The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-15

Copyright, 1898. by the Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 14.-When the American
correspondents succeeded in impressing
upol. the British minds that Senator
Foraker in his recent speech in the
United States senate spoke only for
himself when he suggested that the
/ United States might eventually with
draw from the Philippine islands, a dis
tinct sigh Of relief might have been read
/ between tine lines of the newspapers =
! Every one here assumed that because
the senator was from the presidents
state he spoke for the president, and 3
| the declaration nade not only succeed
I ed in giving British public officialGonr 2
/ an unpleasant shock, but it fell like
a dash of cold water on the ardor of
I the British for an anglO-American uT-e
/ derstanding. They began to question
what was the profit OF this friendship
/ il America did not propose TO back up
Great Brltain'S policy in the far east
/ by retaining the most important base
{ of operations in the event of war over
! China.
The incident has Illustrated how
/ deeply the late war has left the United
+ States entangled in the worlds policies.
for one OF the foremost arguments ad-
-
/ Sestion was that the United States
| owed it to the world not TO disturb The
] balance OF power and not to furnish q
; possible subject for war by throwing
the Philippine islands into the field, to
be scrambled for by the colonizing ma
tons
The leading editorial writer's fell to
] prOclaiming most strenuOusly that
Americas duty TO the world at large,
as well as TIE FilipinOs. should con-
sCrsln her 10 establish cR ili1aItOn, 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 a rational opinion
upon which to base their consent, and
/ that the United States stood in the
place OF parents Of the f'ilipinos 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 fippantly in
quires whether Senator Hoar does not
chastise his children when they are
naughty, and imagine a Louisiana con-
gresham talking consent after the
military occupation whereby the state.
after its purchase from Napoleon, was
reduced to order. The Spectator then
asks Il the Americans are Soing to give
up Texas and hand California back 70
the MeXicans. saying it believes great :
races, when the hour of opportunity
comes, expand greatly. regardless Of
arguments.
Continuing. the Spectator remarks:
I'VE believe the Americans to be one
Of those. Fifty years hence, under their
control the F'iiiDinos will be orderly
Iawabiding persons like our HindOos,
with taste for acquiring money and
the fOible Of believing that rhetoric is
an admirable substitute alike for
thought and action
To CRUSH TRADE 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 WOrkInen with their own weapons.
The engineering federation, which
proved so powerful in the recent strike,
has invited employers in all the trades
70 ''crush the tyranny of trades union-i
ism. One object of the combination is
to secure legislation favorable to the
employers.
The Railroad Review asserts that. one
firm has placed &35, 900 (S1z5,090) at the
disposal of the organizations Darlla-s
mentary committee, though how It
could be expended Iegitimately does not
appear. Il such a thing happened in
America il would be called a ''corrup-
ton fund
The second object of the organization
is to secure for employers freedom to
make contracts with individuals, in
stead of with the unions. The employ
ecs pledge themselves not to negotiate
directly with strikers, but to deal
through the committee of the organiza-
ton.
The backbone Of the scheme is found
in an agTang cement by which any hrnl
equal to its average profits Even the
Daily Chronicle. the WOrkingnan' or
gan, warns the labor leaders that they 3
nave been carrying matters in q. little
too hiSh-handed a manner, and admits
what everyone 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, ana also
assert the rights of WOrSnaen to take
holidays whenever they please. regard
less of their employers interests, ard
protect them for so doing The en-
ploye17s complain that they cannot in
duce idle men to work, even at The high
wa geS which prosperity warrants
The Chronicle admits that there are
many worzmen living on the union
funds who could get employment If
they choose
A VAINGLORIOUS FRAUD.
The American society here is taking
measures to check the
attained by Colonel GeOrga
Gourand, who, Of his OWN motion. as
sumed the leadership of the American
wing OF the Anglo-Ane-ican moveaent
in London. Colonel G 3urand first came
forward on the occasion of the arrival
Of. General Lord Kitchener OF Kiia1--
toum. in England. The colonel went
to Dover to greet him, and is the most
figure in the microscope
pictures Of the event shown in the
music halls. Since then he has deiuged
the papers with letters. writing always
in the name Of the United States army
or of the Americans in London. Sign