The San Francisco call., 1898-04-29
THE WAR OUTLOOK.


 / ton and its responsibilities. Other nations are Tn condition of waiting anxiety. The strug- gle may soon broaden and should prepare for 1t as Ii intending to fight it out alone. Hostility of the Continental nations is to be expected and If Spain had their respect she would lack allies from the beginning
 One feature is of deep significance. The, South and Central American nations are silent It reason able to expect from their people evidences of en- thusastic sympathy. They all owe much to the United States They have not turned to us in vain heretofore for friendship in the complications com- mon to their turbulent and truculent people. We guaranteed Nicaragua in the Corinto affair. The Monroe doctrine delivered Mexico from Maxim- ian We lifted Venezuela out of difficulty with Eng land of sixty years standing. We supported the stitutional government of Brazil against the re- actonists of 1894. We have offered them profitable market on terms fairly reciprocal and American cap tal and enterprise have developed their and energized their industries Yet they silent while battalions and squadrons to ex- pei from the hemisphere that Government against which the most of them rebelled. Later on they will see more clearly the stake they have in success. Granting that we as the Primate of this hemisphere, have challenged every power but in the other purpose is not to add a rood to territory dollar to treasury. We win for the elevation of government and its higher adaptation to the happiness of the governed But suppose the struggle rises to duel with Conti- mental Europe, can our American neighbors maintain a silent indifference? If in such struggle we fail every national frontier from the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan is in danger of European invasion and every national standard from Mexico to the Ar gentines may be summoned to surrender.
 It is strained forecast of such possibility to see that within five years the Continental allies may be treating with each other for partition of Central and South America, and the political geography of this hemisphere will undergo changes as acute as have taken place in Europe within the last two centuries
 We hold to these countries south of us the same relation that England held to the Continent during the menace of Napoleon's When his shadow cast from the Skager Rack to the Pyramids the German, Latin and Russian peoples had to turn to the Saxons of the British Isles to protect their autonomy and break the Corsican's scheme of uni versa empire. They had no time to consider the prejudices of race religion. Representation sponged out all such issues. Americans are now sneered at in the Continental press as dollar worship So Napoleon sneered at the British people as nation of shopkeepers These epithets only mean that the two nations by law so protect person and property rights that their people thrive
 There is wide difference between people who fight to protect the winnings of their industry pro- noted by their government and ohe that fights simply to change the angles of its misery and distress Men get dollars and have the profits of trade and shop keeping only where they the least hndercd by bad government. The countries in which such men are found continually enriched and strengthened by the immigration of the enterprsing from lands where fortune and enterprise will never be pointed to as reproach, for they do not exist.
 Spain is illustration of the decay of a people who stew in their own juice-of land that attracts no immigration.
 Our South American neighbors will learn in good time that they have national existence only because the United States planted here and that our flag had not been in the sky theirs would never have been given to the breeze.
 The American spirit rises the scene is disclosed Suddenly embarked in the most majestic military en- terprise in history, made so, not by the formidable resources of enemy but by the issues of right we have undertaken to establish by the sword we move toward the conclusion, without allies and asking none confident that the ship that IS freighted with the hopes of man and bears the destiny of unborn mil lions cannot be made to strike her coors
 
 THE PRIVATE CITIZEN.