The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-31
BEHIND LIE rREArlEs

Ambassador Bryce whose personal
ity is an international force for peace
ana good understanding among those
which so 20 supply the vacancy left
by the death Of King Edward, lately
ridiculed propositions for disarma
ment and declared lhat the real treat
les between the United States and
the mother country are written deep
en- than In documents Perhaps Mr
Bryce only said In better form what
we lately censured a naval officer f0r
saying less automatically, but we
would object 70 both England Is no
longer our mother country. 1t is en-
tirely true that The reasons for amty
are stronger row than ever and we
find ii impossible To conceive Of any
circumstances that wOuld lend To SER
iOus trouble between the two peoples
but this mother country ialk is be-
in 0ver-worked because ii is fal-
silly that may deceive bOta Of us to
our hurt War is impossible, but "a
trade war is now being waged and
there is every prospect that the suf-
fering it occasions may be Increased
mot the most ulnOus are tne wars
fought on the battlefield and decided
IN few months.
The people OF England arc suffer.
Ing and some of them are looking to-
wards our policy of protection for
relief, undismayed by our experience
Just as they change we are to turn
about in the opposite direction and
thus new relations viii be created
before five years have elapsed we
VIII be rehearsing the old arguments
Of English diplomats and viii be mot
by repeiitions of rebuttaIs formerly
set for America the situation were
not too sad for tears II would become
too ridiculous for laughter. Must
man always wander around III cir
Gle for generations to gain one inch
of advance To-Day England has
Bryce 70 face q Tart why could not
those two bring a compass for the re.
lief Of the straYed parties in This lady-
rinth?
For, as we said before England Is
no longer the mother and America is
not the daughter The blood of Eng
hshmen no longer controls this coun-
try The first trouble between us
was brought about by the fact thar
ne" England bad been peoplcd by set
tiers who considered Old England
their cruel stepmother and the loyalty
Of Virginia who claimed the rights oil
daughter had been embGtered by
careless wrongs -ihe war was In the
b.oed before It passed TO the hau4s.
Antagonism TO England Is ready to-
ofeak out again ON occasion because
we are governed today by those whose
were taught TO sec an en-
envy IN England and the war is in
their blood They feel no reverence
Tor English law because it was the
defender of their ancestors. they have
no reverence tol English traditions
ana little love for English literature
or speech Or precederts of settle
ment by law of an possible dlfierenc-
es it Is not that these are worse Than
we but that they are different. Mr.
bryce must mean that England is
The mother of America i'm another
SENSE Than Germany is the mother ot
England because he would rely upon
we one claim f0t peace and not upon
the other, but in doing SO. he is count
ing without his host. The children
OF England are iu the South and the
voice OF the South is SO small in tho
government Of this country that she
can not secure Justice for herself
Whea Boston is the largest Irish city
IN the world when New York il gov
erned by Irish and Chicago is more
truly governed by German people than
Is Berlin. why talk about the kind
red blood? Read the congressional
directory and be convinced