Show TWO VIEWS OF AMERICA SIR EDWIN ARNOLD PRESENTS A SONNET CunninghamGraham Former Mcm ber of Parliament Writes Bitterly of AngloAmerican Friendship London Dee 20 Reviews of the year and century fill the weekly and daily papers In the latter and broader field the writers find greater satisfaction that Americas part in Englands history his-tory figures prominently Sir Edwin Arnold signalizes Iho new century with a sonnet Greeting Columbia England Eng-land says I send thee motherly kiss and benison Love me or lovo mo not hap what mayhap may-hap My prIde and prayers watch thy bright co ISO befiiin Thou dost unhold the lessons learned from me Anti apcaksl my Shakespeares speech God go w lli lhcc COLUMBIA TO BRITANNIA God po with thcel If thy foes too much dart 1 dlrf we shnffno more be kept asunder Tlliui Iwo great I clouds In hciivcn thai hold tho thunder THESE VIEWS NOT UNANIMOUS That Slr Edwin Arnolds views are not unanimously shared can be Judge from a lettei of CunninghamGraham a former member of Parllamonl who Ifi July 1SDS wrote a series of articles most Insulting lo Americans in the Westminster Gazette which Is given 1 place of honor in the Saturday Review Re-view 1 His the most bitter arraignment arraign-ment of AngloAmerican friendship lint has appeared for many a day The writer decries the afterdinner speeches of Senator Depew Lord Salisbury I Salis-bury and others and declares that this friendship has resulted only in kicks for Great Britain In the cases of Ven zuela Han Juan Alabama and Bering awards WHAT THE LETTER CONTAINS He says We welt on palling ourselves our-selves upon our diaphragms making certain that alt those kicks were hut symptoms of affection and love HIP Americans bore us In return for moral help which wp gave them In their brave punching of their brother Spaniards they gave us nothing of a kindred sort when we started in lo thrash our brother Boers Lastly on top of all our condescensions like a cold bath on a drunkard conies the clauses of the i Senate in the HayPauncefoto treaty i by which we are commanded to assent to kick No 20 and I suppose Lord Salisbury is going to turn his ample shoulders to receive It i and assure the kickers of his distinguished consideration considera-tion and lhauk them for the energy with which it i Is bestowed It eeems Impossible so the experts tel us that the canal could be defended defend-ed even though 1 fortified In case of war but hell the liar damned liar and expert is a comparison almost proverbial proverb-ial in this commercial age I looks as If we had voluntarily by our mean and senseless conduct In lie SpanlBhYan kee war placed ourselves In the position posi-tion of a man who having lost the world Imagined he had gained his soul but on consideration found his prize was mere hypothesis WHAT CANAL WILL BRING In connection with the proposed Nica ragunn canal It IB said thai when the United Stales definitely decides to build one of the greatest shipbuilding concerns In England will almultaneous lv open on one of thC Gulf ports un Immense shipyard I Several I sioclmanu I fapturers are lo said lo he considering consid-ering the advisability of establishing American plants The Manufacturers Record speaking in behalf of Ehglish trade says The men who have dominated the metallurgical metal-lurgical Interests of he world foV so many years whose trade ramifications I extend to every civilized country are not the men to yield to American supremacy su-premacy without sharing In It by 1 becoming be-coming fjlctor In Americas production produc-tion To these giants of Industry It is not very material whether the source of production Is England or Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania or Alabama The people of America should welcome the incoming of this capllftl l not only for Its material benefits but for that close kinship into which the United Stales and Great Britain would be drawn |