Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-11
ENGLAND SHARES PRIDE
in JULY 4th, SAYS GARVINl
Acting Together Two Nations Can Be
Mightiest Force for Good, Adds
. Noted London Editor.

Of workers across the Atiantic holu
4 shares in the concerns employing
them. They are members Of the cor.
POI ions and companies they serve,
/ II, .,ne big motor business 30 per
Icent of the employees are buying stock
on the installment plan. In another
business. investments Of Its workers
are enough to enable them to elect
q majority Of the board Of directors.
Looks Employer In Face.
This sort OF American worker Is q
1 man with a car. He feels himself to
be anything but a miserable wage
/ slave. He is not ashamed Of his
status. He looks his employer In the
his money by putting his back into
his job.
/ A real constructive revolution Is
progressing In America.
There is no possibility OF q solution
I'm Europe except on the same lines.
Socialist workingUen who win not
| try to make the best of the present
| system, vet cannot have the other. are
keeping their feet In the bog without
getting their heads to the stars.
Employers may be certain, on the
other hand. that, without a systematic
development Of high wages and part
nership on this side OF the Atlantic,
unwillingness, unrest, chronic hostil-
ity and recurrent strikes must con-
tfnue to injure the interests of capital
Higher output for higher wages. an
increasing partnership between CAPT
tai and labor in counsel and profits, to
make their interests the same-either
we shall pursue these purposes with
all our strength or the whole commun.
ity as well as both the economical
belligerents will continue to pay the
ruinous price of our present devastat-
ing antagonisnl.
Higher Wages Advised.
Either capital will have the vision
and courage to offer labor more and
more, or the profits of capital--assuf.
edly Of fixed capital-in this country
will be less and less.
In view of either event, the prob
lem Of Great Britain is complicated
and her choice must be decisive, In
all circumstances we must put first
our relations of kinship and friendship
with the United States. That is the
desire of our hearts, but 1t is also the
essence of right judgment. To that
cause, even our membership of the
League of Nations, while America re-
mains out of, 1t, always must be sub
ordinate. Nothing. but the most Inn
probable abuse OF its giant power by
the English speaking republic could
drive us the other way. IT must not
be. We are the only European race
which cannot be merely European
while We keep our present place in the
world
As Charles u said in effect, ..the
language III the soul 81 hi the world
there are nearly 100000, 200 OF Eng
Hsh-s speaking persons. A big ma iority
Of them are North American, and that
majority will increase. To maintain
political solidarity among those using
the chief world language Is bound to
become q decisive American concern,
as it already Is at bottom the strong.
est of British political sentiments.
Reasons for Friendship.
Sound policy is good foresight, said
the sage. Let us look forward and
measure carefully the coming condi-
tons. Why are the United States and
the British Empire going to be indis-
pensable to each other? We have
glanced over three half centuries OF
the United States, from IT'S to 1925.
The end OF the next half century
ought to see. the American people 200,-
600. 000 strong. We need not look SO
far. In another couple OF decades the
United States ought to reach easily
$50, 600. 900 Inhabitants To reckon
with progress on this scale is matter
of immediate politics. not of abstract
speculation. Twenty years soon pass
as history counts. and the politics lin.
able to see the obvious in that respect
can make no claim to craftsmanship
Now as American production and
consumption move surely on to still
more immense expansion the United
States, just like other societies, is
bound to enter more and more into
interconnection with the rest of the
world, this not only because of the
need of widening the market for man.
ufacture, but because OF the still more
vital need Of importing raw materials
In increasing bulk and variety for do
nestle use. Rubber is only one in.
stanee--though big one--but even
steel and the electric industries must
import from abroad part OF their
rarer metallic elements.
The second lesson is political but
It is Of SURPRISING importance. Amer
ica's Constitution plays no small part
in advancing Americas prosperity
Her great dead. as in no other coun-
try. still aid the living. That Consti-
tuition was deliberately framed with
deep reasoning and farsighted judg-
ment. What we call the British con-
stitution has been knocked about
haphazard without any sort OF
thoughtful rebuilding until It is now
rather q ruin than q structure.
Changes Not Easily Made.
Under the American system only
large and settled majority of the
whole people can alter the fundanen.
tai institutions OF the country. This
security promotes confidence and
enterprise. Among ourselves con-
slant sense Of political uncertainty
since the breakup of the old two-party
system has become factor seriously
adverse to all our practical interests
Another political contrast Is far
more vital and puts crucial question
to the Old World. Union makes
strength. On this Side OF the ocean
nothing but a United States OF Europe
could insure to the peoples forming
1T general wealth and SwelI-being
fully equal to the prosperity OF the
United States OF America
That Republic, covering half d con-
tinent, surrounds itself by tariff
wall. but the territory inside that wall
is larger than all Europe, including
Russia, and throughout that region
there is free trade between the States
and an absolute assurances of peace.
Europeans have none but them
selves to blame for their present alb.
jectly inferior conditions In respect OF
wealth. power and confidence. With
open eyes they chose what they have.
Nati0nalism Is Blamed.
BY exaggerating their nationaIisnas
they depress their lives. They multi
ply their customs barriers and their
aranamentsa and they are always think.
pei them IN fear and honor to murder
each other. US
The fetish Of exaggerated national
ism and racfalisn1 even Iii the rettiest
states. Ia the hurt III all the great