New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-26
AN ENGLISH VIEW.
CAN FORBEARANCE IN THE
PRESENT CRISIS.

CAN FORBEARANCE IN THE
PRESENT CRISIS.
New-York correspondence Of The st. James's Ga
zette
When LEFT England toward the middle Of Feb,
arrive plump in the middle OF a red-hOt American
war WA ] We we're not thinking very much a60u,
Ffance and We Fl in FSRe nd qasS the
the rest-and were for the moment concerned
hearing some thing about financial reform projects.
cites the European mind. SO the good ship
Majestic ploughed her way through an inhospitabe
thousand-ton steamer as If she had been one Of the
.hanne cocke-shells of twenty years ago, the talk
IN the smoking room was Of anything you please
brown line OF the NeWJersey a Hghands was ahea5
rather shock to learn that were approaching
a country where political crisis was imminent.
only that morning the news had arrived that the
United States batte-shp Maine had been blown
lives, = the harbor Of HSvana it did not need
j9grnaiistc training to forets that tbs naws must
cities into a whirlpool Of emotion. We suppose
the, Americans: but consider what we should have
sad and thought and probably done II British
the ea that the 10 kaiser ga e IN s es
grams Of consratulation to President kruger?
THE SENSATIONAL PRESS
Accident or f9qI Play? This was the question We
which the people Of the United States have been
this is printed the verdict V Of the Court Of Inquiry
will have been made public. and the official answer
Of Wo s dered TIC h @6 But tn" at 'a h
time OF writing nothing Is known positively one
pect Of American Journalism that II should not
have tried the case for itself. and arrived at de-
cisi9n-whoqt the formai;y Of examining the
sy o6 ne NV few hours Of the first nma
ona Journals in pr0mpy oowed By
ardent admirers elsewhere. Immediately resolved
pedo but that the Spanish Government Deliberate
" and desgnedly placed that engine under the
quarter OF the doomed ironclad. And so for ten
days the ears Of the public were ass9iled with
faring theatricallsm and unscrupuous manipua-
ton OF what purports TO be news whereof the
To the credit OF American Journalism il must.
however. be stated emphatically that this danger.
the newspapers. The press as whole has treated
the crisis with praiseworthy moderat on and self
England by the excessive prominence assumed by
certain self-assertive newspapers, which have con-
are inclined ignore the existence Of a large
number Of American newspapers which are con-
the past week l have read any number OF edi-
torial articles the Havana disaster which no
have been ashamed TO publish under parallel cir
cumstances. The writer's may not have concealed
some external agency. entirely depressed GER
tain satisfaction at the thought of at length squar-
tured island Of Cuba but they exhorted their
readers to walt. to be patient. to abstain from
forcing the hands OF the Administration until II
was proved beyond tho possibility OF doubt that to
all It's other misdeeds the Spanish Government In
Havana had added that OF nhictlng irreparabe
wrong upon the citizens of the United States
THE ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC.
This attitude of the better portion OF the press
CORES spends. | believe. that OF the majority OF
the more instructed public. To foreigners II
has seemed from the first utterly improbable that
the Spaniards could have committed the incredible
folly and wckedness Of producing by design. or
even by mere careessnesS and neglect the tragedy
OF tho shattered battle-shlp. But Americans, while
they anxious not to enter upon quarrel with
out the clearest evidence that II Is necessary.
in the mood to be easily persuaded that this is the
the country just now, and Il needs but little 70
bring II to the surface Americans have been spoil
ing for INDEPENDENTLY fight over Cuba-for
some time; and II President Mckinley assures the
country that 1t has got an irrefragable case the
would be popular as any war could be with
a people who are; after all. men OF business first
object 10 all warAke enterprises. because they in
terfere with trade and seriously hamper the private
citizen IN his main preoccupations of accommodating
az much money as he can get and spending II how
he likes.
WHAT ENGLAND WOULD HAVE DONE.
To an Engllshman the feeling OF the Americans
about Cuba Is Ineligible enough: what chiefly
It to remain dormant long Reflect what
our own sentiments and our own action would
speak almost within the limits OF our territorial
waters-a rich and fertile territory which had for
years been 4 weller OF barbarous anarchy and
brutal savagery We went wild over atrocities
away In the remote recesses OF the Armenian hills
among people with whom We had part or lot,
ested. But what II we had had an Armenia In the
English Channel? II villages had been burned