The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-02-28
ANGLO. O.SAXON CLASH
ENGLAND SEES 1T COMING, AND is
PREPARING FOR THE
FRAY
NATIONS NATURAL RIVALS


America Is Underselling John Bull
In the Markets of the World, and
Hence the Change in Tone--Can-
ada to Be Put Into Some Sort of
Shape for Defense - Labor
Troubles.
Special Correspondence The St. Paul Globe
LONDON, Feb. 15.-Since my last
letter to The o b e, about three
months ago, the peace conference at
Paris has been whipped into line by
the administration at Washington, and
the sentimental senators have given
vent t. their flights of rhetoric and
pledged the nation to enlighten the be-
nighted heather at the other end of
the earth. The Cubans have been set
free Ia the interest of civilization
Porto Rico is ours, as an incident, and
our plucky volunteers Who enlisted
from such generous motives are now
being shot down by our worthy friends
the Filipinos, in turn shooting thou
sands of those poor devils in self-de-
fense.
Was there ever worse blunder in
our history than that unnecessary
holding of Dewey at Manila after the
Spanish fleet was destroyed? Have We
ever been forced into a worse mess
than that whole Philippine business? .
AND then we have our bad beef for
the army. our noble Secretary Alger,
our commission to give a coat of white
wash TO the whole crowd and beauti-
full tangle generally.
OF course, we, as a people, will work
- it all cut sCme way, but this will be
no fault of the sentimentalists who
got US into it. Thank heaven for a
period of prosperity and for those
many and splendid warships that are
coming out soon, for we will need them
both.
CHANGE IN TONE.
I die not really expect last autumn
to chronicle quite as soon as this the
change In British opinion Of us that l
predicted was bound to come, but it is
here. After all the slush and splatter
OF our kinsmen across the sea- and
the "Anglo-American understanding
and ''our friends, the Americans and
all that sort of stuff, the wall is going
up now that we are not paying for
all these sweet nothings as the Eng
lish people expected. We are not fight
ing Russia, we are not opening our
ports to English goods, We are not
making silly concessions to Canada,
and we exported more stuff last year
than any country of the world. We
threaten England in all her markets,
while keeping our own market to our
selves, and we threaten her in prestige
and power We are today groaning
under the handicap of sentiment in
foreign politics, but tomorrow the
hard headed sense of the people will
throw off this handicap and we VIII
start fresh. We won't have Johnnie
Hay always in his present position. We
can soon change things, and what is
more, we probably will.
CLEVER GAME.
England has been playing clever
game with us, that is. cleverly con-
ceived but the thing don't work IL
is all very well for Johnnie Hay to
talk about the two nations going to-
gether. but the OK and the ass don't
make a good pair. 1t is not in the ma
tt1re of things for England and Amer
lea to work together. They may try
il but woe be to the American states
men who make the experiment, even
in the interest of the heather. One
of these two powers is destined to
triumph over the other. and the more
America does to morally pledge the
integrity of Canada as British colony
the more she viii have to regret.
I am an expansionist of what is con-
sidered in England the worst type, be-
cause l believe in watching for a
chance to take in the civilization OF
Canada. and l do not believe In any
sentimentalism which makes us re
sponsible for the government of 10,
1900 heather thousands Of miles
away. Such craftsmanship as is col'
trolled by sentiment is as remote from
the best American statesmanshlp a:
east is from west. We have a negro
problem In our own South that grow:
worse instead of better, and, II we
are looking for questions of this sort tt
settle we won't have to look far.
| referred in a former letter to a re-
mark of Lord Salisbury expressing
satisfaction at the Germans getting
outposts in China, as this would give
them just so much more to take care
of and be more for England to take, ir