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Rh thousands of dollars were raised throughout the United States, both for the support of suffering Irish in Ireland and for the prosecution of Irish propaganda and home rule.

Another important though somewhat intangible cause of Anglo-American antagonism was to be found in certain common racial characteristics. As members of the same family are prone to criticize each other most sharply, so were the British and Americans, once members of the same empire. American sensitiveness on the one hand felt and resented English criticism keenly. English travelers in the United States, accustomed to English ways and conveniences, resented their absence in the United States and refused to adapt themselves to the strange surroundings. On their return home they forgot to be charitable in their descriptions. The gentle old English lady of long