The failding star Oroda & Kiwitka Counties Gazette Published. Daily. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1897. JOHN BULL AND UXCLL BAM.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 254, 1 May 1897, Page 2

The failding star Oroda & Kiwitka Counties Gazette Published. Daily. SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1897. JOHN BULL AND UXCLL BAM.

♦ Tt is very much the custom just now among the English people to profess the strongest feeliDgs of amity for the people of the United States of America, and we are confident that they do so in all sincerity. But we •liiestion whether that feeling is reciprocated. The incidents of the war of Independence and the atrocities then committed by the Indians, the allies of the British, have not been forgotten, and never will be while th' j y arc recapitulated over and over again in the text books of the schools. The very nanio of Washington is a reminder that England was an Piieuiy. Each popular history is one long inculcation, if not of dislike, at leabt of distrust und profound suspicion. A thoughiful writer on this subject said in the course of a series of letters dealing with this subject in the Daily Mail (London) '• We may call this country (I'.S.A. ) daughter, but it does not call us mother. We were a stepmother nt the best, and are no longer even that Mo>t families of pure English descent have been in this hvuiisphere so long that they have become American und nothing else. ] As for the Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, Italians, Poles, and Bohemians who make nearly half of the population, for instance of Chicago, and more than a quarter of the urban populatisn ■of the whole country — what cause have they to call us mother ? On the contrary they im - port the bitter continental jealousy of ! us, and here it finds a most congenial soil. The United States is not an old nation as imtious go, but after all it is old enough to stand for itself and to do without a mother. It wants no pap from us. The sooner we put that fancy out of our heads the better for our mutual understanding. We must be judged on our record in history, and on the showing of American school-books that record is as bad as it could be. There are many causes of anti British irritation. The States side ot the Great Lakes is fished out. As a consequence innumerable yachting parties that gather round the Thousand Island*, go over to fish on the Canadian shore. Many of these vessels are seized by the Canadians and the Stars and Stripes hauled down by the Canadian officials. Another J cause of mistrust and jealousy has

been the spasmodic attempts of the Engliuh Admiralty to fortify positions in the Western Hemisphere. At present the American Government pays 138,000,000 dollars a year to pensioners of the Civil war. As t!ie men die these pensions fall in at the rate of five to eight millions annually ; in twenty years or so the pension list will be a white sheet of paper. That meana over twenty six millions sterling a year, paid already for a military purpose, which can be diverted to armaments without a cent of extra taxation. In twenty years America will be easily able to turn out a dozen battleships a year without taking a cent out of anybody's pocket. And that means the naval supremacy of the world. Wo can honestly say that we regard the United Statos ns something more than a- mere foreign nation ; they havo no such feelins: towards us, but, on the contrary by reason of their rivid historical sense, are more disposed to see an cnotny in England than in any other nation. What tho writer thinks would settle all difficulties between John I'ull and T-r.cle [ Sam would be a war in which Britain and America in a just quarrel might tackle the world. After that wo should have no difficulty with America, for if tl-e Americans never forget uti injury, they would ever remember a servk-o."