The age-herald., 1898-03-20
JOHNNY BULL
 IS T|CKLED Over the Discussion ofAn Angloa
 American Alliance. SAID TO BE A RACE FEELING And Not Because Uncle Sam Wants to
 Use Mother Country PROMPT z% $ :4%',,'.'-. EXPRESSED. The 3 $ .slIow Says He Has No Des
 signs on Hawaii. so 
 0u-- oF SPAIN APPEALS FOR PEACn She Has Made Overtures to Emperor FrariA cis Joseph of Austria to Use His Friendly Offices to Prevent a Conflict.
oF SPAIN APPEALS FOR PEACH

| unity of the approval of both classes and masses of the mere suggestion of an Anglo- American alliance compels the belief in tho l sincerity of the desire of the public for an 1 entente with the United States. The fact | that most of the cable dispatches from l America have proclaimed that the sugges. 1 tion has been seriously discussed is heartily welcomed here and is regarded as extreme< | ly important and gratifying as evidencing 0 | friendly spirit.
 They are," as a diplomatist put ik, Inspiring from the fact that the dffere ences of the past would be buried and that Anglo-Saxons in the near future will be found issuing identical notes to all oa- posed to their common interests" The diplomat continued: Tt is not any stretch of imagination to say that such a union has been longed for by the best men in Great Britain many years, not only because of hte genuine wish for closer | bonds of friendship, but because 1t is d l known fact that all the statesmen of l Europe realize that close alliance be- l tween America and Great Britain would constitute. not only the surest guarantee 1 of the peace of the world but would af- 1 ford proof that the reign of law and in- dividual liberty is to be extended for the benefit of mankind, in spite of the efforts to extinguish it made by reactionary rulers and governments"
 Commended by Press The weekly newspapers pay considerable attention to the subject. The Speaker says:
 Tt is impossible for the statesmen of either country to find a noDler object to which to devote their energies and their lives. Whatever the actual relations in which the governments of London and Washington regard the matter, the Ameri- can people may be assured that if they viS the naOule 0f Great Britain also wish for one We do not wish to ask the Americans to fight our battles, just as we feel convinced that they are far too proud to desire that we should fight theirs. But what we do wish and what wise men on both sides most earnestly de- sire is that each nation shall feel that 1t has in the other friend and brother on whose sympathy it can rely in time of need"
 The extreme frlendliness of the British foreign office, which sentiment prevails in all the departments of the government, carl be gauged by the statement ma1e yesterday by high officials of the British foreign office in regard to the alleged de- sig ns of Great Britain upon Hawaii. The other referred to, as already cabled said
 Nothing is further from Great Bitadns intention than to interefer in any way with the existing regime in Hawaii No steps in that direction were ever contem- plated On the contrary her majesty's gov errment bas recognized that the United State has the foremost interests in Hawaii and that it is natural and inevitable that Hawaii should be under American lhiiu- ence."
 The Spectator noting the good feeling expressed in the United States, says:
 Ut does not follow from any desire to court the old country because It may pc useful but is due to the reported coalition OH the continent against England"
 The Prophets Guessing
 y,,-. .,,.,a,,r ,,,;xt,,ro of no sslraucSA and announcements of active preparations for war coming from the United States keeps the prophets guessing, but the op.n- ion is gaining ground that the outicok IS improving and that war will finally pa ayerted by a Sanish retreat under some more or less spacious excuse and an agree- ment to recognize the claims of the United States: for. in spite of stories to the con- trtary Spain is well aware it is useless to build hopes of sympathy rom the Eu- ropean powers.
 Commenting upon the attitude of Presi" dent Mckinley the Saturday Review says3
 Tt is a suggestive commentary upon 'government by the people, that the only means of preventing what the presidens calls an unholy war, has been for the gov ernment to face popular clamor in an at titude of indifference and content, such as might be expected of Russia.
 Madrid advlces of Wednesday say the government organ Fl Gloho assumes much
  compares the United States to an immense Maine floating btween the Atlantic and Pacific, some of whose crew have lost their heads. and are seeking. to force open the magazine in order to blow 1t up."
 President Mckinley, as the commander, is represented as doing his best to restrain his unruy crew"
 Insult Reported
 Fl Globo attributes the loss of the Maine to bad storage of her enormous quantity of explosives, arising either from too hasty preparations for war or from want ot proper discipline on board"
 Fl Globo remarks in parenthess that the "agents were entirely internal" adding: But there may be external agencies that will bring about the national downfall, to which the union Is directly heading"
 Quoting some paragraphs from the Cor respondencia saying that war would affect other nations besides Spain, Fl Globo rel marks: "To this we may add that the declarations attributed to the Kaser-Em-
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