PATRIOTS ALL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 6 January 1928, Page 7

PATRIOTS ALL

ENGLISHMEN PRAISED. ALL “PRESS AGENTS” FOR BRITAIN. The “Irish 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 will ever renounce his allegiance to the Crown in order to become a citizen of the United States or of any other republic. Quite the contrary. “Now, for the quality of patriotism, per se, everyone must take off his hat to 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 pround of anything English,, we should meet no American apologists or detainers at home or abroad. All Englishmen are volunteer press agents for England. “When an Englishman sings his patriotic ditty. ‘Britons never, never will be slaves I’ he means everp 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-iu-the-wool as is British patriotism. The cultured Englishman of the world and his charming wife, whose social qualities delight all who meet them when they travel through this country are as one with the Lancashire weaver and iiis working iyife who come over to our mill districts to ‘make a tidy bit of money to take home.’ All of them lead the conversation eventually to the superiority of England in nil 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 propagandise.’’