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THE DEMOCRAT.
B. H. ADAMS, Publisher.
CAPE GIRARDEAU. - MISSOURI
UNCLE SAM'S PRIMER.
Of all t!.e letters In the book
The noted one, I guess.
Is now. and for awhile will be.
The crooked letter S.
S stands for Uncle Sam, you know.
That straight and stalwart man;
S stands for States and Statesmen, too.
Who legislate and plan.
S Rtands for Spain and Spanish war,
For Sailors, Ships, and Sea:
S stands for Suffering Cubans
This war has Set them free.
S stands for Senor Sagasta,
The ieadng man in Spain;
S stands for Charles D. Sigsbee,
The captain of the Maine.
S stands for Seamen, brave and strong,
Who'll fight until they die
S stands for Squadron, Sinking Ships,
Sabona, Sampson, Schley.
S stands for Shaffer, San Juan,
For Stormir.g. Shot, and Shell:
S stands for Sorrowing Spaniards,
When Santiago fell.
S stands for Sergeant, Staff, and Spy,
And lonely Sentinel;
S stands for Surgeons for the Sick,
Thus Serving country well.
S stands for the Surrendering
Of Santiago town:
S stands for the Suwanee Ship,
That Shot Spain's Standard down.
S stands for "V. S." Stars and Stripes,
That now o'er Morro wave;
S stands for Sturdy Soldier boys.
Who'd die that flag to Save.
S stands for Shouts of victory
That (-oho o'er our land:
S stands for Settlement with Spain,
'Tis hoped it's close at hand.
-Mrs. J. E. Ramey, in Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Si
I! A MOONLIGHT RIDE
I
ON AN ICEBERG.
By Ren J. Halsey.
-Copyright. It. 7
BOOM! Boom! A report like a can
non, or a park of artillery, rang
sharply out on the still air, and one
of the very highest peaks on the wall
f ice; was shivered into fragments,
lulling with a loud splash 400 feet into
the water below.
"I?y Jove! That was a .Tim Dandy!"
cried Harry Page, as he stood with
Dane Ilartniann on the deck of the
Queen, at anchor in Glacier bay, gaz
ing with glowing eyes upon the won
derful Muir Glacier.
Every few moments there would
come the sound of a sharp explosion,
or a sudden crash, and some monument
of snowy beauty would fall from the
icy wall like an avalanche of snow;
filling the air with a shower of pow
dery flakes, and tumble headlor.g into
the foam below, to drift with the tide
to the open sea, or to join its fellows
in the ice-rimmed bay, where they
gleamed with such beautiful rainbow
tints that the inlet had the appearance
of fairyland.
On hearing Ilarry's exclamation,
Dane drew a deep breath and then sur
reptitiously gave himself several hard
pinches to assure himself that he was
still in the land of the living, and not
in a world of dreams. But his doubts
upon the subject were suddenly
brought to an abrupt termination by
Harry giving him a sharp prod in the
back as he exclaimed: "Come, old
man, don't look so glum. One would
think you were frozen as stiff as yon
der ice wall."
At this moment the professor joined
the boys. His pale countenance, which
generally wore an expression of the
inmost plncidity, seemed unduly ruf
fled. His glasses had fallen from his
nose and were dangling in his beard.
0s he stared about him with a short
sighted glare, utterly oblivious of his
loss.
Tis wonderful! Sublime!" he mur
mured. "Boys," he continued, after a
pause, "it is a sight you will never see
again. Improve every moment "
But Hurry who had spent all his
spare seconds on the trip in counting
the number of times his uncle had re
peated that admonitory preface to a
len:rtisr lecture, on the advisibllity of
improving each sli'iiing moment, and
having arrived at the 340th count
broke in with "Why, Uncle Dick, where
are your glasses? You look as if you
had "been struck by a cyclone."
".Mv glasses!" nervously repeated
Prof. Deane, as he began to glare wild
lv about h.m in search of the missing
eyes; but at that moment Dane came
to the rescue and the professor was re
stored to his normal condition.
"Tell me, professor," inquired Dane,
after another long look at the mag
nificent spectacle before him, "who
first discovered this wonderful gla
cier?" "An old schoolmate of mine. Prof.
John Muir, state geologist of Califor
nia," replied Prof. Deane. "He was the
first white man to v.sit the glacier, and
tis said his first view of it was in 1S79,
from an Indian canoe."
At that moment there came a sharp
detonation, followed by a far away
rumbling sound.
"What is that rumbling-?" nsked
Dane, quickly. "It sounds like an
earthquake."
"It is the ice breaking away far back
In the mountain passes," replied Mr.
Deane.
