The Washington herald., 1915-12-15

to entertain better opinion of each other or pre-
pare to fight in the near future. The psychology
of nations and the psychology of the school yard
are alike in this fespect-that the big boys Of tie
class must either be close friends or fight for the
supremacy.
To establish better relations is simply matter
OF understanding one another better. There are
no fundamental conflicting PHILOSOPHERS or poti-
cal destinies, no geographical or commercial r.
vary that the two nations to be natural enc
mics. 1t is simply question of personal opinion
and the natural desire to show the other fellow
that you are the better man. And It is a matter
OF common knowledge that men will fight much
more readily and much more bitterly from vanity
than to redress just though unnspring grievances.
And those who brush aside the possibility of a
war between this country and Britain on the
ground that they are allied in their language, po-
tcal institutions and habits of thought well as
commercially interdependent are making serious
mistake.
That mutual i'll feeling does exist between the
two nations is fact. 1t tends to be exaggerated,
but it is there the less. And each country is
partly responsible for it. There are, of course, on
each side of the Atlantic numbers of people who
know something of the folks on the other side. 1t
is not among these that ono finds hostile spirit
The Englishman who knows Americans and the
United States sees much to admire and nothing to
criticisc except in friendly spirit The American
who visits England comes back with balance OF
affection in his heart, strange some Of the
British ways to him. But the man who does not
know England except couptry that we licked
in 1870 and again in 1912 and can always lick again
if want to" Ito paraphrasc from speech by
Champ Clark the Panama tolls controversy
has little but i'll will for England. He has been
tauphf to have in ecboo1 and he has left
school the Hearst newspapers continue to instill
the lesson. The Englishman who knows nothing
Of the American is similarly affected. The Eng
lishman is taught to despisc the American as a
loud and dishonest money grabber rather than to
hate him. But the effect is not whit better.
And once the feeling is reciprocal the mischief is
done.
Since the commencement of the great this
mutual i'll will has been greatly increased the
result of increased misunderstanding The British
pretend to despise for not taking sides with
them and helping to fight what they declare is not
less our than theirs. But this is an academic
matter. They do honestly think. however. that the
spirit of the American people is accurately repre-
scented by combination of the personalities of
William ]. Bryan and William Randolph Hearst
1t is entirely fault that it is so. They arc the
Two most exploited people in the United States to-
udy. we cannot Dld1Hc OtncfS lot regarding them
as the most representative. The English have
not the least idea of the extent to which sentiment
in this country wishes to their arms. The
voice they hear is the loud voice cngendercd by
Dr. Dcrnburg's $II.oooooo slush fund. 1t is the
voice of the Archibalds and the James O'Donnell
Bcnncts, OF the William Bayard Hacs and the
Burgcsses and Chambcrlans and Gaffneys and all
OF the hireling press and venal publicists whom
German money or German praise has made vocal
IL is the voice OF tho Hokc Smiths and Hitehcocks
and Washes who arc playing the anti-Britsh game
because it is politically good thing
Nor have the English press and the English
people omitted TO express their contcmptuous
opinions OF us. They charge us with being out for
the coin las Vice President Marshall boasted).
too proud to fight (as worthy President told
us VIC wcrc) and unwilling to raise on rboys to
be soldiers (as Mr. Bryan told us VIC ought to be-
And they firmly believe all these things Of u.s. II
Is not their fault in way. and yet they cannot
escape the charge of never having tried to see or
wanted to anything good come out Of Galilee.
U. S. A. Nor are wholly to blame for listen
ing to the TRADES of those who appeal to OUR very
natural big-boy instinct to thrust our fist under
John Bulls nose and say. Smell thatr'
Nothing is to be gained by discussing the uues-
ton of whose fault it is. The mass of Americans
are too many pro-Gernans in the United States
who have no German affiliations and no knowl-
edge of the war or what caused it, who are pro-
German simply because they have been brought
up to be anti-Britsh. And the English must learn
that we are not nation of Bryans and Hearsts,
and must be willing to believe it. Let those OF
OUR statesmen who are really statesmen with
purview extending beyond the outcome of the next
election see to it. We have war on our hands.
and the first move can well come from us for that
reason There is one common bond through which
something be done. Canada is intensely
British in sentiment. She is very American in
nearly everything else. The Canadian loves us for
the things that the Briton affects to despise. He
loves England for the things that we are too
ignorant to see. Through him will the better TIN
Outstanding come if it ever does come
Whe & He?