The Winslow mail., 1898-07-16
DREAD OF EUROPE.
Autipathy to This Country Is Not
Confined to France.
The Probable Policy of Spain in the
Present war-EneIand Is Said to
Be Unpopular on the
Continent,

Continent,
The lawlessness of the French gov
eminent is reflected in the press. The
unanimity of objurgation against Eng
land for her attitude toward Spain and
the United States is now the marked
feature of the French press. The Libre
Parole presents to the world French
opinion in miniature, when it stigma
tizes England as the hypocritical ac-
complice of the United States. "Their
alliance is" it declares, "an ignominy:
but it is just as well, perhaps, that they
should work together, for the day upon
which they will be called to account bv
international justice = the day when
the British leeeh will be forced TO dis
gorge, and Europe resolves to no long
er tolerate the disgrace Of allowing the
law to be laid down by such assassins
and malefactors as John Bull and Broth
er Jonathan-then it will have reason
for congratulation that they will be
able to invoke no eXcuse for mercy.
They have been brothers in infamy,
and history will sooner or later chas-
tise them altogether" This language
gives pointed, if5lndiplomatic, express
sion to continental antipathies that are
by no means confined to France. In
Germany, Austria, Russia and Italy
peoples and governments are antipa-
thetic to the principles represented by
the stars and stripes. A dispatch from
the Washington correspondent of the
London Times that appeared on April
23 has attracted wide attention, be-
pfuse, after describing an interview
with the president, the distinguished
correspondent says that Mr. Mckinley
turns a somewhat deaf ear to the
warnings of the European continent"
Do not let the American public make
any mistake about the facts. If Eng
land is unpopular on the continent it
is partly because she is strong, and
partly because she is not only free, but
the friend of freedom in other lands.
America is disliked among the despot-
isms for the same reasons. Continental
powers know that the organized armed
strength of the United States at the
end of this war, let it end when it may,
will make America match for the
great powers, whether in the Pacific OF
In the Atlantic. Foreigners perceive
that the rescue of Cuba from Spanish
brutality will Introduce the United
States into the circle of the great Eu-
ropean powers. To her will fall the dis
position of the Philippine islands, and
perhaps of Morocco sweet morsels
hankered after by Germany, by Japan
and By France. With the direct entry
OF the United States into the territorial
interests of the wide world her role in
the drama of the next century will be q
leading one.
Furthermore, the policy of Spain may
be to make of the war succession of
slow campaigns, and thus to render the
capture of Cuba but one incident in a
long struggle. European nations, other
than Great Britain, regard the ap-
proach to the shores of Spain of the
great western influence with feelings
of adherence, dismay and surprise.
They are beginning to see that while
for Spain there are two ways cut of the
trouble that besets her, for the United
States there is but one. Whatever the
cost, and whatever the sacrifice, the
American republic cannot stay her hand
until Spain has been driven out of her
colonial empire in east and west. And,
lastly, they know that whatever suffer
ing may be caused to the Spaniards,
pnd whatever steps are taken by the
United States to insure victory, and
however. needless the war may have
been, America will command the firm
friendship of England. 1 have taken
pains to discover the qualifications OF
tho persons responsible for the princi-
pal attacks on America that have ap-
peared in the London press, so far as
they have come under my notice. In
each case 1 learn that the writer has
visited neither Spain nor the states.
Alien influences have inspired utter
apces which no writer of true English
hlaed GOULD have penned. With regard
to the working men and the middle
classes there is nothing to report. Tho
keenest interest is taken. Newspapers
are published several times q day, in
eluding Sundays, but not single daily
paper of influence is found to break the
consensus of anxious solicitude for the
speedy success of American arms
London Cor. Harper's Weekly.