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Show THE CITIZEN 7 GUILEFUL GEDDES Q IR O Auckland Geddes, new British ambassador to the United States, comes among us with a meticulously prepared statement which he hopes will promote the. Interests of his own country. Recognizing that sentiment in the United States has been turning against Great Britain, the Lloyd George government has sent to us one of its ablest exponents, trusting that he will be able to restore some of that cordiality which existed during the war. The distinguished envoy labors under a handicap that renders bis task difficult and almost disheartening. He is officially bound to defend his government in all things and, therefore, must. eschew that candor which begets confidence between man and man. To employ a colloquialism, Sir Auckland is compelled, to cover up. He must present a beautiful counterfeit of British policy and tell us that it is the governments real policy. With the same lack of candor which inspired Balfour to conceal the secret treaties while appealing to congress for the maximum aid the United States could give in the war, Sir Auckland attempts to gloss over the fact that these secret treaties hand to Great Britain the bulk of the war plunder. The secret treaties and the treaty of Versailles extend the empires rule over most of the continent of Africa; enlarge her control over Egypt in the form of a protectorate and give her what practically amount to control of Persia. More than that, they give her the richest portions of Asia Minor, especially the oil regions and permit her, with a specious excuse, to occupy Constantinople. mind does not revolt at this extension of control. Like the Germans, the Englishmen of all classes are the victims of their own education, for that education has The average English taken the form of propaganda. Englishmen believe that they are naturally constituted, or divinely, commissioned to take charge of other races and are fond of describing 0heir subject peoples as the more excitable races. That gesture of superiority is sweet to the soul of your true Britisher and, for him, it is a complete, conclusive, unanswerable argument. It is not merely the English aristocrat who assumes that attitude. The people of the middle class and even of the laboring class believe in the mission of the English race to go forth to conquer and to rule. empire-preachin- g By F. P. Gallagher ing between Great Britain and the United States. It never occurs to them that the best friend may be the one who helps her to set her house in order, who helps her to see herself, not in the light of and but in the light which most of the peoples of the world view her. Who is the better friend of any nation the one who urges that nation or along the path of the one who gives warning of the pit- falls that lie ahead? self-satisfacti- on self-glorificatio- n, self-destructi- The imperialist is not apt to see the perils of an imperialistic policy. He has been educated to believe that Great Britain, by a combination of militarism and navalism, will be able to control as much territory and as many millions of men as she can take charge of. He sees nothing incongruous or dangerous in trying to maintain an empire half slave and half free. n In fact, he believes that to be the constitution for the government of humanity. The inferior or the more excitable races cannot expect to enjoy the same measure of freedom that the Englishman arrogates to himself. Perhaps the system will operate with success indefinitely, but the American, bred in a different school, trusting in the maxims of Washington and Lincoln, will think that there is something intrinsically unsound in the system and that, sooner or later, it will lead to a catastrophe. God-give- country we find solemn constantly raising their hands in horror at the increasing severity of American criticism of British misrule. And always these grave and reverend seniors speak mournfully or indignantly of the effect of this criticism on the friendly relations exist own political difficulties. What Sir Auckland was trying to convey as politely as possible was that it would be helpful if the United States senate would refrain from expressing sympathy for any of the peoples who are protesting against the oppression of the London government. "We are trying now, he declares, as always, to meet the legitimate aspirations of the dependent peoples,, such as those in India and Egypt, so far as in our judgment is possible without working a mischief where we seek to do good. Here is a sentence which is filled with the provoking illogicality and arrogance of the English imperialist, and it is none the less provoking that it is unconscious in both its illogicality and arrogance. If the English are trying no harder than they have always tried to meet the aspirations of dependent peoples they will not have much success in preventing such mischiefs as the Amritzar massacre or the warfare in Egypt. What a sublime exhibition of understanding between the United States and Great Britain is the ill treatment accorded by Great Britain to Ireland, Egypt and India. For example, the officer who ordered plete Egypt. The controversy in our senate arose over the construction that was to be given this clause. The question was whether, if the United States ratified the treaty, it would be recognizing the protectorate. It was during the debate that Senator Norris drew a dark picture of Great Britains duplicity in dealing with Egypt, dwelling with powerful effect upon the solemn occa-- ( Continued on Page 18.) ENGRAVING EMBOSSING , his soldiers to shoot down defenseless men, women and children at Amritzar in the Punjab has been promoted. His murderous action not only is condoned but rewarded, because his government believes that he is a protector of the empire. In reality, he may be one of the forces which is tearing down the titanic fabric of the greatest empire that ever ruled over men. arrogance it is when the envoy says that thi5 English will decide what are the legitimate aspirations of other peoples. The case of Egypt is particularly flagrant. Recently in the United States senate Senator Norris of Nebraska calculated that the British government had pledged itself no less times to restore the inthan forty-si- x dependence of Egypt. The last pledge was made by King George, at the outbreak of the world war, when Great Britain proclaimed its protectorate. The kings message was so worded as to assure the prince who ruled in Egypt that the protectorate was simply a war measure. This pledge, like all the others, proved hollow. In the treaty of Versailles was inserted a clause requiring Germany to recognize as a permanent institution the British protectorate over STATIONERY One of the impediments to a com- self-satisfie- d In our own qgentlemen it has been approved by the crown within one year. That means that the British parliament can veto any measure the Irish have agreed upon while in the process of grappling with their We have just received shipment of the Classiest and Up- Stationery for the personal correspondence of both ladies and gentlemen. to-Da- te capacity, must be a defender of all these wrongs. He must paint them in the fairest colors. I venture to add, he says, that it will be helpful if the many in all parts of the world who are not British subjects, but are interested in Ireland, likewise stand aside and leave the Irish to grapple with their own political difficulties. The inference is that the new' home rule measure will leave the Irish to grapple with their own political difficulties. 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