The evening times., 1898-06-22

SUCCESS MAKES FRIENDS.
Remarkable EnthUsiasm i'm Jamaica
for the United States.

Remarkable Enthusiasm i'm Jamaica
for the United States.
New York. June "a letter just re-
ceived in this city from an American
traveller now in Kingston says:+
There is remarkable enthusiasm in this
English colony for Americans. News Of
the progress Of efforts towards an Anglo
American alliance is read and commented
upon with even more interest than de-
scriptions of battles-and few things are
more relished by Englishmen than de-
scriptions of battles. Is there something
selfish in this new cordiality? Mere kim
ship does not account for 1t, for the ia
maica negro processes an equal admfra-
ton. and shows a devotion not due to tips
alone. We are walking the road of victo-
ry. and the respect Of the world for con
querors, no doubt. has much to do with
our present Importance. One finds him.
self not caring to inquire into motives.
however, SO pleasant is 1t to find change
in the travelling English:nan' that dis
comforting persOnage-anG TO be made
much of by those who have not liked us
before. and who now think of our cause
as theirs. and talk rather inspiringly
about sharing each others fortunes.
Such partisans are they that they are
less willing than We to concede to the
Spanish the possession of n virtue.
These pretenses of fine feelings they
say cynically. (which the Spaniards are
making in their treatment of captured
correspondents, and in sending messages
of admiration to the American fleet, are
mere plays. theatrical efforts to create
the impression that they are not the kind
of men to use the cruel methods of war
attributed to them" l have come across
bu. one Britisher whose views are less
M hn 10 n u-hn n
served in the American navy as engineer
on the old IrOquois. He declares that
he has known the Spanish thirty years
that he would rather take their word
than their bond that they are perfect
gentlemen that they never blew up the
Maine the circumstance of the buoy be-
ing no evidence. because to point out a
buoy which a visiting warship may tie
to is like asking caller at your house
to take a seat
In the American fleet off Santiago one
cannot help observing that Admiral Ger
vera's amiable and complimentary COM
munication to Rear Admiral Sampson has
produced an effect, and the officers take
1t and other things as signs that our SOL
diers need not fear to be treated with
the harshness that has marked Spanish
dealings with insurgents. There is say
ing, repeated to every recruit as he leaves
the peninsula, that All decent Cubans
live in the cities: those in the country are
niggers and outlaws. and 1t has been
under that impression insurgents being
mostly from the provinces) that Spain's
troops in Cuba have operated. Now her
army and navy are fighting what they
apparently look upon as worthier foe
men. and will conduct themselves accord
ingly. This. at any rate, Is the expecta-
tion among American combatants, but 1t
seems idle to suppose. from the temper
one finds in Jamaica, that our new
friends. the English. will be willing TO
share 1t.
Zone discovers here no sentiment in IA
vor of the suggestion that Jamaica, the
Bahamas and the Bermudas be ceded to
America by Great Britain in exchange for
the Philippine archipelago. Diplomatic
ally points out the Jamaica Cleaner.
we should stand to lose all around and
IL quotes the opinion that by accepting
the transfer Great Britain would prob
ably incur the enmty of the japanese.
who have come to look upon the group
as future heritage; the dislike of the
Germans. who have trade interests there.
and the envy of Russia and France. who
are fully alive to the valuable nature of
the group as a strategic point in the Far
East. Five thousand tons of coal month
can be taken from the coal fields in the
islands. and this output will increase.
On the other hand. our strategic position
off the American coast would be cut
away altogether. We should hold no pos
sessions between Nova Scotia in the
north and the West Indies in the extreme
south: and in the event of war with
America a naval line of communication
between British Guiana. the West Indies
and our Canadian possessions would be
impossible. By giving up Jamaica and
the Bahamas we would also lose a valua-
BILE position. both commercial and stra-
tegic. of the projected Nicaragua ca
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