New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-17
England the Worlds Bully.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
SIR In recent letter to The Tribune by
one who points out England'S historic antag-
onism to the United States, and states that
he is q Civil War veteran and citizen, he
might have added that England's aid to the
Confederacy in an endeavor to break US in
two and consequently weaken US TO such an
extent that she could bully us indefinitely
was but the elimination of British bullying
and domineering.
It does not appear that she was particu-
larly humane when she sent her hired as
sassins, the brutal Hessians, to kill of her
American "brothers," nor do we forget that
her tactics on the high seas in stopping
American ships and shanghailng their crews
resulted in the War of 1912.
And who was it but England who said we
must not fOrtify the Panama Canal, which
was built and paid for with good United
States dollars?
England is the bully of the world; her SOL
diers and sailors, take it from her, can whip
anything twice their weight and size The
conscious superiority, brag and buster Of the
average English person beats anything we
Americans were ever accused Of; and though
love the Dickens stories, can hardly APP
precate with affection the characteristic
British personality of the man who wrote
them and who could see little TO praise and
much to ridicule when he visited our hos
pitable land.
English gentry tolerate our wealthy snobs
and let them buy an occasional titled hus-
band or two, but only with condescension.
We are swfully raw, dOncherknow, but our
dollars are good, what?
England stops our ships on the high seas
to-day what few we have and is very high
and mighty in her dctatorial way as to their
disposition Nor do we hear much in the
way of protest from Washington.
Lest the writer of this be accused of pro-
German leanings, let it be said, though it
doesn't matter that he is all Yankee to the
fifth generation, and that he despises the
Prussian ego with its inhuman, uncivilized
methods, and that he considers the success Of
the Allies to be world necessity; but where
is British efficiency (?) that can find no way
TO counteract German submarine Get
there? How about that Queen of the Seas
navy?
BLOOD is thicker than water" but "pish"
and several "tushes" on our Yankee blood
being British. We are old enough to walk
unaded l should venture a guess that our
parent British blood was pretty well diluted
with several other kinds. 1t seems to me
that when our forebears fought for country
they could call their own they cut loose from
foreign blood entangements.
Let's be United States and bestow our
sympathes where We please, in the meantime
cutting out all Organized fapdoodle and get
busy terrifying ourselves against foreign ag-
gression from whatever source, quit making
phrases and bandying words and looking for
help from politicians, mealy mouthed, sancti-
monious vote watchers. Get busy, you Wash
ington! This country is no ine-right-for-
rulers proposition. You were put there be-
cause you claimed you we're capable of doing
the work you are paid to do. You worked
hard to get the job and the people who took
you at your own valuation now ask you to
show your worth. Otherwise they will get
some one who can. A. N. r.
New York, July 2, 1915.