America and England

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1680, 11 May 1885, Page 3

America and England

AMEBIC A CON-SIDE i;,S THE MOTHER COUNTRY Atji iRESbIVE. BUT HAS bTFuNO SYMPATHIES WITH HEP. NO I WITHSTANDING. Tl.e following article, which was recently published in the Arg-u aut, one cf the leading American weekly newspapers, will be read with interest, at the present time Whatever concerns England courins America, and wherever and whenever the English are engaged ;n war the Ame/ican cannot eland bv and lock on with icdirfcronce. "U cdo not mean to assert that our sympathies are in variably with England. for this would not be true ; wo know that England possesses all the important qualities that attend pride ami that invariably accompany the enjoyment of great power ; we know mar, a government, England is exacting and aggressive, caring but little if in her ambitions carter she tread? upon and crashes out the feebler powers that may stand in her way. lies has been illustrated in the wars of Englishmen all over the world ; thc-ir splendid achievements in Asia, winch enables England's Queen to hear the proud title cf Empress of India: their acquisitions in bi. utli Africa ; their war in Abyssinia: their ready use of open-mouthed cannon from their omnipresent navy, which is found in every harbour of everv sea where English trade is to be protected and English stiprern acy maintained. We know that the English are mercenary, grasping, ami unscrupulous ; they push their cominertc to the remotest bounds of earth, arid in enforcing their trade regard neither conscience, honour, nor humanity. Iho opium war in China illustrates our meaning, England is the pawn-shop of the world, and in the interest of its uncles in Eombard-str-’et, it sends its armies abroad to gather its coupons in the most distant lands. For,.this purpose the llotvei and chivalry or England are in the death -grapple with the Arab in the upper '.alleys of ’.lie Ado. Wo km w that England is hyp-oeriuca! and inwhich -he preached am! prayed, admonished and pleaded, was Ameiican

slavery. Her own emancipation of regr-’Ca in .Jamaica and elsewhere wa« constantly and offensively paraded as evidence*of the superior virtue of Kr.giishmen eter their degenerate and di-no'raimol su.s and daughters in America; an 1 yet, when the alterr.ativi was .-.tiered live millions of human bAngs evntluuing in bondage under tbo la-h "f the rna-ter, or free

tradt- uitfia liagment . f the American Kepubdo, i-nghind did not hesitate to preler the destruction and dismemberment of the American Union and the perpetuation of Atneiican slavery, in order that the manufacturers, merchants, and money-lenders might continue to enrich themselves from the sweat of millions in unpaid toil. We know that hugland, witii all her bluster, is prudent, and like our famous due;! st, f .'i.■;id iMcll ung, knows whose face to snap. She clears her docks for action, and burns the grass cottages of -san Juan with the display ot a marveilous courage; she s.uuis her marines t.. the inlets .4 South Africa, and her armies to Zuiuland, with the fearlessness of invincible daring ; she challenges Theodore of Abyssinia to the conduct of arms with all the confidence that Ivrupp guns and >| encer nties gain over flint mu--kets and knotted war-clubs in the Lands (.4 teebie savages, and. calls that a war, and knights its leader, in which no Fingiish soldier was hit with a bullet cr btuised with a club; and yet she is not too proud to apologise in diplomatic languages to the powerful nations, or to pay nineteen millions sterlings to America for the mistake of her proplmcy in reference to the destruction of our nationality. We love t" remember these things, and to up ia review whenever the di 3 ,: f her insolcneo provokes the reminiscence.

M e think when site id about to embroil her.-elf in war with some strong and tijiiai power tint our svnipalhr is with thecru n.v of Eng'and, but, when ever the death -d niggle comes, wo find ourselves, in pili- id everythin!:, sitlino with our mother ’laid we forget the early spankings site gave us, forgot that we ran attpv fr-iin homo, ati■ i iti the tu*.-lo to drag us back we thrashed tae venerable old indy aid tore her

cap-strings , v,e t-.rgel her invasion of. i 11 uv s .ii and the burning of mir capital i f irgot her in-oh-poe. hypocrite. am! ■ the in justice ot !vr at'amde during our ■ civil war, ami rmnoii.’jor, after all, that itiguind is the itiot.h‘-r-i.uu!, and tvlien- I ever she embroil? heme;; with a Mroiig antagonist our sympathies go e.v.t t.. i her ana iter fr.iv e .ii’inh;' natural! v, it’d j we real esi that *ne tu-s that Mid it* together are the ties ot libvd It I was so m the Rus-uin war We hung j up news to. iti the Crimea w it hj Cociv I h- art-throb beating ;u hope ot Eng ish I victov. We waited m si.em-e, lui'lu* : i ueh iiix’idy, tor the fall ot the Mala ■ loot, .it: i r«j-.icea wlicii .vba«t.>prd f<- i. I unde! toe a«>u t of Li.giisLb i’fiicii and i 1 li i 1 - a arl. . ■*, i iie slogo oi \ :ciis ourc i or itui stment of liiehinor.u scarce gave : i.s i.eepor ativ.rty or when dev >ui - ; rciiucrCii, _; r dalci' it S ' io VV, Cod cl it U:i, be ii f.C.g- ! dm. sirno Oid Li.At ihe li.'VpMUi embroe.n deve.ops iti to a loiig, d i s a s. t'\:u;. and Moray v.mr. Wo uiav criticise England's presence in that ; distant land, we may demand of her ; the cause of her presence in those far- ! away utsertd, engaged m the attempt »to drive the untamed barbarian frond Li» native land. We know their fi-ree ! courage, their untamed fanaticism We know that over tueui the Ebeuive cf Egypt has held bat a questioned suzerainty. We know how the English tax the toiling fellah of the IS He \ adey, and make him sweat great drops cf blood to pay unjust taxes exacted for the English bond-holder. M e wash the English armv were out of Egypt, that Gladstone were out of bid political complications. "We think

it would serve the b<ii.• i- : ■■Et iij’n to lose his principal a '1 intciail. But, all the same, the i ngiish army, under the leadership of English gentlemen, is in Egypt, with the hand of the uncivilised Arab at its (bioat, and our sympathy is with England—a feeling that will strengthen and deepen as the circle of fire glows closer around this devoted hand, if Gladstone's Ministry has blundered, we care not ; if 'Wolsoley is but a carpet knight, we care not. The tableau which presents itself to our imagination, and demands our sympathy, is the gallant Colonel Burnaby with Iris iron grasp upon the dead Arab’s throat, and the Arab’s spear piercing the breast of the murdered English gentlemen. Gentlemen sympathise with gentlemen, civilisation with civilisation. If is only barbarians, <! j-namitards, and blackguards who can find a place in their hearts for the wild and merciless Bedouin of the Arabian desert against the men of our own race, own language, and own civilisation. The sympathy of America is with England in this struggle ; and if it shall become complicated by rebellion in India, and invasion from Eussia, and assassination and incendiarism from Ireland, that sympathy will grew stronger and deeper as the struggle advances.