The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-21
POSSIBILITIES.

OF the newspaper dispatches Is
creditable. The reporters and
correspondents all over the world
are ravenous in their search for
sensational news. In some cases
extravigant tales are manufactur-
ed from the whole cloth, but gen.
orally there is some foundation of
truth for the reports sent cut.
Readers sohuld always carefully
discriminate between statements
of fact and expressions of opinion.
1t would seem, however, that
there is good reason to believe
that there is great danger yet Of
a mighty international upheaval.
In this war between the United
States and Spain, France has been
from the first cross and sullen.
Her sympathies have been alto
gether with Spain. Germany
has never been quite satisfied,
and, while the sentiment of the
people is with us, the emperor
has shown himself otherwise dis
posed. Russia, which heretofore
has been most cordial in its friend
ship, has shown an indifference
amounting almost to express an
tagonism. There are many rea-
sons for this state of feeling
abroad. The great powers which
are continually engaged in extend
ing their possessions, do not relish
the idea of the United States
standing guard over the western
continent, and saying to all COM
ers, there shall be no more con-
quests here. The European sys-
tenn shall not be extended in this
part of the world. The monarchs
of the old world do not take kindly
to that doctrine and they forsee
that the result Of the present war,
if disastrous to Span, will i'm
movably establish the doctrine as
a fixed principle. Then they do
not relish the growing friendliness
between this country and Great
Britain, They think they see the
coming of an Anglo-SaXon ALI
ance which will be all powerful,
and hold in it's hands the worlds
That alliance, if formed,
means that there shall be no more
wars of conquest, no more parti-
ton Of territories, no wiping away
of existing national autonomies.
They do not desire that condition
TO come to pass. In this connec-
ton the recent utteranCes of Mr..
British Secretary of
State for the Colonies, are deeply
In a speech at Birm-
ngham, on the 18th instant, he
said:
"The time has arrived when Great !
Britain may be confronted by comb.
nation of powers, and our first duty,
therefore, is to draw all parts of the
empire into close unity, and our next
% maintain the bonds of permanent |
unity with our kinsmen across the
Atlantic.
There is powerful and generous
ration" said Mr.. Chamberlain, "using
,ur language, bred of our race and hav.
interests identical with ours. | would
70 so far as to say that, terrible as war
nay be, even war itself would be cheap
y purchased if in great and noble
'ause the Stars and Stripes and the
Union Jack should wave together over
IN Anglo Saxon alliance"
Contemporaneously with the
'eport of these utterances come
predictions of war between
france and Great Britain, and a
mysterious visit of the queen reg
mt of Spain to France. Nothing
nay come of all this, but the con-
litions are favorable for the most
errible upheaval the world has
yer seen. Let us hope new COM
'lications will not arise, and that
With the liberation of Cuba peace
will once more prevail throughout