The Irish standard., 1910-02-19
A cockNEY ON AMERICANS.

An esteemed correspondent at Fargo.
N. D" has kindly sent the Irish Stan
dard q clipping from Vanity Fair" a
society paper published in London on
the Thames. and at his request it is
reproduced on another page. The
writer of the article on American trav-
elers abroad is Cockney-a word
used contemptuously for a native or
resident Of the English capital-and
from the tenor OF hfh effusion it Is evil
dent that he ID not charmed with the
manners Of American tourists who are
admitted into the high social circle.
of England while sojourning in Lon
don. M
The writer in VANITY Fair" conceals
his identity when attacking Ameri-
cans and it is we'll that he took that
precaution after inditing the following
libelous TRADE on people who are
infinitely superior to his own country
men:
Culture has. never gained anything
from Americans. Their third rate lit
erature is made up of piracy and bosh:
their press lives upon the rags and
garbage Of society, and their playing
mirth is nothing but the hideous gro
tesqueness of bufroons. The red. In
dian is a far nobler specimen of hu-
manity than the lean, loquaclous Yam
'kee, and herd OF buffaloes is incom-
parably of greater value than horde
of American special correspondents
let loose upon the world, like SO many
rattlesnakes. all Jingle and poison
The English people. from time i'm
memorial. have considered themselves
superior to the rest Of mankind, ami
though they sometimes refer to Amer
fcans as cousins II sta1 TIE SAME blood who
speak the noble language of Shakes
peare and Milton, Yet they have d deep
seated antipathy and contempt for
them and think they are inferior SO
cfally, physically and intellectually to
themselves. 1t is enIy since the Civil
War that they have condesceinded to
speak respectfully dfA Kliiarifcans. Dur
Ing the late war with Spain, the Eng
%lish ruling class tried to array the Eu-
ropean powers ag;ainst this republic
and when the contest was over they
brazenly claimed that they held the
European powers from pouncing upon
us. Germany exposed their preten-
sions and showed them in their true
colors. The Anglomaniacs love Eng
land with ardent devotion and try to
make Americans believe that the Eng
lish are their admirers and friends but
the writer in Vanity Fair" expresses
the real sentiment of the English up
per class towards the sons Of Colum-
.bia. .& ) fi@ q
/ How did the English behave when
this country was engaged in a great
internecine struggle? Let George w.
Pepper, chaplain in the Union army,
answer the question. In his reminis-
.cences of General Sherman, he says:
"The only time I ever, saw him in
one of his superb RACES was In the city
of Savannah. at the princely mansion
Of Charles Green "A British subject
called and demanded protection on the
ground of the neutrality of his gov
ernment. Sherman's g face became white
with wrath, as he exclaimet: Don't
talk to me, sir, OF your governments 8
neutrality. My soldiers have seen your
queens mark upon every cannon and
upon every gun Of the rebels; and they
can never forget it--no. never IT.
For the treachery of the British au-
thorities during the Civil War, the
government of Queen Victoria paid an
indemnity Of a15. 100000 to the United
states to avert amertted chastisemert.
Think YOU that the Americans forget
the interference Of England at the
most critical period Of their history,
and that they take any stock in prot
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estations of friendship when that
Janus-faced hypocritef ID trembling
with fear Of Germany?
II one were to believe what the Ion
don correspondents ot Anglo American
papers say (the same fellows that the
writer in VANITY Fair" thinks less Of
than u herd Of buffaloes) the English
people Of all classes have the fonaest
regard for their American cousins. The
American travellers. however. on reach
ing the motherland discover that all
such talk iay meant for buncombe and
that the phrase. "hlood is thicker than
water" is mere clsptrap. What the
writer In vanity Fair"s says ofAmer-
leans truly represents the honest senti-
ments entertained 81 Yankees by John I'm