PATRIOTS ALL

Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 19

PATRIOTS ALL

ENGLISHMEN PRAISED ALL “PRESS AGENTS” FOR BRITAIN. The ‘.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, j “The patriotism of Englishmen and Englishwomen in other countries is a I priceless asset for the Mother Country. (No truly patriotic subject of King I Georgo will ever renounce his allegi- | anco to the Crown in order to become a citizen of the United States or of any other republic. Quito the contrary. I “ Now. for the quality of patriotism, | per sc, everyone must take off his hat Ito the ‘ true-born Englishman ’ and .to his like-minded satellites in the British dominions. If every American ' would be as proud of his country as | the average Englishman is proud of i anything English, wo should meet no American apologists or defamers at | home or abroad. All Englishmen are j volunteer press agents for England. . “When an Englishman sings his ' patriotic ditty, 1 Britons never, never will be slaves!’ he means every word of it, so far as England is concerned. Can anyone imagine John Bull submitting to an alien rule? Not at all. He is too patriotic for that. “No, there is no patriotism on earth quite so dyed-in-the-wool as is British patriotism. Tho cultured Englishman of tho world and his charming wife, whose social qualities I delight all who meet them when they j travel through this country, are as | one with the Lancashire weaver and bis working wife who come oyer to our mill districts to ‘ make a tidy bit of money to take home.’ All of them lead the conversation eventually 4,0 the superiority of England in all things and especially in the matter of the monarcmal government system. And, j to their credit be it recorded, not one in a thousand of these loyal lovers of British rule is a paid propagandist!”