The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-24
WHAT ENGLAND THINKS OF US
THE WEEKLY PRESS DISCUSSES
COMPULSORY IMPERIALISM.
In 1850 We Can Crush Any People
Except the Slavs-We Can Still
Outright the British.

London, July 23.-The weeklies devote
themselves to a discussion of what the
Speaker terms compulsory imperial
ISM" and compliment the behavior of
the Americans at Santiago.
The Spectator says: AS the Amer1-
cans marched in. the middle ages fed.
The mOralist Will think the Americans
had contracted Weighty and even ter
rible obligations to the cOlOnists OF
Spain. which they We're bound To dis
charge without thinking too much Of
the consequences to themselves Most
of our European contemporaries are
crying to Washington to be generous
Generosity would mean that Spain
should recover authority over the s.
0O0, 600 dark persons whom she has mis-
governed for three centuries, at the
moment when every virtue and every
vice of the Spaniard would incline him
to severity in punishment; and to be
tray the tribe of the TagalS into the
hands of the Spaniards would be moth
ing less than baseness.
1T is doubtful whether Washington
can govern Cuba through a protector
ate. The Americans have enfranchised
a people and must see that the en-
reimbursement is not a curse. If gen
crosby is to be exercised, 1t should be
in Porto Rico"
Discussing the influence of depend
encieS upon the United States and
United States policy, the Spectator
says: The worlds future greatly de-
ponds on the political character of the
Americans. When in 1850 they are
200 GOO. 900 they can crush any people
except the Slavs. To fit that destiny
the Americans should have difficulties,
dependencies and complicated relations
with the remainder of mankind. At
present everything is too easy to them.
They live too much to themselves
They must learn to govern as well as
to be governed and must add TO their
splendid patriotism the English gift of
cold and lofty tolerance. They must
keep subordinate governments as free
from corruption as their supreme
court"
The Speaker says: THE presidents
proclamation opens a prospect so much
better than could be offered by a Gu
ban republic as to make it clear that
annexation is manifest destiny. The
acquisition of Cuba implies that of
Porto Rico as a provision against men
ace to the American coast and the
Nicaraguan canal Directly the Span
ish ports are attacked, the Monroe doc
trine will be abandoned. Though bonn
bardment viii be a grievOuS mistake,
1t is probably the most natural method
of bringing Spain to her knees"
The Saturday Review predicts "a
war of determination between Ameri-
cans and Cubans six months after the
conquest Of the island 1t adds:
Cuba will corrupt its American gov
ernors, and the reign of the American
boss is not likely to be exemplary. The
cost of the whole proceedings viii be
more than a hundred and fifty millions,
and the game is not worth the candle
The Statist says: The new policy
will necessitate a great change in the
American governmental system, the
president and the house of representa-
tfves acquiring powers and the senate
losing them. The United States will
speak with a more potent voice in all
international affairs than any CONT
mental country"
The Saturday Review says: The
lesson of our conflicts with America
was that the American soldiers and
sailors shot markedly better than our
own and won astonishing victories. 1t
looks as if the lesson holds good TO-
day."