The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-21
THE IMPERIALIsT OF THE WORLD

ogood many people first and last have
written Tho world to cxpress their regret at
Its anti-English policy. Tho charge that The
World Is anti English has never been well
founded. Nor is It. The world has been. is
and will continue to be, intensely pro-Unted
States.
That expresses everything. Because OF that,
and because OF It's profound conviction that the
English government, an always has never ceased
to press Its world d-imperiaIism wherever possi-
BILE, we have been In opposition to England.
There we stand and there we shall continue to
stand. Justified In our position. too. by the
current events OF our time.
There Ia no gainsaying the fact that Downing
street has to a very humiiiating extent wrapped
Washington about its fingers for the past sew
erai years We have not only pulled Downing
streets chcstnuts out Of the fire, but we have
walked into baited traps and been tho victims
OF tho cheapest and most questionable prac-
tices at the hand Of the English imperialis,s
These facts are coming to light with great
rapidly these days. At least a part OF our gov
ernment already realizes that England, In the
name Of fine altruism. has steadily been taxi
ing advantage OF the material interests of
America and In the cable hearings now being
conducted at Washington American nationalsts
prefer their charges.
II Germany committed crimes against our
nationhood in the things sho practiccd. and she
unquestonably did. what is to be said Of Britain
controlling the cables and opening the com
munications OF our nationals for the purpose OF
taking advantage of them In business transac-
tions with other nations?
And what of the arbitrary use she is making
OF the mandatory system under which despotic
control was given her OF vast stretches OF the
esrth's most productive surface, largely, let Il
again be said In shame. by the supreme repre-
sentative OF our own nation.
1t is not surprising therefore. that an open
break has at last occurred between American
oil men and tho oil impe rialists OF the British
empire. The wonder is that the opei brcaS
has been so long delayed fact that IL attrib
utaole only to the lamentable additional fact
that our own foreign office has been the i'm.
perialist's greatest advocate and aid.
Ne matter how pleasing 1t TO view tho
cordiality existing between the two countries 70,
time. It could never have been expected tc
continue. because 1t was constructed on the
menacing foundation OF English hypocrisy and
imperialistic intentions. which, in their realiza.
tion meant the subjugaton of tho United States
From the first England has viewed the rapid
rise OF the United States in commerce and II.
nance and world Influence with the greatest
jealousy and II has been the never lost sig ht of
aim OF her statesmen to at all costs regain her
oid-time hegemony of the world
1t is inevitable that American English rela
tions will become critical as 1t is inevitable that
we as people will always resent an insult and
siuse to be dictated to by any nation There
y no hostility to England in our attitude There
is nothing but in intense, burning pride and
confidence In our own nationhood and our abil-
ity to defend it against inporialis,ic aggrcssIons
whether they come from the east or the west.
The utter. absolute, indetensible hypocrisy of
English imperialism and her secret maobina-
tions with the imperialist OF the far east. con.
stitutes the gravest menace TO continued pcace
there is in the world today.