Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-04
THEY DISLIKE u.s..
Old World Angry at New
Worlds Expansion
OUR DECLARATIONS CANT.
We Have OutdOne John Bull Men
In PhdriSalSm.
INTERVENTION on SPANS BEHALF.
There Was Time when European
Combination for Coercion of This
Country Was Seriously Proposed
How II Was Prevented.
INTERVENTION on SPANS BEHALF.
There Was n Time when European
How II Was Prevented.


LONDON. November 24-William r.
Stead, writing from Rome under date OF
November 2lst, says
THE answer to the question. What
does the Old World think Of the
New World? has never been made
with greater emphasis than in the
Eternal City. The oldest Old World
regards the New World with feel
ings Of anger disgust and alarm al INST
too great for words. The sentiment Of in
dignation differs in intensity, but IL IS
universal. There is no sympathy for the
United States among either whites or
blacks. In fact, dislike of the American
seizure of the Philippines. and convic-
ton that the humane enthusiasm which
made the war possible was mere mask
Of cant, assumed in order to facilitate
conquest, are almost the only sentiments
shared in common by the rival camps of
the Quirinal and the Vatican.
OUR CUPIDITY.
Generally, sentiment is comparatively
mild The people do not believe in the
least in the disinterestedness of the
American war of liberation. The Ameri-
can declarations are almost universally
derided as examples of a worse than
English hypocrisy. Uncle Sam, they say,
determined in all things to surpass John
Bull has outdone him even in Pharisee-
ism and cant. The friends Of America
L. To, al Urfa
the fall of the United States under the
temptation of the lust of territorial eX-
pansion. Her enemies shoot out the lip
and can Shrek in dersion over what
they regard as the unmistakable demon
stration which the demand for the Philip
pines affords Of American cupidity, Amer
lean bad faith, and American ambition.
Outside of England L have met no non
American who did not dislike the ex-
mansion of America, nor do | think that
I'm the whole OF our tour through Europe
| have met one European who did not re-
ceive my protestations as to the genuine
sincerity with which the American people
entered into the war with more or less
hooking incredulity.
COMBINATION AGAINST Us.
"In the course of my tour | am now
COMPELLED TO admit found proof Of the
existence of a disposition on the part oil
the Powers to intervene on behalf of
Spain. which might have been very seri-
Gus had II not been checked I'm the bud
by the knowledge that England would
have nothing 10 do with it, When l was
I'm Paris | was positively told that no pro-
posal had ever been made to intervene
and that therefore England had never
had the occasion or opportunity TO put
her foot down on the anti-American coali-
ton. That, no doubt, was true as far as
overt action on the part OF the govern
ment was concerned. but ii Is not less
true that Immediately after the war broke
out a diplomatic representative of the
Powers communicated to an American
Minister at u European court, in plain
and unmistalkable terms the dispeasure
Of the Powers and their desire to ex-
press that displeasure publicly and forci-
bly,. These communications were sutfi-
GENTLY serious for the contingency Of a
union of the forces of European nations
for the coercion OF the United States to
be frankly discussed between the two
dip.omatsts The result of that discussion
was 10 put a summary stop to all notion
of European Intervention.
III you intervene. said the American
Minister 1T means war
YES rejoined his visitor, and the
forces Of the great European Powers,
acting in alliance would overwhelm any
opposition which America could offer
AMERICAN AUDACITY.
No doubt, said the American, but
you would have to bring your forces
acrdO the Atlantic to the other hemIs~
phere and keep them there for the rest
Of your natural life. For the New World
is not going to submit to the Old World
any more. No, sis; not any more than
IL submitted al century since, when the
odds were far worse. And remember
he added as Il clincher, that when you
were bringing your armies and your
nayies across 5000 miles of sea to fight
America, you would have no count with
England, who is certainly not friendly
to yoar enterprise
This put an eXtinguisher on the pro-
pOsal Nothing more was heard of the
contemplated intervention. 1t never got
so far as TO be submitted TO England
The whole design was checked at the
very outset by the calm audacity with
which the representative OF America play
ed his cards, including the trump
card of the Anglo-American entente.
which henceforth will play a leading
part in all the dealings of the English
speaking people with their jealous and
suspicious neighbors.
Il am very glad to be able TO set forth
the actual facts, as they actually happen
ed. They were told me at first hand by
the person most Immediately concerned,
and you can absolutely rely upon the
accuracy OF the above statement.
BRITAIN OUR GOOD FRIEND.
"If the Old World regards American
growth and expansion with unconcealed
alarm, the British empire, which is seated
both on the Old World and the new,
contemplates the new departure with ua-
affected sympathy. The relations between
the embassies OF Britain and America at
Constantinople and Rome could hardly
be closer and more cordial II there had
been a hard and fast. cut and dried. sign
ed sealed and delivered treaty OF ALI
ance. offensive and defensive. between the
two Powers.
IF things go on as they are going now,
every Notwithstanding man will feel. as
/ have felt throughout this war. that
America has not one Ambassador, but
two. IN every capital IN Europe, and that