The Nome daily nugget., 1914-02-21

! n. cess,lry to resent and put Il stop q tht interference M offici0us German
 naval officers. Of course the excellent
 gentleman In Germany did not use
 the word oficlous. but just the same
 that is what the conduct of these tw'
 German naval commanders was and
 when 1t came to . question between
 the two countries the German oficsrs
 were not upheld by their own sovsrn-
 msnt.
 But that is beside the question. Ths
 point of the thing is that. after all oi
 trsss years have passed. years tr
 which the friendship between the Unl'
 ted States and Germany has been
 shown in a hundred ways. a German l it gisia tor should drag into the light 'i
 day and parade before the world the
 old friction which everyone had nl-
 most forgotten.
 | Absolutely aimiess and useless WAS ! such a discussion as the honorble l gentleman indulged In and quite on par with some of the things that cur own honorable gentlemen down in Washington indulge in.
 It is just such things as this th"t
 keep alive race hatred and clnss hat
 red nfter all r~ason for the hatred has
 passed.
 For many. many years it was the
 hnbit in this country to teach our
 young school children that because Of
 the war of seventeen seventy -six and
 tn, War of eighteen twelve and h"- c,,use of her actions during the War Of the rebellion. England was the bit ter enemy of this country.
 A ma jority of the present genera tion of grownups in the United States
 will remember the days when any T
 thing English was an enemy. And during all of those years. and at the present time England has been and is the one staunch friend of this country.
 Her interest In us may he somewhat selfish. but even if 1t is 1t has many times stood us in good stead and 1t is high time that the youth of the land who learn about the redcoats in their school histories were taught at the same time that those same red coats are now the very best friends | ths, we have in the world. It Is a splendid thing. too. thts | friendship that England has for uS.
 and We should not quibble with the l question as to whether it Ia entirely disintereted ar not.
 The friendship "f England. and We most generally Gesperage In this | country. has kept us free from several cntanglements which might have pro ven somewhat embarrassing to us. About a year ago. when things be- tween this country and Japan had req ched the point where the navy de ps rtment at Washington had gone s1 | far as to have it's agents contract for | al, of the available transports and | ccllicrs, when at the same time Japan was trying to purchase In Europe | e, cry ship she could lay her fingers oh. England very quietly told the Japanese nation to haul in her horns l 1'bis is not generally known outside
 os certain diplomatic and other official | circles but 1t s the truth. and as Eng land is .Iapan's banker. Japan. pr,
 force hauled in.
 Al still Il later time. when tho DOW CTS of Euroc were becomnlng restless over uur Mexican policy and were | threatening interference it WAS Eng | nd who called hnlt and badc thep1 | let us alone to work matters out in oul
 own way.
 1 In this instance England was more interested than any other power ir ! Eccing peace restored in Mexico. an, yet she showed her friendship for n! hy keeping out herself and by kccpinI the others out.
 England has forgotten the bitter ness of sevcnty-six and of twelve ant ia our very best friend. Germany With the possible exception of the gen. | tlcmuu who still rcsents the artiot of the American commanders d | Samoa and Manila is our very goot | friend and it is crying shame thu | there should he constant effort t' l diag us into n feeling of enmity witl these two peoples. More cspeciai'! | when we have real enemy on tn other side of the world who will de
 mand all of our attention one of thcs 4 days.
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