The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Interest IN Three Topics, Coron>
alton, War, American Invasion

induced to do so. Much could have been
dispensed with as they are not essen
tial The clauses of the Ltany are so
comprehensive that there is really no
practical object IL having any other
prayer whatever, except perhaps one
special collect for the King and Queen
Lord Brougham said at the sitting of
the Privy Council in 1881, when Archbish-
op Howley and Bishop Bromfield posi-
lively refused to permit the Coronation
service to be eurtaiied: We SHALL weary
the Almighty with our applications
In regard to the South African war
your readers are fully posted But if
you Americans believe that England is
willingly giving her sons to fight the
Beers, they are much mistaken The
British mother is sick with apprehen-
SION she has had enough of glory. The
feeling is now abroad that we have been
wasting life and treasure to open fields
OF British industry. In singular contrast
to England's attitude to the Beers has
been the United States attitude to Cuba
We have destroyed the gallant little re-
public. wasted her farms, driven off her
people, set her back a century in prog
ress; you have established a down-trod-
den people, given them a flag and i'm
from which they will never escape En-
gland and the United States are striving
for the same thing-foreign markets.
You have secured those of Cuba, we
have destroyed those of South African
Republic England is awake she real
lies 1t would have been better to have
dominated the Transvaal with her arts
of peace than her arts of war. The lat
ter course has imposed burdens on the
people, taken the youth of England from
the fields of labor and added little to her
prestige as a war power. Peace is de-
sired.
The invasion of England by American
capitalists have opened the eyes of ffnan-
ciers, promoters and manufacturers.
They see they have been deluded by
their own strange fancics. For years
they have pridcd themselves by being
conservative" By this they meant that
Old England had reached the summit of
development, and that her manufacture
ers had attained the height of perfection.
They chung to old methods at home; yet
they showed enormous enterprise abroad.
The great progress of England at home
was found between the years 1910 and
1860. Then she stopped. The civil war
In the United States aroused the energies
of the Americans; the French and Ger
man war aroused the energies of the
Germans in 1871. Americans and Ger
mans forced themselves ahead, the En-
glish stood still, Morgan. Yerkes, Duke
and others have aroused John Bull from
his sumbers. Morgan coming here to
rob us of our ships, just as King Ed
ward Is preparing to be anointed,
crowned and set on his throne with all
the how-de-do of ancient custom has
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the past and forgets the present The
pride of the nation has been touched to
the quick. 1t never believed the time
would come that its sovereignty of the
seas would be questioned. This blow
menacing Britanias ruling the waves
has put John Bull on his feet. England
millions will fight in commercial war
fare. Morgan will never control the
ocean ferry.
Three hundred thousand American
tourists this summer in England spend
ing on the lowest computation not less
than five hundred dollars each, will bring
into England at least one hundred and
fifty millions of dollars. Is it to be WON
dered at that Americans are popular? It
Is equal to about "a to every inhab itant
of this island Take 1t as a trade: is
not the American tourists a good arti-
Gle? Money spent by Americans reaches
every class from the porter and cabby
to the land owner and merchant. English
financiers see in the American ferry an
undeveloped business. They believe the
accommodations now offered Americans
to cross the ocean wholly inadequate
and If Morgan does succeed in controll-
ing half dozen lines, English shipyards
will be made busy by the building of new
vessels. From our standpoint it would
pay to bring to England free of travel
cost every American who would agree
to spend five hundred dollars in this
tight little island. The fact is Americans
l meet say it is far cheaper to spend a
summer in the British Isles tnan on the
Atlantic sea coast; indeed there is
good deal of truth. I imagine in what
one young American said to me, although
it CRATES on the Briton's pride. / asked
him, after the fashion of your country
man: How do you like England?' He
said: England. how do | like England?
Why, 1t is a deuced nice little island for
a summer resort"