The Washington herald., 1921-08-07
English-American Differences.

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to create a tradition of friendship between two
peoples wholly unlike for example the French and the
Americans than in the of peoples which have many of
the characteristics but at the same time irritating
differences. This is not theory but il is an interesting
and the discussion Of certain characteristics mani
fesations of national character which Engishmen do
not understand is worth considering.
In the first place Americans have profound reverence
for the past although they convinced that it the
English who dominated by that consideration On this
subject this observer says
ln all the debates of and peace in the distractions
amidst which we have lived during these years. what
Englishman has been heard dead ruler or
statesman as authority to be obeyed or to cite any
words of his holy wrta Not one of course the ques
tion is almost laughabe The who in Parliament
newspaper, should quote Cromwell Wellington, Pitt
or Gladstone, a prophet who had proclaimed the
right policy for Britain, had laid down principle of
action for the nation to apply in perpetuty would be
curiosity. You would look upon him smpIeton More
than that what English voter today could repeat single
oracular saying of the of old? But think what is
in Amerca The President in his inaugural Speech spoke
of the founding fathers divnely inspired, and he
seemed to mean it, The words of these Cor of
of them for Thomas Jefferson the greatest the first advo
cate Of AngloAm cooperation present in the
shadow and two of later date continue make
history. Who or what, destroyed Woodrow Wilson and
the policy which the world identified with him? Was it
Mr. Harding Senators Lodge and Johnson? 1t was not
Wilson was beaten in 1907, when George Washington
penned his phrase about 'enanglng alliances If you
doubted this during the aA election there was need to
go beyond the first batch of 'drmmers in the Pullman
smoker. George Washington was quite modern enough
for them To the English inquirer appears simply that
the average American has carried the habit of bboatry
into citizenship He has submitted his political mind
the past His thinking the fundamentals has been done
for him for all. He fights the Boshevist with the
conceptions OF liberty and private property bequeahed to
him by the fathers His world was created between
I776 and 1880"
THERE is another striking difference between the
English habit of federation and the American ideas
concerning freedom in matters of opinion, teaching
and debate England this writer declares assumes the
right of unorthodox minorities exist while America
holds that they should be ironed We have in our
modern history such examples of the mind in
action say, the raising of the Liberty loans and the
carrying of prohibition, while terrorist organization like
the Klu Kux Klan is still happily inconceivabe among u.s.
This characteristic is not regarded being the surface
confined any particular class or locality. The
Rouck White incident is given with this comment:
Truth tell this is very mild example of the treat
ment habtuay administered to the kind of called
in America radical He may be Liberal Socialist,
member Of the Industrial Workers of the World German
Russian organizer for the Farmers Partisan
League (Which has very conservative program of agraan
co-operaton) Or he may be anything almost that the
per citizen does not like cannot understand.
In he be prepared for dose Of the frontier
method, applied by who worship the memory of
Roosevelt and mostly members of the legion the Rotary
Club the church." .,,.
The writer of this article finds one conclusion which
be described and that is that matter how the
sentiment of America may be modified toward Germany,
France, England Russia the United States
today is the great conservative power of the world