The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-04
Serious Danger of Intervention
During the War.
W. 7. STEAD'S DISCOVERY
AMERICAN DIPLOMATS AUDAC-
ITY CHECKED THE SCHEME.
Defed the Representative of the Pow
ers and Announced That They
Would Also Have to Reckon With
England-old World Enraged By
Results of the War.

|, Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
London, Nov. 24.-Wilham T. Stead,
writing from Rome under date of Nov.
q. says:
In the course of my tour am now
compelled to admit I found proof ex-
istence of a disposition on the part of
the powers to intervene on behalf of
Spain which might have been very SER
ious had it not been checked in the bud
by the knowledge that England would
have nothing to do with it. When l
was in Paris l was positively told that
no proposal had ever been made 20 in
teryene, and that, therefore, England
had never had the occasion or oppor-
tunity to put her foot down on the anti
American coalition. That no doubt was
true, as far as overt action on the part
of the government was concerned. But
it is not less true that Immediately af-
ter the war broke out diplomatic
representative of the powers communi-
Gated to an American minister at a
European court in plain and unmistak-
able terms the displeasure Of the pow
ers and their desire to express that dis
pleasure publicly and forcibly. This
communication was sufficiently serious
for the contingency of the use of the
allied forces of the European nations
for the coercion of the United States to
be frankly discussed between the two
diplomatists. The result of that dis
cussion was to put a summary stop to
all notion of European intervention.
If you intervene said the Amer1-
can minister, 1T means war;
Yes said his visitor, and the forces
of the great European powers, acting in
alliance, would overwhelm any opposi-
ton which America could offer
No doubt said the American, but
you would have to bring your forces
across the Atlantic to the other hemi-
sphere 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, sir; not any more
than it submitted a century since, when
the odds were far worse.
"'And remember he said, as
clincher, that when you were bringing
your armies and your navies across
1000 miles of sea to fight America, you
would have to count with England, who
is certainly not friendly to your enter
prise
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 Eng
land. The whole design was checked at
the very outset by the calm audacity
with which the representative of Amer
lea played his cards, including the
trump card of the Anglo-American en-
tente, which henceforth will play
leading part in all the dealings of the
English speaking people with their
Jealous and suspicious neighbors
81 am very glad to be able to set
forth the actual facts as they actually
happened. They were told me at first
hand by the person most Immediately
concerned, and you can absolutely rely
upon the accuracy of the above state
ment"
DISGUSTED WITH AMERICA.
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 world with feelings of
anger, disgust and alarm, almost too
great for words. The sentiment of in
dignation differs in intensity. But 1t
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
made the war possible was mere
mask of cant, assumed in order to IA
cilitate conquest, are almost the only
sentiments shared i'll common by the
rival camps of the quirinal and of the
vatican.
With the kings men the sentiment
is comparatively mild. They do not be-
lieve in the least in the disinterested-
ness of the American war of liberation
The American declarations are almost
universally derided as hideous eX-
amples of worse than English hypoc-
risy. Uncle Sam, they say, determined
in all things to surpass John Bull, has
outdone him even in Dharisaism and
cant. The friends of America wiring
their hands in unaffected grief over the
fall of the United States under the
temptation of the lust of territorial
expansion. Her enemies shoot out the
lip and shrek in derision over what
they regard as the unmistakeable dem
onstration which the demand for the
Philippines affords of American cupid
ity, American bad faith and American
ambition.
1--WE told you So they exclaim.
THAT is what the unctious rectitu6 q Of
the Anglo-SaXon always ends in de
always begins by calling heaven to
witness to his unsel1ish desire to helS
his neighbors, but he always ends by
stealing his spoons"
UNIVERSAL SENTIMENT.
It is unpleasant for the Anglo Saxon
to hear this on every side, but since the
peace negotiations have developed a
demand for the complete session of the
Philippines. Americans will do well to
recognize that some such statement as
the above presents the current opinion
of almost everyone in Europe who pays
cursory attention to what is going on
abroad. The immense majority OF
EnTCT1ooJoC IF oh fer