The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-28
LiIxer to the New worlds Tmpera-
OF Oand for More Room Ev-
where ON Land and Sea.
FRENCH CABINET DENOUNCED
REVISION OF THE DREYFUs CASE
DIsPLEAsING TO DEPUTIES.
Chinese Reform Edicts Rescinded by
the Empress Dowager--Povers' UI-
t.matum Not Needed by Turkey.

PARIS, Sept. 27.--william r. Stead tho
English newspaper man, referring to the
arrival here of the peace commission,
writes: 1.-THE new world has invaded the old
world and in Paris to-day, at the Hotel Cons
tinental, is the headquarters of the army OF
invasion 1t is pacific invasion, no doubts
but the invaders are bent, If not on con-
quest and annexation. at least upon appro-
priations and an extension of their borders.
The struggle now going on between the
French authorities and exposition commits
sioners brings forcibly home to the Euro
pean mind the great question of the future.
1t is a miniature reproduction of conflict
of the forces. which looms even mora
gigantic before the eyes of mankind.
'Room therefore the new world cries.
Commissioner General Peck, the American,
must have room to spread himself and his
wares at the worlds fair. where. with
Paris, he will salute the new century, and
the allotment of space in the exposition is
far too small. The amiable French minis
ters expostulate with a polite shoulder
shrug. 1t is impossible. What would our
friends, the Americans, have us do? Ger
many and Great Britain are also imperiously
clamoring for more space. We have al
ready allotted to the United States all we
can spare. 1t is impossible. quite impossible.s
Impossible! thunders the commissioners
general. Don't use to me that idiot wordl
Your space is small, 1 admit. Only 33a
acres, against $50 In Chicago. But our
needs are great Room? Make room for
the growing, great Western world
what can be done? Three hundred and
thirty-six acres cannot be stretched like
elastic. All the space is allotted. If Uncle
Sam is to have more he can only have 1t at
some ones else expense. But Commissioners
General Peck and his staff are to attain the
object on which they have set their hearts.
Somebody will have to get The Amer-
leans are quite remorseless, ruthless, relent-
less in their demands. Chicago, in the per-
son of Mr.. Peck, and New York. in the per-
son of Mr.. Woodward, backed by Mckinley
and the whole United States, are deter-
mined that whosoever gets left in the
scramble for space it shall not be Uncla
Sam. They are hustling around at great
rate negotiating, blarneying, bullying, buyT
ing and pushing, and the old world feels ID
is being crowded on its own ground-per-
haps even crowded out of its own ground.
by the Western conQueror.
'What is going on in the exposition
grounds is going on on land and sea all
round this planet. The shrinkage of the
world has suddenly brought every one face
to face with each other. In the markets.
in the colonies and on the high seas the old
world is beginning to realize that perhaps
there may no longer be enough to gH
around, that somebody is going to get Left
and that that somebody is not going to be
the new world.
This conviction is coming home slowly to
the rerch; but they are learning it all tha
same. The result is Immediately to increase
the Difference paid to the United States by
the French Nothing succeeds like success.
The difference in the attitude Of the French
to the Americans since Manila and Santiago
is more marvellous than edifying. French-
men of all classes who a year ago sneered
at the dollar-hunting Yankee, as their fore
fathers scoffed at the nation (shop keepers)
across the channel, are running over each
other in a race as to which can first fan on
Uncle Sans neck and embrace him. If By
any possibility any space can be discovered
in the exhibition Of course it will be made
over to the sister republic rather than to
Germany or to Great Britain Is not the
American commissioner general ready TO
erect statue to Lafayette in bronze if he
can only get space to set it up? The min
lister of commerce and the minister of for
eign affairs outdo each other in paying ex-
ceptional compliments to the American CONF
rnissioners; nay, 1t is even limited that next
year American goods will be admitted TO
France on the payment of minimum tariff,
a reciprocal concession being, of course, an
ticipated on the other side.
'"rhe war between Spain and the United
States was revelation to the average
Frenchman. When Dewey destroyed the
Spanish fleet at Manila the scales began
to fall from his eyes, and when Cervera's
fleet met with the same fate he realized
that new naval power had been born into
the world inheriting, as one put 1t. the
good fortune that always attended the En-
glish on the seas Early in the war the
reports that the American fleet had been
destroyed and that Sampson had been killed
threw the Partisan populace into paroxysm
of delight. In those days no one here dis
guised his sympathies with Spain. But now
adays all agree to forget that, and they arr
already convinced that there We're nevei
such friends of the Americans as thu
French.
"All this is very pleasant for the Ameri-
cans in Paris, but it will contribute to the
facility of the work OF the peace commits
sioners. There is no trace of any disposition
in official quarters to make any difficulties
in settling the terms Of peace. The only de-
mur made TO the imperial expansion OF the
United States comes from experienced OBJ
servers like De Presence of the Temps.
who regrets the new departure. not because
it affects France, but because it endangers
the American Republic The French are az
present exhibiting to the world some de-
plorable results of dominant miIitarisrn
and they sigh when they see the new world
gliding down the inclined plane which leads