The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-07
THE BENEDICT ARNOLD
 PEACE SOCIETY"


 bitter enemy, France; Germany con tinued to saw wood and work. She made an alliance with Russia, and then triumphantly began to insult Germany. She made demands on Ger many; commanded her to cease in creasing her navy. Germany quietly told Great Britain that her arma- ments would increase in the ratio of Great Britain's hostile alliances. Eng land tried b,ufhng, and got her bluff neatly called. Germany said she was ready t. take her chances with the quartette of England, Japan, France she much preferred to work and in crease the prosperity and happiness of her people; but if Great Brit ain wished to have a little fracas . |. 'Barkis was willin'.''
 Like a s mixing coyote who has the will an6 desire but not the courage to bounce on the lamb, England with all hungry powers decided that the time to attack Germany had not yet come. And then the question of how was the nigbtn are of Great Britain. A man of Initiative, clever in handling diff cult situations with despatch, was needed. America was looked to with cOvetCus eyes-but no Englishman cause the American mind would tmme- diate.y bee Jme suspicious of a ''n'g- ger ill the wcodpile." The suggestion must come from an American! It must appear as if America .graciously made the initial move, and England immediately fell into her arms.
 Andrew Carnegie, whose sentiments were always British. while willing to father the scheme and pay the bills, was too far-sighted to openly suggest the idea himself, knowing the propen- sity of the American people to ask embarrassing questions, so he whis- peIed first to the King, and the Peace maker found Carnegie's whisper so dashingly funny that he must hold his ktngly sides in acute visibility.
 The suggestion of arbitration with American than the President of the United States!
 Pulling Eng!and's chestnuts out of the lire no wonder the King laughed!
 Then the canny Scot, the clever or earizer, came to the United States on nliSciiCf bent. He tickled President Tatt under the ribs, and cooed some thing into his ear . several things! And out of a clear sky ''our'' Presidential by himself (?)-holds oIt the glad hand to England, and says, ''Let us arbitrate."
 And he says he thought it all out by himselfi
 One high in authority and near to the Throne, in a speech in 1908 said: 'In seven years the Union Jack will float over the whole of the United Sta+es''t
 Ellhu Root wishes us to celebrate one hundred years of peace with Eng land in 1915.
 Why not celebrate with our friends, with whom we have never had war? Why celebrate with the on'y nation on earth who has always been, and still is, our only enemy; the only nation who has had the distinction of op- pressing us; and whose smouldering hate and contempt for the Yankee is only second for the hate and il1-will she bears her Irish and Indian sub jects?
 The present King of England boasts that if King George III had held court in New York there would have been 0 American revolution. The Queen de tests Americans fiercely. No opror- tunity is lost in showing her contempt even to American women who have, scions of the British nobility, not only reinstated their husbands in three full meals a day, but their whole families as vel
 It is quite safe to say that the only Americans who are treated by the English royalties as if they were hu- man beings are the numerous rela- tives of Ambassador Reid Not that the Reids are supposed to be in any degree more eligible than any o'her American family, but because MT. Reid is, and may still be, very useful in fur thering the arbitration treaty-and a few other things.
 The Liberal and the Irish parties have had on two occasions taken ser ious umbrage at Ambassador Re d's to take sides in the British elections. At one time it was thought that the Irish party would take the matter to Washington.
 On last Thanksgiving Day Ambas- sador Reid contemptuously aired his opinion of Americans at the dinner given by the American society in Lon don. He said that Americans who visited England were generally of two kinds: those who referred to Ameri- couldn't find anything as good in Eng land as in America; and women who wished to intrude as in America; and who wished to intrude their republican presence on English royal
 And thus in public speech did the man who represents the United States in Great Gritain hold his own coun- dicu,e! And on Thanksgiving Day! A day on which, if he couldn't bring himself to say something fair and kind, he had done better to have held his peace.
 The English newspape made such of Ambassador Reid's anti-American speech. Many were the gloating ref erences made to the effect that even stand his own people. And why, may the American people consistently ask 1 1oes our patriotic reference to the | United States ate as Gods sou eountry' E ah eH.
 
 m extent that he must select | Day of all days to crit | ,ise at a public dinner our warm | hearted and truthful references to our | own country2 As to the American women he holds in such contempt for to 'intrude" their repub- ican presence on English Royalty, | why should they not, if they wish to | and royalty wants their money to save he disintegrating nobility? Can MT. | Reid, with all his close experience of 'oyalty, begin to compare any royal | louse in the world with even the av- .rage American family? Noi Can he compare any of the royal women with | American women in refinement, cour- esy, genuine kindness. brains, wit, or lon orabIe pride and virtue? No ioubt the United States Ambassa dor znowing the distaste the English King md Queen have for Americans, would | urn it to account by barring all but lis numerous family and fami yin aw from the sensitive royal presence. 1ne has only to glance casually at the | ,'cture of the group of guests at Am ,assador Reid's country home in Eng and, where King Edward is seen sit iror fn frs Rai6'S