The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-06-22
HDN WILL II END?
win Foreign Countries Be Allowed
to Dictate at the Close of the War
How it Shall be Settled ?

son and out of season, the proposi-
ton that we must be prepared to
Withstand foreign intervention at
the close of the war, or the conse-
quenoes will be disastrous says the
National Intelligencer.
The evidence continues to null
tiply that Europe will endeayor to
be a party to the final settlement
between Spain and the United
States.
The European papers are filed
with discussions of whether Ger
many will allow France to obtain
control of the PHILIPPINES. or as to
whether Russia will approve" re-
tention thereof by the United
States; and the proposition is adj
vanced that partition of the Phil
lipines between the United States
and the several European powers
will be about the proper thing.
France has openly expressed its
hostility to this country through
its popular newspapers at the OPP
ening of the war. The immediate
response from this country in
the form of boycott on French
goods has caused the French news
papers to draw in their horns some
what, but there is abundant evil
dence, both public and private,
that French sentiment is hostile to
this country, and that Germany and
Austria feel the same.
1t needs no specific evidence,
however, to warn the United States
of what it may expect. Like eau
ses produces like results. The
great powers of Europe have acq-
uired the habit of interfering at
the end of any war, regardless of
whom the combatants may be, with
view to acquiring benefits to
themselves without expense.
Asiatic countries and Asiatic
markets have also come to be look
ed upon by the European powers
as their particular private proper
ty, to be parcelled out among them
and fenced in as against the bal
ance of the world, and more partic-
ularly against the United States.
1t requires no prophet to predict
that the sudden eruption of Amer
lea into these supposedly European
reserves, and the requirement of it
of the enormously valuable Philli-
pine Islands, diarranging all Euro
pean plans, will not be submitted
to by Europe, without protest.
Back of the habit of interference
and the plan of purtitioning off
Asia for exclusive European bene-
fit lies the more serious and almost
universal European antipathy to
America, arising out of the des-
tructive competition which the
United States is now carrying on
in all foreign markets as against
European producers. This has in
duced feeling of envious jealousy
against the United States which
pervades all Europe, formulated
and well-expressed in the pronun-
ciamento of Count Goluchowski,
the Austrian Minister of foreign
affairs last year, in which he called
upon all Europe to combine in de-
Tense of its commercial and politi-
cal existence, against the common
foe-America That call met with
an immediate response from every
European capital.
Forewarned is forearmed.
The end of the war cannot be far
off. Now is the time to prepare
for the inevitable European at
tempt at interference. Unprepar-
edness to meet such interference
may involve us in war with them.
Preparedness to meet it will be the
most certain guarantee of peace.
We will not submit 10 foreign
dictution in our affairs. The way
to prevent it is to be ready to defy
the European powers.
1t is all nonsense to talk about
the new war loan being popular
bond issue, in the sense that it en-
ables people of moderate means to
become bond-holders. How many
people of moderate meanes would
be able, under existing financial
conditions, to invest in govern
ment bonds? Few, very few. 1t
is, therefore, mere farce to call it
a peoples loan.
Congress was very particular
how it handled the great corpora
tons when the war tax bill was
framed. That enormously rich
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