New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-25

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Thu, A health to England. every guest;
'"A' tN Man. the the best cotmOpohs
May rT.eao@ 1y:' o Ss I naive country best
r,.. With stronger lie from day to day.
A"A' W Nan The true Conservative
| VINO iops the mouldering branch away.
To this sre" Sd cause she iy 1 F,.. hope ecntound
~ Ano 'he great name Of England round and round
lou couple our own land with that great name
IN your toast; and the words you add express
Out the natural. and let us hope the inevitable
result Of such n union. Peace and Universal
! Civilization"
You have not pursued the idea so far as to
uu'eI those other words that have lately agttated
very cabinet In European Anglo American
Alliance and YOU wise Sufficient TO the
Jay are the duties II imposes; and II they be
vel discharged. we need take thought for the
morrow. Alliances are not much In our way
hhd not very much. Of late. in yours We are
each accustomed TO fight for our own hand:-it
Is pred IN the bone. and seems the natural
course.
FORGET HISTORIC GRIEVANCES
The distinguished statesman who lately
startled the world by this portentous phrase
ABOUT an alliance understands himself very we'll
lie understands mis- Country very well. too.-and
ours not badly.-and II is quite possible that he
has already accomplished all that ne expected
or desired What Mr.. Chamberlain probably
wants. what most good Englishmen want. and
most good Americans too. is merely that historic
grievances on either side should he left 10
history; that some common interest aspiration
should sweep baseless prejudices suddenly aside;
and that the two people. they are and feel
| to-day. should simply understand each other
Grant but that. and the future will take of
| itself
Great Britain and the United States-a good
understanding between them-peace and univer
sal civilization;-are not these connecting links
in single chain that might benefcently grdle
the globe?
This is no new aspiration. born of any sudden
emergency in the circumstances that now
| round either you or US; and 1t springs from no
unworthy source The foremost statesmen. the
abest publicis.s, men Of letters and men Of husi-
| ha " a hQ
II utterance. II underlay the Geneva arbitra-
tion. II lent character and force to that move
ment for general treaty of arbitration which
was unhappily stranded on the shoals ~ prac-
teal difficulty that often wreck Ideal re-
forms II settled the Venezuela dispute. 1t sent
all America in spirit to the Queens Jubilee. The
great man you have just lost-ftly described as
| the first citizen not merely Of England but OF
the world-spoke a dozen years ago, Of abso-
| lutey good understanding between England and
| the United States as a prospect at once majestic
! inspiring and consolatory In letter TO Mr.
| Smalley published In 1884. Mr.. Gladstone de-
| clared that a failure 10 secure such a good un-
| Outstanding would prove bGse desertion OF an
easy duty,-a remuneration CT the nohlest. the
most beneficial, the most peaceful primacy ever
| presented 10 the heart and understanding OF
man.
That primary will not be renowned. The com
mon aim. the substantial unity Of action among
| Fnglish-speaking peoples round the globe are
coming-not by treaties probably and perhaps
not even by formal UNDERSTANDINGS They are
/ coming human growth comes because they
are in the nature OF things They coming
| because they in the air. in the blood. In the
| common thought;-because il Is harder 70 pre-
vent them than TO let them come.
A STRICTLY NORMAL DEVELOPMENT.
The amazing growth and spread OF English
speaking people, under your flag and under ours.
| is accident II is and has been from the be-
ginning a strictly normal development. as inev-
| table and as Irresistible the tides. Moving
on widely different territorial lines. the process
| has still been substantially the same in both
countries. Starting with a similar equipment
| in laws and ideas. customs and aspfrations,-in
| a word. in men-you colonized and we coonized.
| Within the sphere Of influence took UP
the work you had begun. and founded state
upon State-to the Gulf beyond the Alleghenies.
beyond the Mississippi. beyond the Rockies. be-
| yond the Sier-as We have gone further-to
| Stka and the Aeutan Islands. and almost TO
Sandwich Islands.-and as much farther as duty
| and destiny CALI
or Little England" but they have not pre-
| vailed You will not wonder that the sincere
and perhaps wise men who think this the time
TO put swaddling bands on America fare as III.
Whatever happens. the natural and logical
process OF development will go on. our great
ness will not fail through craven fear Of being
great
Unhappiy are at war. We nave entered
upon IL with the proposition that n distant Power
has ruled Cuba, shores. so badly, that II
is our duty 10 put down her rule. Does not that
leave us responsible TO Civilization and Humanity
for the nature Ct the rule set up in It's s,ead7
| II Gomez can give Cuba a government for which
willing to be responsible we'll and good.
If Motive are stu responsible Shall we scutte
out?
Let no man Islander by saying that
| playing n meanly selfish part. When this long
reign you celebrate at last shall end-distant yet
| be the dayi-the proudest eulogy upon the Good
Queen Will be that she ever sought for Peace.
! In the face II the existing war. and ~ the last
, five months record. make bold 10 advance a
similar claim for Country The head Of no
government In modern times has strven. aye.
| agonized for peace with honor more manfully.
more courageoIsly and persstently than WILL
| lam Mckinley.
| But the war Is upon We are not discussing
what might have been. 1t Is a situation. not a
theory that confronts Whether John Quincy
| Adams was right wrong In 1s23-whether our
| Congress has heen right or wrong in its methods
| of reducing 70 practice the policy which Adams,
| and Daniel Webster and Edward Everett and
| William l.. Marcy and Hamilton Fish and the
rest OF the Jingoes had fastened upon us-at any
rate we at last at war for II. and must face
the future whether we like II or not. We cannot
exert. cannot possess our power and evade
| It's ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in Cuba the
Philippines!
no HOSTILE ALLIANCE
| But we shall have an alliance Of all Europe
| against US protest the tmorous Now that is a
Spanish story. and when you analyze It. the
basis and about all the basis there Is for II is
some unpleasant talk by the politest people in
bonds and don't like the prospect for the
coupons. You will remember the quaint opening
OF one Of Bacon's essays: II hath been
an opinion that the French wiser than they
seem And the Spanlards seem wiser than they
are" My Lord Verulam hit 1t exactly! No
matter what the French newspapers may say.
or what stories sent abroad. there will be
no hostile alliance The French are wiser than
they seem: and TO all these industrious in
ventions Of Madrid, the Spaniards seem wiser
than they
The course upon which launched Is
not one OF our seeking. 1t threatens tremen-
1ous departures from our old waya and old
ideals 1t is great grief to many; and
| certainly Il brings little Joy pleasant
nectation to any OF US But we honestly believe
| il 10 be the line Of duty marked for US by the