Evening star., 1898-08-12
FEELING IN ENGLAND
Friendliness to the United States Not
Unanimous.
MANY ABSENT FROM TEE Love FEAST
.Aristocrats and the Financiers Are
Hostile.
BULK OF PEOPLE WITH Us


| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
| LONDON, July 81. 1895
| Recent American reports would make it
| appear that public sentiment in the United
! States is on an ebb from the first flush of
| appreciation awakened by England's exhi-
bition of friendship in checkmating the at
| tempted European coalition in favor Of
Spain. A private letter from a weil-in.
| formed Washington newspaper correspon-
| dent says:
THE Britishers are overplaying the al
| lance hand, and our folks are thought
! here to be altogether too much given to
! finding hostility to America in the nations
| Of continental Europe"
What of the British "overplaying the al
! lance hand?" There has been poured out,
| OF course, very high froth of weil-mean-
| ing gush over the stratum of genuine
| friendship and good will which unfer1ies
today's relations OF the two Eng,ish-speak-
irg peoples. In London there have been
Anslo-American dinners whereat my
| lords and gentlemen" declaimed eff;sively
concerning kin beyond the sea-" and COM
mon language and common aims. and two
great nations marching onward together
for the regeneration of the world" and
ofnc1al Americans have responded II.
terms which would have subjected then, to
impeachment five years ago. Flags are to
be seen entwined on festive occasions,
Anslo-American buttons are worn street
musicians attire themselves in the stars
and stripes. Lornet-voiced soubrettes war
bic to music hall audiences how the lion
and the eagle
With flags unfuried against all the world
VIII fight and die together.
The morning papers tell of AngIo-Amer-
lean whist tournaments, Anglo-American
cricket. Anglo American chess and there
Is being organized an Anglo-American
committee of exceedingly eminent names
political. military, literary, reiigious-and
with exceedingly nebulous functions A
rev word has come into the British vo-
cabulary. The st. James Gazette, referring
to tile Bourgogue wreck. says that things
would have been done differently on ship
manned by Anglo-Saxons
Ihree months ago the st. James would
nave selected, as q matter of course .he
ress.
In Lord Safisbury's organ, the Standar!
as ponderous and tradition fettered as its
oracle, we read that the Philippines should
be brought under the domination of Anglo
saxon order. And the Daily Mail contains
an interview with Sir Walter Besant com
6atlng the accusation that the United
States are a hybrid nation insisting that
chiidren who are taught in English sneak
ing schools. bred or English literature arc
even more English than those raised in the
kihgdofn- AS chapter after chapter of
american enterprise and Valor have added
the names of Dewey, Hobson. Roosevelt
and Schley to history, and the correspon-
dents of English papers have out-adiec-
uved their American colleagues in de-
scriblng the American army and navy
Enslishmen have grown eager to claim
share of credit for their achievements
Now 1t is "Angio-saxon this" and Anglo
crowded BRITISH right out from tbe Ian.
guage, while with the Yankee" SO recently
a term of contempt, his cousins are anx-
loLS to claim relationship.
Aloof From the Love Feast.
Nevertheless, Americans should not be
deiuded into the belief that English par
tictpation in this millennium is unanimous
There are many dissenters holding them
selves coldly aloof from the love feast In
unmistakable and perfectly definable fac
dons. Most conspicuous of these groups
and perhaps the least influential of them IS
the circle of fashionable society, NOT those
brainy men, titled and untitled, who realize
and labor to sustain the responsible
which position imposes but the English
-four hundred" the idle rich that giided
eInpty-headed coterie known as the Prince
of Wales set. In public the members of
this set are friendly to the United States
because to be otherwise would lie to court
urpopularity, and the British aristocracy
knows full well that its popularity among
the masses is the bulwark of it's perpetua-
ton. But among themselves, in their clubs
and drawing rooms, on top of their foUr-in-
W,
the Yankees for are we not a nation of
trade, our estates We're not founded on the
loot and pillage of brigandly n.ediaeval
warriors. nor granted through intercession
of kings mistress. the real crests CT our
first families would be the rampant rig or
the honest AK of the pioneer
An American diplomat recently asked n
lady of this section of the aristocracy the
reason of. their partiality toward Spain.
"Ah, you know" was nar reply "the
Spaniards are the only nation of gentlemen
left in the world
And spoken probably without suspicion
that the qualities which make the Span
iards the only gentlemen from this par
ticular point of view are the same which
have brought them among the dying ma
items.
Opposition of the Moneycd Class.
Standing beside the Marlborough House
set in d;sapproval of Americas war against
Spain is another community, comparatively
small, but not to be omitted from a ca.a-
losue of the forces which mold public cpin-
ion. They are the financiers, the element
included in those words of hidcous import
to popullsts-Lombard street. Spain has
heavy bond issues afioat among the bourses
of Europe; Lombard street hungers for its
biennial interest, which may not be forth
coming next December if Uncle Sam pushes
the dying nation too far into it's grave
therefore the sympathes OF Lombard
street respond to the only conscience it
knows, the pound sterling.
Another clear-cut cleavage which no
truthful summary of English feeling could
ignore Is that along church lines Certainly
If the church papers are to be taken as an
index of opinion-for they are arrayed
without dissenting voice on the Spanish
sde-the letter which Cardinal Vaughan
wrote to his brother. speaking of the .un-
just war which America was waging
against Spain, voices the sentiment of the
Catholic Church In England. In addition
there are a great many Englishmen who
have not yet Learned to forget the sudden
ness with which President Cleveland ar
rived al the ultirnatnrn stage in the Vene-
zueian affair ard the humiliation they were
forced to pocket They dislike the United
States because they believe the United
States dislikes them and that our present
friendship is merely ia transient stroke of |
policy, resulting from the same motives
which made the devil saint when he was
sick
Majority of English,ucn Friendly.
Over against these factions stands sub
stantial majority Of Engiishmen who are
outspoken in friendship to the United
States. If poll of the saunterers along
the aristocratic drives of HyN Park would |
yield large majority for SLNin the vote
of the acres where the plain people assem-