Arizona republican., 1898-07-31
..MINING SUPPLIES.
OUR FRIENDS AND ENEMIES.
Attitude of the British and CORfinen-
 falS Towards Americans.

America has already annexed Ha-
 waii She will certainly take Cuba
 and Porto Rico as well, and, if the
 Spaniards do not make it up with her
 quickly, the Philippines and the Ca
 naries to boot. Those who think
 America will be restrained by German
 bluff or by Franco-Russian menace do
 not understand her or her people. The seamen on the German ships, it ap
 pears, are fraternizing with the Span iards in Manila And it may well be that William the Witless takes it for granted that he can curb Americas on
 ward progress when he pleases or at least share in the booty her arms may
 win. But the war lord is mis aken in this assumption. The Americans are
 not people that can be bullied, and
 the slightest attempt on his part to
 bully them would result in war
 which would quickly enlighten him as
 to the limits of German power. In. spite of the German superiority in bat Heships it is our settled belief that the
 navy of America, even as it is at pres
 ent, is strong enough to beat the navy
 of the kaiser For the Germans are
 neither sailors nor gunners, while the Americans have proved themselves to
 be both. We believe that the Amri-
 cans would win from the beginning,
 but even if superiority in materiel did give the Germans victory or two iii
 the beginning, the end in any case would be certain. America can build
 ships faster and better than Germany, and in such war she would but forth
 her utmost strength. Besides, Amer lea has very large mercantile marine
 and thousands of hardy, able seamen, that most people know nothing about
 It would surprise a good many Euro peans to learn that the shipping that passes through canal connecting two of the great North American lakes is considerably larger than all the ship ping that passes through the Suez ca nal. America, we say, has tens of thousands of first rate seamen, where as there are hundrds of men serving at present on board German warships who never saw the sea till a year or two ago. And the sailors trade is the most difficult trade in the world to master. For these and other reasons we believe that America will not be stopped in her imperial progress by German bluff nor daunted by Franco Russian menace. We should not even now be afraid of the issue of a conflict between the United States navy and that of France, for the American su- periority as gunners would give them an enormous advantage; but :n such a conflict we should probably take a hand, and probability would change to certainty if Russia dared to support her ally. The truth is that a new power of the very first rank has pushed | itself among the nations, and our | hopes that there was at least one peo- pie, who preferred peace to power and l security. to. self aggrandizement have been disappointed.
 Now how will the advent of this new power affect the Europen equilibrium | Even if we do not take ''at the foot | or the letter" that newborn affection which the Americans now profess for us. 1t seems to be plain enough that the circumstances which have brought about the reconciliation between the two kindred peoples will go on making for closer and ever closer union be- tween Great Britain and the United states. After all we have the same blood, the same religion, the same in st1tutions, the same language and the same tastes. We both love trade and commerce and working mixture of freedom and equality before the law 10 which 20 other people has attained. From the selfish British point of view. -hen, we hope that the Americans will axe both the Canaries and the Philip- oines, and if they wished (which is un- lheiy) TOT port on the coast of China besides, they should have our help in seltlng It. The weary Titan that hattheW Arnold spoke of, with muscle 'tralhed by the weight of empire, chal- ]