The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-15
OUR DUTY TO THE WORLD
It Is the Burden of English
Editorials.
THE BALANCE OF POWER
Must Not Be Disturbed by Withdrawal
From the Philippines-Con of
the Governed Does Not APP
ply in This Case.

| correspondents succeeded in impreSsing
upon the British minds that Senator
Foraker, in his recent speech in the
United States senate spoke only for him
self when he suggested that the United
States might eventually withdraw
from the Philippine islands. a distinct
sigh of relief might have been read be-
tween the lines of the newspapers.
Every one here assumed that because
| the senator was from the presidents
state he spoke for the president and
| the declaration made not only sue
ceeded in giving British officialdom a
| shock, but it fell like dash of cold
| water on the ardor of the British for
/ an Ang1o-American understanding. The
| incident has illustrated how deeply the
| late war has left the United States en-
| tangled in the worlds policies, for one
| of the foremost arguments advanced
| against Senator Foraker's suggestion
was that the United States owed it to
| the world not to disturb the balance of
| power and not to furnish possible
subject for war by throwing the Philip
pine islands into the field to be
| scrambled for. by the colonizing ma
| tions. The leading editorial writers
fell to proclaiming most strenuously
that Americas duty to the world at
| large, as we'll as to the Filpinos, should
constrain 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, it was con-
| tended, does not apply to people who
are incapable Of forming rational
opinion upon which to base their con-
sent, and that the United States stood
| in the place of parents of the Filipinos
and must regretfully chastise her re-
|
Many drew parallel from the So
called coercion of the South into the
| union.
The solemn Spectator fippantly in
| quired 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 its 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 Mexicans. saying it believes great
races when the hour of opportunity
comes, expand greatly, regardless Of
| arguments. Continuing, the Spectator
| remarks:
We believe the Americans to be one
of those. Fifty years hence, under their
control, the Filipinos will be orderly.
w-abiding persons like our own Hin
docs. with a taste for acquiring money
and Hle foible of believing that rheto-
ric is an admirable substitute alike for
thought and action"
| 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 workmen with their own weapons,
The engineering federation, which
proved so powerful in the recent strike,
has invited employers in all the trades
to crush the tyranny" of trades union
ism. One object of the combination
is to secure legislation favorable to the
employers.
The Railroad Review asserts that ore
firm has placed $4,000 pounds ($1750o0
at the disposal of the organization S
parliamentary committee, though how
it could be expended legitimately does
not appear. If such a thing happened
in America, it would be called cor
ruption fund.- The second object of
the fund is to secure for employers
freedom to make contracts with indi-
vidua1s instead of with the unions. The
employers pledge themselves not TO
negotiate directly with strikers, but to
deal through the committee of the or
ganization.
The backbone of the scheme is found
in an arrangement by which any firm
fighting a strike will receive indemnity
4 equal to it's average profits. Even the
Daily Chronicle, the workingman's or
gan, warns the labor leaders that they
have been carrying matters in little
too high handed manner and admits
what every one knows, that the stand
ard days work fixed by the unions is
below the capacity of the average man.
The unions will not permit their mem
bers to exceed the standard and also
assert the rights of the Workmen to
take holidays whenever they please, re-
CARELESS of their employers interests,
and protect them for so doing. The
employers complain that they cannot
induce idle men to work, even at the
high wages which prosperity warrants.
The Chronicle admits that there are
many workingmen living on the union
funds who could get employment if
they chose.
The American society here is taking
extraordinary measures to check the
great notoriety attained by Col. George
Gourand, who of his own motion, as
sumed the leadership of the American
wing of the Anglo-American movement
in London Colonel Gourand first came
forward on the occasion of the arrival
of General Lord Kitchener of khar-
toum in England. The colonel went 10
| Dover to greet him, and is the most
conspicuous figure in the kaleidoscope
pictures of the event shown in the
music halls. Since then, he has de-
luged the papers with letters, writing
always in the name of the United
States army or of Americans in Lon
don, signing a string of titles to his
name, of which the first was the one
time assistant inspector general of ar
tillery on the staff of General Sher-
man." He pledged the Americans TO
contribute $1,000 ($5,000) to the fund
for the erection of the Gordon memorial
college at Khartoum, and issued cir
clIlar with plarinp headlines, request
ing contributions to found IAN educa-
ton chair of science" The colonefs
latest appeal is for money for the Eng
lishmen who enlisted in the united
states. helped to defeat Spain and were
afterward discharged, of whom he says
there were many. This was taken up
by some of the papers as corroborating
the assertion of Mr.. Cunningham-Gra-
ham, that the best fighting in the
Spani jh-American war was done by
Englishmen.
, The whole business has made the
T Americans a laughing stock