The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-01-20
AMERIcA,s WORLD INFLUENCE

duential member of the family of
nations, but it does not grasp the
whole of the fact or apprehend its
full significance. The latest issue of |
the London Spectator has an article
which says that the "dominant fact
of the year 1898 was the rise in the
position of the English-speaking peo-
pIes.'' 1t remarks that 'ton the other
side of the Atlantic the people of the
United States, moving as if they were
forced on by some impulse from
without, with minute army in be-
ing, president specially vowed to
peace, and a minister of war most
kindly described as a shortsighted
amateur, crushed the ancient mon
archy of Spain almost without effort
and seated themselves on great islands
in the Caribbean and the Pacific"
and adds that America has become
within one year, in the eyes Of those
who control armies and fleets, almost
a new and conceivably a dangerous
power" Then it says: 1.-The Eng
lIsh- speaking races, disregarded in
1897, are in 1898 regarded as the
potential equals in com bination of all
the rest of the word
It is unquestionably true that the
chapter which the United States add
ed to the worlds history IN 1898 has
been a revelation to the rest of the
nations, and has immeasurably in
creased the prestige of the English
speaking races, for England's smypa-
thy with the United States when the
other nations were more or less un-
friendly has been the means of she'd
ding on England, by reflection, a
little of the glory which the United
States gained. Moreover, in the Afri-
can campaign England gained glory
of her own, which restored her al
once to the position of influence
which she held at the opening of the
present century, during the days oi
Pitt, and about two thirds of CEN
tury later in the times of PalmerstoI
and Disraeli. The glory of the Eng
lish-speaking races, however, date:
back further than 1898, and Amerlcs
had far larger share in that glory
than the world then or since clearly
realized. 1--WE are forced to asl
every morning what victory thert
isl said Horace Walpole, in 1853
''for fear we may miss one" 4
strong basis Of truth underlaid tina
jocose remark. No other coun tr,
had ever played so glorious a part il
the history of the world as Englan'
had been playing for year or tw'
at that time, and her American col
onies bore prominent share in th
work which that country performed
AT the time when Walpole spok
the victories had just taken plac
which drove France out of Mort
America, and saved the greater AM
better part of the New World t
Anglo Saxon civilization. Englan
had been gaming victories in Europ
and Asia as well as in America, fo
the struggle which was drawing to
close at that time of the Seve
Years War, but the part of the con
flict which took place in the Ne
World was that part which had tn
greatest interest for England. I
the New World the colonies which
few years later became the Unite
States were far more prominent
the struggle than was England her
self, and forced England into il
Two-thirds of the army which fougl
England's battles in the New Worl
in that conflict were contributed b
the colonies, the best of the Englis
officers, aside from Wolfe, wei
Americans, 10000 soldiers furnishe
by the colonies had lost their lives
fighting their own and England
hattJos while SI5. noe. .O0O of the ex