The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-05
lWERS OF THE FUTURE
E IS RUSSIA, THE OTHER
THE UNITED STATES


4at the Gar Is Master in the
tient, Even While the British
Nress Amused Itself with Buster
About War-AlIiance Opposition
Called Provincial by the English.
cial Correspondence The st. Paul Globe.
ONDON, Aug 24.-The cable has
badly told many Americans the last
days that England is about ready
do something terrible to Russia. It
no doubt represented England with
- back to the wall and in the act Of
-inging her foot down" again, and
ting everything made snug for a
W. The statements of this nature
)led back here are published in Brit
newspapers with great joy and the
at editors ara inclined to believe
America Is getting ready also to
. in and smash all the cars people
smithereens.
Meanwhile the government is miles
cad of this sort of nonsense and Is
eerfully getting itself into a frame
liable, namely, that Russia is going
run her own affairs her own way
thout first obtaining British consent.
I'd 1t Is not such a bad way either.
II twenty years or more Russia has
en- advancing her civilization, and
day is on the threshold of what
ay be called a boom. That she and
merica are destined to be the two
rongest powers on earth cannot be
ubted. That Russia intends to con-
Tue the development Of Industrial en-
rprises is proved by everything that
Ie does. That her sons are making
tides in art and literature is appar-
t, and no intelligent observer will
tempt to deny that the future Of
ussia looks brighter today than ever
her history. The world is moving
I'd Russia Is beginning to move with
On the surface Of things 1t may ap-
ear quite possible to stop Russian ex-
anston. On the surface it appeared
ute easy to check the growth of
merica @ century ago. But Russia is
ayond the power of any country to
2tate to her, or even to approach her
any bully-ragging spirit. For Eng
newspapers to talk Of fighting Rus
a because she has obtained conces-
ons from China, which England pos
IDLY wanted although even this is
oubtfuD, is merely IN accordance
18th the senseless egotism of the whole
ewspaper show over here.
The government never made a pref
-er donkey Of the British editor than
this blow about China. Month after
nth the foreign office has been nego-
'dting, or trying to negotiate, with
nina, and telegraphing and CORE
ponding with Russia. Being called
pom repeatedly for statements it has
vaded making them, and the only in
Jrmation on which is based all this
ror is that which has come from the
ekin correspondent Of the London
mes. During all these negotiations
e press remained quite placid until
GEAR the end of the recent session of
arliament. Then, when presumably
ne whole British case had been con-
idered and passed on, the press broke
Dose, and in the middle of the tan
runs parliament adjourned and Lord
Salisbury went bouncing off to France
Or q holiday.
Does this look like immediate and
.errjble war?
TOO MUCH WAR TALK.
Americans have been treated to war
predictions from London until they
ought to be sufficiently supplied, but
evidently there is room for more. The
lumor of these predictions is that the
bulk Of them involve a country whose
only real brave fighters are her editors,
who arrange all the details OF victory
while their masters are quietly making
explanations to avoid all possibility of
var. England's wars are confined
hese days to scraps in Africa.
1t is probable that were England at
yar with a powerful nation the Lon
on editor would be the first to cry out
gainst paying a shilling a loaf for
read, and the English manufacturer
5ould soon follow suit Heaven only
.nows what would become of the poor
3. ere who are half starved in the piping
ines Of peace. Fighting Russia for
the privilege Of civilizing Ii Hung
Chang may look we'll on paper, but less
J. avail budgets and more civilizing in
! uences at home might help the poor
If England; and / may add that the
poor of England are the salt Of the
garth. 1t is through no fault of theirs
that they have no chance. 1t is the re-
suit of the detestable British selfshness
There appeared in a London paper
the other day the news that a Grim
inal, whose death sentence for Willfu
murder had been committed to penal
servitude for life, had been released
from prison on license for the rest OF
to suggest that, now that England is
tumbling over herself to secure Ameri-
can friendship, would it not be a. good
idea to release Mrs. Maybrick and win
he praise and thanks of American
women? This American asks Haven
-ou punished her enough for a WON
?"
An amusing version Of the opposition
to the idea of favoring England at the
expense Of American relations with
other countries has reached here. OF
course, it is a characteristic British
version, and is to the effect that such
sentiments are provincial" 1t is i'm
possible yet for Englishmen to under