The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-15

Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 14.-When the Amerl-
can correspondents succeeded IN I'M
pressing upon the British mind that
Senator Foraker. in his recent speech
in the United States senate, spoke only
for himself when he suggested that the
Tinted States might eventually with
draw from the Philippine ISLANDS.
distinct sigh of relief might have been
read between the lines of the neWspa-
pers Eeery one here assumed tnat pe-
cause the senator was from the pfeSl-
dents state he was speaking Tor the
president, and the declaration mace not
only succeeded in giving British pupilc
officialdom an unpleasant Snoch' put,
it fell like a dash Of cold water ON
the ardor Of the British for Anglo
American understanding. They began
to question what was the profit OF TINS
friendship If America did not propose
to back up Great Britain's policy IN
the far East by retaining the most I'M
portant base Of operations in the event
Of war over China.
The incident has illustrated how
deeply war has left the United States
entangled in the worlds policies, for
one of the foremost arguments adYanc-
ed against Senator FNoraker's sugges-
ton was that the United States owed
it to the world not to disturb the bal
ance of power and not to furnish
possible subject for war by throwing
the Philippine islands into the field to
be scrambled for by the colonizing ma
tions. The leading editorial writer's fell
to proclafming most strenuously that
Americas duty to the world at large,
as well as to the Filipinos, should con-
strain her to establish civilization, and
throughout the British press and in
the club rooms and streets only one
voice was heard. The principle Of the
consent Of the governed, all contended,
does not apply to people who are in
capable of forming rational opinion
upon which to base their consent, and
that the United States stood in the
place Of parents Of the Filipinos and
must regretfully chastise her rebellious
children for their own good. Many drew
parallel from the so-called coercion
OF the South into the Union.
The solemn spectator f1ippantly in
qEires whether Senator Hoar does not
chastise his children when they are
naughty, and imagines a Louisiana
congressman talking consent after the
military occupation, whereby the state
after it's purchase from Napoleon was
reduced to order. The Spectator then
asks if the Americans are going to give
up Texas and hand California back to
the MeXlcanS, saying II DelleVeS great
races when the hour of opportunity
comes expand, regardless of arguments.
Continuing, the Spectator remarks:
1--WE believe the Americans to be one
of those. Fifty years hence, under
their control, the Filipinos will be or
derby, abiding persons like our own
Hindoos. with a taste for acquiring
money. and the foible of believing that
rhetoric is an admirable substitute
alike for thought and action.
TO FIGHT TRADES UNIONS.
The power of the trades unions is
gone, so far as Great Britain is con-
cerned. The British employers are
forming a gigantic combination to
fight the worEmen with their own
weapons. The engineering federation,
which proved so powerful In the re-
cent strike. has invited employers in
all the trades to crush the tyranny
of trades unionism. One object Of the