Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-28
PUBLIC OPINION
"ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT EVENT

EDITOR EVENING NEWS:
A friend called my attention to an
editorial printed in the NEWS a few
days ago. entitled "A Significant
Event" which significant event was
the unwilling of a bust to George
Washington somewhere in England
which is said to be the home of his
ancestors. The writer of the article
tells us that the affair was attended
by great dignitaries of Great Bri-
tain (whose ancestors would hang
George is they could catch him) who
were proud to do honor to the man
who drove their forbears out of the
American colonies, and who later so
eloquently cautioned his countrymen
against n e%ntangling alliances with
them.
Then the writer goes on to lecture
us on our proness to stirring up
dead issues between north and south,
such as waving the bloody shirt,
just as if, instead of being a domes-
tic affair incidental to party politics
it had connection he IA trying to
describe. We are then told how alb
surd and abhorrent to be keeping up
old grievances between the two
great English speaking nations of
the earth" and "perpetually nursing
an old wrong which has long ago
been nighted;" but it hasn't; and,
furthermore. it isn't their nature TO
right anything except it is to their
own advantage to do so. We + told
also that the prevailing spirit
throughout the British empire is
that of the utmost friendship and
cooperation for the United States"
with England as the dominant
partner. Come into my parlor,"
said the spider to the fly.
The wrongs which England have
tried to inflict upon us and her jeal-
ousy of our progress as a nation
which has animated her from Colo
NAL days to this present moment
have ceased. and are as RAM
pant today although in another and
perhaps more intensified and insin-
uating form than they ever were.
We might. perhaps, consistent
with our greatness as a nation, be
magnanimous enough to condone
the past were it not for the fact that
we find her today as ever at her old
perfidy, to wit:
She is doing her utmost to con-
troll, to the disadvantage of Ameri-
can commerce., all foreign cable and
wireless communication.
She is attempting, automatically,
to isolate the United States among
the nations of the world, and to SOW,
especially in the lands directly con-
cerned, the seeds of war between
the United States and Japan, thus to
weaken one or both of her only re-
naming commercial rivals.
She is financing a propaganda now
going on through the United States
to weaken and destroy our foreign
m and merchant marine by
raising the cry of the little navy"
in this country while England is go
ing full speed ahead in naval con-
struction and increased marine pow
er.
She is attempting to monopolize
the worlds supply of petroleum
which, if successful, would place
Americas national commerce and
military future at the mercy of
Great Britain.
She is doing her utmost to have
her financial obligations to the
United States cancelled which. if
successful, would amount to a tax
on every American family of $3.50
and a gift to every family in Eng
land of $625.
She mas subsidized an anti-Amer-
lean propaganda particularly to re-
WIlle III bIIllSA l1Iltl ColS lilt S1liool
history text books in the United
States relative to the American Rev
olution which, if successful. would
destroy in one school generation our
children's pride of nationality.
That she is now engaged anono-
mously and very extensively, both In
this country and in Europe circu-
lating %atrocious ISLANDERS against our
fellow citizens, the Jews-a long
suffering and prosecuted race
which impugns their loyalty and
patriotism to the United States.
She is fostering opposition in the
United Congress and elsewhere
against the repeal of the Panama
Canal tolls act, which will allow the
American merchant marine a pref
renee over foreign vessels in the use
of his American canal built by its
men. money and brains.
These are a few of the crimes this
England is now actively engaged.
through her paid agents, in perpe-
trating against our peace, Il pro-
gress as a nation, and u individual
pursuit of happiness. Her ways or
accomplishing her purposes are the
ways of the murderous assassin and
thief, and when these fail she re-
sorts to the ways of the coward and
hypocrite. If you doubt this ask the
people of India, the Egyptian, the
people of the South African repub-
lies, the Afgans, consult the histori-
ans of the American Revolution, and
especially read the current history
of her barbarous treatment of the
people of Ireland where their bar
barity is carried on to such a degree
hat the very name of England Is
synonymous with barbarism and
perfidy and stinks in the nostrils of
the human race.
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