The Irish standard., 1904-07-30
CHOA1E CHASI|SED
American Ambassador at Lon
don Disgusts an Englishman.
The Anglo Maniac Gives Full
some Praise to Lord Roberts.

task recently by Il sturdy Englishman,
who took exception to his gust and
audation of Lord Roberts because Of
his supposed victories in the Boer
republic. The trouble with our repre-
sentatives to foreign courts is that
they do not represent the people.
Dazzled by the glitter of royalty, and
aping aristocracy, they forget the dig
nifty of Il true American citizen. In
their aspirations to be ranked among
the nobility, they crawl ut the feet of
royalty, and sacrifice not only their
manhood, but that of the country they
are supposed to represent. How our
ambassador to the court Of st. James
gave offense to the Englishman is told
in the following letter. published in
Reynolds Newspaper:
''Sir-The rules of good sense, good
manners and good taste, alike pre-
scribe that Il foreign resident in a
country shall refrain from public ex-
pressions of his personal views on the
domestic affairs of that country The
obligation incumbent on those who
have no representative character is of
of immeasurably greater force in the
case of one intrusted by his fellow
citizens with the duty of represent
ing them in a foreign country.
'You have trampled under foot the
rules of good sense. good manners and
/ good taste, and, still worse you have
allowed yourself to throw to the winds
all the restraints imposed upon you by
the high office you hold. On recent
occasion you prostrated yourself be-
fore Lord Roberts. You told your
hearers that his fame had filled three
continents. Let u.s. you said speak
ing in the name of the United States,
| let us have a little share of the glory.
do most cordially invite him, both in
my official and in my personal capac-
| ity, to cross the ocean. can assure
him that he will have a reception such
as no other Englishman has had in
the United States or in any other
country
''Sir, will not stay to ask whether
you We're authorized thus to speak in
the name of the country of which you
are the accredited representative. That
is a matter which rests between you
and those whom you represent. am
concerned only with the fact that
these words were spoken in England
b" foreign ambassador.
"YOu cannot but be aware that the
mere mention of Lord Roberts name
brings blush to the cheek Of thou
sands of the best men and the best
women Of this country. What is this
fame which has filled three continents
this glory, of which you desire a
share? 1t is the fame of the devas-
tator, the glory Of the man who de-
liberately set himself to destroy all the
works of peace in vast territory.
Not us a painful necessity of warfare
but Of fixed purpose, Lord Roberts
destroyed thousands of farmsteads.
burnt schoolhouses, cut down fruit
trees, trampled crops into the earth,
broke down irrigation dams, destroyed
sheep, cattle, the very implements of
husbandry. Two of your fellow coun-
trymen, Messrs. Putnam and Van Der
Weyde, have energetically proposed
against the imputation that a prece-
dent for this destruction could be
found in the deeds wrought in your
civil war.
But this is not all. Unable to con-
quer the men who, like your brave
forefathers in the war of indepen-
dence, were fighting for their freedom,
Lord Roberts made war on their wo.
men and children. Six years ago
only six years from now-President
Mckinley addressed to congress cele.
brated message. He denounced the
methods adopted by General Weyler in
his war on the Cubans. 'Reconcentra.
tion, adopted avowedly as a war meas
ure to cut off the resources of the
Insurgents, worked its predestined re-
suit. 1t was determination The only
!. peace it could beget was that of the
wilderness and the grave
, with what sincerity, or want OF
sincerity, YOU can judge better than I
he declared that the adoption of these
methods left to the United States II,
choice but to intervene in the sacred
names of humanity and civilization
) The war in Cuba he declared, mus
| stop Lord Roberts bettered the in
struction Of General Weyler; tn,
graves of more than $4,000 children
testify to his success.
II will not dwell on Lord Roberts
, earlier career. have not to tell here
of his deeds in Afghanistan, where he
: carried fire and slaughter into unre
, sisting villages. 1t is not those ex
ploits that have caused you to pros
trate yourself and your country be-
} fore him. He killed two republics
ruined a vast land. and instituted his
foul camps in which these thousands
of children were done to death. 1t is
those deeds which have carried his
fame through three continents: it is
for those deeds that you invite him to
cross the Atlantic to receive tho hon,.