The times., 1897-12-23
TIN RsDAY, DECEMBER %. 1897
The Awakening of rnole sam.

Thr merry ClTiSt mastide approaches, and
when UncIe Sam hangs up his st AIRED
and striped stocking we have something
to put init which he may not like; because
nobody appreciates Il hard lesson, and
our Gift is a very tough one in geography
II refers to the map Of the world as
amended and revised By recent occurrences
in the Orient II is a map that Uncle
Sam and all hiA numerous progeny ought
to sit up nights and study, and Christ
mas time aud tie recess of Congress
is a good time TO studyit.
The American people, included in tie Ell
dearing teria "Unde Sam" are great in
almost il not quite every respect. They are
great ia resources, in productive energy, in-
dustry and ingenuity, and they are the
greatest i.lims outside Of all asylum Us
to tliclr necessary relations and respons!-
bIlities H. connection with the rest Of the
world a generation a so they ought TO
have sect that their competition with
the great food. coal, iron and textile
producing populations OF Europe IN
eyitanIl would lead TO a struggle
for trade and bread between the
two hemis3heres. Eut they went
on. never learning anything uncon-
nected with IL cir provincial concerns; Al
lowing EuIope to come in and throttle
their local prosperity With its monetary
cont-ol. and permitting foreign influence
to contFbI AEICTicaG legislation to prevent
national expansion. II our Teorle had
been wise: II they had been led by states
men who could see Tie handwriting on the
wall oi al country's future, long ago they
would have taken advantage of their
opportunities, would have acquired the
Hay-aiian Islands, built the Nicaragua
canal AMI possessed themselves of an
adequate naval bas in the Antilles. They
mignt have Gone all these things in times
when no European power Hould have
dared 20 say them nay, Now it is DOUBT
fuI if they viii be allowed 10.
The situation is as simple as it is fer
ribe In the poteutialities OF America, in
Guiding its control of the key of the
Pacific and Il an interoceanic canal, the
Ceali' ion ol western Europe sees the scepter
OF dominion over the worlds commerce
departing fIom it, and being handed over
to us. 1t takes alarm ani it acts. The
significant WORDS OF the Austrian foreisn
In:uister. Count Goluchor=ei, only repre-
scented an opinion previously and com
monIy arrived at ty the ca binets of Great
Britain and the continent, that Europe
must stand shoulder to shoulder against
the es,reSsicns ofthe Western Hemisphere.
That Shoulder to- shoulder policy has
been adopted and translated into action, in
the rprcible completion of the European
front against us Oh the western shores Of
the Pacific Ocean.
glance at the map of the world wiz
serve TO show this front, and its mean
ing ShoulG not require much argument.
PeSinniar on the Mediterranean, ircat
Britain hclds Egypt and mlitarily com.
mands the Suez Canal. With her ''ex-
peditionary,' bases. she has a strong posi-
ton an the west bank of the Red Sea
of Arah hia, OF the Indian Ocean. Thence,
all The wa aruund TO the Strait Of
Maiacc8 we find the coasts of British
India Beyond that strait are the British
possessions in Eorueo. North of it is
Cochin China. under the dominion IF
France. North again. is British Hong
Kong; and then there is q little stretch If
coast before we come TO Kiao Chou, re-
Gently seized 10y Germany. Across lie
Yellow Sea from Kiao Chou is Port
Arthur. just now taken in possession Icy
Russia Korea, nearby, and Manchuria, 20
the north. and everything beyond that
are Russian.
The moral of the tale ought to be plain
10 deaf mute. Al along from the SueZ
Canal nd aT.und the coz sts away up to
Tladivestock, Europe has its possessions.
its enorsfory int ested capital and it's ccm-
meroe with the Pacific. Leaving Russia
out OF tne question because her interests
are not necessarily identical with those
OF her European Eeighhors, we have pre-
sented to us the picture of Goiuchowski's