The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-06-11
A CLASH OF ARMS.
{ iERICA AND ENGLAND MUST STAND
OR FALL TOGETHER.

JOHNNY Bull and Uncle Sam Must be Good
Friends in the Pre- sent Conflict SO as to
keepthe Other Foreign Nations From
Taking Hand -
Sentiment is something not to be de-
aeised as a practical factor either in pol
1tlcs or IN personal affairs. The common
people OF America and Great Britain are
lmpelled to desire alliance, because they,
1eel that they are Of one blood. And that
purely sentimental feeling has as much
{ Dear1n.s on the affair as has the polit-
Y zeal wisdom Of the statesmen who see
4 ti.aI there is a growing enmity against
the Afsgao-Saxens arnerg all the nations
OF the continent Of Europe AS yet. the
enm1ty Is commercial, and takes the form
OF commercial raids. But the heavy
ornaments of the powers are pushing,
nara behind, declares the New York
Press. The tap of tiny hammer a tap
that might be given by the most unim-
portant of the little things that cause
friction between nations, may release
the unsteady stay which holds back that
enormous weight of human, war material
and start it sliding down on the two ma
items whom the world enves.
There has not been a day in the last ten
years when the Latins have not been
made to feel the contemptuous indiffer-
ence with which the free Anglo-Saxons
looked on their policies and menaces It
Is little wonder that they hate the clean
race with the pure blood that is waxing
stronger In every quart er of the globe, in
every way, while their ancient and weak
ened systems meet with defeats that thew
cannot, explain-for the Latin does not
realize that time has doomed him.
or the newer and healthier races that
wait only for the chance to strike Eng
land and America. the Germans are actu-
nr,<vo py,S
1mpatience Of militarism rules them.
When they meet a problem difficult of
solution, political or commercial, they
squint at the military power to see If it
cannot solve the vexing question with
force. .5.... .......- ..' q NM =.
More sfierceiy than any other power.
because he has more virility and youth,
the Russian hates the Anglo-Saxon With
orlglnal saVagery strong within him. he
looks to war as the easiest way of solving
troublesome questions and Of moving fur
Their ahead on the road which he has
marked out with the instincts Of the
primitive conqueror, the conquest of ter
ritory. =. - -"
So, with deeply-rooted reasons for .ra-
cial, political and commercial hatred it is
no idle blare Of war that comes from the
new and informal concert Of Europe.
Should general war be declared against
either the United States Of Great Britain
support of the other. A successful attack
on Great Britain by the powers Of emit
mental Europe would mean an attack on
the United States as sure as consequence
follows cause. Let Great Britaipr lose
the mastery of the seas and ath&SN Syoftt;i
IS, ,,s, would ,bs
Rsaa alebesstsbls Hasaslas isal o glll
Brit ain. Blockade Of the United States
by the powers would lay tens of thou
sands of tons of her shipping idle in her
harbors. "
An attack by the contir er tai powers on
the two nations would not be war WITT
ordinary PURPOSES. It would be war OF
one-half of the civilized world against the
other, of political and commercial exter-
mination. There would be engaged in It |
on one side two nations whose people, |
scattered all over the globe, number 49,. |
S31, 500. There would be on the other side
five nations with 26S,604, $50 people. More
than 100000 of soldiers could be called
on. The oceans of all the world would be
filled with fleets. To one watching the
globe from some other planet it would
seem as If the Inhabitants of the earth
were about to destroy each other and
leave the world untenanted #~,s,-&
And yet this mighty war Of a magni-
tude too great to grasp. would in the be-
ginning. be limited almost altogether to
oite llll1sS TIE Struggle LOT the mastery
of the ocean. Until the sea power of the
two Anglo-Saxon nations was broken
there could be no great military opera
tons against either. AS long as they held
the oceans they would hold the only road
by which their possessions. could be at
tackled. However mighty the continental
powers may be in armies and armament,
the force in which the United States and
Great Britain are the most nearly equal
to them is that Of the navy. Until the
British and American navies nave peene
destroyed, therefore, the powers could
make little use Of their huge armies.
The effective navies Of the contending
powers would be furnished by France,
Russia, Italy and Germany in the order
named. The fifth power, Austria Hun
CARA, has no ships that are worth con-
sdering. as they could not be used to
protect he: bit of sea, coast.
The following table, which shows the
relative strength of the fleets, has been
prepared with the object of listing the
vessels according to common standard.
Almost every, nation has its own way of
listing it's ships, and one will call a YES
sci battleship, when, according to the
higher standard Of another. 1t is only a,
cruiser. The ships as tabulated here are
divided into their various classes ac-
cording to the British and American
standards: .t.E u.t
a.. &c.,. ~. Gunkoats
rnod,