Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — Mr. Ross' Indiscretion. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Ross' Indiscretion.

In the interest of Anglo-Saxon solidarity it is greatly to be regretted that Mr. Ross, the English cashier of the Hongkong branch bank, at Manila, should have written to a friend in Australia giving his opinion of the American officials In the Philippines. Still more is it to be regretted that Mr. Ross’ friend should have given the letter to the South Australian Register for publication. In what he imagined to be the confidence of a private letter Mr. Ross gave his opinion of General MacArthur, Judge Taft, Admiral Remey and other Americans of high official position in Manila. Mr. Ross intimates that all the Englishmen in Manila are in a constant state of anguish at being forced to associate with the American functionaries, civil and military, of the islands. He declares that the Americans are "Impossible” socially. He feels very keenly the disagreeable necessity which compels refined and Intellectual subjects of the British crown to associate with vulgar "Yankees.” —Chicago Chronicle.