Not long after, as the two boys were
standing on deck, their attention was
suddenly attracted to a. party of sail
ors who were being lowered over the
pide of the ship. Eager with the nov
elty of their surroundings, and wide
awake to each new phase of the scene,
the boys rushed quickly to the side of
the steamer, w here they perceived two
lioats, manned with sailors, who were
armed with pickaxes and hatchets,
hnbhim? ud and down on the waves.
"What are they going to do?" asked
Harry, curiously, of a good-natured
looking tar, who was hauling up along
rope while calling: "Steady as ye go,
now!" in sort of a sing-song sailor
fashion, that quite won the boy's ad
miration. "There's a fair wind aft to-night and
we'll soon be under sailing orders, so
the men are off to cut ice down the
bay," replied the man.
For some time the lads stood and
watched the sailors slide up and down
the rope, until at length Harry cried;
"Come, Dane, let's swing down and go
with the sailors to see the fun."
"The professor might object and
then there would be a row," replied
Dane, dubiously, although as much in
clined to see the sport as his friend.
"Oh, Uncle Dick won't care. We
can't come to grief, and he's too busy
talking with the senator to mind what
we are up to."
"All right! It's a go," called out
Hairy a moment later, as he rejoined
his companion. "Uncle Dick's head is
buried in the clouds, and he's walking
on air. I don't believe he knew what
I was talking about, but he said we
could go."
Just before the boat dropped down
the bay a dark figure was seen to slide
swiftly down the rope, and, with a
hasty jump, land in the foremost boat.
It was Dane, who, a moment later, saw
Harry come flying down behind him
amid the loud hurrahs of the sailors,
and give a quick leap into the nearest
boat, the one in the rear. But it was
too late for Harry to rectify his mis
take, for the first boat had already
swung clear of her moorings, and with
a dip of the oars war skimming lightly
over the water to the sides of the bay.
A row of a couple of miles brought
the boat into a small cove, where sev
eral immense bodies of ice had
grouped themselves, apparently, into a
solid mass. Steering to a good-sized
rock of ice more free of dirt and stones
than its fellows, the men cleared off
the upper crust of snow that covered
it, and then began to chip off big,
sparkling blocks, which were quickly
landed in the bottom of the boat. For
some time Dane stood silently watch
ing the men, but presently he grabbed
a pickax and set to work as hard as
any of the sailors.
Suddenly a loud boom sounded in his
ear, followed by a terrible roaring
noise; he heard a sailor give a sharp
cry and looked up just in time to sec
a huge iceberg that had suddenly
broken from a mass of bergs nearby,
bearing down upon them with light
ning like speed. Horrified. Dane stared
wildly about him, realizing that in a
second's time their little boat would
be swamped, laden as she was with
stupendous blocks of ice.
Another moment and the iceberg
had st ruck the boat, but simultaneous
ly with the crash of shivering timber
Dane made a flying leap and landed in
a bed of snow on top of the moving
mass. But the bed of snow proved to
be a hard crust of ice, and a second
later the boy felt himself slipping off;
his feet were plready touching the
water, when, with a quick movement,
he grasped a spar of ice that pro
truded above his head. With a snap it
parted in his lrnd, and Dane felt that
his end had come. With a heart beat
ing like a sledge hammer, and his
breath coming in heavy gasps, he fran
tically attempted to clutch a jagged
rift of ice at his side.
Thank God! This time he succeeded,
for the ice held firm, and then slowly,
step by step, he finally managed to se
cure a firm foothold on the floating
iceberg.
Panting and thivering. for he had
been deluged with a showery spray
from the overturned boat, he gazed
about him, and perceived he was al
most imbedded behind a huge snow
bank that towered on top of the ice
berg, completely cutting off his view
of the capsized boat, and the steamer
in the distance beyond.
Frightened by his position, he ut
tered a loud shtut. hut in the booming
of the icebergs his cry was lost. He
then attempted to climb to the top of
the snowbank, but it was slippery
work, and when he finally gained the
top he was miles and miles away from
the steamer, wnich began to look like
a spec in the distance.
Again he railed aloiiil. but there was
tto answer; and his iceberg bore stead
ily on her course toward the open
sen; but he kept on shout ing tint il he
was utterly exhausted. He now be
gan to realize his peril, for undoubt
edly the sailors had failed to see his
flying leap, an-1 would report him
drowned, so all chance of rescue from
the ship would be gone. He would
swim to the shore, but as he glanced
about him he realized the Impossibility
of such a feat, for the iceberg, drift
ing with the tide, not only shot far
out from shore, but he would be
knocked senseless by the immense
bodies of floating ice in the bay.
