Arizona republican., 1898-08-23
ENGLAND's ENLARG1NG VIEW.

Cable advices bring abstracts of a leading editorial article published in to-day's London Times which strik- ingly disclose the broadening tendency of the British estimate of American character and statesmanship. The Times, which has never been suspected of any undue fondness for the United States, but which, on the contrary, has been one of the severest if not always fair-minded critics of our institutions and impulses, has come to view them in a new light. It is profoundly i'm pressed with the dignity, firmness and magnanimity with which President Mckinley has conducted the war against Spain, and it praises his policy in terms which are at once thoughtful and cordial Of his personal strength and alertness it says:
 If foreign observers might presume to have an opinion upon his conduct, it would probably be that President Mckinley has kept his finger constant ly upon the national pulse, and has known how to stimulate and direct na- tional thought without too markedly outrunning its movement. Everything has been done in the open, every move has been discussed as possibility all over the United States before the gov ernment was irrevocably committed one way or the other, and the result of this cautious, tentative policy is that where he stands at this moment the president has the whole American people at his back.
 The clearness and accuracy of this view are unusual in English utterances respecting American affairs. The Times, in discerning the absolute unity and enthusiasm with which the presi- dent has enlisted the people of the whole nation, has revealed the crown ing glory of the entire war and the supreme achievement of his admins tration. It is not less exact in this expression, concerning the moral re- suits of the conflict:
 It is noteworthy that while the Spaniards, who are usually regarded as chivalrous, romantic and medieval, have turned first to the financial as pect of the situation, the Americans, who are usually supposed to be in tensely practical, have as yet hardly given a thought to the financial or eco homie side of the question. What oc- cupies the American people at this mo- ment is not the cost of the war, the value of their acquisitions or the bal ance of the profit and loss account, but the moral result of the struggle and the nature of the ideas which it stimu- lates.
 Here the Times repeats to mankind the high assurance which this govern ment freely gave at the opening of hos tilities. It was then declared that the war was not impelled by the greed for conquest or by any other base pur- pose, but by a profound belief that the results which it sought to accomplish would work for the moral welfare of tho world. That belief, sincerely held by the American people, inspired and dominated all of our national under takings on land and sea, and now, with peace re-established after an unbroken campaign of victories, it is the central thought of our government in the task of readjusting the political status of the conquered islands. The Times generously acknowledges the unselfish purposes of our government, and it's approval of the moral attitude of Pres ident Mckinley is both graceful and grateful.
 The meaning of it all is that the English conception of American states manship has been enormously en- larged by the conduct of the war and by the generous terms with which the president is disposed to treat the fall en enemy. To have conquered this glowing tribute from the chief repre- sentative of English public opinion is an achievement scarcely less proud than the overthrow of Spanish power in the west