The San Francisco call., 1898-08-15
WHAT AMERICA GAINED BY VAR
 g. Beneficial Results of the Strife. IS AGAIN 4 UNITED NATION NATIONAL SPIRIT RECEIVES NEW LIFE.
IS AGAIN A UNITED NATION
RECEIVES
London Times Sees in the Outcome of the Struggle More Than the Mere Conquering of the
 Spanish Foe.
Special Dispatch to The Call,

LONDON, Aug. 15.-The Times this morning comments editorially upon the universal recognition of the gener ous part which President Mckinley has played throughout the war between the United States and Spain, and says: If foreign observers might presume to have an opinion upon his conduct, It would probably be that President Mchln- ley has kept his finger constantly upon the national pulse and has known how to stimulate and direct national thought without too markedly outrunnlng US movement Everything has been done Tn the open, every move has been discussed as a possibility all over the United States before the Government was irreyocably committed one way or the other, and the result of the cautious, tentative policy Is that where he stands at this moment, the President has the whole American people at his back.
 higher stateSmanship for a President gov erning under the constitution or the United States.
 It is noteworthy that while the Span iards wEU are usually regarded as chiNal- rous romantic and medieval, have turned first to the financial aspect of the sltua- tion, the Americans, who are usually sup posed to be intensely patriotic, have as yet hardly given a thought to the fnan- cial or economic side of the question. What occupies the American people at this moment is not the cost of the war not the value of their acquisitions, nor the balance of the profit and loss account but the moral result of the struggle and the nature of the ideas which 1t stinu- lates.
 Whether Bryanism is dead or only sleep ing whether the smaller issues of party warfare are suppressed by large and worthy conceptions of national policy or only thrown for the time into the back ground there can be no doubt that the war has had and will have a profound effect upon American ideas and aims. Not only has 1t renovated the idea of national unity impaired by the great civil strug gle but it has supplied that sense of con- fact with external forces which is prob ably one of the most potent influences in favor of maintaining the national spirit.
 The Antilles themselves introduce a novel element into American life and open up questions upon which parties may differ greatly and Worthily. This in itself is gain and one which was more or loss conscientiouslg sought when the war was undertaken. The perilous unrest spoken of by the New York Times was a real national evil which sprang directly, so far as foreigners can judge, from the dis appearance of clear intelligent party is sues That unrest, we may assume, has vanished and been replaced by new anX- ieties or soicitudes which may become acute. but are very unlikely to become
 Beyond the Antilles lies a more difficult question-the Philippines-and that ques- themselves. These islands may be taken just now as a symbol of American awakening and of the entry of the re- public upon a new career which, Philip. pines or no Philippines, she is hence- forth bound to follow.