The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-17
Britain Will Not Join Il to Prevent
Our Fight.
LONDON PRESS COMMENT
ARTICLES ADVERSE TO PRO-
POSED INTERVENTION.
London Chronicle Points Out That
There Are Strong Friends of Amer
lea In the British Ministry-Times
Against An Alliance With Amer
ica-Westminster Gazette Vicious.

London, April 16.-The Daily Chroni-
Gle, taking it for granted that there is
some truth in the report of a new
concert for coercion, devotes an edi-
torial to inducing England not to join.
1t says: Our concern is to see that
England is not once more dragged at
the heels of despots and made to play
the game of the latest of the rotten
est tyrannieS that cucumber the earth.
We have good reason to say that
there are strong friends of America
in the present government and we
hope Lord Salisbury is one of them,
but il is important that the feeling of
the country should be adequately
represented, both in England and in
Washington.
1T was easy to coerce Greece, but
America stands in a different cate
CORY. She is a very great power, in
tensely proud and entirely self-con-
tanned. Her fate has been TO under
take a task peculiarly arduous and
thankless. She is not going to be
bullied by the heroes of the Cretan
blockade, and If the movement against
her is pressed too far, she will be
compelled in her own interests to clear
the situation.
DEFEAT THE COMBINATION
''Our present purpose is TO insist
that our government does it's best by
using every means in its power to de-
feat any anti-American combination.
If there is any doubt about the feel
ings of the great majority of the ma
ton, We shall be happy to try the ex-
pertinent of marching a hundred
thousand Londoners through the me-
fropoliS with the union jack and the
stars and stripes in combination. 1t is
the business of the mother country TO
stand by her children of the west as
stiff1y and strongly as one country can
by another"
The Daily Chronicle also ridicules
the Saturday Review, which asks
Where are the American officers for
an army to march through Cube?"
It says it is not aware that the
United States is to do anything Of that
sort, but if it does, its trouble will
be chiefly one of selection from a vast
number of highly trained men from
the West Point academy"
The Times, which attaches no i'm
portance to the rumors Of a European
demonstration against the United
States saws:
NO PARTY TO IT.
England would assuredly be no
party to such &. demonstration. but it
is even more absurd to suggest that
because England sympathizes with
American indignation at Cuban hor-
rors, the British government ought to
rush into armed alliance with the
United States for a settlement of a
question in which we have no immedi-
ate concern.
1T is another instance of the hare
Drained folly which endeaxoEed TO in
voiVe US in a war on behalf of Greece.
The Americans would rightly regard
an offer Of such assistance as an in
trusion and an insult. But 1t is to be
added that though We cannot condone
the horrors of Spain, we feel very
keenly that she is paying a heavy
penalty in the form most painful to a
high spirited nation; and for any rea-
son short of such urgent considerations
as are most unlikely to arise, we
should be unwilling to go out of our
way TO throw our forces, into the bal
ance against an old ally.
THE HOLY ALLIANCE.
The St. James Gazette this after
noon published an article headed an
"Anti-American Holy Alliance" dur
ing which il says:
1.-The reports of European interior
ence in the Cuban question are dis
tinctly the most interesting news be-
cause il IS now plain nothing can pre-
vent war except some such inteTVen-
ton. The United States has gone too
far to recede. America wants to fight
and so far as we can see America Will
be going wrong, not through its states
men, but through national hysterla-
1T is exasperating to those who wish
peace and the end in Cuba of Spanish
nisrule. to see American passion throw
ing away what American statesman
ship has won. There is, therefore, OBJ
viously an opportunity for the forcible
intervention of the powers, or some OF
them.
The position Of Great Britain in
such an eventuality is delicate one,
but from the point of view of France,
Italy, Austria and Germany, 1t must De
allowed that the plea that Spain made
could hardly fall on deaf ears Senior
Sagasta's Indignation in regard to the
accusation now bluntiy brought in c. n
nection with the Maine is perfectly Jus
tiiable. after the reticence observed by
the responsible American government.
Spain virtually throws UP the sponge
in ordering an armisuce.
s'If American interference goes fur-
tber in its insulting attack upon the
mere existence of European sovereignty
over the island, straight walstcoat
would seem TO be a very useful article
Of attire for the outside powers TO pro-
vide for the country which wants to
bite off more than it can chew, with
out consideration for other peoples in
terests. The notion that England must
support America against Europe,
whether America is right or wrong, is
absolutely ludicrous.
But if a new holy alliance is at
tempted to coerce America in respect to
a matter in which our sympathies were
with America, it would, no doubt, find
Great Britain q strong ally of the
United States"