| Show 1 t r L AND UNITED STATES j J nn 01 I am naked h mY friends In London What old did your country ox ax pet let to get tret out of out ours In return for tor your In the matter malter of the Nicaragua canal Without agreeing to some ot of the crude suggestions which have hae been made across the tho Atlantic th they y also alKO call Iny att attention to the flues ques which has hOil beets asked there thoro In some omo quarters Quarter as al to whether we liae An real desire for tor the friendship ot of the united States what the two to nil na natIons could do together that they could not do whether then thenis Js is not danger of our lur uI using the coorn meat ment ot of the United States Stales liS as a pass t I urn am also lleo told that one of the partIes In tIle the Union Intends to make use ue ot of any or supposed understanding liet between the tho powers as asan nn an Issue In the campaign Other questions which have been put putto to me are arc such auch as 01 thia Why should hould le e give glo IL a thought one wa way or another to England AntI t I have hae also bad on an indignant made to me that the United ilia may perhaps tIed the UnIted but that list the States has no need of the United 1 dow With regard to asking for Cor any consideration for the nr at I nm am myself In a pee peculiar position l For or two years In that Is both at the beginning at the session of isas and at the begInnIng ot of the tho session en Ion lit of aIled attention to the trent treaty a 1111 thAt twenty years ago when It was waR last WI w were ete tn in the ab absurd absurd surd of with Fmc for tor h he natural notion of the UnIted d In a milt tr In which we had In fact no common interest with France In which neither France nor we 0 had bad any reason for tor In with th United States and andIn andIn In which It was from every point ot of view tar better that we e should come cometo to direct with the United States State fur Cur the to this trade canal of on which sil 11 the ot of th ouid bl be likely tu to tube tobe be have bave now acted as I It t urEn that the net act and I con that it seems to me that we need nj consideration iti In return tar tor getting Mist of at an position h hr r 1 not In with lIh tiny any facts There 1 Is rH no consideration and I cannot biame our govern goern meat for not havIng asked fur tor an any WIth regard to the questions that are ral raised ed and to which I 1 h t alluded I admit that It to TIe that some Bome et If your our Amerian citizens at are a little old take not lot unnaturally perhaps a pains orna Georgian view ot of th the relations of at atour our Countries Mistakes In our policy loll e made In the tite last century R tun or in III Ill or orIn orin In 1811 are brought against us UR now and the tha extraordinary change hango In the vie view ot of the United States tates which 11 i inra now tallen In England Is not lIot met het by byan byan an equally complete change on the theother other sile or of the Atlantic Mat I I with all apologIes suggest that while chile we wear at ar looked upon ns as a conservative on peo eO pie there seem to be In n the tho United States some Bome survivals of oC the pigtail g to be found even In corn com which thirk themselves ad advanced modern The change Ip 10 h opinion with to the United States the frank acceptance of a friendship which goes beyond mere words and whirls which In now so 80 on thIs sid side of tIle tise Atlantic that It Is 18 not unlikely to lend from to time to very Iry and very try positive results has hils no doubt It a 80 sophie base baJ The revival In recent years after aCter an or cosmo cosmopolitan politan of pride In our race arid and posItion In the world line haR been naturally n by an 1111 au ae of the position of pride in III the achievements anti to come of th the great creat J Inglish speaking Oil the other side Atlantic In the pant which 1 been caused by Irish which have haO been caused b by Canadian are both ot of them somewhat lo lot t to sight here her at the moment undo and although no one here Ignores an any Just claims ot of Canada tt et there Is 1 a f that We ought H 10 be to anti let lel Ih live all as 11 e even oen these Canadian end by mutual good feeling to solve iny ny that they present The complete change chang of oC front hera hOIer seems not yet ret thoroughly recognized In Inthe the United States the masses manes ot of th The suspicions In which the they were ver tr train ln In the past still find echo there than sImilar suspicion or jealousies do now on this the watEr and It will take titus time no doubt before these suspicions are ure overcome When I am what we can do together torether that the nations cannot do singly I answer at once above all things maintain the of that open door which I Is all that the foreign trade of either olther of us requires for tor its expansion As s nn an example I ma point to the tact fact that at tin an immense dip from the UnIted States namely on the tha Somali in III northeast Africa theto thero Is 1 a prote protectorate sh hr re the largest Items ot of trade ar already entirely In the hands ot of the United States 1101 to the converse convene ot of Madagascar shere the French conquest has much reduced a large existing lilting American trade In China Chinn we e have hae already been work and everything Is possible to us UI there It if we work together tn in the future Great common trade Interests ate are growing up UI with whIch no one hen they arc frankly frankl recognized oa as common Interests will be bold bohl enough nough to Interfere It If It were ere only for China and th the this would be enough to n a new departure Hut But It tOast hUlt be remembered also that our Australian English speaking communities ties must play their Part In the tho South and In the China seas SUj and b by with the mother country countr a friendship between America and Aus 11 also be which VIII be Infinitely better both hoth for the United and or or In Inthe inthe the future than the miserable Jealousies ho have too often prevailed prevalle l In the speaking world In the past The will form Corm no In the tay of a 11 better un The Irish feeling to which I have alluded Is always course an enormous difficulty difficult In the tho way but those on both sides the Atlantic who are In favor of the most liberal con com c lons of at the privileges es of self O irs In Ireland will bie I more likely to prevail It th they put their heads to together together gether than If the American contingent among them ani only repulse the whIch offers Charles W DUke In New bork Herald |
