Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-05-18
THE TRUTH AS TO OUR HATED FOE

iunfriendly to the United States Nelth-
er the common people nor the otflclals
are unfriendly. l request any one who
challenges this statement to name his
man. | have had three years of con-
tact with some thousands of British,
from the premier to my newsdealer,
and I ask to know.
Who is unfriendly to America? Is Mr..
LLOYD George On the contrary, he is
la hearty admirer of Americans and
their institutions. Is the foreign office
group, past or present? Is Lord Robert
Cecil, viscount Grey, Mr.. Balfour, Lord
Eustace Percy, Hubert Montgomery,
Godfrey Butler? Precisely teh opposite
is true.
Is Dr. Fisher, the minister of educa-
ticn?
Are the well known men in charge of
government administration? Is Sir
ARTHUR Lee, with the American wife?
is Beerbolum Rowntree, contributor to
"The Survey?
Are the great representative news
papers unfriendly? Lord Northcliffe
is VIGOROUSLY pro-American. He has
\ long impressed me as rather more fav-
orable to American methods than to
! British methods. THE Manchester
Guardian the most powerful PROVING
isl organ in Great Britain, is almost
( lyrically friendly. THE Westminster
Gabette," Gardeners Daily News" and
THE Chronicle" are pro-American. The
1.-TWO most influential weeklies, 1.-The Ma
ton" and 1.-The Spectator" are close
students of American affairs. 'The
Nation" regards America as the hope
of distracted world. Gilbert Chess
terton and his New Witness" are in
variably friendly, even when sorely
S tried.
e The largest Nonconformist church
4 in Britain has recently selected its
minister from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The Nonconformists papers like The
British Weekly and THE Christian
7 Commonwealth" have expressed an
, undiluted friendliness toward the
United States for many years.
When we turn to the more pro-
: nounced radicals, the evidence is equal
ly convincing. Trevelyan, Ponsonby,
/ Philip Snowden, Mary Macarthur,
!, Ramsay. Macdonald, Henry Nevinson,
George Lansbury, Bertrand Russell and
n. H. Brailsford are unwearied in their
insistence on good will between the
two democracies
: The radical press-"The Labour
Leader" the Herald" THE Woman's
Dreadnought," THE Woman Worker"
and dozen more-are constant in
their references to the democratic
movement in our country
> Is it the Church of England that dis
trusts us? Who has shown it? Did
Canon Farrar in sharing his pulpit
with Philip Brooks? Did the Bishop of
London on his New York visit? Are
Dean Weldon Scott Holland and Boyd
Carpeter the guilty men?
The famous writer's line up in I'M
wavering formation-H. G. Wells, Ar
mold Bennett, May Sinclair, Laurence
e Binyon and as many more as the an
biologist has space to insert.
One pauses in wonder to ask where
4 lies the basis for our rather widespread
/, belief that England looks with Cold
aloofness on the American common
wealth. Will the doubters name tht
: man or the paper that speaks or writes
t IN any terms but those of kindness OF
Americans, America and Americanin.
2 situations?
0 1t is possible to dump the total Brit.
ish i'll will in one small sack. 1t is
found in Leo Makes and his "Nationa
] Review" and The Saturday Review.
: These organs, of small influence, rep
t resent that portion of Britain that is
+ visibly dying. They represent the de
u termined haters of democracy in every