The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-04-17
ENGLAND STANDS
WITH AMERICA
Strong Expressions Of Leading Papers
Against European interference.
SHE WILL NOT SEE US GAUGED
Calls Made rpon the Government to Imms-
diatsly Defeat the Impsndina Aati-
American Combustion.

London April 1.-THE Chronicle, tax
Ing 1t for granted that there Is some
truth in the report Of a new concert FOR
coercion. devotes an editorial TO lnduc-
Ing England not to join It says "our
concern Is to see that England is not
once more dragged at the heels OF des-
pots and made 10 play the game Of the
latest Of the rottenest tyrannIes that
encumoer the earth. We have good rea-
son 70 say that there are strong friends
Of America in the present government
and We hope Lord Salisbury is one OF
them. but It Is important that the feeling
Of the country should be adequately rep
resented both In England and in wash
ington. II was easy 60 coerce Greece,
but America stands In a different cate
CORY. She IL a very great power. In
tensely proud. and entirely self-con-
talned and her fate has been to under
take a task peculiarly ardous and thank
less. She is not going to be bullIed by
the heroes OF the Cretan blockade, and II
the movement against her Is pressed too
far she viii be compelled in her own in
terests 10 clear the situation. Our pres
ent purpose is TO insist that our govern
ment do Its best by using every means In
its power to defeat any antl-American
combination. II there is any doubt about
the feelings OF the great majority Of the
nation We shall be happy to try the ex-
pertinent OF marching a hundred thous-
and Londoners through the metropolis
with the union Jack and the stars and
stripes in combination. It Is the busi-
ness Of the mother country to stand by
her children OF the west as stlfiiy and
strongly as one country can by another"
The Chronicle also ridicules the SAT-
urday Review. which asks. Where are
the American officers for an army to
march through Cuba?'' It says that 1t is
not aware that the United States is to do
anything Of the sort, but II 1t does. its
trouble will be chiefly one Of selection
from vast number OF highly trained
men from the West Point academy
The Times, which attaches no import
ance to the rumors OF European demon
stration against the United States. says:
England would assuredly be no party
to such demonstration, but it is even
more absurd to suggest that because Eng
land sympathizes with American indlgna-
tion at Cuban horrors. the British gov
ernment ought TO rush into armed al
lance with the United States for a
settlement OF a question in which we
have no immediate concern. II is another
instance OF the hair-brained folly which
endeavored to involve us In a war on
behalf of Greece The Americans would
rightly regard an offer of such assist
ance as an intrusion and an insult. But
ii is to be added that though we cannot
condone the errors of Spain, we feel very
keenly that she is paying a heavy PEN
atty in the form most painful to a high
spirited nation; and for any reason short
OF such urgent considerations as are most
likely to arise, We should be unwilling to
go out of our way to throw our forces
into the balance against an old ally"
The Pail Mall Gazette says; Sympathy
on the continent is no doubt with Span,
just as 1t is in Great Britain by an over
whelming majority with the United
States. But between sympathy ana act
ing the great gulf is fixed The time has
gone by for European attempts at media
tion.
The West Minister Gazette says there
need be no alarm about anti-United States
adding; "The European con-
cert which excludes Great Britain could
not intervene with any effect in the war;
fare which Is threatened. and It is per-
fectly certain that the British govern
meut would not be eonsenting party to