The air, which had been warm and
balmy, now seemed to grow sharp and
cold, and then the long twilight glow
faded into the shades of night. Dimly
in the distance Dane could discern the
snowy hood of Mount Fairweather
looming to his right, while on his left
lay Skidmore island, encircled with
rows of floating icerocks, which
gleamed and sparkled in the moon's
rajs as she appeared above the hori
zon. It was a beautiful scene, and this the
boy dimly realized, even in the midt
of the horrible fate staring him in the
face. On and on the iceberg swiftly
sailed, until at length, tired and weary,
the boy must have fallen asleep; only
to awaken with a sudden start, to real
ire that he was drifting on an iceberg
on the open sea, surrounded by float
ing masses of ice that bumped and
crashed about him with heavy thuds.
But through the long, weary night,
the iceberg drifted steadily on, and
Dane's hope that he would be picked
up by some passing steamer began to
grow dim. If he could have steered
the berg into the channels through
which the steamer had passed on her
way to the bay, he felt there might
have been a chance for life, but once
out on the Pacific ocean, and he knew
there would be no hope.
Suddenly in the dim gray light of
early dawn he jumped to his feet. A
light! Alightl
With eyes almost starting out of his
head, he glared at the faint signal that
gleamed far away. Slowly, slowly the
dim light flickered, and then with a
sob Dane saw it was growing larger.
It was a ship and she was headed in
his direction.
Then the boy began to shout with all
his strength, until he was so exhausted
that only hoarse rasping sounds came
from his throat. At length, with a cry,
he pulled off his coat, and, tearing it
in pieces, with a match he found in his
pocket, he set it on fire.
A second later a bright flame shot
up across the water. Will they see his
signal?
Yes; thank God, for suddenly Dane
saw one of the lee boats sent adrift of
her gripes, and two sailors-sprang into
her, lowered to the sea. and now, with
strong, sweeping strokes of the oar,
the little boat shot over the dark
waters toward the boy.
Breathlessly Dane watched the boat;
the ceaseless lapping of the waves
against the iceberg the only sound that
struck his ear. And now the boy saw
a rope flung far over the heaving
waters. What was he to do? Swim,
yes; swim for his life.
With a muttered prayer to God to
give him strength Dane sprung into the
sea and disappeared; but a moment
later the sailors saw him heroically
struggling toward the rope. It was
hard work; a dead pull against wind
and tide; for there was a strong sea
on, and the boy's strength was weak
ened by his long fast.
But the rope seemed drifting farther
and farther away with the tide. A
ringing shout of encouragement from
the sailors reached his ear, and then
again the rope was flung across the
dark waves.
One more struggle, a few more
strokes and now with benumbed fin
gers and breath coming in choking
gasps, he seized the rope, felt the men
hauling him to the boat.
Two hours later, when he was able
to tell his story, he found he was on
a whaling ship, bound for Alaska; but
the kind captain soon turned the prow
of his vessel and headed for Sitka.
Three days later. Dane, with a cry
of joy, grasped the hand of the pro
fessor, who. in his delight at seeing the
boy alive, fairly robbed with joy.
And Harry well, the lucky rascal
was in the other boat, which managed
to steer clear of the floating iceberg.
But Dane, poor fellow! had met with
an experience which would last him a
lifetime, as many a bright moonlight
night he would s, waken, and for a mo
ment think he was on an icebergdrift
ing on the open sea.
INDIANS AS WAITERS.
Here la a Story Which Shows That It
Uoei ot Uo to tinarrel W lien
a Iluek In Servant.
"Apropos of Indians as waiters,''
said the social traveling man, "1 dare
say the students from Indian colltges
will do first-rate, but I have in mind a
time when it was tried in Nebraska iu
a small town on the Missouri bottoms,
and in a way that was not altogether
satisfactory to the guests who were
waited on."
"Were you one of them?" asked the
representative of a piano house.
"No, but I was at the little river tav
ern where it was tried. The girls had
all left for a new big hotel that was to
be opened in the next town, and the
landlord had to do the waiting him
self, and then he thought of the In
dians at the reservation and went and
hired four of them. They didn't get
around until breakfast was over the
next day an Indian doesn't have any
idea of time ar.d there was only one
man who hadn't eaten. He was a
drummer for a New York clothing
house, and the biggest growler iu six
teen counties.
" "You take his order. Jim, said the
landlord to the man he had been drill
ing. "Put this bill of fare under his
nose. gio him a glass of ice w at er. and
may the Lord have merry on your
soul.'
"Indians are not as slow as thej
seem, and this was one of the wick
edest burks on the reservation, lie
managed to get the order all right and
carried it in and serted it. and then
towel on arm. he stood at the back of
the guest's chair, as he had been in
Mrurtcd to do. But the drummer was
ugly, and swore a big round of oaths
that he would have no Indian in his.
