The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-03

States Senate by one of the brightest
gems of the nation, send Underwood.
Respectfully yours.
DIR. EDWIN WADE.
jackson, Miss, October 81, 1913.
$50 Rankin street.
Sees Danger in Peace Propaganda
To the Editor of The Age Herald:
Now that the Carnegie project for the
celebration of one hundred years of peace
between the United States and Great
Britain is assuming such dangerous pro-
portions. it behooves the press of the
United States to sound the alarm against
the giving of subscriptions by the pub
lie to this fund.
The whole project is nothing more or
less than a diplomatic move on the part
of the British government, to ward off
the wrath of Germany, who is only stay
ing her hand for reason of the implied
threat that the United States will come
to the rescue of Great Britain in the
event of war between the latter nation
and Germany
Andrew Carnegie, with the able as
sistance of Elihu Root and Joseph H.
Choate, is the apostle who is spending
|
! it is high time that the United States
ambassadors abroad. who are his tools
in this misrepresentation were recalled.
The interference of the United States
| government in the Moroccan dispute be-
| tween Germany and Great Britain was
| a disgraceful act of treason on the part
of the handful of American officials who,
without the knowledge or sanction of
the American people, definitely informed
Germany that any further insistence on
her part of conditions which were not
acceptable to Great Britain, would mean
that the United States would back Great
Britain up with men and arms.
Later, when William Howard Taft was
elected President of the United States,
Germany, who had not altogether lost
faith in American neutrality, again APP
preached Great Britain with a view to
the settlement of the dispute. Immediate
ly the United States Atlantic fleet was
dispatched to English waters and Com
mander Sims of Admiral Murdock's flag
ship the Minnesota, delivered an official
speech in London in which he said that
if England were threatened with an ex
ternal foe she could count upon every
man. every dollar and every drop of
blood in the United States
To the American public the dispatch
mid winter was regarded as very pleas
ant and enjoyable cruise for the officers
and men of the fleet. The truth of the
move was known to the British and Ger
man governments and the Carnegie pro-
British anneXationists in the United
| States government.
Germany was again obliged to stay her
hand; but Immediately increased her ma
val programme.
Having been subjected to American
diplomatic Intervention on two critical
! occasions when pressing for a settlement
of demands with Great Britain. Germany
had every reason to believe that the Uni
ted States government was representing
public opinion in America. by the pro-
British sympathies manifested by two
successive administrations.
In consequence of this anti-German at
titude in American diplomatic circles,
the German government decided to mani
fest its resentment of American public
professions of friendship for Germany,
and diplomatic private threats. by refus-
ing to take any part in the Panama canal
exposition at San Francisco in 1915.
When the Wilson administration came
into office the German government was
keenly alive to note any change in the
diplomatic antagonism of the United
States. There appeared to he a strength
ening of the Anglo-American bond by
means of the Carnegie peace activities,
and Germany was. therefore, only moved
to greater resentment when she learned
that in January, 1914, the Atlantic fleet
was to be again despatched to European
waters.
January 1914, synchronizes with the
date of settlement for German claims
against Great Britain. and once again
we shall find the power of the United
States navy backing up Great Britain in
European waters.
10 rf.fa4a ,1ata ant tl,a A
lantie fleet to the Mediterranean in Jan
uary next, is another instance of Great
Britain holding our American fleet over
the head of Germany as big stick.
: Very little money is being subscribed
by the British public to celebrate Car
neeiean peace" although the expen-
sive newspaper advertisements, which in
one week alone are said to have cost
| $40, 900, state that one of the principal OBJ
jects of the movement is "a revision of
| historical textbooks with a view to the
| elimination of anti-British cooring and
emphasizing the benefits of the hundred
years peace
have read some of these revised
histories written by the Carnegie en-
ployes. and the manner in which they
J seek to "empha size that George Wash
ington was an upstart adventurer,, and
: jefferson and all the heroes of the wal
} of independence, a set of self-seeking in
: of Benedict Arnold to beat with satisfac-
J ton.
No American worthy Of the name will
! subscribe in any way to Carnegie s
, peace" fund: and no man, woman OF
child should hesitate to life up their voice
t In loud protest when they hear the plausi-
BILE professors, who are so handsomely
paid by the Carnegie peace fund, re-
: peat at their well advertised lectures that
after all, we must be very fair and log
, ical and accept the recently discovered
evidence that Washington was a very
| ordinary man; poor tactician; also that
, the Declaration of Independence was only
a chimerical campaign document writer
by little band of revolutionary rebels
and Adventures"
A coat of tar and feathers, and n ride
. out of town on a rail. would do much to
curb the reasonable speeches and pro
, British sentiments of these poor syco-
plants. A word to the wise Very truly
LILLIAN SCOTT TROY.
London, W. c., October IS, 1873 Trafalgar
buildings Trafalgar Square.
Auditorium on the Souths;de
To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
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