Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — Toadyism and Nonsense. [ARTICLE]

Toadyism and Nonsense.

Some merchants of New York and London dined together a few days ago in London. There were noble lords to spout platitudes and once more were uttered the flat, insincere statements about English love of Americans, etc. “If England is ever attacked by a foreign combination she will find the United States fighting with her shoulder to shoulder.” “The English and Amsrlcans are brothers, and always have been." “There Is deep sympathy," etc., etc., etc. All rubbish, and of the sickliest sort If Germany should fight England there would not be an idea here of interfering. In the first place, the political influence of German-Americana would effectually choke off any idea of helping England, says the Chicago American. In the second place, those very American merchants who talk se glibly of love for England would be toe busy making money out of England's misfortune to bother about help-

ing her—ls once she went to war. One fact la plain and clear; It la this: The regulation Englishman dislikes the American. He used to despise him. Now he hates him—chiefly because the days of despising have gone by. In the very day of the lachrymose Anglo-American love feast the London Dally Mall expressed the real feeling of Englishmen toward Americans. Mr. Harmsworth's paper speaks of “Americans who desire to lull great Britain to sleep while they capture the British foreign markets." That is the gestuine British feeling—one of suspicion and dislike. And it is a pretty

sensible suspicion, too. We are trying to get their business away from them. We are trying to drive them out of all poslsble markets. The English race loves the American race at heart about as much as .the clothing man on one side of the street loves the more successful clothing man on the opposite side. As for our much-talked-about blood relationship, that Is all bokh. This race Is no English race. It is an American race, with Irish, German, French, Scandinavian, Slavonle and Italian blood —the good qualities of many races—boiled- down Into it It gets more from the fighting, thinking Scotchman than from all the English blood. The two races are just enough alike to dislike each other. The dog and the wolf hate each other. The horse has no more liking for the mule than has the American for the English, and a palaver between merchants trying to got a little money out of each other will not change human nature. Put that down.