"At that the grim statue at his back
whipped out a savage dirk from his
store of accoutrements, and, holding
it over the head of the grumbling
guest, he said, with consistent Indian
brevity, accentuated by a Choctaw
swear word: 'You eat.
"And eat he did, flesh and fowl, not
daring to move a muscle, while the
arm of fate held the murderous knife
within an inch of his visage. And it
was not until he had eaten everything
in sight that his dilemma was discov
ered and he was rescued in a state
verging on collapse.
"That particular guest was nevei
again heard to complain, but the trial
of Indians as waiters ended then and
there, their methods being quite too
original, or aboriginal, for practical
application." Chicago Times-Herald
At Last!
First Veteran I tell you these mod
ern improvements in long-range guns
and chilled-steel projectiles have made
war a good deal riskier than it was is
our day.
Second Veteran Yes; I see thai
somebody has invented a gun now
which, at a thousand yards, will go
clear through a small pocket Bible car
ried over a man's heart. Puck.
Ml MB.
The Proposed Anglo-American Al
liance and What It Would
Signify.
A SUBJECT OF PRESENT IMPORTANCE.
ddress Delivered by Charles A. Gardiner,
A.M., Ph.D., Counsel for the Elevat
ed Railroad of New York City, Before
the American Social Science Associa
tion at Saratoga. N. Y.
Saratoga, N. Y Aug. 31. The fol
lowing address on "The Proposed Anglo-American
Alliance" was delivered
before the American Social Science
association, at its annual meeting in
this city.by Charles A. Gardiner, AM-,
PH.D., of New York city.
The Adftrert.
The nations of the ancient world were
swept from existence one by one, by a
smitten ami terrible death. "In the back
ground of centuries," says Huso, "we see
these immense vessels, Babylon. Nineveh,
Tarsus, Thebes and Kume, sunk by the
territic blasts that blow from the mouths
of darkness." Mediaeval and motiern
states have lived longer, yet for 2.J
years death has claimed its victims with
ever-increasing fatality, and tribal and
Ftate entities are fewer to-day than ever
before. Intense concentration is the rule
of modern life. Steam and electricity
bave eliminated space and time, and the
world is now one-tenth as large as In
ls"0. Private rights are aggregated into
corporations and trusts; and strong na
tions, reflecting the spirit of the age, grow
larger and stronger until the nation and
the race become identical, while weak
states grow weaker, and die, or are ab
sorbed by the strong world powers.
In continental Europe and Asia, Russia
Is the only virile, invincible and increas
ing dominant power, and its domains are
practicahy coincident with the Slavic race;
in the western hemisphere the United
States is supreme, and in the rest of the
world Great Britain, two nations whose
territories embrace the Anglo-Saxon race.
These three nations, and two races, in the
ultimate analysis of human power, rule
the world. Thousands of miles from their
seats of government, on the other side of
the globe, they have met, face to face,
for the lirst time in history. For 2"0 years
Russia struggled to reach the open sea,
and to-day her flag floats over Port Ar
thur. England has been in the orient for
a century; and America now holds the
Philippines.
Shall it be America for Americans, seg
regation for the rest of the world, a pol
icy of isolation, and internal development
without external expansion? Or shall we
keep the Philippines, and enter the lists
with Bngland and Russia for the trade
and empire of the world? If the latter
course, shall we encourage alliances, or
shun them: contract offensive and de
fensive treaties, or avoid them? The an
swers to these questions are one, and are
not found in recent events, but in social,
economic and political forces, that have
been silently at work for centuries.
Russian aggression Is consistent and
Inexorable. A policy once formed is never
changed. Eight hundred years ago Rus
sia attacked Constantinople, and failed;
in the Crimean war she would have an
nihilated Turkey had not France and En
gland intervened; now with a part of Ar
menia in her possession, and Germany
and France at her side, she hopes to defy
England and absorb the rest of the Otto
man empire. For a hundred years she
has been acquiring portions of Persia, and
her protectorate to-day is so autocratic
over the balance that the shah is virtu
ally a Russian vassal. China, north and
east of Pekin, she claims as her sphere of
Inlluence, and she is now disputing with
England the sovereignty of the great cen
tral region. When it is realized that Si
beria borders the empire for 4.u) miles,
that Tartars and Moguls inhabit both
sides of an imaginary boundary, that
China is helpless, and that England, single-handed,
has confessed her impotence,
the probabilities are strong that northern,
eastern and a large part of central China
may pass under the rule of St. Peters
burg. Such is Russia to-day, and she hopes to
be in the future: a continuous, compact,
unconquerable domain, with a teeming
population of 50MMW.IXK) people through
whose veins will flow the Invincible viril
ity of Cossack, and Tartar and Slavic
blood; an empire of warriors, Asiatic in
spirit, born to fight, and whose only glory
Is in conquest: a nation that has Russian
ized every people it has conquered, until
the nation and race are identical, and
that race the one on the whole globe most
Inimical to every element of Anglo-American
civilization: differing from us in
language, literature, religion and govern
ment, and vigorously antagonistic to all
our conceptions of human rights and
human duties. This great power is op
posed to an Anglo-American alliance, and
to protect her interests has hastened to
Washington her ablest and most subtle
diplomat.
