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Show A FALSE SENTIMENT. Certain men in England and the United Unit-ed States seem to think that in order to preturrc the friondship now happily existing between tho two countries each nation" must go to extremes in displaying display-ing its affection nnd esteem. In Amor-ica Amor-ica it is considered proper to Tepeal laws that displease tho English. In England it is suggested that a monument bo orected to Georgo Washington in West; minster Abbey. The London Outlook takes creat offense at this 6nggostion. It describes tho real or assumed sufferings suffer-ings under persecution of thoso men who remained k)yal to the British ling ia this couutry during the revolutionary war. The Outlook declares that they wore ruined and driven from tho conn-try. conn-try. When they returned thoy were tarred and fonthered and some of them woro shot, in spito of a treaty which gimrantcod to thenf their lives and their proporty. Thoy died for tho empiro, according to this English paper; they died for their ling, aa'd tho paper adds: "Then let iw be logical for once and ex oct another monument to the lato Prosidont Knigcr. Equally with Washington Wash-ington ho had the two neccesary qualifications: quali-fications: Tie was a mortal onemy of Eugland and he persecuted tho British Brit-ish population. What more is requisite!" requi-site!" , Of what Mtbstanco is this our friendship friend-ship made that it must bo supported by such, hurnilinting devices! Is it worth slrlrln,g to proservo who,n it must be preserved at tho expense of solf-rospect ami loyally to one's own people! Wo mar not agree with the London Outlook that "tho head and front, tho inspiror and dictator of tho movement which produced all tho porficcnttons, all the foe! treachery, all the brutality which J tho American Loyalists endured, was Georgo Washington," but in tbo name of all that is rational why should wo seek to remind England by an enduring ; '"op Tent n Wr tm -ster Wrwr of her frigutf'Jl low in the war with her Amer ican colonies. If may bo true, as Thackeray Thack-eray says, that King Georgo TH was little, narrow-minded and bigoted, while Georgo Washington was a true gentleman and ono of tho noblest leaders of men; but thoro is no sufficient suffi-cient reason why a monument to Washington Wash-ington should bo 6Ct up in England's national na-tional hall of fame, ft scarcoly would bo moro incongruous to suggest thut a Gtatue of Goorgo IT bo erected in tho capitol at Washington. A man cannot bo truo to his own country by sacrificing his patriotism or tho traditional sentiments of his own people Tno highest senso of honor in a nation, as in a gentleman, requires that, hnving due respect for othoro, a nation should always maintain its solf-respect. solf-respect. "To thine own Belf bo trnc, and it must follow as the night tho day thou can'st not then bn falsa to any man," said Polonius. This is recommended recom-mended to tho extremists on both sides of tho ocean as a precept which should bo kept in mind by nations as well as by individuals. |