The age-herald., 1899-01-15
ENTANGLED IN
 WORLD POLITICS Spanish War Has Left America in a
 Position. FORAKER'S SENATE SPEECH Was Like Dash of Cold Water on
 British ArdOr. THOSE WHO ADVOCATE ALLIANCE Thought the Ohio Senator Spoke for the President and Hopes for an OfTen- sive Treaty Were for the
 Moment Shattered
ORAKER'S SENATE SPEECH
THOSE WHO ADVOCATE ALLIANCE

London, January 14.-When the American correspondents succeeded in impressing upon the British mind that Senator For aker in his recent speech in the United States senate, spoke only for himself when he suggested that the United Stales might eventually withdraw from the Philippine islands, distinct sigh of relief might have been read between the lines of the newspa- pers. Every one here assumed that be- cause the senator was from the presidents state he was speaking for the pres dent and the declaration he made not only sue ceeded in giving British officialdom an un- pleasant shock but it fell like a dash of cold water on the ardor of the British for an Anglo-American understanding. They began to question what was the profit of this friendship if America did not propose to back up Great Britains policy in the far east by retaining the most important base of operations in the event of war over China.
 The incident has illustrated how deeply the war has left the United States entangled in the world policies, for one of the fore most arguments advanced against Senator Foraker's suggestion was that the United
 States owed it to the world not to disturb ,he balance of power and not to furnish possible subject of war by throwing the Philippine islands into the field to be
 scrambled for by the colonizing nations. The Only Voice Heard The leading editorial writers left to pro- claim most strenuously that America duty to the world at large as well as the Flip inos should constrain her to establish civil ization, and the entire English press in the club rooms and on the streets was the only voice that was heard. The principle of the consent of the governed all contended does not apply to people who are incapable or forming a rational opinion upon which to base their consent and that the United States stood in the place of parents or the Filipinos and must regretfully chastise her children for their own good Many drew a parallel from the so-called coercion or the south into the union.
 The solemn Spectator 1ippantly inquiries
 whther Senator Hoar does not chastise his children when they are naughty, and irn- agines a Louisiana congressman taiking consent after the military occupation
 whereby the state, after its purchase from Napoleon, was reduced to order. A The Spectator then asks if the Americans are going to give up Texas and hand Call fornia back to the Mexicans, saying it be- l.eves great races when the hour of oppor- tunity comes, expand greatly regardless of arguments
 Continuing, the Spectator remarks: Filipinos W ill Progress eve believe the American is to be one Of these. Fifty years hence under their con trol the Filipinos will be orderly, law-abid- ing persons like our own Hindoos with a taste for acquiring money and the 1oipie of believing that rhetoric is an admirable
 substitute for thought and action"
 The power of the trades-unions is gone
 so far as Great Britain is concerned. The
 British employers are forming gigantic
 combination to finish the workmen with
 their own weapons. The engineering fed eratfon which proved so powerful in the re-
 cent strike, has invited employers in all the
 trades to "crush the tyranny" of trades uniondsm One object of the combination Is
 to secure legislation favorable to the em-
 ployefs. The second object is to secure for employers freedom to make contracts with individuals, instead of with the unions.
 The employers pledge themselves not to
 negptiate directly with strikers, but to deal
 with the committee of the organization.
 Tbe backbone of the scheme Is found In an
 arrangement by which any firm fighting Strike will receive indemnity equal to its average profits.