When the Chinese-Japanese war re
vealed China not only as a dying nation,
but even then as almost dead. England
sought to Induce Russia to abandon mil
itary occupation of the empire, and failed.
War was the alternative; but England
deprecated war because, as Mr. Cham
berlain said: "History shows us th:it un
less we are allied to some great military
power, as we were in the Crimean war,
we can not seriously oppose Russia." And
he admitteii: "it is impossible to overrate
thi gravity of the Issue. If the pol
icy of isolation is to be maintained in the
future, then the fate of the Chinese em
pire may be, hereafter, decided without
reference to our wishes and in defiance of
our interests."
Just as this peril seems to be culminat
ing, the portentous figure of the American
Republic, armed, al'-rt. victorious, rises
slowly up in the Philippines. Shall Amer
ica keep tho islands? This question lias be
come f iindnuieiital to the consideration of
an alliance. Without the Philippines, the
prejudices and environment of the past
might control discussion; but with them,
an alliance becomes the most important
problem of our new world relations.
It lias taken us nearly a century to
push our domain across the continent and
along 4,Cn) miles of the Pacific coast.
Hy conquest, annexation and purchase,
within a hundred years we have expand
ed our territory westward over 3.2To,iO0
cquare miles. We are now engaged In
pushing our coast line 2.U" miles farther
out, to Hawaii. We own the Aleutian is
lands, almost at the gates of Japan. In
Samoa we have nasal and coaling rights.
An island in the Ladrones will soon be
ours. Why turn back from the Philip
pines? It is objected that the Islands are extra
lerritorial and non-contiguous; but Porto
Rico is l,(Xi miles from Florida; Hawaii is
!,U"0 miles from San Francisco; the nerfr
fst point of Alaska Is 5o0, and Its farther
st point 1.60 miles from Seattle; and the
Aleutian Islands extend not only 2,400
miles from our borders, but into the geo
graphical system of another continent.
It is objected that military government
may have to be maintained for years,
contrary to the spirit of our institutions;
but military government existed In the
southern states from lv'6 to 1S70; and In
Alaska from 1SS7 to ISM. It is objected
that colonial or territorial government
may exist indefinitely, while statehood is
?ontemplated In the constitution; but
Alaska has been a territory for 31 years
and Arizona and New Mexico for 52. It
was 59 years before Wisconsin, and S3
years before Montana, became states. It
Is objected that the Inhabitants are alien
races habituated to other institutions
Jnd forms of government: but Florida
when acquired was peopled by Indians
and Spaniards; Louisiana by Spaniards,
French and negroes: alien races and in
stitutions existed in New Mexico and Ari
zona; and Alaska had Indians on the
Yukon and Russians in Sitka. It is ob
jected that we will abrogate the Monroe
doctrine; but that doctrine, freed from
its academic cobwebs, Is the non-intervention
of European powers In matters
relating to the American continent. That
has nothing to do with American Inter
vention In Asia, nor with legitimate ex
pansion of our territory in the orient. If
we are abrogating the doctrine, it must be
because the orient Is exclusively for
orientals, and not for English and Rus
sians and Germans and French and Hol
landers, who are all there now, and fast
appropriating; the orient to themselves.
Final Lr It la objected that we will be In
volved In entangling alliances, and depart
from the precepts of the farewell ad
dress: but Spain provoked continuous
trouble at our very doors for a hundred
years, Mexico and Central and South
America have had revolutions without
number. Great Britain bounds our terri
tory for thousands of miles; and yet for
a century we have avoided entangling
alliances, although both propinquity and
provocation existed.
