f Wtftg §Kg gtoli PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBOBNE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1890. JOHN BULL AND UNCLE JONATHAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7542, 24 January 1896, Page 2

f Wtftg §Kg gtoli PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBOBNE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1890. JOHN BULL AND UNCLE JONATHAN.

In Wednesday's issue we republished a report of an interview between a representative of the Christchurch Press and Mr P. S\ Cassidy, city editor of the New York Mercury. In the opinion of Mr Cassidy " there is in America a very widespread hatred of the English nation," and he gives as his reasons the lamentable occurrences at the time of the War of Independence over a century ago, and also the fact that many years after "Russia and France sympathised with the North in the struggle with the South, whilst England did just the opposite.' 1 If his first reason is a sound one, it is a remarkable circumstance that for over a hundred, years that alleged hatred ot England should not have led to countless disagreeable incidents between the two nations, and the facb that it has nob is presumptive evidence that the soreness engendered by the War of Independence has long since been forgotten. As to the second reason, that the Americana cherish a feeling of animosity towards us on account of "English sympathy with the South "■ at the time of the War of the Confederacy, it is remarkable that opinion was not shared by the late General U. S. Grant. A few years after the fall of the Confederacy the victorious American General visited England, the Continent, Palestine, and the East. He sailed from New York in the Indiana on 17th May, 1877, and after a voyage of eleven days reached Liverpool, where he received a groat ovation. On the day after ho landed at Liverpool he was entertained at a banquet in Manchester. Responding to the toast of his health, he said inter alia : —"As I have been aware for yeara of the great amount of your manufactures, many of which find their ultimate destination in my own country, so I am aware that the sentiments of the groat mass of the people of Manchester toent out in sympathy to that country during the mighty struggle in which it fell to my lot to take some humble part. The expressions of the people of Manchester nb the time of our great, trial incited within the hearts of my countrymen a feeling of friendship toward them distinct from that felt toward all England, and in thab spirit I accept, on the part of my country, the compliments paid me as its representative." We have italicised several words in order to show that shortly after the disastrous struggle between North and South the victorious Northern General did not entertain a feeling of hatred to England on account of her attitude, but actually denies that such a thing existed at the time. It is singular thab nearly twenty years after, the Americans should suddenly discover a reason for entertaining inamicable feelings towards us that was not advanced at the time when, if there was Jany ground for its being entertained, it suroly would have been ! Mr Cassidy professe3 to have given "accurate" information regarding the feeling of the American citizens towards England, but" his views are so entirely opposite to the Rev. C. H. Yatman's (an American evangelist now in Auckland) that we quote the reverend gentleman's opinion for -the information of our readers. In the course of an interview with a New Zealand Herald representative on the 7th inst, Mr Yatman said : — "There will never be war between England mid America, never ! There may be a difference of opinion about a doctrine that affects nations and boundary lines, but these two great English-speaking countries will never como to blows. The settlement of such questions will finally bo dealt with by counsel, and nob by cannon. I know my country and my countrymen, and I (ell you those who make for peace are moro than those who make for war. It is so in England and her colonies too. If it came to a pinch, I am sure both Premier and President would yield. Why should friends fight! and while there are many who think America is no friend to England, it is nob so. Americans quickly r&cognise worth. The enterprise and gc in them develope this faculty, and they know what the British Empire has done and is to the world. They know the worth of the noble woman who is the Queen of an Empire on which the sun never sets. We know England as a coloniaing nation, the greatest in the world, while America has all the soil she wants—seventy millions of people now on acres that will furnish homes and food for five hundred millions and not be crowded. By English capital we have built our railways and gone forward with business that otherwise would have boen at a standstill. England hna bought our bonds, and stands ready to buy more. Shu does not want to and will not tight us, and we don't witnt to find will not light hor. Do you think we are going to have an open f.unily row ? No, no ; thero niiiy hv a lilllo dispute, hut, no rupturo. I will tell you tiisotin-r tiling that will surely como, and this fuss miiy hasten it. England and America will make an allianco of peace, and by law establish an International Couic of Arbitration, to which nil questions of dispute shall go, and neither Premier or President who may only be at the head of the Government for a time, bo able to precipitate trouble by proclamation. This will relegate politics and a sennational press to the rear, and neither will be able to create what they now do, The Princp of Wales spoke wisely and well on this matter, and while we aro loyal to our President and ever will be, you will find from Windsor to White House there will ever bo an open road on which John Bull and Uncle Jonathan can walk, poking

each other in fun now and then, and the conversation will end in jicace and not powder. Let every man who speaks the English tongue — world-wide — declare for peace. And when there is a strain on friendship's cord stand hard by that Christian nations may be Christlike." Again, speaking in the Y.M.O.A. Rooms, Auckland, no later than the 16th inst,, he is reported in the Star to have said :— " As long as wo are alive there will never be war between these countries. I know that in America England is loved for what she is. Whilst the increasing blood relationships continue to multiply, there- will be an international relationship which is peace-abiding. And there is the greater bond that we are both English-speaking, and our interests are one. There are I straining times of friendship, as in social i or homo life, but there will be in the future a great international alliance between English-speaking nations, whose influenco will be for peace. A great international court of arbitration will be established, and no Premier or President will be able to precipitate his country in war." We do not regard either American evangelists or journalists as infallible, and judging from their wide difference of opinion on the Venezuelan question, the statements of both must be received cum gr<m& salts.