The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-08-20
"You Tool" Says Eminent British Diplomat,
Pointing Polite Finger of Accusation at
Americans Who Feign an Air of Dislike
For Englands Imperialistic Policy

sador from the Court of St.
James to the United States,
did not suffer an interruption
of his summer vacation and
come all the way from the
charm and comforts of a gen.
tleman's estate in the cool New
Hampshire hills just to talk to
few thousand people on Roa-
noke Island this week, on the
occasion of the Virginia Dare
celebration. No.
The voice of Sir Esme speaking at
Roanoke Island Wednesday was the
voice OF England speaking to the
AnglO-Saxon heart Of the United
States OF America. Sir Esme's
message delivered at Roanoke Is
land was a message from England
to the United States and was laid
Oh the breakfast tables or millions
Of American homes yesterday thru
the medium Of the daily press.
In the polite and studied language
of the international dlplomatist Of
high rank that he Is, Sir Esme told
us Americans that the imperalistic
policy Of England which we In
America have been taught to deplore
and condemn Is distinctively Anglo
Saxon and AnglO-Saxons must sup
port each other In their characters
tic traits and enterprises. He COM
pared the c0urtly and romantic Sir
| Walter Raleigh whom We all prefer
to love to the brusque and business
like Cecil Rhodes whom we have
been taught to regard with suSpi-
cion, and insisted that Rhodes is en-
titled to the same high place in our
confidence and esteem that Sir
Walter has held these three centur-
ies and more.
And Sir Esme reminded us In his
polite diplomatic way that II we
didn't like the way England had
civilized parts of Africa and other
outlandish regions Of the world. we
should not forget that we had done
some civilizing on our own account
and had shown the American Indian
even less quarter than England had
ever shown any of the black. brown,
yellow or red races which she has
subdued.
But, If Sir Esme commended Eng
land and her empire builders for
the extent and magnitude Of their
civili2ing cpnIuests, he paid equally
respectful tribute to what he calls
the New Learning in political
economy which America Is spread
ing thruout the civilized world.
Numbers of your leaders in public
life, and industry he said, seem
to have realized before those In
other countries that the health and
happiness of the men who work In
your factories, in your mines, In
your great stores are as necessary
to the well-being and to the sus-
cessful prosecution Of business as
any other part Of it. You have
learnt the gospel Of high wages as
It has been called and you have ap-
piled 1t and shown the world that
, it works
Now read Sir Esme's speech else
where I'm this newspaper. To begin
. with. he was introduced by Con-
cressman Lindsay Warren.
Mr.. Warren Said:-
while the Nation is celebrating
its sesqui-centennial at Philadel-
phiu. we here today are going near
" two hundred years back Of that
event to pay tribute to the valor
and indomitable courage Of those
who made Nation possible. The
great historian. GOsse has said that
August 18th. 1885, the date of the
landing of the first colony, is in
truth the birthday Of the American
people.
"Upon this little island, the first
of the English, set their feet. built
their dwellings, sowed their crops
and performed their religious devo-
tions in the Western World. Upon
IT'S soil, landed the first English
woman who crossed the ocean to
find homes upon the newly dis
covered continent, and here was
born and christened the first Eng
liSh child who saw the light OF
day in the New World. Here the
customs, laws and language of Eng
lish were first transplanted and
struck their roots in the soil.
"The colonists, although never
lagain to see the shores OF the moth
er land rise from the sea, were still
bound to her by all the ties OF Ian
guage, friendship and blood. They
changed their climate, not their ar
fecttons. who crossed the sea-
That UnsoIved Mystery
NO record has come down to tell
us the story of their wanderings or
of their fate; whether the savag>
Concluded :, Deg. Pic