The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-04
NO SYMPATHY FOR UNCLE SAM
QUIRINAL AND VATICAN DO NOT
LIKE THE EXPANSION IDEA.

HtiOn-FeeItnE in the old World
Liable to Hasten AnglO-American
AIIinnce-WilIiam Il. stead sum-
marixes the Situation.
London, Nov. A-(Correspondence Of the
Associated Press .)-winiam T. Stead,
writing from Rome, under date of Nov 81.
says;
THE answer to the question, What does
the Old World think of the New World
has never been made with greater empha-
sis than in the Eternal City The oldest
old world regards The newest with feelings
of anger, disgust and alarm, almost too
great for words. The sentiment of indig-
nation differs In intensity; but 1t is uni
versal There is no sympathy for the Uni
ted States either among whites or blacks.
In fact, dislike of the American seizure
of the Philippines, and a conviction that
the humane enthusiasm which made the
war possible was a mere mask of cant,
assumed In order to facilitate conquest,
are almost the only sentiments shared in
common by the rival camps of the Quiri-
nal and the vatican.
with the Kings men the sentiment
is comparatively mild. They do not be-
lieve in the least In the disinterestedness
of the American war Of liberation. The
American declarations are almost univer-
sally derided as hldeous examples of
worse than English hypocrisy. Uncle
Sam, they say, determined in all things
to surpass John Bull, has outdone him
even in pharisaism and cant. The friends
of America wiring their hands in unaffect-
ed grief over the fall of the United States
under the temptation of the lust of ter
ritorial expansion. Her enemies shoot out
the lip, and can Shrek in derision over
what they regard as the unmistakabie
demonstration which the demand for the
Philippines affords of American cupidty,
American bad faith and American ambi-
ton Outside England have met no nom
American who did not dislike the expan-
sion of America, nor do l think in the
whole of our tour through Europe, have
met one European who did not receive
! nv protestations as to the genuine SINGER
! ity with which the American people en-
! tered into-th war with more or less mock
| ing incredulity.
! I'm the course of my tour 1 am now
| compelled to admit 1 found proof Of the
| existence of a disposition on the part of
! the Powers to intervene on behalf of Spain,
! which might have been very serious had
| 1t not been checked in the bud by the
knowledge that England would have moth
| ing to do with it. When / was in Paris I
| was positively told that no proposal had
| ever made to Intervene, and that therefore
! England had never had the occasion or op-
| portunity to put her foot down on the anti
American coalition That, no doubt, was
true as far as overt action on the part
of the government was concerned. But
1t is. not less true that immedi-
ate.y after the war broke out,
| a diplomatic representatives of the
| Powers communicated to an American
minister at a European court in plain and
unmistakable terms, the displeasure of the
Powers and their desire to express that
displeasure publicly and forcibly
These communications were sufficiently
serious for the contingency of the use of
allied forces of the European nations for
the coercion of the United States, to be
| frankly discussed between the diplomat
| lists The result of that discussion was
| to put a summary stop to all notion of
| European Intervention.
If you intervene, said the American
minister, 1T means war
Yes rejoined his visitor and the
forces Of the great European powers act
/
| sition which America could offer
No doubt said the American, but
| you would have to bring your forces
across the Atlantic to the other hemis-
| phere and keep them there for the rest
! of your natural life, for the New World
! is not going to submit to the Old World
/ any more. No sir, not any more than it
| submitted a century SINCE when the odds
were far worse
| And, remember he added, as a clinch-
er, that when you were bringing your
armies and navies across 1000 miles of sea
| to fight America, you would have to count
with England, who Is certainly not friend
| ly to your enterprise
This put an extinguisher on the pro-
posal. Nothing more was heard of the
! CONTEMPLATED Intervention IL never got
so far as to be submitted to England. The
whole design was checked at the very OUT
| set by the calm audacity with which the
representative of America played his
cards. including the trump card of the An
! glo-American entente, which henceforth
will play a leading part in all the deal
! ings of the English-speaking people with
| their jealous and suspicious neighbors.
Il am very glad TO be able to set forth
the actual facts as they actually hap
pened. They were told me at FIRST hand
by the person most Immediately concerned,
and you can absolutely rely upon the ac-
curacy of the above statement
"If the Old World regards American
growth and expansion with unconcealed
alarm, the British empire which is seat
ed both on the Old World and the New.
contemplates the new departure with un-
| affected sympathy. The relations between
the embassies OF Britain and America at
/ Constantinople and at Rome could hardly
| be closer and more cordial, II there had
been a hard and fast cut and dried. sign
| ed. sealed and delivered treaty of alli-
ance, offensive and defensive between the
/ two powers.
III things 90 on as they are going now.
every English-speaking man will feel as
1 / have felt throughout this war, that he
has not one ambassador, but two IN ev-
cry capital in Europe, and that behind
him. wherever he goes, he IL shielded by
the might, not of one empire but Of two.
/ a combination beneath which shadow the
whole world may yet earn 70 rest IN
peace"