The nations of Europe are to-day concen
trating their energies on the shores of
the Pacific. England pushed through the
Canadian railway to foster her Pacific
trade. Russia is building her trans-Siberian
road for the same purpose. Ger
many and France want ports and trading
areas. Of all the nations struggling for
the trade of the Pacitic, ours is the only
one naturally entitled to it. London and
Paris and Berlin and St. Petersburg are
on the other side of the globe, but we
have a Pacific coast line of 4.000mlles. The
Philippines mean our ultimate supremacy
In the Pacific. They are the easternmost
boundary of the markets of the east. On
one side Is China, on the other they look
across to our shores. Stretching 1.0UO
miles from north to south, and u0 from
east to west, they form a natural barrier
between the east and the Pacific. Scat
tered over 6UO.0W) spuare miles of the
ocean's surface, the whole vast area
would serve as an outpost from which to
protect and develop the interests of Amer-
Facing the Pacific and Indian oceans Is
more than half the population of the
globe. Excluding North America, the
foreign commerce of these people already
amounts to t2.5MO.OuO.uoo a year. History
shows that whatever nation controls this
commerce.controls the trade of the world.
The stake at Issue Is stupendous. Noth
ing less than an entire and undivided con
trol of the Philippines would give us a
base adequate to our needs. Manila
bay, or even Luzon, for a naval and coal
ing station would be too perilous and cost
ly a possession, with all the other is
lands partitioned and garrisoned by Eu
ropean powers. I,et England's experience
with India and China be a warning. In
dia conquered and governed, has a mine
of wealth. China, exploited through trad
ing posts, is a burden and a constant per
il. We want the Philippines, not Manila,
just as England to-day needs central Chi
na, and not simply Hong Kong. We own
the Philippines by right of conquest, no
other nation does; we are In possession,
no other nation is: we can maintain sta
ble government, Spain can not, and the
natives are incapable of self-rule. I can
conceive no reason to give away, or sell,
or lease, or abandon a single foot of terri
tory. It would be to lessen In that pro
portion the greatest opportunity Provi
dence ever placed before the nation. With
the Philippines, Ladrones, Samoa, and
Hawaii!, our possessions will reach
across the Pacific, and its commerce will
be ours pre-eminently; our territory will
bound it on two sides; our Islands will dot
its surface; and with the ocean and Its
trade In our possession, our political pre
dominance will be assured among the
nations of the world.
Such is the broad plane of International
relations, upon which alone it is wise to
discuss an Anglo-American alliance.
A formal, articulated alliance, in the
European acceptance of the term, and as
represented by its dreibunds and kaiser
bunds, is an artificial bond, arbitrary In
character, and essentially military in pur
pose. It implies constraint, disregards na
tional conscience, eliminatesnational judg
ment, and discourages Individuality of na
tional action. If defensive only, England
would defend us, and we would defend
England, against the world, irrespective
of past relations, present friendships or
future interests. If offensive and de
fensive, each would be a party to the
quarrels of the other, without theexerclse
of discretion or judgment. Such an alli
ance would Increase entanglements; inter
national Impartiality would be impossible;
each nation would be fettered and ham
pered; discussions of compensations and
advantages and equivalents would follow;
and friction and irritation would finally
degenerate Into open hostility. It was
against such alliances that Washington
warned us, and his advice Is sound to
day. We want none of them. We need
no alliances offensive and defensive; nor
permanent and comprehensive treaties.
More powerful than formally articulat
ed alliances and more enduring than writ
ten treaties, is the bond of interest and
sentiment that unites the two branches
of the Anglo-Saxon race. Next to giving
us the Philippines, the greatest blessing
of our late war was to rediscover En
gland and America to each other. The
two peoples, now for the lirst time In a
century, earnestly desire each other's
friendship. Not is this a sudden aspira
tion born of emergencies In the Spanish
American war, but the result, as we have
seen, of economic, political and radical
forces which have been silently at work
for centuries. The great unwritten and
natural laws, the laws higher than human
institutions, are asserting their suprem
acy and are drawing the eoples together
with an Impulse that no human power
can safely resist. That alliance Is even
now more than a theory. It Is fast be
coming an actuality; anr woe betide any
man or party that disregards that fact
and gets In front of an Inexorable racial
movement backed by 125,0u0,0u0enllghtened
sovereigns.
America contains to-day 75.000 000 of the
most ingenious. Intelligent and active pro
ducers in the world. Production is far ex
ceeding consumption. The result is that
we must find additional markets or cur
tail our products. Hence our Intense and
Increasing Interest In the world's com
merce, to which we gave scarcely a
thought when the country was young.
And wherever we go. In whatever direc
tion we expand our trade, there we find
Great Britain already established, main
taining open markets, forcing wide the
doors of commerce, and developing trade
Interests Identical with our own.
The area of England and her colonies
Is 1C.6C2.U73 square miles, more than four
and a half times the size of the United
States; and the population is 3t;i.S2i,M00.
