AMERICAN FEELING ON THE WAR.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
Si,—As a reader of the Spectator for many years, I should like to say a few words as to the attitude of the American people towards the English in their war with the Boers, that the English may not be led away by the pro-I3oer meetings, mainly held by the Irish in this country, and by such utter- ances recently made by Mr. Redmond in the House of Commons. When the American people wish to have a spokesman in the English House of Commons, they will not choose an Irish agitator, and when Mr. Redmond declares "that the overwhelm- ing opinion of leading American statesmen is hostile to Great Britain," he must mean "Irish statesmen," for it is absolutely false, as few of the public men of this country have expressed themselves against England. Most of the people in America sympathise with England, and wish for her success, not only on account of her attitude towards us in our late war with Spain, but also because we are for civilisation and not for such an oligarchy as that of the Boers, who have not much more idea of liberty than have the Filipinos. It is almost universally the case that the persons who have been doing to much harm to their country by their encouragement of the Filipinos are for the Boers, who, with the Irish who do not care for the Boers but hate England, make up the party that favonri the Boers in this country.—I ara, Sir, &c., Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, U.S.A. F. P. H.
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