Arizona republican., 1904-05-04
Great Britain and the United States

Great Britain and the United States.
 George Harvey, editor of the North American RevIew and of Harper's
 Weekly, opens the months Nineteenth
 Century with a paper on the United States and Great Britain, reviewing briefly their past and present relations
 and forecasting those cf the future. Hc says:
 "The last few years have been notable for the pricking of bubbles. Spain was
 supposed to have a navy, England an organized army. Russia an unassaila-
 ble military force and America an ina pregnable industrial prepOnderance un- paraIleled in modern history. These bubbles have been pricked. Spain with characteristic hauteur has taken her true position at the end of the line.
 England is trying to create the organ iZed army she supposed she had, Rus sia grieves at this moment over the wounds inflicted upon her by the Jap anese onslaught, with the important emotion of a quivering jelly fish, and the United States have discovered that their title to the earth cannot be sus- tained in a competitive court. These
 nations have been found cut; whether others, subjected to similar tests, would suffer similar shocks can be C. matter only of conjecture. One fact,
 however. is certain. the pricking Of these bubbles has taught the lesson Of interdependence to the Anglo-Sa
 race at least, with so much of force and clarity that, for the first time since Paul Revere rode out of Boston, that race is now practically a unit in it's relationship with the remainder of the world, not as a result of written words, but as the effect of that intui- tive understanding which is more po~
 tent and more enduring than explicit covenants, for the reason that it com- pines the quality of chivalrOus senti- ment with regard for material ssIf-in~ terest."
 Referring to the awakening on the
 part of Great Britain to the immense
 economic importance of the friendship
 of the United States, and touching up-
 cn what would in all probability hap
 pen to Englands food supply should
 she ever be engaged in a war with both
 the United States and Russia, Mir. 1 Harvey continues:
 Tt is now extremely improbable that England will ever have to confront tbe 1 United States and Russia at one and
 the same time. Such contingency indeed might have occurred during our civil war, had England attempted in | tervention on behalf of the southern ] Ccnfederacy. It might have occurred
 in 1896, had England, in defiance of Mir. | Cleveland's UnwarTanted Venezuela
 
 init the boundary of British Guiana to ! arbitration. It might even have oc- ] cured six years ago, had England for 1 bidden us to. undertake the deiiverance l of Cuba, as she did forbid us al the ! time of the Virginius affair. But not
 now; the danger time has passed"
 He notes the prominent part played
 by Lord Salisbury in fostering and ce-
 menting friendship between the two | countries, and concludes:
 We could not, if we would, escape ! the conviction that our material Inter | ests, especially in the east must neCes- | sarily be identical with the mother | country's; our mere business sensa ! therefore tells us at least to welcome 1 and perhaps to seek cooperative ac- ! tion.f But better and more important
 than that. we have come to believe
 that the English people tell the truth when they say they want to be ou5'
 friends. Unlike Russia, which has lost
 Anerica's best will because her acts l in Manchuria have continually belied
 her fair words in St. Petersburg, Eng land has not missed an opportunity
 while all these bubbles have been
 bursting, to demonstrate in the most | effective and practical manner that ! sincerity to which at last we frankly
 confess readiness to pin our faith. / l The 0rodigal son has no intention of
 returning home; but. chastened him. J self, he is mere than willing to worl, l shoulder to shoulder with his equally ! chastened parent in their common in
 terest, and to accept and give freely of aid whenever and wherever and
 against whomsoever needed