The sun., 1919-09-09
ny h. RUSSELL

by ID. RUSSELL
Of Halifax. N. g., Justice Of the Supreme
Court of Nova Scotia.
Written Especially for the Canadian
Section OF THE SUN.
In the very cordial invitation ad-
dressed to me by the manager Of the
Canadian department of The SUN there
are some sentences that deserve TO be
written in letters Of gold. How true
1t Is that ''the people of any one coun-
try know deplorably little about tie
people Of other countries, even those
countries that are very near neighbors."
and that while ignorance fosters mis-
understanding. i'll will and even wars.
proper information makes for esteem,
good will. peace and benefit to all con-
cernedr -
II all our Canadian people knew-as
| many OF them do and all should know
that the injuries suffered by the fore
fathers of some of them at the hands
of the revolutionaries of 1875 were the
work of a few desperate outlaws and
that the regular forces under Washing
ton on the one side and Howe on the
other conducted the war consistently
with the principles of humanity and
chivalry, in so far as those principles
.
the hundred years and more. that have
elapsed since those evil days would hot
have been required for the cxtingulsh-
ment of the bitter feelings engendered
by the fratricidal conflict.
II the people Of the United States on
the other hand. knew-as they should
have been taught in their public schools
and as they have been taught by the
wiser and more discriminating of their
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could be made by the loyalists of 1875
for the attitude which they then as
sumed, which was entirely analogous to
that of the loyal North In relation TO
the so-called rebels of 1860, they would
long years ago have learned to respect
and admire the impulse that prompted
those devoted patriots to the course
which honor and loyalty seemed to them
to dictate.
II these same Loyalists had known
as 1t seems to me they might have
known-that the struggle of the .Revolu.
tonary patriots OF 1875 was not at all
In It's inception a rebellion of the coll
onies against the mother country, but a
struggle Of the lovers Of freedom on both
SIDES OF the ocean against a despotic
ana stupid king, diseased with the no
ton of his own absolute sovereignty
and determined at all hazards and by
the practice OF the grossest corruption to
make himself absolutely supreme over
all the other governing powers of the
Commonwealth. they would have taken
the same friendly view OF the claims Of
the thirteen colonies as did Chatham
and Burke. To this view, voice has
been given in our own day by Lord
Derby and many other eminent British
statesmen, who are quite incapable of
giving expressions to views and feelings
that are not sincerely entertained.
A Few Books Worth Reading.
II an excellent correspondent OF mine
who is sound enough on almost all
great questions of public policy but who
has mo use for the English" and cam
not bring himself to think or speak of
England otherwise than in terms OF
bitter reproach--couId devote himself for
a few months to the story of his mother
land. as told by John Richard Green or
any competent British historian, he
would cease to be an Anglophobe and
run a great risk of becoming what is
almost equally offensive, an Angloma-
MAC. But in these days of stress and