The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-30
HEARTS ACROSS THE SEA
EngIishmen Still Like Americans ana
Admire the President.

Admire the President.
In truth, there never was a. ttne5whAn
the British people were more aEnnpa-
thetic to the Americans, or more anxi-
GUS to see good influences triumph over
bad in the United States. AT this mo-
jment President Roosevelt is wha+ he
has been for many years-ons Of the
most popular figures in the English
speaking world. To our people he
stands for whatever is honorable high
minded, courageous, wholesome, and
sincere in the conduct of public affairs,
and we do not hesitate to say that if
he were to visit England he would have
a reception which would rival that
given to Garibaldi at the height of his
popularity, and that it would be re-
ception in which every class in the
community would join with equal
pleasure. Proof Of this fact Is afforded
by the reception which has been ac-
corded to President Roosevelt's daugh-
ter and son-in-iaw, Mr.. and Mrs. Long
worth. Mr.. and Mrs. Longworth will
we are sure, pardon us and understand
our meaning when we say that the M
terest shown In their visit to London, is
not due to the presence among us even
Of so charming and distinguished
young couple, but to the fact that they
are the daughter and the son-fn-aaw OF
Theodore Roosevelt. The warm heart
ed tributes which have been paid to
them, not merely by London society.
but by people Of all classes wherever
they have been recognized, is due to the
honor and respect and in the best sense
the popularity, enjoyed by the Presi-
dent here. It is not too much, indeed.
that it is very difficult to find English
men or Englishwomen who have not a
warm place in their hearts for the
President of the United States. They
feel, too, that at this moment he is en-
, gagged in something very like life
and-death struggle with the most sell
fish elements in American commercial
life, and that he ID fighting for them.
as well as for his own fellow citizens.
| the battle of purity against corruption.
Though they may not understand the
details of the trust question and of the
political battle that is now raging in
! Washington, they realize fully theIgen-
eral nature Of the struggle-that a man
who is neither Socialist nor a revolu-
tionary, but a friend of well-ordered
/ ont Ar6a to n
Wing in the best sense, as we have
to call him), is fighting the battle of
honest government. Unfortunately ow-
| ing to certain features Of the Constitu-
! ton of the United States, he is obliged
to fight his formidable antagonist with
one hand tied behind his back. That
disability however, makes us as a peo-
pie all the keener and more interested
in the great duel. If, however we NAV
do so without offence, we shouIdslilse to
address a word of warming to the
American public and to ask them not
to be misled by false or hasty or igno-
rant accounts of English public opin-
ion. The American people are just now
naturally in a state of anger and excite
ment and when people are angry and
excited they may be easily misled.
Now 1t is obviously the interest of
those, who are implicated in the trusts
scandals, or who are afraid that fu-
ture revelations may damage trusts
and monopolies which are at present
untouched, to do all they can to turn
public attention away from themselves.
Every effort viii, we may be sure. be
made by the astute and not overscrup-
ulous men who are in danger from
public opinion to divert attention from
themselves by raising the cry Of the
hostility Of the British people. That,
we would ask our American friends to
remember, is altogether sham cutlery
and sham issue. The British people
are essentially friendly to America and
to all that is best in America, and even
though they may sometimes express
themselves bluntly, clumsily and IN
judiciously what they are eondemning
is not the American people, but that
small minority Of persons who have
| done so cruel a wrong 10 the American
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