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ropcan cooperation in the fair. The pope
promised to comply with the request
Bryan afterwards. had conference with
Cardinal Rompolla, in which arrangements
were made in rcgare to details or exhibits
which the holy sec will send to Chicago.
England's Attitude Toward the United
States
| tNew York sun.)
| 1t is well for nations as it is for indi-;
ridnals to learn betimcs who are their,
Friends. Our differences with Chilli. now
ostensibly settled, have done us at least
the service Of disclosing for the twenti-
eth time, the malignant hostility with
which Americans are regarded by 4 large
and influential section Of tile English pco-i
pie. The spiteful communts of the Lon
don newspapers, Tory and Liberal, on our
determination to uphold the honor Of our
! flag, have revealed Whit The as-call ties
OF kindred amount to. They prove that
outside Of the advanced Radicals and r.
sh Nationalists, we have scarcely any
real friends in the United Kingdom; thatt
the great majority not only Of The Torie
and Wings, hat also Of such Liberals a =
are in trade and manufactures, feel at
much hatred for this country ms aid their
toref"thers in l77G 1872 and 1862; and
though now a relatively timorous and i'm
potent enemy in the classes prepondcrans
in Parliament and London society We
arr glad that our British ill-w:shers have
shown their hands, md ne beg 10 assure
them with equal frankncss that thoirnn-
/ tiphathy is reciprocated, and that any
trace of sympathy or admir.,tion.t tor things
English on this side Of the Atlantic is
confined to few hundred silly women of
! both sexes.
Because We have declined to permit the
uniformed seamen Of the United States to
be murdered with impunity i'll the streets
of Valparaiso, we have been necessarily
tainted by the London press with bully
! ing a weak and heIp less commonwealth.
| We waited three months before percmp-
t0rily demanding reparation, hut in the
/ opinion of our afectionate kinsmcn be-
yond the seatwe ought to have waited till
the Greek kalends. What, the English
newspapers virtually say, docs the killing
of couple of Yankee sailors signify
! We ought, they seem TO think, to be thank
! full that the lite of our Minister st Santi
ago was spared This charge of bullying
! is SO idiotic in itself and SO proposterous
in nm English mouth, that We can only cx-
plain it on the theory that, whenever
American dignity and honorare in qucs
ton, the English intellect is clouded By.
! Il rush Of black blood to the head The
spectacle Of Brother Jonathan asserting
| sef-respect seems TO have the same effect
upon his British relative that is produced
| by red flag brandished before the nos
| trils Of bad tempered but tethe-ed and
exasperated bull. The animal connot e1-
press himself in deeds and has to vent his
! furry in snorts and roars. From the
sourncss and disgust with which the Lon
don press received The news that Chill had
mt last come to her senses, it is plainly to
he seen waht issue OF the controversy was
! wisehcd for. Evidently Englishmen had
| corcssed the hope that The Captain Frat
and Pinto might put to sea, and that, with
/ the help Of three othe: war vessels purch-
! oscd of the Armstrong; and the Lalrus,
the Ch;lleins might manage to lntilct hui
! initiation and destruction on the cltf or
! New York. One can imagine the ranc0r-
/ ons delight with which the demolition OF
+, orr nublic buildings by Chilian iron-ciads
would be chronicled by the descendants
! Of tbe men who burned the Capitol at
4 WASHINGTON. When Englnnd, having been
subjected to Il trivial indignity, gives a
nstfv power twenty four hours in which
to salute her flag and profier..an adequte
/ indemnity, it is, We are told, splendid
fs;rmation Of HE I,oasf, Diris AsLLicANIs
CHM But when the United States, after
waiting hrec months insists upon redress,
! It ;s. II seems, the net of bully, who.
! ought TO BE pillorcd in the pubic oplnlon
of the world, anu whose castigation wonlc
be viewed with almost public rejoicing IN
Great Britain.
Asst is, the English newspapers con
sc|c themselves for the fact that there may
| 10 no war after nil, with the assumption
tbot our controversy with Chill has dealt
: dastl, blow to our reciprocity program
me and to our attainment of political in
Anence on the South American continent
Even SO comparatively sober-rainded
journal MS the Spectator, q Liberal unlon-
| ist organ, exults in the beliefsthat nj the e
Latin American States from the Gulf OF
Mexico to Cape Horn wiz agree1l5resent-
;nr our treatment ofthe Ghiian republic.
Well if they rcsepta single exhibition on
our part of reluctance to swallow an al
front, thdy mist feel ten-fold more bitter
i toward The British Government, wllith
on q dozen occasions has eyinced alike
unwillingness to pocket insnlts as Tor
distrust and Jealousy Of political preten-
sions, they are much more likely to .oe
provoked BIZ England, the professional
spoliator Of weak States, than by the ira
,l;tional yindicator of the doctrine" Amer
lea for the Americans" The Latin Amer rae
cans have good sense md long memories les;
They have not forgotten that scarcely had
we recovered from the shock Of our civil
va when We summariiy elected the sol
aiers of Napolean III from Mexico !; and and
they know that at this moment, while wa
Al not own a1l inch of ground IN South