The times., 1898-07-11
LONDON TOPICS.
Peace Hoped For, But Not Expected
just Yet.

London. July s.-Peace between Spain
and the United States would be warmly
welcomed here. but there is much skepti-
cism about the rumored negotiations
This skepticism is based on facts which
the Spectator expresses thus: The
Spaniards live under a system of con-
scription, and are penetrated with conti-
mental military ideas. They would re-
gard the surrender of Cuba with its army
still undefeated as the basest of military
treacheries. Regiments released by peace
would return home mad with rage and
clamoring for vengeance upon their be-
trayers. While the army in Cuba can
fight Spain must fight. That and not
bombast Is what Senior Sagasta means
when he says that the government will
continue the war while a soldier is left
in the island under arms
mo doubt" the Spectator adds, there
will be peace in the end. When bulldog
and bloodhound meet in combat, there
always is peace, serene peace, for the
survivor"
Should the German plans concerning
the Philippines. of which / cabled yester-
day, not be frustrated by diplomatic in
they may hasten the end by the process
of diversion among both Spaniards and
Americans Meanwhile the drift of
Americas national policy as illustrated
by the annexation of Hawaii is discussed
everywhere.
These dispatches have fully reflected
the widespread English sympathy with
this policy of expansion, but the other
side of the question has not been entirely
Thus mi nf m
English provincial journals, the Manches-
ter Guardian. urges today, now cyfiical1y,
now earnestly. the gravity of this aban-
donnent to America and the world of the
traditions which made America great IT
says: "One can imagine the way in
which Washington or Franklin would
have regarded the series or actions con-
corning the seizure Of Hawaii by an act
as violent and illegal as the Jameson raid
government. in which only 1900 had
share, and the transfer of the islands and
people, like a farm, with the stock and
cattle, from the oiigarchy which
seized them to the foreign gov
ernment that coveted them. The
American imperiaiist, with a smile
of indulgent rather than apoiogetic COM
passion for his parents. who chung to the
highest ideals does not censure Wash
ington or Franklin, but makes great al
lowances for them, and is persuaded, as
firm y as Engltshmen or Frenchmen or
Germans, that he intends to go about
doing good to any people whose land
comes in his way, and has not yet been
appropriated by other philanthropists"
What literally astounds all thinking
Englishmen Is the unhesitating intrepid
fty with which America is stretching her
hand over new territories, without first
seriously asking how the tangled problem
of their government is to be solved
THE ingenious Yankee will find a way
out somehow IS how discussions
generally end here.
There is yet startling tale to be told
of the Jameson raid. if the little group Of
men who know of it ever receive sufficient
inducement TO tell. This week another
little corner of the veil has been drawn
aside by a report Of the House of Com
mons committee on pubEc accounts. The
report conveys the surprising information
that the British officers taking part in the
raid, though struck off the army list.
have been awarded substantial allow
ances, namely, 1880 annually. of retired
pay to Col. Rhodes. and gratuities of S.
900 to Capt White. IS. 900 to Capt Raleigh
Grey. $3.50 to Major White and s.. .6Ss to
Major Willoughby.