The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-17
a FRENCH VIEW OF AMERICA.
Vast Political Power and influence OF
the United States.

New York Tribune.
While with an abnormal persistenGy caple
dispatches daily report the untrlendly COM
ments on American policy made by re-
dictionary and unpopular papers with PROB
lematic circulation, like the Gaulois or the
Soleil. of Paris it is graSSyng n 10
in the most popular and most largely CIR
culated newspapers in France one OF
them the Petite Republique. an interna-
tional labor organ of Paris, whose tremen-
dous circulation Is second only 70 tnat
L Intransgeant. said. among other things'
.S See years ago the Monroe doc
trine America for Americans was pro-
claimed. To-day events have gone Iurtner'
the United States have engaged In inter
national politics, playing in them role
more important. Just as seventy-nve years
ago the powers of continental Europe were
compelled to witness. powerless TO inter
fere the insurrection of the Spanish colon
les and their separation from the mother
without protesting the taking possession
of Cuba and Porto Rico by the United
States. That conquest opens to the latter
q great economical future, insur1ng TO tnem
supremacy over the canal across the Isth-
mus which will unite the Atlantic ana
Pacific oceans so that the most lInporSS LAM
ways Of maritime communication, the Suez
and Panama canals, will be in Anglo-Saxon
hands. -,.,a
IT, as consequence of the war with Spain,
the political power of the United States
increases beyond all proportion, and II It's
such a manner that the Pan-American pol
lev will be on the way to realization
Thanks to it's enormuOs mass OF capital, the
progress of it's industry and agriculture,
The elevated sentiment of its citizens and
the rapid increase of its population, the
United States finds itself to-day one of the
most powerful factors of international life.
The flag Of the Union floats to-day not only
over Porto Rico and Cuba, but also over
Hawaii and the Philippines, and its influ-
ence will soon be felt in China, where so
many interests are now engaged. The ex-
pansion of the United States Will not con-
fine itself to the Atlantic and the Pacihc;
it appears that soon an American fleet VIII
be stationed in the Mediterranean ana
along the coasts of Morocco. thus playing
role in questions which formerly interested
Europe exclusively Despite the present
understanding between the United States
and England. there is no doubt that in the
near future the American Union will annex
also Canada and the vast territories belong
ing to England in the Northwest so that
the political axis and the equilibrium of the
great powers will be more and more dis
placed.
I'm America one sees growing formida-
BILE power before which all others have had
to bend knees sooner or later The sue
cesses of the United States must be con-
sidered as those of the laboring class the
world over. If Spain had been victorious
in the last war that would have delayed
for a long while the emancipation of the
tanned under her domination. The United
States count now more than seventy mil
lions of people, ii plays one of the most
important parts in the industry and COM
the products of its agriculture. but also
those of it's industry which will come TO
Europe and Asia. so that at the beginning
of the twentieth century America will be
the most powerful democracy which has
ever existed