The Irish standard., 1920-06-19
CALLS U. S. "OUR
NEXT ENEMY"
Declares That ireland Is No Longer
Part of 1.-THE United kingdom."

The following Universal Service dis
patch appeared in the New York
American:
London, May 19.-Horatio Bottom
ley has another violent anti-American
TRADE in his weekly, John Bull, and
this time he vents his wrath particu-
larly on President Wilson. The title
of his attack is:
"Trouble Brewing with America
Our Next Enemy"
Bottomley attributes what he calls
the breach in Anglo-American rela-
tions to President Wilson's insane
ideals, which is but another name
for Yankee bluff" He is ready, he
says, ito accept the American hand
of friendship if given with copper
riveted guarantees that it is genuine"
He adds:
Every day is making it more mani
fest that President Wilson entertains
the most contemptuous regard for
Great Britain and France If Mr. Will
son is the difficulty-well, difficulties
are made to be removed"
The article also says:
cat the earnest solicitations of GER
tain people in high places have re-
Trained for some time from pursuing
the subject of the unsatisfactory situ-
alton between Britain and America,
but events have been marching rap
idly since l last wrote, and are, in
deed, proceeding in direction in no
sense favorable.
Americans are not all Wilson's and
Danielses. There are few stalwart
fellows like Sims, who has been stand
ing up for the old navy of the Old
Country with a courage and candor
worthy of the best British stock.
"Now, l say deliberately that just
as Ireland to all practical purposes has
ceased to be portion of the United
Kingdom, so America is no longer in
any 9ense our ally or, in the true
, meaning of the word, our friend.
every mail brings me complaints
from Englishmen in the United States
of intolerable insults and annoyances
they have to contend with. On two
occasions l have directed the atten-
tion of the Premier to the feting of de
Valera. was told the Government
does not propose to make representa-
tions to the United States Govern
MANY a great war has owed it's
| origin to much less aggravating
cause. In this connection, America
might to her advantage look up her
own history. Has she forgotten the
Alabama, for instance, and how, ow-
ing entirely to the generosity of Brit
ain, serious trouble was averted?
II wonder what would be said in
America if some ardent royalist in
England inaugurated a campaign for
the abolition of the American Repub-
lie and for placing a pretender on
throne at Washington, or started
national subscription for the purpose
of financing the Philippines to throw
off the American yoke?
WAS ever grosser insult offered
to the British army than President
Wilson's speech in March, 1919, in
which he said:
"'Until the advent of America in
the war the Allies armies were in.
spired by no high ideals and were
fighting with lowered heads?
"A contemptuous sneer at our navy1
has just been brought to light.
Il suppose this article will be char.
acterized as another outburst Of the
yellow press just as William Ran,
dolph Hearst, in New York, is sup
posed to be stirring up anti-British
feeling.
Il think, however. that it has been
clearly shown that Wilson and his
ministers are responsible for the whole
mischief. scan the horizon in vain
for sign Of solid, undying friendship
Instead, see braggard insolence swag-
gering unchecked through wastes of
mendacity-all steady proof of my
steady assertion that, at the bottom,