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thorne verbatim, but he testified in no meagre 

 words to the Herculean task successfully under- 

 taken by Her Majesty's Government ; and he said 

 flatly that no other Government could have done 

 as much, confronted as it was on all sides by pre- 

 judice, fanaticism, and the most heart-breaking 

 ignorance of the laws of hygiene. And yet in 

 this same magazine appeared an editorial comment, 

 indicting in scathing language the very methods so 

 handsomely commended by Mr. Hawthorne, and 

 these editorial comments were copied by the West- 

 ern Press. No honest man, reading them, could 

 doubt that Mr. Hawthorne had found in India 

 British indifference, intolerance, and inefficiency. 

 To those too busy to read the articles of the special 

 correspondent, these excerpts represented the facts. 



I have said in a previous chapter that the tide of 

 prejudice against English methods and institutions 

 will turn when English and Americans fight under 

 •a common flag. That day may be nearer than some 

 think. It is an open secret that the German 

 Emperor has cast covetous eyes upon the Brazils. 

 Germany, not England, will challenge that famous 

 Monroe Doctrine which has been flaunted so often, 

 and so unnecessarily, in the faces of English state- 

 men. And when that day dawns the United States 

 will appeal — and not in vain — to her kinsmen 

 overseas. 



It is significant that the Anglophobia which dis- 

 colours the judgment of so many Americans has 

 failed to inspire a similar sentiment upon this side 

 of the Atlantic. The people of England grudge 

 America none of her triumphs. The Stars and 



