Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-13
London Evangelist Gives
Splendid Address On
"Anglo-American Friendship"
Before Large and Appreciative Audi
ence Sunday Afternoon at Penney
Memorial United Baptist Church.
Question of Paramount Interest
Discussed

Memorial United Baptist Church.
Question of Paramount Interest
Discussed
AS two mighty giants arising out
of the smoke Of the World War and
facing each other. American and Eng
land We're depicted in an Illuminating
and forceful address on the subject
''Anglo-American Friendship or Hands
Across the Sea" given by Rev. Will
liam G. Cooper, the London evangelist,
before an audience that filled the au-
ditorium Sunday afternoon at the
Penney Memorial church. The causes
Of bad feelings between these two ma
tons in the past, the changed world
and the new England with the corner
stone of it's foreign policy laid on
friendship with the United States,
the speaker dwelt upon in his dis
course and he held the close attention
Of his audience throughout.
In prefacing his remarks, Rev. Mr..
Cooper stated that he has profound
belief in the English-spcaking peo-
pies; that in politics he has always
been a Liberal, which party is never
in favor of any imperialism or auto
cratic rule on the part of England;
that he has lived long enough i'll the
United States to be able to study the
people; that he has met all classes of
people in this country and has be
come a great admirer of American
ideals.
The tremendous issue on which TIE
new world hangs is whether these
two great peoples are going to be
friends or foes. SO I ask you if the
jingoism of the yellow press is a
mark of sanity or insanity, said Mr..
Cooper. In this country there are pro-
fessonal trouble makers, stirring up
trouble and playing with politics. and
it is about time that the American
people should take steps against these
fanatics. William Randolph Hearst
and some high up in the Senate should
be told to go slow on what they are
doing, he declared.
If the Senate repudiates the treaty.
the disarmament conference is nun
and void and the nations of the world
Will We dlSNpuldSCu IIpll III Gil
deavors. This disarmament confer
ence is doing what the League of Ma
lions was expected to do. Nations
will be driven back to the old system
Of armament. Our prayer is that the
men in the Senate may have sense
enough to see that although the trea
ty is not ideal. it Is the best under
the circumstances.
The conditions Of the world before
the World War, the speaker described.
England then took America for grant
ed. They had had 100 years of peace
America was the great force in the
western world. America and Eng
land could we'll afford to ignore each
other as far as trouble was concerned
England was taken up with European
matters, with France and Germany
nearby and Germany getting ready for
war. The Balkan states were ready
to break out any minute. America
was new world, splendid in its isola-
ton and with It's vast undeveloped re-
sources.
Then came the war and its victori-
Gus conclusion for the Allies. Ger
many is crippled. France is crippled.
Austria Hungary is broken down.
Russia changed from an autocarcy to
Bolshevik. Italy is triumphant but
broken. The Balkans are paralyzed.
The newspaper stories are inadequate
to describe the conditions in Europe.
And out of the smoke Of the War
arose the two giants, England and
America.
England is better off financially and
materially and four times greater
than when it went into the war. These
two giants, England and America,
are the only two now that are capable
OF measuring swords. The speaker
declared that any talk of war between
America and Japan should be forgot
ten; should be left 20 the hotheads
who want to spread It in big type in
the yellow newspapers. There is only
one power that could possibly fight
America on anything like equal terms
and that is England.
The question is: Are they going to
be friends or foes? The causes Of
bad blood between these two coun-
tries were reviewed. There Is every
reason why these two giants should
get on together. They speak the
same tongue. but sometimes people
speaking different languages will I'M
derstand one another better. The
principles of government in the two
countries are the same, the speaker
pointed out, Notwithstanding beliefs
to the contrary. The King of Eng
land doesn't rule. The people elect
their owN representatives the same as
we do. There is only one point of
difference-the House Of Lords of
England. But the tendency Is to
make the House OF Lords an elective
body. There is no greater freedom
in America than in England.
That the 100 years of peace have
not been 100 years of harmony, Mr..
Cooper asserted. There were plenty
of reasons for war in that time, but
tie good sense Of the people of both
countries saw that 1t was better to