PLAIN SPEAKING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 140, 21 May 1883, Page 2

PLAIN SPEAKING.

On the subject of American sympathy with Irish sedition and crime, tbe San Francisco News Letter remarks :— " Temporarily the exigencies of politics cause us to pander to the Irish vote. We know that Great Britain is m no present need of our open and avowed sympathies, much leas of our active assistance. But let circumstances change, let dire disasters and danger threaten the land of our forefathers, and forthwith it will be speedily seen that the vast majority of us are far from uamindful of our Anglo-Saxon origin . The tight little island from which we sprang would not m an hour of teal distress want for a dollar, or a man to fi^ht for her, so long as AmericAn»born sons of British fires had the wherewithal to help. Meanwhile, as no such necessity exists, and as our local politics are peculiar, we^. pat Paddy on the back, coax him into voting as we may happen to want him to, and fool with and cajole him to the top of his bent; but he who lis deceived into supposing that such signs indicate the true feeling of Americans towards the old country, has never measured their pride m being sharers m the glories of the raGe from whichthey sprang ; has never studied the history of the longevity of the ieeling which, m all lands, springs from race affiliation, and, m a word, does not realise how much thicker blood is than water. The English language, the English commercial instinct, and the English of fair play, of good morals, of r ligious faith, and oi true liberty, will conquey the world, and live !or ever, and perish the day when Americano fail to realise that they are equal partakers m the glories of that universal conquest. That day^ we are persuaded,' will never come."