The Pulaskian., 1918-07-19

all over the world makes for close
friendships. For the first time in the
history of the country we are lending
the great nations of the world vast
sums of money and we are fighting
side by side with a number of them.
Allies in warmly not Allies n
trade?
| Something less than 20 years ago
one of the most distinguished of Eng
fish statesmen of that period in
long interview with the late James R.
Keene, himself English born, dwelt
with enthusiasm upon the results of
an offensive and defensive trade al
lance between Great Britain and the
| United States. Mr.. Keene agreed
that such relations would be Utopfan,
but were absolutely impossible be-
cause of the attitude toward England
not only of Irish interests, but of the
strictly American born who had from
their school days based their senti-
ments toward the English on preju
dices resulting from the Revolution
and the War of 1912.
The statesman's theory was correct.
Such an alliance would have been in
vincible. And Mr.. Keene was right
the time was not ripe for its carrying
out
,, Everything is different now Old
scores have been wiped out and for
given; there is new race of Eng
lishmen and the people of the United
States, today, are as different from
the men of re and 1912 as could be
imagined, immigration has changed
the blood, but not the ideals as proved
by New York's Fourth of July parade
with more than 40 different nationali
ties enthusiastically participating
therein and numbering thousands.
These new peoples can and will do
new trade things.
French relations are, if anything,
morecordial than with the English
Scarcely a man or woman in America
who is not proud of France and proud
tc revive the memories of the re1a-
tions with her in the times of the
Revolution and enthusiastic over her
spirit in the war
Relations with Italy always close.
were made closer by the great Italian
immigration and the ease with which
those Latins were assimilated into our
popultion and became such valuable
citizens in one or two generations,
elevating themselves from the ranks
of labor to the realms of business.
These be our Allies IN warmly
mot after that conflict court partners
in business?
Probably no nation on earth has
been soblessed as this one, in thai,
isolated from the world. it could live
and live well, but every nation has
something that other nations want
either an exclusive national product
or food, or the best of manufactured
specialties. There is cooperation III
war; how much easier cooperation in
trade with peace. There is enough
to go around: there is trade enough
for everybody. Common sense cries
with loud voice for that kind of
trade alliance which would give to
the nation producing the best of any
one thing all, or the better part, of its
market in the world. The fruit of the
coming victory is the right to have a
world fit for free men to live in. Civ
en- that kind of world, and theliberty
to trade freely with everybody, why
not universal trade agreement
wherein the genius of each nation is
appreciated and recompensed?
The United States has the whip
bond to start with, because of its
overwhelming wealth and what is per
haps of more value in the end-it will
have the good will of most nations,
and that is an asset which cannot be
measured in dollars and cents, al
though doubtless much of it will in
the future, be cashed in. 1t will be