The Irish standard., 1911-09-09
ANOTHER VIEW Of THE
ARBITRATION TREATY
Writer Assails it on the Ground
That England is not Acting
Sincerely.
Says Britain's Real Object is To
Says Britain's Real Object is to
Make Way for an Anglo-Am-
erican Alliance.
Irish Justified in Opposing it on
Account of England's Blood
Stained History.

In letter to the Brooklyn Daily
Eagle" Jeremiah B. Murphy, we'll
known to our readers, says of the
proposed alliance with England:
In the much-talked-of and agitated
question of the Arbitration Treaty."
contemplated between this country
and Great Britain, there is doubtless
very little thought or consideration
given by the masses of the people
to the undercurrent of calculation
which this significant treaty is de-
signed to effect, namely, giving the
Powers 70 understand that England
has at her back the great Republic
of the West with it's unlimited re-
sources and universal influence.
1t will be called to mind that be-
fore and up to the hour when Presi-
dent Taft announced the inclination
of our country to enter into an car
bitration Treaty" with England in the
interest of universal peace, there was
daily rumors and ominous mutterings
of war between the United States and
Japan, and the yellow peril" was
held up as a menace to our existence
and future progress. The British
press agencies on both sides Of the At
lantic were busy sending broadcast
tl,ssss idea that >the yellow peril'' was
sure to confront us in the near fu-
ture, and Eastern Statesmen found
it necessary to exercise their wit
and diplomacy to allay the feeling
thus created, and while the iron was
hot 1t was popular, of course, for our
President to launch the idea of
strengthening our position against the
possibility of such danger by treaty
with England-whether such idea or
iginated with our Government or in
the British Foreign Office made no
difference, it took the popular ear as
the always alert and astute British
statesmen intended it should.
Immediately after the Presidential
announcement, the British Foreign
Secretary embraced the idea with loud
and joyful acclaim, as if some great
revelation took place. The press on
both sides of the Atlantic took up
the refrain of the new peace pol
ICY" And, of course, it would not
be good policy to oppose or question
the motives underlying it or the con-
sequences which may follow to the
United States from such an entang-
ling alliance, but it may be a grave
question for our treaty-making legis-
lators why treaty with any of the
great Powers, especially England, is
essential to our present and future
welfare, when such treaty would be
certain to foster jealousy among the
other Powers, whose friendly rela-
tions with us are just as important
as those of England The common
language" and "blood is thicker than
water" policy is only an empty sound
"a myth.
There is more German, Celtic and
Latin blood in the makeup of this
country, one hundred to one of each,
than there is "Anglo.Saxon." If blood
and affinity would count for anything
in the making of treaty or alliance
with any foreign Power, it should be
with Germany and not with England;
and, moreover, there is no need Of any
treaty or alliance with England We
have no designs on Canada and Eng
land is not disposed to bother IS in
any way. although in 1864, in the
midst of our trouble, when she thought
the life of this Republic was trem
bling bin the balance, the London
Times" no doubt voicing the senti
ment of the governing classes of Eng
land, cried out: "The American Re
public must be destroyed or it will
destroy every monarchy in this globe. v
We could starve England out Of
existence in three months by holding
our wheat and flour export alone
Knowing all this, the British Foreign
Office and British statesmen are al
their wits ends to engineer treaty
with the United States, even If by g
scare of the yellow peril" They
know also that the great and un
bearable taxes for the building O