San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-18

as TO lndicate tney could control our
politics. Then too. the election came
in the midst of widespread unemploy-
ment and discomfort. Many of the
candidates appealing to the labor vote,
made the most extravagant promises
and impossible proposals. In that
way, they induced many hardheaded
British workers to vote for them. But
what is the result? These fellows
have not been able to make good. In
fact some of them have done most
ridiculous things. Hence the more in
telligent workers are utterly disgust
ed with them and the things they
stand for. apprehend in the next
election, the labor vote wiki not make
the showing it did in the last cleo
tions."
Enough Of War.
Mr.. Greenhill said the British peo-
pie were sick of war and that they
would stoutly oppose entering a war
of any kind except for defense.
81 believe in fact" said Mr.. Green
hill, "that il we could lift our little
Islands up and move them out into
the middle of the Atlantic ocean, we
would be heartily glad 10 do it. You
people over here are isolated some
what. You are not afflicted as we
are, with all the woes of Europe. But
remember we are only twenty miles
away from Europe and what they do
is mighty important to US. That's
why we have to shoulder lot Of
problems that really are not our own.
But ] find the average American /
have come in contact with. has n
mental habit o: aSsociating the Brit
ish Isles with Europe. We are no
more part of Europe in that sense
than America is. We're only twenty
miles away from Europe by water but
we are centuries away from Europe
in government. in political institu-
tons, in education. in business meth
DDS and many other ways. We are
far more closely united to you folks
over here in language. customs. ideals,
business methods, politics and YES
democracy, than with Europe. But
you people are away over here and
Europe is only twenty miles away
so you associate us with Europe. 1t
is unjust to us and We hope to break
down that barrier eventually. We
ought to have much closer relations
between America and England than
exist now. There is every reason
why we should have a better under
standing. We come to America and
We find much the same things we
| find at home. We go TO France and
! We find them century or so away
from us. We go to Germany and
we find them many centuries away
from us. And that is true of practi'
cally all Europe"
Doubtful About Debts.
Mr.. Greenhill made the astound-
ing statement that the British bust
ness men do not expect France or
any of the war debtors to pay their
bills to Britain.
"They may pay up in time" he
said, but as business proposition,
we do not figure on it. In making
our estimates, we consider that as
money gone. We do not list it as
an asset. Hence we have figured it
out of our reckonings and We are
| trying to work out Britian's prob
lens standing. as you might say, on
our own feet"
st. Andrews. where Mr.. Greenhill
lives, is the home of golf and in this
| connection, he said that sports more
than business, war or diplomacy were
1 uOing tue DcSl NOEk Ia iththihB an
barriers between America and Eng
land.
at is these contests between teams
| from America and from England that
| really show the people of the two
countries how close q relationship ex-
ists," he said. personally l hope to
! see more and more sports between
the two countries. That brings the
real people together and when they
rub elbows in that way. they rapidly
discover similarity of traits and
habits of thought. America has GER
tainly adopted golf. l have. played
on many of the courses over here in
Guiding those in san Antonio. OF
course your links are vastly different
from those have been accustomed
TO but they are good also and put a
fellow on his toes to keep his game
up. Your links here largely are for
what we call in England inland
GOLF Our chief golf links are by
the sea over there whereas your links
are chiefly far inland. The condi-
tions naturally are vastly different.
True. we have some inland courses
| also but / am not as accustomed to
playing them as those by the sea.
NO English BOlShevIStS.
America is a great country and
being far removed from the scene of
disturbances in Europe, you have an
opportunity to work out many prob
| lens that we can not escape so
easily. There is one thing, however,
which you can be assured of-Eng-
land never will 60 Bolshevistic. 1t
is absolutely contrary to all our
trad; ions. There is a lot of that
sort of stuff being preached over there
right now and it has made some
hesdway in certain groups of radi-
Gals but it never will interest the
big masses of our people for the rea-
| son that they know it is an illusion.
You see, our workers know they have
nothing to gain by it. What could
it give them, they haven't already
got? They have the vote just as you
have it over here? You are a long
distance from Russia but we are very
close to Russia. Conditions there are
most deplorable. Those poor people
have been reduced to starvation and
| utmost misery. Do not deceive your
self that the British workingman
doesn't know all about it. He has
seen the miserable failure of those
| doctrines in Russia and he doesn't
want that kind of thing in England.
For instance, we had police strike
not long ago. You didn't hear much
of it over here. Many of the police
men didn't report for duty one morn
| ing in uniform as customary. 1t
seems that in the after-war mess. we
forgot all about them. The poor fell
lows were drawing the same wage