The age-herald., 1898-04-10
JOHNNY BULL SAYS
 IT MUST BE WAR Crisis Has Reached Stage When Nothing
 Else Can Result. THE REPLY TO THE POWERS This Is Said to Have Indicated Our De-
 termination. REMEMBERING ASPECT OF WAR This Is Being variousy Commented. G. and in Case of Hostikties May Involve Beth
 Countries m Serious nterna-
 tionaI Disputes.

London, April 9-If anything was want ing to confirm the European belief that the Cuban crisis has reached an impasse in which there is no issue but war as the result. or the hauling down of the Spanish flag, it has been found in President Mo- Kinley's reply to the ambassadorial note presented at Washington on Thursday last, so strlkingly reassuring the determin- alton that there is only one way to pre- vent the United States intervening to end the intolerable situation.
 As a matter of fact no confirmation was wanted, for Europe's only real hope of a peaceful solution of the question was based on the belief that when they realized the futility of the high strung talk about their honor the Spaniards would accept the al- ternative and surrender. The ambassado- rial appeal at Washington was regarded as an obvious formality. The British official view of the matter as the Associated Press has already set forth, that the occasion was one for the sole exercise of American discretion and that the American attitude toward Cuba is the same any other civ iliZed and self respecting government would hold under similar circumstances. Practi- cally the whole of this country takes the same view of the case. One of the few dis cordant notes in the paean of sympathy with the aims of the United States comes
 
 The Freeman's Journal the organ of the Irish nationalist leader, MT. John Dillon, a paper claiming to represent the Irish party after fiat-footedly expressing the hope that Spain will win in the expected war, asks:
 Irish Taper Against Us
 'Is there a nation in the world which could brook the insults evelled at the Spaniards in the American press, or would not protest against the stand of the ad- uiniStratiOn2
 In conclusion, the Freeman's Journal re- marks: "In our opinion the United States would be better employed helping Spain to make autonomy a success, rather than in forcing deplorable war The latest advices show the Americans do not want to deliver Cuba to the Cubans."
 The Irish Independent league has pro- tested aganst this declaration and passed a resolution of sympathy with the United States.
 The resolutions adopted by the New York chamber of commerce at its recent meeting are regarded as a highly important factor of the situation and as giving the approval of the business men to the war policy.
 During the course of a conversation a high official of the British foreign office said: "The certain difficulties and possible danger which the United States is inviting by it's attitude besides the vast cost and the disquieting uncertainties of war itself, all of which could be avoided by a policy of indifference, show the e-mindedness of the American aims and constitute an irresistible claim upon the sympathies of other nations for the assured losses are not counterbalanced by any prospect of gain.'
 Privateering Aspect
 There is much interest here in the prvat- eering aspect of the expected hostilities and the exploits of the Alabama" on both sides will be eagerly followed. It is hoped