The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-12-04
OLDEST OLD WORLD
ANGRY WITH AMERICA
SUMMING UP OF
FOREIGN OPINION AS TO AMER
ICAN IMPERIALISM
UNPLEASANT COMMENT
HEARD ON EVERY SIDE

scOrnfuI Welcome of America to
the Fold of the Old World M
dOhs Bent Upon Conquest ana
Expansion, in the Guise of Hin.
manitarianism - PrOtestatfons
of the United States.
LONDON, Dec. 3.-Willian T. Stead
writing from Rome, says,
The answer to the question. What
does the Old world think Of the New
world| has never been made with
greater emphasis than In the Eternal
City. The oldest Old world regards the
newest with feelings Of anger, disgust /
and alarm, almost too great for words. |
There Is no sympathy for the United
states. The American seizure Of the
Philippines and a conviction that the
humane enthusiasm which made tha /
war possible was mere mask Of cant i
assumed in order to facilitate con- I
quest, are almost the only sentiments
SHARED In common by the rival camps
or the Quirina1 and Of the Vatican,
With the kingsmen, the sentiment ia
comparatively mild. They do not be-
IleVe in the least in the dlstnterested-
ness OF the American war Of ubera-
tlon. The American deciarat tions ara
almost universally derided as hideous
examples of a worse than English
hypocrisy. Uncle Sam, they say, de-
termined In all things to suppress
John Bull, has outdone him even in
pharisasm and cant.
''The friends Of America wiring their
hands in unaffected grief in the lust Of
territorial expansion. The enemies
shoot out the lip and can shrek in
derision over what they regard as the
urmlstakable demonstration which the
demand for the Philippines affords OF
| American cupidity, American bad faith
and American ambition. We told you
so,' they excla1m. That is what the
! unctious rectitude of the AngEo-Saxon
| always ends in. He always begins by
| calling heaven to witness his unselflsh
desire to help his neighbors, but he
always ends by stealing his spoons
UNPLEASANT TO HEAR.
''It is unpleasant for the Anglo-Sax-
on to hear this on every side, but since
| peace negotiations have developed a
| demand for the complete cession Of the
! Philippines, Americans will do we'll to
| recognize that some such statement as
| the above represents the current opin-
ion Of almost every one In Europe who
| pays attention to what is going on
| abroad. The immense majority of Eu-
| ropean5 are, Of course, absolutely ig-
| norant OF what has happened. Intent
on their daily toll, they neither know
nor care what occurs in other hemi-
spheres. But the Europeans who read
| the newspapers, who form what may
be described as the public opinion of
the Old world are practically Of one
mind on the matter.
Outside England I have met no
non-American who did not dislike the
expansion of America, nor do 1 think
in the whole Of our tour through Eu-
rope have met one European who did
not receive my protestations as to
genuine sincerity with which the Amer
leans entered into war with more or
less mocking incredulity. It's all very
WE'LL they say, in effect, to dissemble
your love, but why did you kick me
down stairs? 1t was very well to pro-
claim your disinterestedness, but why
do you seize the Philippines@ Mere
pharisaism,' is a phrase which rough
ly represents the judgment Of the old
| world on the recent developments of
the new. From which 1t may be learn
ed once more the old truth, that in a
mans judgment of his neighbor's mo-
tives We see the mirror Of his own
character. For the most part, they ex-
press no surprise. They expected moth
IN. H.
new world. They are true to their an
cestry, but there is in every country
minority of thoughtful men who, hav-
ing for all their lives been the stanch-
est friends of the American common
wealth, are now confounded and utter
ly put to shame at what is universally
regarded as the apostasy Of the Unit
ed States, the abandonment of their
national policy and the adoption Of the
old world policy Of conquest.
SCORNFUL WELCOME.
"When I listened, as I have been
listening for months past, to the al
ternate taunts and lamentations of the
foes and friends Of America, the babel
Of voices seemed at last to merge into
one scornful chorus of welcome to
Uncle Sam:
"IIell from beneath is moved for
thee to meet thee at thy coming; it
stirreth up the dead for thee, even the
chief ones of the earth; it hath raised
up from their thrones all the kings of
the nations. All they shall speak and
say unto thee, art thou also become
as weak as we? Art thou become like
unto us? How art thou fallen from
heaven; Lucifer, son of the morning.
You may argue, protest, and rage as
you please, the old world has made up
it's mind on the subject, and nothing
that can be said or done in the United
States will alter it's Judgment. The
American government has come out Of
it's ring fence. 1t has thrown it's hat
into the arena Of the world. 1t Is
launched on career OF conquest,
which will be all the more predatory
because it Is masked by humanitarian.
1.-THE American commonwealth, they
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