The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-04
How the Continental Powers Were
iards Material Assistance.
TOPICS OF LONDON WEEKLIES
SATURDAY REVIEW HAS HAD
ENOUGH "SLOBBERING CAN'T"
1t Calls the Utterances OF Americas
Friends u ''HypOcriticnI BIazon-
ing of Doubtful Affections"
of the Associated Press.


Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-Willam T. Stead,
writing from Rome under date of Nov. q,
says: THE answer to the question: What
does the old world think of the new world?'
has never been made with greater emphasis
than in the Eternal City. The oldest old
world regards the newest new with feel
ings of anger, disgust and alarm almost
too great for words. The sentiment of in
dignation differs in intensity, but it is uni
Versal. There is no sympathy for the
United States either among whites or
blacks. In fact, dislike of the American
seizure Of the Philippines and a conviction
of the humane enthusiasm which made the
war possible was a mere mask of cant as
sumed in order to facilitate conquest, are
almost the only sentiments shared in COM
mon by the rival camps of the QEirinal and
the Vatican.
with the Kings men the sentiment is
comparatively mild. They do not believe
in the least in the disinterestedness of the
American war of liberation. The Ameri-
can declarations are almost universally de-
rided as hideous examples of a worse than
English hypocrisy. Uncle Sam, they say,
determined in all things to surpass John
Bull, has Outdone him even in pharisaism
and cant. The friends of America wiring
their hands in unaffected grief over the
fall of the United States under the tempta-
tion of the lust of territorial expansion.
Her enemies shoot out the lip and shrek
in derision over what they regard as the
unmistal1able demonstration which the de-
mand for the Philippines affords of Amer
ican cupidity, American bad faith and
American ambition We told you So they
exelain. That is what the unctuous recti-
tude Of the Anglo-Saxon always ends in.
He always begins by calling heaven to wit
ness his unselfsh desire to help his neigh
bors, but he always ends by stealing his
spoons
"It is unpleasant for the Anglo-Saxon to
hear this on every side, but since the peace
negotiations have developed a demand for
the complete cession of the Philippines
Americans will do well to recognize that
some such statement as the opinion repre-
sents the current opinion to almost every
one in Europe who pays attention to what
is going on abroad. The immense majority
of Europeans are, of course, ignorant of
what has happened. Intent on their daily
toll they neither know nor care what oc-
ours in other hemispheres. But the Euro
peans who read newspapers, who form what
may be described as the public opinion of
the old world, are practically Of one mind
on the matter
CALL Us BRIGANDS.
"Outside England L have met no nom
American who did not dislike the expansion
of America, nor do 1 think in the whole of
our tour through Europe l have met one
European who did not receive my protesta-
tions as to the genuine sincerity with which
the American people entered into the war
with more or less mocking incredulity. 1T
is all very WELL they say, in effect, to dis
semble your love, but why did you kick me
down stairs? 1t was all very well to pro-
claim your disinterestedness but why do
you seize the PhiIippines?' Mere national
brigandage, markedly odious pharisaism, is
phrase which roughly represents the judg-
ment of the old world on the recent develop
ments of the new, from which may be
learned once the old truth, that in a mans
judgment of his neghbor's motives we see
the mirror Of his own character. For the
most part they express no surprise. They
expected nothing better from these English
of the new world. They are true to their
ancestry. But there is in every country
minority of thoughtful men who having for
all their lives been the stanchest friends OF
the American commonwealth, are now con-
founded and utterly put to shame at what
is universally regarded as the apostacy of
the United States, the abandonment of their
national policy and the adoption of the
world policy of. When listened, as L have
been listening for months past, to the alter
nate taunts and lamentations of the foes
and friends of America, the babel of voices
seemed at last to merge into one scornful
.oJ,p Of fo
SCRIPTURES QUOTED.
"Hell from beneath is moved for thee
to meet thee at thy coming; it stiryeth up
the dead for thee even all the chief ones of
the earth; it hath raised UP from their
thrones all the kings of the nations. All
they shall speak and say unto thee, art thou
also become as weak as we? Art thou he
come like unto US? How art thou failsn
from heaven, o I4ucifer, son of the morn
ingn
You may argue, protest and rage as you
please. the old world has made mp its mird
on the subject, and nothing that can be
said or done in the United States viii alter
it's judgment. The American Government
has come out of its ring fence. 1t has
thrown it's hat into the arena of the world.
1t is launched on career Of conques.
which will be all the more predatory be-
cause it is masked by humanitarian.
THE American commonwealth tn sy hold,
has succumbcd to the malady which las so
long plagued the old world. 4 bright hope
for he human race was extinguished when
tho cnce nonmiIItary great 2ower which
esehewed all schemes of aggression and an
nexation enrolled itself among the common
herd of conquering states. So men talk ev-
erywhere in Europe. Whether they regard
the cid American ideal with sympathy or
with contempt, they all agree n believing