These possessions, t are constantly In
creasing. In the past twelve years En
gland lias acquired 2.S0n,iw square miles,
more than twenty times the combined
area of the Philippines, Porto Ricoand Ha
waii; and all this territory is open to
America on practically the same terms
as to Great liritain. Even into remote
P.ritish possessions and markets, we are
pushing our commerce and discovering
untold possibilities. The African Cape
colony imports from P.ritish dominions,
aggregated last year .S.'i7'i.;;J: and near
ly three times larger than the imports
from any other country where those from
the United States, of Si3.lM.o71. Oar total
exports to Africa In lvs were only $3,oK.
0"i; but for the fiscal year ls'.iS, they were
over $17.t)-'.l"i. Ami in China, where En
gland single-handed is opposing Russia,
we pass through the doors she forces
open, and in her own sphere of influence,
comiete with her own merchants for
their local trade. Our commerce amounts
to one-seventh of all China's foreign
trade. Last year It was three times as
great as in IVio. four times as great as In
1M: so imt cent, greater than that of Ger
many, and second only to that of En
gland. In fact In England's own territory, as
well as in the ports held open by her
diplomacy and arms, we are her chief
rival. Our trade ranks second to her own,
and often aggregates more than the com
bined continental imports. And that trade
Is rapidly increasing, even more rapidly
than the phenomenal Increase in our gen
eral export trade, which last year was
twice that of 1!S. four times as much
as in IS6S. and seven times that of 1SC5.
And what the startling and incredible
aggregate result of this alliance of trade
interests? In 1N!7 our entire exports ag
gregated $l,uD0.uo0,0"i, and our exports to
the British dominions and spheres of in
fluence were alone nearly 60 per cent, of
that sum. During the same year our ex
ports to Germany and all German col
onies were ll.Si per cent., to France and
all French colonies 5.74 per cent., and to
Russia and her dominions .77 of one per
cent., of our export trade. In other words,
our British exports were 5 times as great
as our German, 10 times as great as our
French, and 75 times as great as our Rus
sian; 240 per cent, greater than our ex
ports to Germany. France and Russia
combined; and 50 per cent, more than our
exports-to all the rest of the world.
These facts need no comment. These es
tablish the corollary, however, that if you
necessarily curtail British territory or
British Influence, you necessarily curtail
American commerce. Our trade in the
orient Is now J35,0u0,000 per year, and un
der normal conditions it will soon be
J10C.OoO.Ouo. All along our Pacific coast
this new trade Impulse Is felt. Our- gen
eral Increase of exports last year was 17.2
per cent.; but while our Atlantic ports
increased 17.01. and our gulf ports 8.6 per
cent., the Increase of our Pacific ports
was no less than 25.7 per cent.
, All that trade Is now seriously men
aced by Russia and her allies In the east.
In the present anxious position of affairs
may we not greatly assist England? And
Incalculably benefit ourselves? What
right have we to stand supinely by and
let Great Britain fiaht eur trade battle T
Is It Just? I It becommr a great aitiont
What if unaided. Great Britain should
fail? When the trade interests of the two
nations are identical, as in China, and
those interests are imperilled, are not tem
porary trade alliances both justifiable ana
necessary?
Last November Austria's minister of
foreign affairs used this threatening lan
guage: "The peoples of Europe must
light shoulder to shoulder against the
common danger, and must arm them
selves for the struggle with all means at
their disposal." This "common danger"
and "struggle" refer to the American in
vasion of continental markets. If joint
action should follow Austria's advice,
would not a well-defined trade alliance
between England and America, against
Europe banded for the destruction of the
commerce and Industries of both, be jus
tified on every ground of self-interest and
self-preservatton? And If the united di
plomacy of Great Britain and America
should not avail with Russia and Germany
and France, to abolish prohibitive dis
crimination in Chinese ports, why should
not a trade alliance establish discrimina
tions against the commerce of those na
tions In. British and American ports?
We have a valuable export trade with
Germany and France: but so have they
with us. Besides, every European nation
except Russia, is largely dependent upon
our food products. Statistics show that
the slightest disturbance In our cereal
exports precipitates bread riots in more
than one European city. Europe Is af
fected by any emergency that isolates
her from our wheat fields; particularly
helpless would she be if cut off from the
territory dominated by Anglo-American
influence. Even Russia Is not independent,
for she Is often an importer of grain.
England, Ireland and Scotland grow
wheat enough to feed themselves for only
14 weeks. We furnish nearly ail the bal
ance. Usually the supply in the United
Kingdom, at any one time, will not last
two months, and often not one. So seri
ous Is England's situation, that the Yer
burgh committee recently advised as a
war measure ths permanent storage of
32.0uQ.utiu bushels. Each nation in Europe
is to-day more dependent on America
than on any one single nation. Hence, if
we make necessary trade alliances with
England, to protect our European.
Asiatic and African commerce, we can de
fy the rest of the world to do its worst;
and it can do nothing.
