The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-02
A Britisher's View


A Britisher's View
We have been hearing a great deal about
British propaganda lately.
Here is q reaction to it from the other side,
as expressed by John Foster Fraser, in the
London Graphic:
''Of course it does not matter two boots
what think about America. But as many 100
per cent Americans have been telling British
ers the truth about themselves, a little reci
procity ought not to be out of place.
MY disadvantage is that, on and off, have
lived for only five or six years in the United
States. lack the keen penetration and crisp
intelligence Of alert Americans who make a
rush tour through the decadent lands east Of
the Atlantic, and then, on returning to their
home towns, give Illuminating interviews OH
What's Wrong with Europe
"The vibrant patriotism of Americans thrills
me. There is Senator Borah of Idaho be-
lieve chief of the foreign relations committee
in Congress-who boasts he has never been
abroad. and is not going abroad, because he
recognizes that coming in contact with alien
influences might, just conceivably, give a
tremor to the foundation on which his efful-
gent patriotism is built. No English states
man has the courage to make stand like that.
Really, do not know why any Americans
should allow themselves to be perturbed by
what stodgy-brained and presumably jealous
Europeans say about them. But they are
nervous and jumpy; some old roue of mon
archical country has designs on their sweet
democratic virgnity. And now Big Bill
Thompson, mayor of Chicago, has blurted out
what similarly educated countrymen of his
have been quietly thinking.
"Just now the world is called upon to wit
ness the dastardly behavior of little England
toward great and glorious republic with
A.
has sounded the tocsin, the clarion has rung,
the fiery cross has sped from Hoboken to
Hollywood, and all true Americans have been
called upon at $40 time, to rise in their mil
lions and save their country from being an
nexed to the British empire. Whatever the
COST King George shall not be allowed to set
up his capital in Chicago.
Though America is believed to have two
thirds of the gold of the world, a tremor seizeS
patriotic Americans whenever an Englishman
approaches, for he will have more gold in his
pouch for purposes Of bribery and corruption
and bribery and corruption is noxous for
>eign sin of which true Americans want to
know nothing. 1t is notorious that the Brit
ish ambassador has bags of gold to subvert the
loyalty of Congress-but so far congressman
have stood adamant against graft, rakeoffs
and subventions.
1--WE have done our worst to hinder brother
~ feeling between the United States and the
Latin republics on the American continent
We have been suggesting that the reason
republics of the United States do not like
Uncle Sam is because they resent his big
brother-w ith-the- big-stick attitude towards
them. The truth is that little republics like
Nicaragua would have fondled up to America,
like cat purring on being stroked, if it had
not been for our underhand propaganda.
I'm new school books, written SO that the
youth Of the United States shall know real his
tory, England will be taught where it gets
off, Of course there will be some sympathy
for the poor serfs in England who are down.
trodden by naughty lords and such anachron-
isms. But on our side it is not advisable to
extend any sympathy to America for the APP
palling amount of crime which surges over
that great land like devastating tornado.
That is none of our business.
1T is our go,d-weighted political propaganda
which makes millions Of Americans wake up in
the dead of night and SILVER lest the Union
Jack has been hoisted over the habitation of
the Elks or the headquarters of the Knights
of Pythias.
1T rends my heart to see huge land like
the United States being bullied and hood
'~:nked by small land like England. Not being
: member of the kings privy council, where
perhaps these plots against the United States
are Matched, admit my ignorance of the dark
designs to incorporate America within the
empire (which already outrageously embraces
one-quarter Of the habitable EARTH But be.
seech America not to CULVER, not to be down.
hearted