The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-06-28

don behind. the traveller upon the decl
or an English ship finds the union jack
flying at Gibraltar. even as it flies al
Malta and the cliffs of Cyprus, Off Italy
and Greece The first object that
greets his eyes as he approaches Egypt
is the English flag, and, leaving the
Red sea behind. that flag Is the last
thing seen rs he sairs across the Indian
ocean toward Bombay, the second larg-
est city I'm the English empire. Going
north i'm the shadow of the uimalayns,
he finds that flag the symbol OF safety,
peace and justice. Lingering amid the
ruStling palms OF Ceylon or crossing
the sea to Burma. with her ruby mines.
everywhere the traveller finds that flag
Turning SOuthward. he remembers the
great English colonies on the eastern
half of Afr lea ami thinks of the men
who are grading the track and laying
the railway ties from Alexandria AMI
Khartum straight through the heart OF
Africa to the southern cape. Out i'm
the middle of the ocean lies England'S
colony of Australia, bulking as large
as the United States, trimmed with
land that has forty inches of rainfall
per year. The first circle IS one of
wheat fields, II second circle of grazing
pasture while the interior is filed with
gold. Sapphir"S, opals and minera'
treasures. Soon his steamer touches at
New IcalIud. stops at the Gilbert Is
lands. the Fiji islands and Stcams from
port to port toward Vancouver, I'm Can
p1 * ,It ,n n x,-I,n
bin. lumber yard coal mine. iron re.
serve and fur depot. and not until the
traveller has left Newfoundland bc.
hind, with the memory of England's
great pulp mills. with her ships laden
with white paper. food for the London
presses, does hc comprehend England's
wealth through her colonies. that belt
the globe.
Why England Is Cosmopolitan.
I'ut Just in proportion as country
sends the lines of its trade and finance
ont into the ends of the earth is that
country truly cosmopolitan. Just be-
cause our own trade is between our
own states we are in Il sense provincial
England Incidentally exchanges goods
between Glasgow and Liverpool, but
essentially she trades with foreign
states. Some years ago, in n London
bank, l Witnessed transaction be-
tween the representative of an ASiatic
company and manufacturer i'm Eng
land. 1t 50 happened that the cable
rutran the sun. At noon the English
man madc his payment in the bank,
and the money by cahlcgrarl was paid
the company of the ASintic out in
Shanghai two hours before the contract
was made. Wonderful the central tcle-
phone Oilicc I'm our city, with wires rum
ming out to the towns of the north and
th" south, and to San Francisco on the
west, but tur more wonderful London,
aS the worlds financial center, with its
lines, financial and commercial, throl-
hing and pulSating with the thoughts of
th" mon who sit at that English center,
from which all business radiatcs. BY
this trade and finance England lives,
and for the sources of her life England
is fighting. When, therefore, Submn-
rinrs cut of England's ships the moth
erland will sfHrvc to death
England Called by Her Enemies Q
Land Pirate"
In the latest Indictment Of Great
Britain by one OF the bittcrcSt German
opponents England Is called the Gland
pirate" OF history. This assault Is
savage, for no weapon is overloOked
and no cpithct Is spared. Defending
Gcrmnny's attempt to seize Belgium,
north France and Poland, the author
calls the roll of the now colonies, SciZ-
cd recently by England. English troops,
he says, have lately taken possession
OF little province in the center of
Africa, extended their rule In Tibet
pushed into the hill country Of Pur-
mali, not to mention her movements In
Afghanistan. But certain considera-
tion should be remembered. 1t Is one
thug for tn" United States, alarmed
by the wars between the Sioux Indians
OF Dakota and the Indians OF Montana,
with endless maSSacres and scalp-
in"S, to force these Sioux Indians back
upon II reservation and compel them To
lead decent lives, ana it would he quite
another thing for the United States to
max" war upon Canada, law abiding
people, simply to satisfy the lust for
territory Again and again the United
States has hy force OF arms taken pos
session Of the lnnds OF savage Indian
tribes, but with what result? Witness
the Choctaw Indians. BY arms they
have been held upon their reservation
When SMALLPOX broke out our govern
m"nt sen: physicians and stayed the
rhvag"S OF the plague. When they de
Nc."p"d tuberculosis hospitals were
built. physicians and nurses maintained
When part Of their lands were sold
th" government invested their money
1nh they are today the richest people in
tn" world, averaging 100000 per indi
vidual. Can any foreign critic honestly
say that our progressive settlement OF
lands once held by savage Indians 1!
parallel TO Gcrmany's seizure OF Bel