The San Francisco call., 1898-05-27

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 English colonies than with any ike the continent of Africa, is to be Is more in accordance with our nat our material interests, for us to pre- share of it.
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 William B. Chandler, in which he d likely to be brought about by the wa
 The new feature in our interna great change which has taken place country. This change of feeling is D which the British Government has our dispute with Spain reached its c impression upon the American people.
 There has never been any very ba states, except what has grown out O. toward us Of the tone and manner of u pig brother to the little brother. En. Iano, III times past, has been disposed play the big brother. When we hay 10 assume to treat it, and to decide i not as II we were nation of equ power and dignity with herself, but 1T she, having that big navy of hers, ws enutled to act on the big brother pril clple and say: We are going to hay IL so and so, and you help it if you car
 Tn order to get at a working bas of alliance with the English. which th war has brought Into sight as a distin, possibility, some method will have to | iound, or course, of deciding question Detween the two countries on some oth, principle than that. It is evident enoug mat an alliance between the two ns tonS, or, let us say, an understandin DelWeen them as against the rest of u world, would not last long if, Wheneyt dispute arose between themselve 5-ngIand were to assume, as she ha done on previous occasions, to settle py her ipse dixit. The big brother att tude Will have to be given up foreve And unless some other way of adjustin olIerences between England and oul serves can be, found the danger will | that eventually we shall ally ourselve world. '-
 If England is seeking to make he navy nS bigger than the combined navie or all the other great powers of tn world, then all the other nations wi naturally find themselves in a sort C Gieonsplracy py to act together to offset, anC ErpSde tI pHSssidpie, at some time to overmatc Eheland $ supremacy. That undoubtedl mas been the recent tendency of thing Tn Europe, and it has been the tendenc1 III my mind, confess, to look upon thai should not be an English alliance, or lent to an alliance, between the Unit and broad purposes.
 Assuming that we can first ara puteS between England and the Unit " guarantee to this country absolute ana a distinct recognition of certain f the Monroe doctrine-I believe there ar IS not merely our common language al
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 I have no particular sympathy W ana ought to have a war, in order th; served and the sterner virtues of manh nas peen he!d ny men of considerable tHe nara discipline of wars occurrfl Flrli1ty of a nation is in danger of be into softness and weakness.
 But while l do not share this vii III the past century and a quarter of Thus, in the first quarter-century we quarter-century the war with Mexit war Of the rebellion; and now, when i without any war, 10 and behold we 1
 Whatever may be said about the l very great-lt IS undeniable that war, this one is, for what the nation believe have an enormous and wholesome ton lower and physical but the higher al Suppose, if you please, that this Spa and that no more fighting were to be ( with no great loss of life and yet WIG great naval but great military demor assurance, and, at the same time, SE mighty reserve power, both on land ar
 We have made a demonstration SC review that took place at the close ( spectacle on Pennsylvania avenue whiC splendid object lesson as to the vital stI was of incalculable value in it's moral liar thing IS now going to happen agair and whether we have to send them all bring them together in one great ass effect of that as a demonstration of ou and valuable. The war may be too sh on which We have made the first call
 
 pacity for war on great scale has bee
 Moreover, attention having been c in military organization, in coast defe points, the country will now insist tha so that we shall never at any future u a disadvantage in facing any foreign co This war is a fortunate war in ma under fortunate circumstances for us several other bigger wars. If we ha have taken our place as a Second-clas result-that other nations, perceiving u to fight even Spain on a question invol interests in the hemisphere, would hay embark in various ambitious enterpr1s Emperor William might possibly, In s and St. Croix; other powers might hay England, without conquering Venezuel a whole series of similar acts might ma CTS in this Western half of the world 1 we are not ready or willing to hgnt SD
 ''The Monroe doctrine would thus ha been prepared to enter upon an armed ( great powers, a war with any one or W fight than this one with Spain. Hence is most fortunate, in this respect, at le venting larger wars, which otherWlse W been willing, not only to give way 10 Urine.
 ''The Monroe doctrine is only inciden Cuba. The Monroe doctrine has alwa ropean Governments in this hemtspher European power having possessions her her feel it to be our right and duty to eXpe European powers already established n they should make no new establishment ritories and peoples as were already un erned.
 "This exceptional attitude which we she must go, bag and baggage, entirely kind that can arise, because Spain is tn on this side of the world. England doe those of her colonies that are compose ernment with their own consent, and, France and Germany. So that the reas 1t bears incidentally upon the Monroe d war with any other European power.
 This war is fortunate. too, in this. { ton as to make it prudent to avoid c nation as to make her an unworthy an inglorious thing in itself. Her strength val and military establishments, are no making a cowardly fight. Her expulsio deed, no holiday affair.
 Ut is furthermore exceedingly fortu war not for itself nor to gain anythin ply to fight for friends and neighbors. is that things are so situated in Europ help from the concert of Europe, wh be able to get. All the conditions of tn cumstances of the war, are in our faVo tiny clearly indicated by these fortun luded. l think it will appear in history, as to the far-reaching consequences or the most fortunate wars in which any n well infer that if we will take such a s nefghboring people, we would certainly ests still more readily and resolutely. vNT ECTED IN