The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04

THE JING0 MALADY.

Correspondence of the Associate

Correspondence of the Associated
Press.J
London, Nov 24.-William r. Stead
writing from Rome, under date of Nov.
a. 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 newest new with feelings of anger.
disgust and alarm almost too great for
words. The sentiment Of Indignation
differs in intensity But it is universal.
There is no sympathy for the United
States either among whites or blacks
In fact dislike of the American seizure
Of the Philippines and a conviction that
the humanitarian enthusiasm which
made the war possible, was a mere
mask Of cant assumed in order to faci-I
Itate conquest, are almost the only SEM
t.ments shared in common by theI
rival camps Of the quirnal and Of theI
vatican.
With the kings men the sentiment
is comparatively mild. They do not be-
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Buu. even in pharisaism and cant. The
friends of America wiring their hands
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ness his unsalfisb dasire r. holm his /
neighbors. hut he always ends Inv steal /
ing his spoons.
TT is unpleasant for the Anglo /
Saxon to hear this ON every side Int
since the peace negotiations have de- /
1elopad a demand fos, the complete /
Cession of the PhIlippines Americans
VIII do well to recognize that some
such statement as the above represents
the current opinion Of almost every one !
iu Europe who pays attention to what
is going on abroad. The immense ma
iority of Europeans are. of course. alb |
solutely ignorant of what has hap /
peued. Intent on their daily toll they
neither know nor care what occurs in !
another hemisphere
But the Europeans who read news /
scribad as tba ,,,tiio a,i~ior, oe tha Old
world are practically Of one mind on .
the matter. Outside of England III
have met no American who did not I
dislike the expansion of America, nor |
d0 I think that in the whole of a long /
tour in Europe. I have met one Euro (
pean who did not receive nv protesta- /
tons as to the genuine sincerity with /
which the American l7aor,Ia e,,te,ed into
tle war with more or less 1uOcI,ine, in /
creduity
Mere national brirandage. marked
by odious pharisaism. is a. pbrase which /
roughly represents the i,Idp1nent of the
old world on the recant dava1oTo,artg
Of the new. Froro which T,,a,, he learned
once mere Inc ola trl1tL mat n, a
mans Judgment Of bis naietbors' mo
tyee. we see Tho r3iy,ro,, of I,is own
character Fo,, tho r,1oet ,art tba,-
express no e,,I,risa -, P''' ,,oots5
nothing hate. f,,ol,, .r Iir,.,i..l, Re ~
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llri,sl,.,IiIIlS pul 10 shame at "ildI ~
Of t,o 5e6aIaeu as Ine aPoSldss
uf Hat, nlleu STATES, lhe aLaldolliileill
ffor e Hallonal polcy ana the adop- /
o,,.., WI 'ue ora world pohcy or con-
,-,,, gl may argue, protest and rage as
P,ease' the old world has made up
H. '"IlU on the subject and nothing I
can be said or done in the United /
-ss VIII alter its judgment that the
lcan government is launched on (
81. oieer of conquest which will be all |
gS more predatory because it is mask !
ny humanitarian
ne American commonwealth. they /
ugla has succumbed to the malady +
|u'h has long plagued the old world. /
- bright hope for the human race was |
sNHhguished when the one non-mili- +
lalF great power. which eschewed all |
schemes of aggression and annexation, /
recalled itself among the common herd /
". 'onQuering states. SO men talk ev- |
o'NWhere in Europe. They all agree ,
IN believing that the American IDEAL
mas been abandoned forever