The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-11-11
AMERICA INFLUENCE EUROPE


great influence which the United
States is beginning to exert in the
politics of the Old World. Until
few weeks ago England's course in
Asiatic and African affairs aroused
great dissatisfaction among her citi-
zens, but all this has been changed.
Some of the leading British papers
asserted that their government was
being deluded and beaten by France,
Germany and Russia, in the contest
which was being waged by them for
territorial aggrandizement in China.
Marchand's march across the Nile
region was interpreted by English
newspapers as not only an indication
that France desired to appropriate a
large part of Egypt, but as an evil
dence that she would get it. Liberal
journals charged Premier Salisbury
with weakness. The Tory press made
apologies for him, and attributed his
laxness to ill-health. But both ac-
cusations and apologies have ceased.
The England of Salisbury has begun
to show some of the vigor she dis
played under the elder Pitt. The
change in England's course is one of
the surprises of the Old Worlds poll
tics. 1t all has come since the war
of the United States with Spain, the
strength which the United States
showed in that conflict, and the evil
dences of friendship by this country
for England displayed during that
struggle and since.
It was noticed and commented
upon by the British papers that the
only foreign diplomat present at the
banquet just given in England to
General Kitchener was the United
States representative. SIN thus as
sociating our American kinsfolk with
our national rejoicings," says the
London Times, 1--WE desire to show
the warm appreciation of the sym
pathy with which General Kitchener's S
victory has been commented upon
beyond the Atlantic" 1t is this
American sympathy, frequently and
conspicuously displayed of late, which
has nerved England to turn upon her
enemies. Americas moral aid would
be extended to England in any con-
fiict between that country and the
natl ons of continental Europe Every
nation in the Old World knows this,
and has commented upon it. Ameri-
cas- influence in this way is decisive,
though not a shot need be fired by an
American vessel or soldier. The
fact that the United States would be
unfriendlv to any combination
formed against England, so long as
Eng land, as now, is fighting the
bat ties of civilization, has a deterrent
effe ct upon continental Europe which
turns the scales in favor of England.
Thus we see England preparing her
Sc If at this moment to strike France
In Africa and Frances ally, Russia,
in Asia, if provocation is furnished.
As a consequence France is evacuat-
ing Fashoda and Russia s activity IN
Chinese affairs has suddenly ceased.
This evidence of the decisive char
acter of the United States influence
in Old World affairs will give time
illness and point to a prediction made
more than century ago by a con-
spicuous Englishman, "North Amer
ica is become a new primary planet
in the system of the world, which,
while 1t takes its own course, must
have It's effect upon the orbit of every
other planet, and shift the common
center of gravity" The author of
these words was Thomas Pownall,
formerly British governor in the
colonies, and then a member of the
House of Commons. The words were
uttered in 1880, and, little over a