Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-03-26


our civilization and its benefits to an
| individual civilization, we must avoid
friction among ourselves and take q
united stand before the world. Only
common government will ensure
this"
Treason from American Lips.
The writer was peculiarly Impress
ed with the last sentence in the
passage quoted, and for a very ap-
parent reason. It was almost idcnti-
cal with the language employed by a
distinguished American editor and
diplomatist who represented the
United States at the Court OF ST.
James. | refer to the late Whitelaw
Reid. On July IL, 1902, Mr. Reid in
a speech. delivered in London dur
ing his ambassadorship, said:
THE time does visibly draw near
when solidarity of race, if not of gov
einmcnt, is to prevail"
The similarity OF sentiments ex-
pressed by two persons of different
race and speaking at an interval Of
twelve years must strike anyone as
deeply significant We have here an
agreement in that respect between
Cecil Rhodes. Sinclair Kennedy and
Whitelaw Reid. All three want a
common government over the Bri-
tannic nations aud the United States.
This policy has not been openly
cspoused in the New York Tribune,
whose destiny is now presided over
by Ogden Mills Reid, the former Ann
bassador's son, but that paper has
come as close to the matter as it
dares without laying itself open to
indictment for high treason His
sister is Lady Ward, wife Of the First
Equerry to His Britannia Majesty,
King George V.
1t is known that the millions left
by Cecil Rhodes for the express OBJ
iect Of tho ultimate recovery of the
United States OF America as an in
tegral part of the British Empire" :"
have been invested in such a manner
as TO carry out as secretly as posi-
bic the purpose for which they were
designed. Men may well stand APP
palled at the working OF the Rhodes
poison in the veins Of American life.
TO its fatal operation may be at
tributed the rise of societies to pro-
mote AngloSaxon brotherhood, Pill
grim societies, movements to cele-
brate the centenary of English and
American friendship (farcial as that
pretension is), the formation Of
peace treaties nominally most In
elusive, but in reality designed to be-
nefit Great Britain, and the gradual
elimination from our public school
histories of all reference to the ne
farious part played by England in
our history, English designs against
this country and sayagcry against its
citizens. as well AS all unpleasant
diplomatic events between us and
England that have been OF such fire.
Quent recurrence. TO this sinister
influence may be attributed the
movement to ignore the Fourth OF
July and substitute the Signing Of
the Magma Charta to be celebrated
by American youths as the true oIi-
gin of our independence, as purposed
by Andrew Carnegie in placards
which did, and possibly do yet, adorn
the walls of his free Libraries. In
the June number Of the North
American Review for 1893. Carnegie
employed the following significant
words
Let men say what they will;
, say that as surely as the sun in the
and America united, so surely Is It
one morning TO rise, shine upon and
greet again the reunited State--the
British-Amcrican Union"
Let rs recall that it was Lord
Bryce, the former British Ambas-
sador TO the UnitedStates, who advo-
Gated;
"The recognition OF common ci-
! ti2cnship. securing to the citizen Of
each, in the country of the other,
certain rights not enjoyed by
others"
Tho Rhodes Poison Working.
And that Lord Haldane in a
! speech in Canada some years ago
broadly limited at an ultimate union
OF the two countries. We find in
The Pan Angles" OF Mr. Kennedy
map of tho world in which Great
! Britain, Canada, Australia and the
| United States are represented in a
uniform color, to Illustrate their soli-
darity In the minds OF the Pan
! Angels the vision OF the great Cecil
! Rhodes, backed by his countless mil
lions. is approaching its realization.
; Rhodes held that divine ideals, on
which the progress OF mankind de-
! pended, were Tor the most part the
\ moving influence, IL not the cXclu-
sivc possession, OF the Anglo-Saxor
race, Of which Great Britain is tho
head" ("The Right Hon. Ccci
John Rhodes" by Sir Thos. e. T'ul-
ler, p. 2d3) Rhodes published will
OF July l. 1899. has a broad provi.
sion for his American propaganda ii
! paragraph 10 and whereas ! also
I desire to encourage and foster an ap
| probation OF the advantages which
/ implicitly believe viii result fron
! the union OF the Englisi-spcaking
people throughout the world, and tc
encourage in the students from The
United States Of North America who
I viii benefit from the Americai
Scholarships to be established at the
/ University OF Oxford under this mn
VIII, an attachment to the country
from which they have sprung" etc
Tho Rhodes campaign is bearing
| fruit Tho outbreak of the war fur
! nished The occasion While the Lon
don Zines, in March 1915, abandon
ed the hypocritical protoxt that Eng
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