The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-15
DISTINCT SIGH OF RELIEF
WHEN 1T WAS STATED MIR. FORAKER
SPOKE ONLY FOR HIMSELF.
Editors Busy PrOclaiming 1t to Be
Uncle Sans Solemn Duty to Civ
iIize the FiIipinOs.
Downright 1899. by the Associated Press)


ually withdraw from the Philippine islands
a distinct sigh of relief might have been
read between the lines of the newspapers.
Every one here assumed that because the
senator was from the Presidents State he
was speaking for the President, and his
declaration not only succeeded in giving
British public offcaldom an unpleasant
shock, but it fell like dash of cold water
the ardor of the British for an Anglo
American understanding They began to
question what was the profit of this friend
ship if America did not propose to back up
Great Britain's policy in the far East by
retaining the most important base of opera
tions 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 fore
most arguments advanced against Senator
Forakers suggestion was that the United
States owed it to the world not to disturb
the balance of power and not to furnish
a possible subject for war by throwing the
Philippine islands into the field to be scram-
bled for by the colonizing nations
The leading editorial writer's fell to pro-
claiming most strenuously that America s
duty to the world at large as we'll as the
Fihpinos should constrain her to establish
civilization, and throughout the British
press and in the clubrooms and streets only
one voice was heard. The principle of the
consent of the governed all contended, does
not apply to people who are incapable of
forming a rational opinion upon which to
base their consent, and that the United
States stood in the place of parents of the
Fiipinos and must regretfully chastise her
rebellious children for her own good. Many
drew a parallel from the so-called coercion
of the South into the Union.
The solemn Spectator fippantly inquiries
whether Senator Hoar does not chastse his
children when they are naughty, and mag
| ines Louisiana congressman talking con-
sent after the mill tary 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
Mexicans, saying it believes great races
when their hour of opportunity comes, ex-
pand greatly, regardless of arguments. Con-
tinuing the Spectator remarks: 1--WE believe
the Americans to be one of those. Fifty
years hence, under their control, the Fill
ipinos will be orderly, law-abiding persons
like our own Hindoos, with taste for ac-
quirement of money and the foible of be-
lieving that rhetoric is an admirable sub
stitute alike for thought and action"
The power of the trades unions is gone so
far Great Britain is concerned. 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
111afo
is to secure legislation favorable to the en-
ployers. The Railroad Review asserts that
one firm has placed e35, 600 (S175, O0O) at the
disposal of the organizations parliamentary
committee, though how it could be expended
legltlmately does not appear. If such a
thing happened in America it would be
called corruption fund" The second OBJ
ject of the organization is to secure for en-
ployerS freedom to make contracts with in
diViduals, instead of with the unions. The
employers pledge themselves to negotiate di-
rectly with strikers, but to deal through the
committee of the organization.
me backbone of the scheme is found in
an arrangement by which any firm fighting
a strike will receive indemnity equal to it's
average profits Even the Daily Chronicle,
the WOrkingmanS organ warns the labor
leaders that they have been carrying mat
tiers in a little too high-handed a manner,
and admits what every one knows-that the
standard days work fixed by the unions is
below the capacity of the average man. The
unions Will not permit their members to eX-
c6eO the standard, ana also assert the rights
OF Workmen to take holidays whenever they
please, regardless of their employers inter
ests and protect them for doing so. 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 workmen living
on the union funds who could get employ
ment If they chose.
The American Society here is taking ex-
traordinary measures to check the great
notoriety attained by Col. George Gourand.
who, of his own motion, assumed the lead
ership Of the American wing of the Anglo
American movement in London. Col. Gour-
and first came forward on the occasion of
the arrival of General Lord Kitchener. of
Khartum, in England. The colonel went to
Dover to greet him, and is the most con-
spicuous figure in the kaleidoscope pictures
of the event shown in the music halls.
Since then ae has deluged the papers with
letters, writing always in the name of the
United States army, or OF the Americans
in London. signing a string of titles to his
name of which the first was "One time as
sistant inspector general of artillery on the
staff of General Sherman. He pledged the
Americans to contribute 81 900 ($5 600
to the fund for the erection of the Gordon
memorial college at Khartum and issued
circular with glaring headlines, requesting
contributions to found education chair
of science" The colonelS latest appeal is
for money for the Englshmen who enlisted
in the United States army, helped to defeat
Spain, and were afterwards discharged of
whom, he says. there were many. This was
taken up by some of the papers as corrob-
Grating the assertion of Mr. Cunningham-
Graham that the best fighting in the Span
ish war was done by Englishmen. The
whole business has made the London Amer
leans a laughing stock, and the executive
committee of the American Society has is
sued letter to the editors and others de-
claring the colonel has no warrant TO speak
for any one but himself.
Ex-Congressman Bourke Cochran is a pas
senger on the American line steamer Paris.
which sailed for New York from South
ampton to-day He may re-enter politics
on the issue of imperialism" The former
congressman said he felt strongly on the
subject, adding that this was a stage i'm
had convictions was justified IN holding
aloof from the conflict But he did not think
an interview was the proper medium for
declaring himself and he would take other
means to do so in the near future.
John w. Bookwalter. of Ohio. whose views
on Russia were published in dispatch from
here to the Associated Press under date Of
Dec. %, is returning to the United States
with the intention of writing a book de-
scribing his three months travels in ST.
IBERIA incidentally his work will be plea
for an American alliance with Russia in
stead Of Great Britain. He says his OBJ