PATRIOTS ALL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 84, 19 January 1928, Page 6

PATRIOTS ALL

ENGLISHMEN PRAISED. “PRESS AGENTS” FOR BRITAIN. Tfo* 'lrish Republic,’ a newspaper published! in Chicago, notorious for its consistent’ and most bitter attacks on everything British, prints a, long editorial in the current issue. The following extract (giving that paper’s candid opinion of the Englishman’s character)) will be of interest. “The patriotism of Englishmen and Englishwomen in other countries is a priceless asset for the Mother Country. No truly -patriotic subject of King : George wilJi ever renounce’ his allegiance to the Crown in order to bebome a citizen of the United States or of any other republic. Quite" the con. 1 - teary. # . “Now, for the quality) of patriotism, se, everyone must take o;L his hat to the ‘true-Born Englishmoii’ and to liis like-mindbd satellites in. the British dominions-. If every American would -be as proud of his country as the’average Englishman is prmfq of anything Englistp-we should meet no American apologists or defam-irs at' I homier abroad. AH' Englishmen are ’ volunteer press agents for Eng--1 land. )“Wheni an Englishman snugs-’ 1 bisa patriotic ditty, ‘Britons never, n-aVer will be slaves!’ be means every word of it, sot far as England is concerned. Can anyone imagine John Bull submitting: to an) alien rule P Not at all. He is too-patriotic for that, “No, there is no patriotism <ffl earth quite so dyed-in ihe-wool as is British patriotism. The cultured Englishmen of the world and bis charming wife, whose social qualities delight all - who meet them when they travel through this country, are as one with the Lancashire weaver and his working; wife who come over to our mill districts to ‘make a tidy bit of money to tafee home.” AH of them lead the conversation eventually to the superiority of England in all things and especially in the matter of the monarchial government system. And, to their credit be it recorded, not one in a thousand of these loyal lovers of British rule is a -paid prapagandist!”