Lin
coin should become engaged In an at
tempt to exterminate people whose
only fault is that they love the lane
in which they live and are eager tc
die to keep that land free. 1t is cleal
to everyone who thinks that England
is to-day fighting in South Africa
against her better self in the Ameri-
can revolution of 1776; and it is equal.
ly true that the United States, in per-
sisting in this war against the F1lipi-
nos, is attempting to revive the spirit
which American patriots shot to death
at Lexington and Yorktown.
The attempt in each instance viii
fall. Battles may be fought and pa
per victories may be won again and
again in the censors' offices at Cape
Town and Manila, but the wal in
South Africa and Philippines will &C
on. In spite of g%unpowder and OF re-
concentrate camps, the spirit of inde-
pendence will survive. 1nSurrection
follows insurrection even though En-.
gland and America may make Il will
derness of the Philippines and OF
South Africa and persist in calling ii
peace. Like the Americans OF the
eighteenth century, the Filipinos ano
the Beers will surrender sc
long as they have their woods and
their liberty"
For freedoms battle once begun.
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though battle oft is ever won.
The An%glo-Saxon has heretofore
''posed' as the race into whose keep
ing has been entrusted the covenant
of international peace. In view of ex
isting conditions, the Anglo-Ameri
can is today pilloried before the worlt
as the man who has given his hant
and his heart to the cause of tyranny
The day has at length come when th'
United States and England, instea'
of joining hands in the determination
to preserve peace throughout tn
earth, are making a united and con
certed effort to prolong the most In
iquitous possible of wars. lnasmucl
as neither Great Britain nor Americ
can prevail upon n another to ceas
the unholy work in which both ar
engaged, it becomes the duty OF Euro
pean and other nations to do for tn
Anglo-SaXon what the Anglo-saxo
refuses to do for himself. 1t is hig
time that Brother John and Brothe
Jonathan, who are now masqueradin
in the role of the Duke of Alva an
Torquemada, were brought to the
senses. Let the Latin, the Teutol
the Celt and the Slav protect the Al
glo-Saxon from self destruction.