Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-07-22
The Anglo-American Entente.

IT anything were needed to emphasize the ex-
istng cordial relations between the United States
and Great Britain, it was supplied in the enthu-
sasm in whirh Our national holiday was celeb
rated IN London; where representative English
men We'd with Americans in expressions of a(mi-
ration for President Mckinley and all that the
stars and Stripes represent. No one who be-
lleves this coming together Of the two great bran
ches OF the Ango-Saxon race is not only for the
best interests of either, but also brought with the
possibilities of immense benefits to the whole
human race; can read even the meager press re-
ports OF the speeches of Ambassador Choate and
Cardinal Vaughan, at the banquet held at the
Hotel Cecil, without stirring of the pulse and
quickened heart beat.
In fact the speech OF Cardinal Vaughan, who
as Archbishop of Westminster is the head of the
Catholic Church in England, caused decided
sensation and will doubtless furnish food for
thought in all the courts of Europe In plain
language the Cardinal urged England and Ame-
rlca to cooperate in carrying civilization into
the far East by force if necessary. When it is
understood that this utterance represents the
sentiment not merely of English Catholic, but of
the Great Church itself. whose foundations are at
Rome; it assumes character of such vast inn
portance as to overshadow any announcement of
a new departure in international politics. made in
recent years. The Cardinal evidently belongs
to the new diplomacy" school, He who runs,
may read and understand the following language
(Which power in the future of the world shall
be predominant over the great continent yet TIN
reclaimed by Christian civilization? Shall it be
the great despotc power that looms in the north
OF Asia. or shall it be the power of the liberty
loving nations represented by English speaking
peope?"
We have always believed that Great Britain
and the United States would ultimately be drawn
together by pure force OF gravity, but scarcely
expected to live to see the day. Events however
have moved rapidly in the closing years of this
great and eventful century: and one OF the great
est of those events. is the unwrtten but on that
account more binding. alliance. between the
two foremost nations earth Russian diplomacy
the most deNterOuS eXtant-nore than any
cause, has assisted in keeping the two nations
apart. The Spanish American war however.
compelled the Northern Bear to change his atti-
tude. Directly the United States acquired a
foot-hold in the Orient, he showed his claws For
the first time in her history. Columbia placed her
self in position where her interests and those
of the Northern Colossus might possibly clash.
In moment the soft pad that hitherto had re-
presented the Russian "glad hand" was with
drawn and the threatening claws protruded.
That the same force which has brought about
the Anglo American alliance call it what you will.
the result rernains-will also some dav involve
gigantic struggle between the two nations COM
bined and the Russian Empire, seems to us in
evitable. That contest when it comes will repre-
sent fight to the death for the mastery of the
world. One side representing all that is freest
and most enlightened in modern civilization; the
other. blind obedience to the command at one
despotic will In other words the force alluded to
above. is manifest destiny.