The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14
Prominent Men Sorrow at the
Fall of America to Level
Of Military States.
ENGLAND'S NICE PLAN
It Is Not With Industrial Uncle
Sam She Seeks Alliance, but
With a New Power.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Special Dispatch to The Cali.
NEW YORK, May ia cable to
the World from London says: Andrew
Carnegie gave the following signed
statement to the World to-day on i'm
perialism and the political outlook of
the United States:
1t gives me pleasure to obIige the World
by statement of the position in which
find the imperialistic question here.
4 have seen many of the promi- +
= nent public men now in London, \
y who | know have been friends of y
y the American republic when it has \
y needed friends. From the highest \
4 to the lowest without exception, +
4 they have met me with expressions \
\ of deep regret that the republic \
+ founded by Washington and his \
colleagues upon plans so much y
higher than any other state should \
\ have fallen to the level of the mill \
4 tary states of Europe. y
Some of these men stood with Bright
in his campaign against the imperial
party here that longed to strike US down.
| repeat that without exception these men
lament the lapse from true Americanism
to this miserable Imperialism
/ have met men of the other class who
struck us when the republic was down
Let me give them credit for the change in
their feelings toward America [ know
them now to be the foremost advocates
of the race alliance, but also know that
if 1 were a British statesman there is no
price [ would not pay for alliance with
Americana price too high for securing
her entrance into the troubled waters of
the far East, because the true desire Of
English-spealking men is that we should
stand together as against men not of our
race.
Nature made blood thicker than \
water, and an alliance with the re- !
= public is now the keynote of the \
= British policy. and wisely so. but i
not an alliance with our present in 4
= dustrial republic. Our present War i
= Lord only makes himself ridiculous y
= in the eyes of these statesmen. with \
= three battleships at his back, and l.
y only 10000 soldiers, strutting like \
peacock, as vain and just as y
y harmless. No; it is not the present 4
y industrial republic that England \
wishes to have as her ally; it is the \
y republic that England sees America y
= must become if she does not soon J.
reverse her policy in regard to the \
\ Philippines.
We must have tremendous navy and a
huge standing army. for Britain Judges
truly that into whatever enterprise the
lNpubIiC SbcS Slie VIII not De content very
long to play second fiddle She is now
only the catspaw of England She could
not maintain her position for day in
Manila if England withdrew her august
protection.
This is a humiliating position It makes
my blood boil as I speak of the recreant
President who is the sole cause of it. He
1T was who changed his mind and de-
manded the Philippines against the ad-
TIL
VIII the President permit the sacrifice of
the lives Of our soldiers much longer in a
futile attempt to conquer 1900 islands that
would not stay conquered if beaten? Such
is the position as viewed from London.
y You ask my personal views of the \
\ future. I answer President McKin- \
4 ley will not be allowed by the man \
+ ayers of the Republican party to \
4 continue his folly-his crime [ \
\ believe he has already been in y
+ formed by those whose voice he \
\ cannot disregard that he must stop \
\ and return to American traditions. \
4 The country has no stomach for y
\ victories over people fighting for \
+ the right of sef-government +
Reading between the lines it is seen
that he is now veering around. Had he
authorized or directed Otis to grant Agui-
naldo the conference the latter asked be-
pened since would have been unneces-
sary. To-day we see his commission TAX
ing every means in its power to get a
conference with Aguinaldo. More, they
are not standing on forms. General Otis,
1t is reported to-day cables that he still
wants to push on military operations to
which President Schurman objects The
contrast between Otis and Dewey is sig
nifcant Dewey always reports only what
f-Ia Aha
try several times about what he is going
to do His plan of campaign is given out
with a great flourish of trumpets. He was
going to corral the enemy. So far he has
been a complete failure. He won skir-
mishes. as everybody expected, but lost
the campaign.
which our Republican President enforces
would not be tolerated by the monarchi-
cal Britons. One suppressed cable from
Manila comes via Hongkong to-day tell
ing us the Nebraska regiment is reduced
TO 200 men, with $50 on the sick list. The
season approaches when military opera
tions must cease, and the President no
doubt stands aghast at the grave situa-
tion He is now reported as going to call
an extra session of Congress in vain eff
fort to retrieve himself of responsibility.
My forecast is that the President will
get out of the Philippines and return to
american principles, obtaining shadowy
protectorate of some form that will
''save his face" and that he will then be
able to appear before the Republican
convention having the Philippine ques-
ton settled, having given them
he gave Cuba. Our party. will
then carry the Presidential election.
If he approached the country with the
war in the Philippines unsettled, and
the convention were free, it is impossible
that he would get even the nomination.
The weight would be too great TO carry.
The nomination. however he has prob
ably already secured. But the election
would then be another story: If the
Democratic party were to drop free silver
and come out under the leadership of
the World for Americanism-prese
to the people clean-cut issue between
the principles of Washington and those
of McKinley-there would be no doubt of
the result Our party would be beaten
and deserve to be
nronhecy-a dangerous business.
ANDREW CARNEGIE