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her tradesmen has been our constant

her tradesmen has been our constant
endeavor
But 1t has never been possible for
moment to examine the attitude of th-
Hations OF Europe toward us without
seeing that, by comparison at least.
England was our greatest friend She
IS the only one to whom we can sell
our goods unhampered; the efforts If
germany TO drive us out of her mar
I kets are familiar and exasperating. TT
Sues wfChout saying that 1t is England
whicn mas the same Institutions and
iueais IN the world and is working off
the same civilization as ourselves As
Am bassador Eustis, of French desoa,,t
hlmself. declared on his return from
Parfs, that, although France was q
repupllc and England a monarchy If
was with England and not France
that our resemblance and affinities
were greatest.
LIBERTY IN FRANCE.
The Dreyfus and lola trials have
fortunately given the American peonla
a more recent Illustration of what civi,
iioefty means in France. 1t has only
required little study Of the peoples
OF the outside world to see which most
CLOSELY resembled ourselves in aims and
aspirations, and such a popular com.
par1son this war has instituted blood
is thicker than water because of tho
.iiings that blood does, and two ma
luis wnlcn use the same Blackstone
BIZ same shakespeare and the same
DiOie, pnuS resting their law literatura
ana fellglon upon the same foundations
I liust inevitably approach in symna,
thieS ana interests. There has not bean
enough or a scare over the Spanish war
~ Lndhe US rush In fear toward the
strong arm of helper, but rather the
presence OF this war has opened our
Eyes 10 the power Of the outside world.
anu mas set us to thinking which narts
OF 1t we really liked best. IT is Nv M
accident that England rather tban
RousSla should now seem our real friend
DIpiomatlc posings are not the hands
Whlch bind peoples together: we had
. cne SHAGGY friendship of the old desnot.
ISM IN our civil war, just as we did a
p, naIa1,r4 support from France in the
i,eVo!utlon, but these movements on III
chessboard, cold and calcuJatinS 40 ..
make nations one.
RUSSIAN ANTAGONIST
Inc Russians are not our people. and
we are not theirs. A young man can,a
10 washington some time ago to nro-
cure assistance from our state danar+-
Inent to be permitted to go hack To hi.
nome In Russia. He was the son of
wel-to-do Russian merchant. and bad
coHie 10 this country in the desire to
seek fortune in a larger field of onnor
!uhlty. He violated the law of RnsS;.
~ expatrlating himself and beconine
GU american citizen, and after he
ouiiu Hln1sef unable to earn a. living
and see his mother. he reaIizeG 49, I 10
aao committed an unpardonabIe Of
tense and that a Siberian. dnngeo,,
awaited him. The state dana &c.,
Gouio not help him, and the moor NO.,
! ! wandered aimlessly about WASH
thston a victim of mans inrh1mnan
~ iiian; can anyone see this unfo,-tun.
con,n 81 say mat Russia is our natural
IohIraoe among the nations and ~
Iand with its free system bv which -
n w e.sn- american Stanley becomes :.
Dilllsn parl1amentarian ia orr ~. AZ
.!ohal Zoe, or that we want the civiIiza
IIoh Oh the car to overrun and suh-
merge that from which America 6raw,
Us Hiatlonal life? And this war is inst
considerations '--e'e
~ course, nobody knows how much
OF an alliance with Great Britain tha
!u.ure may afford. 1t might he on1,,
III moral support, such as ENGLAND is
now giving the United States II
n IL go step further, and. in case
, 9 81 an attempt to shut off England's
since su t1 IN war, we might insist,
since we nave the bread to sell on
oeilVerlng the goods to our starving
customers If we have a bie navS
Wnen the attempt is made to emf off
Englands food supply, and continental
alIlance that would plan to trv, that
game might think twice before DARING
10 FISK running up against our com.
bined fleets. The terms and tba da-
tails remain for time and circumstances
to work out
SHALL SLAV OR SAXON R17I.E9
Shall it be the Slav or the Saxon9
Shall the world language be Russian
or English? Shall the world law be
one OF individual freedom or that of a
despotism? Could we but be assured
OF an ultimate union of American and
1 HngI!sh interests, what principles
would determine this peace of the world
could not long remain a question.
A glance at the map tells the story.
All OF North America from the Rio
Grande to the Pole speaks English.
Ihls territory is destined to remain
more populous and resourceful than
the rest of the hemisphere. The best
IN asa and Africa is English. The
continent of Australia is apparently
secure. In Europe, English is still do
ing business at the old stand, and on
little 100000 square miles of territory
supporting in civilization 40, OOO 900 peo-
pie. II any race is to dominate the
worlds future, it should be this race.
The international postal congress here
developed the fact that two-thirds of
the mail Of the world was addressed
IN English. Statistics like these bring
up alluring visions Of a world-lan-
gUage, world law, power which
might dominate the peace of mankind.
and bring the unspeakable Turk to
trial for his misdeeds as before a DO
lice court. This may be all moon
shine, but from sentiments have come
great surprises. The extensions Of
commercial relations are the wonder
full binding-irons. 1t came hard for
the business world to go to war with
poor Spain because of the commercial
intimacies involved, and the inter-de-
pendence of the peoples of the modern
world. How much more vital lis this
interdependence of the two great Eng
lish peoples. united by the ocean ca
bles and the fast steamships, and who
can tell how closely these lines may
draw the peoples together? The con-
vergence of the Anglo-Saxon peoples
may be the great thought on the page
of the twentieth century's history If
so. our little Spanish war cannot be
forgotten.