The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-08-02
BY Edward Marshall.

LONDON, july 0.-S1r IQOmaS L1pLOna
sat smiling in his splendid country
place near London. He has smiled con-
%tinuously since the United States en-
What made it hard for me- said the
world celebrated yachtsman, was the
fact that / am just about as much
American as British. So till the States
came in / was partly at war and partly
struggling wholly without success) to-
be benevolently neutral. The only rea-
Eon / am not a naturalized American
citizen is that there is SO slight a diff
ference between good Britons and good
Americans that to me it seemed foolish,
by becoming a voter in your country,
tic abandon my right to challenge for
the Amcrica's cup.
When l say that in these days / am
delighted to reflect because the United
States actually is in the war 4 am very
feebly voicing an emotion for the ex-
preston of which I find it difficult to-
choose adequate words
~ ave specialized in two things.
First of ALL am a merchants pur-
veyor of food. Well, the United States
is h greatest food purveyor in the
world. That makes me like her and
that makes nae glad hat she is in the
war. Second, | am a sportsman, and
In the United States I have found the
finest sportsmen in the world. That
makes me like her and makes me glad
that she is in the war.
1T pleases me to have a chance to
talk to my good friends. And the mes
sage that I especially would wish to
send to them may be summarized in
your own word hustle It's a fine word
and / know just what it means to those
who know as we'll as II do. I hope I
have made them hustle and / know
that they have made me hustle That
they have always hustled fastest gives
me courage and delight at this time, for
those who in building yachts and sail
ing them have been able to beat the
best boats and the best men / have
been able to get on this side surely will
be able to hustle fast enough to help
us beat the Huns in the great war.
Now is the time for you to show
your speed. My good friends in
America have joined us as competitors
in the greatest race the world ever has
known-the race of civilization against
barbarism, the race of craftsmanship
~ against H~nDnishness the race of liberty
against oppression.
Welcomed by Sir Thomas.
7 welcome you, to our side, as you
ever welcomed me to yours, and I am
proud and glad that we are sailors in
the same crew straining to win the
same great race-straining to win it
and, also. sure that we are going to
win IT.
Ills welcomes have been practical,
by the way. In great groups American
nurses, American doctors, American
soldiers, American sailors all have. been
entertained at his superb country place.
fine quality in Americans is that
they recognize hard facts" Sir Thomas
went on. They know, thank God, that
a successful war mean a war con-
Quoted with as few delays as possible.
They know that 100 men sent to us
today will be as valuable as 1000 men
sent to us IL months hence; they know
that ship launched today will be
of greater moment than a fleet launched
Is, months from now.
sOne Of the many things I trust i'm
pNcitly in5tthe American is his sense
of. values. You are a fast people,. I
have learned that to my cost. Some
times 7 have wished that you might
slow down for a bit. until I had lifted
the great, cup and got it safely to this
side; but now I'm praying that you
Won't slow down. Speed up! America!
Speed up!i That's the message of your
old. friend and one of your best wishers
Ton Upton!
I've seen your vessels in British
waters with their war paint on. It
did the sailors heart in me deep good.
More power to you! Some of US know
the magic work your sailors did the
first weell theyttWere i n action. Even
the general public, which for a, time
must get its news censored SO that
@ the enemy ma not find out too much,
knows that your sailor boys and the
good craft they sail in magically re-
duced5the5 sinl6ings by enemy subma-
inc within seven days of their ar
rival. 1t is impossible for this British
people to be- half grateful enough to
you for the marvellous results which
YOU have already accomplished-and
q won them in the Yankee way.
You have won them quickly. And you
have only just started.
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"Personally T have been sorry that
the good work Of the American fleet
has lot been more extensively made
public. But we shan't be unfair. Some
day the story will be told and it will
be told by Englishmen. They'll give
credit where it'ssdue. That's true Of
Englishmen. They play the game
We A~nglo-Sasons all and always play
the game-you on your side, we on
ours. One of the big things this war
may accomplish IS a thorough n
Outstanding of Americans by English
men. That has never existed. The
English are not enterprising. They
are MOI curious. They are great trav-
eiIers, but they travel in their w
great emnire. Most OF them feel slight
curiousity about America, while n of
the best traits in every American Is
his keen curiosity about England and
every other part OF the globe. II ex-
plains why . learn so muck nj are
80 wise. You come here by thousands,
but not many Englishmen go to YOU.
Ishope that after the war this will be
changed. The more Englishmen come
into contact with Americans the more
they will like them.
zone Of the most agreeable things
which + have got to look back upon is
h / rather early learned to know and
love America 1 learned, among other
things, that II you do an American q
good turn he will repay ycu a more
fold-or die in the attempt An Eng
lishman does rather well If he asks a
visiting American to lunch. An Ameri-
can feels that he is inhospitable II he
when the month is up the Engllsnman
home to stay a month with him-7and