The Florence tribune., 1898-08-27
DREAD OF EUROPE.
Autipathy to This Country Is Not
 Confined to France.
The Probable Policy of Spain fin the Present War-EneIand Is Said to Be Unpopular on the
 Continent.

unanimity of obiurgation against Eng land fer her att;tude to~ursl Spain and the United States is now the marked feature Of the Trench press. The Fibre Parole presents 10 the world French opinion in miniature. when f stigma tizes England as the hvPoendc9i eo- eompliee cf the United States Their alfiance is5 # declares, -an igaoaai1l.s but if is just as well, perhaps, that they should work together for the day upon
 which they will be called to account by international justice - the day when the British Ieech will be forced 10 dis gorge, and Europe resolves 10 no long CT tolerate the disgrace Of allowing the law to be laid down by such assassins and dmalefactors as JohnBull ard Broth- CT Jonathan-then it will have reason for congratulation that they will be able to invoke no excuse for mercy. They have been brothers in infamy, and history will sooner or later chas- tise them altogether" This language gives pointed, ifJlndiplomatic, cxpres- sion to continental antiquities that are by no means confined to France. In Germany, Austria, Russia and Italy peoples and governments are antipa- thetic to the principles represented by the stars and stripes. A dispatch from the Washington correspondent of the London Times that appeared on April 3 has attracted wide attention, be- cause, after describing an interview with the president, the distinguished correspondent says that MT Mckinley turns somewhat deaf ear to the warnings of the European continent"
 Do not let the American public make any mistake about the facts. If Eng land is unpopular on the continent II IS partly because she is strong, and partly because she is not only free, but the friend of freedom in other lands. America is disliked among the despot- isns for the same reasons. Continental powers know that the organized armed strength of the United States at the end of this war, let it end when it may. win make America a match for thc
 great powers. whether in the Pacific or ! h the Atlantic Foreigners perceive thnt the rescue of Cuba from Spanish brutality will introduce the United States into the circle of the great Flu ropean powers. To her will fall tho dis i position of the Philippine islands. and perhops of Morocco sweet morsels hankered after by Germany. by Japan and by France. With the direct entry of the United States into the territorial interests of the wide world her role in the drama of the next century will be leading one.
 Furthermore, the policy of Spain may be to make of the war 0 succession of slow campaigns, and thus to render the capture of Cuba but one incident in a long struggle. European nations, other than Great Britain, regard the ap- proach to the shores of Spain of the great western influence with feelings
 of abhorrence. dismay and surprise. They are beginning to see that while 1 for Spain there are two ways out of the 1 trouble that besets her, for the United I States there is but one. Whatever the
 cost, and whatever the sacrifice, the
 American republic stay her hand
 until Spain has been driven out of her colonial empire in cast and west. And, lastly, they know that whatever suffer
 ing may be caused to the Spaniards,
 and whatever steps are taken by the l United States to insure victory. and however. needless the war may have
 been, America will command the firm
 friendship of England. l have taken pains to discover the qualifications of
 the persons responsible for the princi- l pal attacks on America that have ap- 1 peored in the London press, so far as they have come under my notice. In each case I learn that the writer has
 visited neither Spain nor the states. Alien influences have inspired utter
 ances which TO writer of true English
 blood could have penned. With regard
 10 the working men and the middle
 classes there is nothing to report. The lseenest interest is taken. Newspapers
 are published several times a day, in-
 cluding Sundays, but not single daily paper of influence is found to break th,. consensus of anxious solicitude for the 1 speedy success of American arms
 London Cor. Harper's Weekly.
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