The New York herald., 1922-12-31


Barnes, with Hiram speaking French.
Boies Italian and Bill Dutch!
Add to the language difficulty the
idea that the interests of Pennsylvania
were the sovereign interests patriotic
men give their lives to maintain; that
around the determination OF the New
York Republican organization to main
tain dominant influence in the affairs
of the party were entwined all the sa-
credness OF national flag and national
song that the raisin growing and NOV
ing picture industries had been handed
down through generations OF Califor-
mans and were enshrined in noble. bis
toric monuments like the Cloth Hall' of
Ypres, redolent in every stone .of the
spirit Of some nationhood Think of a
national convention in those terms and
you will realize that when Hiram john
son disagrees with Bill Barnes Hiram
doesn't start a third party--he starts a
war, bloody war with all the horrors
of poison gas and air raids. and the
handiest men with the air bombs or the
poison gas called heroes one side of the
Rockies and hellions the other
We had one internecine example o.
that kind of disagreement and we got
over 1t because soon after hostilties the
same travelling man. speaking only one
and Philadelphia and the Associated
Press was sending the same news into
all newspaper offices that could afford
the telegraph. both North and South.
because Washington and John Adams
were common heritage of both sides,
and because New Bedford mill owners
could order New Orleans cotton in ver-
nacular familiar to both and get II
shipped by through rail if they wanted j
1t So
The reference to New Bedford. New
Orleans and railways provides another
striking example OF the difference be-
tween the politico-economic puzzle rs
seen on the old continent and on the
new. Bedford was making English cloth
and forming part of an economic unit
called England for centuries. Nearly a
months journey away. Orleans, in the
center of France. was great market
town and center of culture In an equally
self contained economic unit. The mer-
chants who might have traded between
the two were great adventurers. Ira
ditfon, national tradition, language.
patriotism developed in each irrespec-
tive OF the other. So strongly did it de-
velop in each place that 1t resisted
sporadic raids of political power from
either side. The English once had great
territories in France but French senti-
ment and a Maid of Orleans finally
drove them out. Even to-day holidaying
cockney lovers spoon in the shade of the
martello towers built along the south
coast of England to repel the invasion
of Napoleon.
All OF that grew up-and then came
the age of steam. Then came the
steamboat and the railway and Europe
began to be economically interdepen-
dent. But the tradition Of nationalism
was older than the tradition of inter-
national trade. St Paurs Cathedral
and its tombs of warrior heroes had a
firmer grip on the English heart than
the international house of Rothschild.
Who can say that had not the steamboat
come to the Mississippi had not the
Union Pacific thrust it's twin rails over
the prairies. We might not now have
been dealing with a French Louisiana
and Spanish California?
That is the real problem NJ. Gamer
lynx and his masters, the Prime Min
listers. have to solve when they meet.
VI. Camerlynk will listen to a speech in
English or French. or Italian or Ger
man. or Russian and then will rise
briskly I'm his place and swiftly. deftly,
surely translate ii without hesitation,
without appreciable loss of color from
one language to the other. The pro-
cedure of these conferences is usually
most pleasant. They are Invariably held
in pleasant places and whoever is host
takes every care of creature comforts.
There Is every reason for amiability.
But the chances of agreement by mutual
conciliation are more remote In such a
gathering as compared with a comfort