The Irish standard., 1919-09-20
IS the BRlTlsnERs SEE
the REUNITED STATES
The carneqie-Rhodes Dream Already
Realized, States a British
Secret Service Reports

In that exquisite satire entitled,
The Reconquest OF America tby Eng
land)" are to be found some trenchant
passages dealing with the abomina-
tions of England's misrule in Ireland
The following excerpts from this
confidential report" that is repre-
sented to have been prepared for the
eyes of Premier Lloyd George by a
British secret service spy in this coun-
try. deals with the "Re-U United States"
which was one of the pet projects of
Andrew Carnegie:
Has not America, while still main
tanning an outward show of independ-
ence, yielded to our wishes in the
Panama Canal Tolls and Canadian
Fisheries disputes-as was fitting and
filial? Was not America happy to
fight our war in Europe? Was not
America, like Canada, willing not only
to pay her own war expenses but also
to loan us money for ours? Was not
America, like Canada, content to seek
nothing in return for her war duty, so
long as the Motherland was completely
Unidentified in Egypt, and the rest of
Africa, in Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria,
and elsewhere? Was not America as
proud to be honored by knighthood, and
lesser titulary distinctions, as Canada
was; or rather more proud? Has not
President Wilson cancelled the big
navy program, and dutifully conceded
to us the command of the sea, conf
dent that we shall defend America
against all future foes that may threat
en- our supremacy, just as we defended
America and Canada against Ger
many?
I'm matters lingual, legal and finan-
cial; fiscal, commercial, social, evan
gelical, administrative, martial, naval,
educational-are not in all these mat
ters the established relations of Amer
lea to England, in kind-if not yet
precisely in degree-identical with the
relation of the other colonies and do
minions to the Crown? Indeed,
might justifiably sustain the thesis
that this soi.disant American repub-
lie is now more happily and more
closely bound to the Empire, than are,
for example, the ungrateful and in
solent colonies which lately were the
Boer Republics.
"As long as President Wilson, with
our Canadian-born Secretary of the
Interior, Mr.. Franklin Lane, with our
Scotch-born Secretary of Labor Mr. w.
B. Wilson, and with our London-born
Mr.. Samuel Gompers, controls the Ad-
|ministration, Imperial unity will daily
grow more intimate and more perfect
But l regret to inform you that our
Committee on American Elections has
reported (Appendix 3s) that no mat
ter how lavishly we finance the next
election, the Wilson Administration
will then pass, and with it, perchance,
that absolute administrative control
over the Legislature, which has meant
so much to us.
"Wilful, wanton and wicked men
will unite in the next election with
Labor and those industrialists whose
prOfit-patriotism ratio has been all
lowed to fall below the threshold of
loyalty to Imperial unity. These COM
bined forces of disorder will seek to
elect Legislature which will attempt
to make the Administration responsi-
BILE to it, instead of to us and our
auxiliaries, and will strive to rend the
bonds which bind this colony to the.
Motherland, for the sole, selfish and
seditious purpose of erecting sepa-
rate, national, economic unit, independ
ent of us-and even, perhaps, compet-
ing with u.s.