The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-16
ENGLAND ON OUR SHIPS.
LONDON TIMES SAFS TE NEED NOT
FEAR COMPETITION As BUILDERS.

II, Thinks the Navigation Laws Rather a
Protection to British Industry Than to
American - Russian Nays Increase
CominR International Choss Tournament
In London-Tho Tobacco Bill Of tho
British Museum-whnt Is Thought OF
Jockey sloan's style Of Hiding.
LONDON. Sent. 30.--Nohody in England ex-
poets serious trouble with France in the imme-
diate future because Capt. Marchand at Fa-
ahoda has repeated his countTvman's gallant
defiance. "yv suis. ~ reste." The British occu-
patton Of Egypt will not be raised as an acute
international question yet. The votes OF the
representative OF the Triple Alliance were
unanimously with England when the first ad-
vance OF Egyptian funds was asked for the re-
conquest OF the Soudnn. Germany. Austria
and Italy are certainly individually more
friendly to the British Government now than
they were then. and would support II In insist
ing that the entire Soudan. including Fashoda,
owes allegiance TO Egypt. Beyond that Ger
many. as spokesman and decider for the alli-
ance. would not go. as It is not her policy now.
any moro than hitherto. to see the only serious
difference between England and France re-
moved. As for Russia. It Is certain that the
intelligence department of her Foreign Office
has acquainted its head and his imperial mas
tor that a duplication in Africa Of her active,
.porsistent hostility to England in Asia would
. mean war at once. And even the frigid silence
rs TO Muscovite motives In choosing the pres
=, ont time for asking the powers OF the world to
hasten the millennium by throwing down their
guns will not irrltate her wary rulers into pick
ing a quarrel that is not forced on them.
Meanwhile Englishmen are turning their at
~tention to the great problems OF colonization
TINT faro averv country undertaking. fhe work
of ruling distant territories and alien races.
The subject was raised at the beginning Of the
sessions OF the Church Congress-the brief an
nual Parliament OF the Church OF England
which Is sitting at Bradford this week. Alay-
man. Prof. Jcbb, the great classical scholar and
member Of Parliament for Cambridge Univer-
sity. analyzed the qualities that 90 to make q
successful colonizinG race. He began BY quot
ing the remark OF an able writer that the ma
tional virtues of the Anglo-Saxon had their
handspring In a sense OF duty. as those Of the
Frenchman in a power of sympathy. He thought
that q good imaginary dialogue on colonization
might be furnished by a conversation between
two persons who. knowing the English and the
French type Of character. were discussing lat
some bygone periodl which of the two was the
more likely to succeed in colonial enterprise
and in the work OF governing alien races.
How plausible 1t would have seemed
TO predict that the greater success would
inevitably fall to the more sympathetic char
acter. to that expansive genius which could
seize and expound foreign ideas. especially
when joined. as it was in the French. to a bril-
liant courage and to q gift for logical orRaniza-
ton. The Anglo-Saxon, 1t might have been
urged. would fail. through his unsympathetie
nature, in understanding OF conciliating those
among whom he settled or whom he strove to
rule. Experience had shown. however. that
the Anglo-Saxon qualities did very we'll for
colonial and imperial purposes. The truth was
that the elementary functions of government,
especially that OF protecting life and property,
were far the most generally important to the
governed. Most people cared more about bav-
ing reasonable security against being robbed
or murdered than about meeting with q grace
full appreciation Of their finer gifts. The Eng
lishman had succeeded by dint OF his logged
resolve to maintain law and order, and to sec
justice done wherever he undertook to govern.
1t was interesting to consider the relation
which subsisted between this improved public
opinion. which forbade that as a nation we
should do immoral things, and that religious
las we'll as moraD sense which encouraged the
Efforts OF Christian missionaries. During the
last half century or so statesmen had come to
recognize more clearly the value OF missionary
work as an auxiliary in the task OF ciyilizinR.
Missionary effort, in its heroes and martyrs,
had been the highest expression OF the ma
tional sense OF moral responsibility. Yet the
public opinion which abolished slavery. the
public opinion which disapproved Of selling
rum and rifles to savages. the public opinion
which insisted that we should everywhere do
our best to elevate the lives of the peoples de-
pendent on our empire-this public opin-
ion must be recognized as a force which
was even wider and more complex than the
body Of public opinion which was in active and
cordial sympathy with missionary e~ffort-largo.
influential. and. he believed. increasing as that
body OF opinion was. Now what were the con-
stituent elements in this wider and more COM
pick force? Ono could at least name three of
them. First. there was the distinctively Chris
tian sense. that which was guided by the die
tates OF Christianity. and in its most ac-
tive phase relied primarily ON the efforts OF
missionary Christian teaching in dealing with
" conditions of civilization and Of spiritual
life. Secondly. there was q moral sense. shared
by many who would not call themselves Chris
tians. that certain things which a nation might
do with immunity from political censure or Dip
lomatic remonstrance were. nevertheless. un-
Just and wrong. opposed to the higher standards
of humanity-thinEs. in short, under which the
national conscience could not rest easy. It
was this general often vague. moral sense OF
which the growth during the last fifty years
had been more especially remarkable. Through
natural causes the area OF responsibility was
apt to increase. A great civilizinE power,
where 1t was in contact with fierce tribes,
must always bio ready to fight: 1t must some
times shed blood to stop chronic bloodshed; it
must sometimes wage war to protect peace.
Such warfare might or might not result in an
increase to the area Of responsibility: but in no
case could 1t be confused with the warfare OF
aggression.
Tho revival Of American shipping has aroused
public interest here very seriously for several
months. Discussion on 1t is taken outside the
columns Of the technical journals by a remark
able article contributed to the Times this week.
The writer mentions there that Pennsylvania
and Alabama furnaces are turning out ship
plates for European shipyards. and that the
question Is naturally being asked In America.
If We can make the plates and frames. why
can't we build the boats also ?" The Times. in
its editorial columns. has no doubt Of what the