The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-27
GREAT BRITAIN
VIEWS It WITH
INDIFFERENCE
No Alarm by Treaty
of France and Italy.
FRIENDSHIP OF UNCLE SAM
CAUSES JOHN BULL TO REMAIN
IN CoMPLACENT MOOD.
In the Present Position of the Worlds
Politics England Is Not Solicit
tous for Italian
Support.
CAUSES JOHN BULL TO REMAIN
IN COMPLACENT MOOD.
Copyrighted. 1898. by the Associated Press.


LONDON, Nov. 26.-France and
Italy, after a decade of tariff warfare,
have surprised their friends and enc
mics by concluding a commercial
treaty which promises to shift the
balance of power in Europe. But for
the friendship of the United States,
which emboldens Great Britain to
comparative Indifference regarding
continental combinations, Great Brit
ain would be alarmed at this prospect
of Italy deserving the triple alliance
and adding her formidable navy to the
Franco-Russian compact, which is
held TO be the inevitable result of the
union of the two estranged nations.
The critics here regard the treaty as a
sequel TO the Fashoda incident.
Frances defeat in Egypt opened her
eyes TO the necessity of increasing the
number of her friends. Therefore, she
fastened to initiate negotiations with
Italy and will give her weaker neigh
Dor the benefit of the minimum tariff,
long and vainly sought by the lat
ter. The Italians estimate that under
the new arrangement million hecto-
Htres of heavy southern wines, which
wines, Will be exported to France, re-
sulting in great impetus to Italian
industry. In return France expects to
remove the dangers of having to cope
with the Italian navy in the Mediter-
ranean in the event of a German war
and also to nullify Germany'S policy
of isolating France.
Free trade Britain has no subsidies
she can offer to retain Italy's support;
hrH~ h.. -
worlds politics, she is not as solicitOus
for it as she would have been year
ago What Great Britain loses in Italy,
the Westminster Gazette declares, she
gains in the Philippines.
Conversations which a representative
Of the Associated Press has had with
politicians here indicate that the inter
est of Englishmen in the United States
Eastern tariff is increased y the be-
lief that once embarked in colonial &C
QUESTION the United States will be
compelled, as Great Britain has been,
to constantly add to her colonies pos
sessions which may be thrown on the
market merely to prevent them falling
into the hands of her rivals.
The inauguration of q CLOSED door
policy, they think here, should do much
potential damage to British interests,
and every American utterance tending
TO fOreshadOW the open door" policy
nifed by the editorial writer's.
The Speaker says: THE Government
at washington is creditably anxious to
show TO the world that they do not de-
sire mere aggrandiZement for their vic
tory over Spain, and they do not desire
to shut out other nations from the ma
terial advantage which they derive
themselves.
The London office of a Philippine cap
italist has received a letter from it's
agent at Manila, dated October IS, In
which the agent says:
The rebels are prepared already to
resist annexation l am in the conf |
dence of their chiefs and I assure you
they are quite prepared to retire to the
hills If more than a protectorate is of |
fered. | hope 1t will not come to war
like proceedings, for it would be a very
protracted affair. The Americans
would not find the rebels as easy as the
Spaniards did, for they formerly had
only 400 rifles, while the rebels now
have $4,000 rifles and eighty cannon, in
Guiding several MaXims."
The Manila correspondent adds: !
Americans are not allowed to pass
the rebel lines without passports a
party Of German officers who ATTEMPT
ed to do so without passports were
mistaken for Americans and were re-
fused permission. When 1t was dis
covered they were Germans the OH
GERS were permitted to proceed"
The manager Of this Philippine COM
DanV who has spent years in the Phil