The record-union., 1898-04-16
Foreign Powers Will Find the Task
Net an Easy One.
Not Going to be Bu|ied by the Heroes of
the Cretan Blockade.
Comment of a London Journal on
the Report That the Powers
Will Unite in a Naval Demon
stration in Case of Hosti1ities
With Spain.

LONDON, April 16-The Daily
Chronicle" taking it for granted that
there is some truth in the report of
new concert for coercion, devotes an
editorial to inducing England not to
join. 1t says:
Our concern is to see that England
is not once more dragged at the heels
of despots and made to play the game
| of the latest of the rotteneSt tyrannieS
| that cucumber the earth. We have
goodreason to say that there are strong
friends of America in the present Gov
eminent, and we hope Lord Salisbury
is one of them, but it is important
that the feeling of the country should
be adequately represented both in Eng
land and in Washington.
1T was easy to coerce Greece, but
America stands in a different category.
She is a very great Power, intensely
proud and entirely self-contained. Her
fate has been to undertake d task pc
cuIiarly arduous and thankless. She
is not going to be bullied by the heroes
of the Cretan blockade, and if the
movement against her is pressed too
far she will be compelled in her own
interests to clear the situation.
our Government does it's best by using
every means in it's power to defeat
any anti-American combination. If
there is any doubt about the feelings
of the great majority of the nation,
We shall be happy to try the expert
ment of marching a hundred thousand
lLondoners through the metropolis with
the Union Jack and the stars and
| T ic
ness of the mother country to stand by
her children of the West as stiff1y and
strongly as one can by another"
The Daily Chronicle" also ridicules
the Saturday Review" which asks:
Where are the American officers for
an army to march through Cuba?"
1t says it is not aware that the United
States is to do anything of that sort,
but if it does, it's trouble will be chief
ly one of selection from a vast number
of highly trained men from the West
Point Academy"
The Times which attaches no i'm
portance to the rumors of a European
demonstration against the United
| States, says:
England would assuredly be no
party to such a demonstration, but it
because England sympathizes with
American Indignation at Cuban hor~
rors, the British Government ought to
run into armed alliance with the United
States for a settlement of a question in
which we have no immediate concern.
1T is another instance of the hair
Drained folly which endeavored to in
volve us in a war on behalf of Greece.
The Americans would rightly regard
an offer of such assistance as an intru-
sion and an insult. But it is to be add
ed that { ough we cannot condone the
errors of Spain, we feel very keenly
that she is paying a heavy penalty in
the form most painful to a high-spir-
tied nation and for any reason short
of such urgent considerations as are
| most unlikely to arise, we should be
| unwilling to go out of our way to throw
our forces into the balance against an
old ally"
ITALIAN PRESS HOSTILE TO THE
UNITED STATES.
LONDON, April 15.-The Rome cor
respondent of the Daily Mail" says:
Captain Mahan of the United States
navy arrived here last night Thursday
and in the course of a conversation with
a special mission to Europe from the
United States Government. Abiding to
the allegations that the great Powers
are to make a naval demonstration in
SPANS favor, he expressed the utmost
incredulity as to its truth and its FEAST
bility, if even contemplated
/ The Foreign Office declares absolutely
untrue that the Powers have even dis
/ of
ton in the Hispano-American dispute.
So far they have merely decided, for
moment, to offer no further interven-
ton as a body. Italy, however. has pro-
posed that Russia, a recognized disin-
terested nation, should use its offices to
induce the United States to accept a
middle course. This the other Powers
| have heartily approved.
| The entire Italian press is hostile to
the United States. The 'Tribuna" calls
on the Powers to mark the risk an
American victory would mean for them.
It says: IF Spain is vanquished, the
old established rights of Europe will fall
before the American highhandedness.
Americas gargantuan appetite will
grow with victory and then woe to the
nations OF Europe"
Americas action to the Jameson raid
in the Transvaal, and says it is 'un-
justified and condemned by the whole
civilized world" and that America is
mistaken if she thinks Spain will be left
! at her mercy"
PRIVATEERING
| LONDON, April 16.-Tha Times"
prints this morning letter from Sir
George Baden-Powell, NJ. p, asking
why Great Britain should not plainly
declare that she would not allow the
| declaration of Paris to be set aside, and
| that privateers would be treated as pi-
rates if they touched British ships, and
in any case would be excluded from
| British ports.
The Times" commenting on the let
| ter, says: I'VE can see no reason why
| the Powers which. signed the declara-
ton of Paris should not join in this as
sertion of policy now recognized by the
civilized world for forty years In any
case, our interests are so vast that We
have right to act for ourselves. There
| is no reason to believe that the United
! States would resist the assertion Of
these principles. and Spain can hardly
refuse to submit to rules which she vol-
UNFAIRLY submitted during the war with
France in 1928
VIENNA, April 15.-The sWeiner Al
legemsine Zeitung" asserts that the
Powers have been notified that in the
event of war both Spain and the United
Estates will refrain from privateering.