Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-02-14

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efforts of England that this was
prevented. AS it was, France re-
ceived more than half the United
states, while Spain received a
large portion of the remainder:
what was then Florida. But what
ever wrongs England committed,
there was no cause for lasting Bit
terness, and il is just as foolish
10 perpetuate the spirit OF hate be-
tween America and England as II
would be to perpetuate a spirit OF
hate, in which the causes were
much greater, between the north
and the south. growing out of the
civil war. Everybody now realizes
that the animosities growing out
of that struggle should be forgot
ten. Enmity can do nothing but
harm; friendship can accom- 'llSf
wonders in the development oil
our nation. NJ
Friendly'Feeling Grows.
We have had differences with
Great Britain and probably may
have again; but for more than a
century they have been settled by
peaceable means and the spirit has
steadily grown between the two
great branches of the English
speaking people. Great Britain on
many occasions has shown her
friendship for the United States.
Mr.. Talcott Williams, In an arti-
Gle in the American Review of
Reviews" under date of August,
1917, said:
when Admiral Dewey's
fleet was In Manila harbor in
1898, after taking the city, the
only fleet which did not salute
our flag was the fleet of the
German government. 1t was
heavier, gun for gun, than the
American; its attitude was so
threatening that the English
fleet, under Admiral Chiches-
ready to act. 1t was not the
last time English and Ameri-
can fleets were to act togeth-
err In defense of freedom. In
the judgment and on the au-
thority of one of the few of
those then on the ground and
still living who held high po-
sitions. no doubt existed in our
fleet, our army, or our civil
administrators, that the kais-
er's fleet had instructions to-
use any opportunity for ac-
ton"
The public men of Great Britain
have on many occasions expressed
their faith in and friendship for
the American people. Agitation in
America has prevented equal
frankness of expression on the
part of the American people,
Effect of Our Independence.
The great English historian in
his history of the English people,
in summing up the effect of Amer
lean independence, said:
But if the Bourbons over
rated their triumph in one
way, they immensely under
rated it in another. What
ever might be the importance
of American independence in
the history of England, it was
of unequaled moment in the
history of the world. If 1t
crippled for while the SUI
premacy of the English ma
ton. it founded a supremacy
of the English race. From
the hour OF American indie
pendence the life of the Eng
fish people has flowed not in
one current. but in two; and
while the older has shown
little signs of lessening, the
younger has fast risen to
greatness which has changed
the face of the world. In
1888 America was a nation
of 100000 inhabitants scat
tered thinly along the coast
of the Atlantic ocean 1t is
now q nation of 100000,
stretching over the whole
continent, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific In wealth and
material energy, as in num-
bers, it far surpasses the
mother country from which
it sprang. 1t is already the
main branch of the English
people; and in the days that
are at hand the main current
of that peoples history must
run along the channel, not of
the Thames or the Mersey,
but of the Hudson and the
Mississippi. But distinct as
these currents are, every year
proves more clearly that in
spirit the English people is
one. The distance that part
ed England from America
lessons every day. The ties
that unite them grow every
day stronger. The social and
political differences that
threatened a hundred years
ago to form an impossible
barrier between them grow
every day less. Against this
silent and inevitable drift of
things the spirit of narrow
isolation on either side the
Atlantic struggles in vain. 1t
is possible that the two
branches Of the English peo-
pie will remain forever sep
arate political existences. 1t
is likely enough that the
older of them may again
break in twain and that the
EngllSn people In the racine
may assert as distinct ma
tional life as the two English
peoples on either side of the
Atlantic. But the spirit, the
influence, of all these branch
es will remain one. And in
thus remaining one. before
half century is over. it will
change the face of the world.
AS 200,000,000 of Englishmen
fill the valley of the Missis-
sippi, as 100000 of En-
glishmen assert their lordship
over Australasia, this vast
power will tell through Brit
ain on the old world of Eu-
rope, whose nations will have
shrunk into insignificance be-
fore it. What the issues of
such worldwide change
may be. not even the widest
dreamer would dare to dream.
(, But one issue is inevitable.
In the centuries that lie be-
fore us, the primacy of the
WnyiH uri1l lie xyith tho Epp