Another utilitarian basis for the alli
ance Is the maintenance of peace. The
attitude of the American power Is now
best described, not as anti-American, nor
even anti-British, but as broadly hostile
to the Anglo-Saxon race. They all dread
concerted Anglo-American action. And
England knows and America knows that
all the nations together could never stand
against It. Europe will Invite no' open
breach with two gigantic world powers,
conscious of their Innate strength and
elated by the recent victories of Ameri
can arms backed by the moral support of
England. But eace fosters trade, and
trade demands peace. In short, the em
pire Is peace. It means peace. It needs
peace; and the same Is true of the repub
lic. The interests of the two peoples In
and peace are common and supreme. A
mere determination for peace will Im
press It effectually wherever the power of
the race extends, and such a guarantee
of peace will go a long way to make war
Impossible to settle the affairs of the tw
nations In conformity with the principles
of natural justice.
An alliance between England and Amer
ica to adjust their controversies by means
of enlightened arbitration has already been
introduced into practical politics. The
time is opportune for its re-lntroductlon.
If the friendly sentiments at Westmin
ster and Washington should be promptly
utilized to enact a treaty of arbitration,
such an alliance would be justified on
every ground of common and reciprocal
Interests, would have the moral and po
litical support of both nations, and would
establish a most beneficent precedent for
the international adjustment of the af
fairs of mankind.
If war should give way to arbitration,
and under a peaceful primacy one race
should dominate, can we doubt for an In
stant that, irrespective of common inter
ests, common national sentiments would
compel united action and make the Saxon
supreme? It is not conceivable that En
gland or America would contemplate
with equanimity Slavic domination of the
world; a Russian world-language Instead
of our own tongue; the despotism of the
czar Instead of personal liberty, cherished
by our race even before Magna Charta.
The grandest thought of the century la
this convergence of the Anglo-Saxon
race. What more ennobling conception
can engage the attention of any associa
tion of scholars and thinkers? As citi
zens and individuals our duties ally us
with this beneficent movement. Let us
promote a unity already begun; let us en
courage the common interests and senti
ments of the nations: let us, so far as In
us lies, consummate In our day that alli
ance of kin predicted by the wise and
good of three generations, as the "noblest,
most beneficial, most powerful primary
ever presented to the heart and under
standing of man."
The Anglo-Saxon race occupies all the
lands, "fair to look upon," in Asia and
Africa and America and the isles of the
sea. It is 125,000.000 strong. It rules 310,
000.000 more. Within all Its borders,
human intelligence has the freest exer
cise, public conscience is the most power
ful, law is the most respected, crime meets
the swiftest punishment, and the ener
gies of the race are combined In evolving
the highest good of mankind; and En
gland and America its two branches,
Isolated from the rest of the world, and
that Isolation increasing, but no longer
Isolated from each other, will hereafter In
all divisions of the world's affairs be
found together, fostering common inter
ests, cherishing common sentiments, and
pursuing common action, for their com
mon good.
A Sermon with a Point to It
A clergyman in the west country
had two curates, one a comparative
ly old man, the other very young.
With the former he had not been able
to work agreeably; and on being in
vited to another living, he accepted
it, and took the young curate with
him. Naturally there was a farewell
sermon; and we can imagine the feel
ings of the curate who was to be left
behind when he heard the text given
out: "Abide ye here with the ass.
and I and the lad will go yonder and
worship." Sterne once declared in re
gard to the widely-respected maxim,
De mortuis nil nisi bonuni, that there
was nothing right altotit it but its
Latin. This view was evidently
shared by a certain Edinburgh minis
ter, who being asked to preach the
funeral sermon of a miserly brother
cleric, chose as his text the words:
"And the beggar died." Chamber's
Journal.
The Manarwa Bushman.
Here is a solitary figure, that of a
Masarwa bushman, engaged in dig
ging up bulbs, small, round and
btnooth, and of sweet, nutty flavor,
are exactly the same as those for
which the guinea fowl are searching
so eagerly. They may be called the
tush man's bread, and, when game ia
scarce or hunting luck Is out, they
serve as a mainstay against litter star
vation. The bushman collects his
bulbs in the shell of a tortoise, and
presently will return to the protecting
bush, beneath which he and his fami
ly slept last night. After that he will
perhaps visit a snare he set yesterday
to entrap a duyker, one of the small
antelopes of South Africa, or, failing
the capture of the little buck, hr may
try to stalk a paauw with his bo and
poisoned arrow, or follow the troop of
guinea fowl on the off chance of se
curing a head. London Spectator.
Vexed Questions.
"What were those two men fighting
about T'
"Each claimed that his grandmother
used to make the best pumpkin Dies
on earth." Detroit Free Press,
