The San Francisco call., 1899-07-09
THE ELDER BROTHERHOOD.

I HEN euphemistc sentiments in favor OF the
w British influence in the incidents in Samoa
were floating through the American press The
Call while not ignoring any rational cause for re-
cprocal aid arising from the facts cOexisting in the
United States and in Great Britain nevertheless re-
peated the waEnng of Washington against "entan-
Cling alliances" and urged the retention Of an
American policy, based upon our own constitutional
system OF government Among other things directed
popular attention to the fact that there might be two
sides to the Samoan events, and it failed to accept
the description OF those events industriously cir
culated by the Associated Press
Our precautions have been more than justified by
the light that from many quarters has recently
streamed upon Samoa, and not only upon Samoa but
upon other regions OF the earth where Great Britain
has sought to obtetate the results OF our Revou-
tionary War The detailed reports that have lately
appeared in our columns have done much to
correct the errors OF the earlier accounts OF the Sa
moan controversy and to confirm the views of Mr.
Lloyd Osborne, who long the representative
OF the United States in those islands The design Of
Great Britain to establish elder brotherhood that
would have the effect OF swapping the fundamental
ideas OF Our national system and OF reducing to
subordinate position in mperialistc association
has been most thoroughly exposed
Our interests in Samoa were small. British in
uence endeavored to control and temporarily stc-
Ceeded, but, when the prOtectOrate the Tonga
Islands was offered, the United States were not in
cluded in that deal This however is comparatively
small matter The larger proposition is the effort
to seduce to entce into the imperalistic policy
of Great Britain, OF which own unpatriotc press
is furnishing evidences day by day. 1t is only short
time ago since the London School of Tropical
Medicine had its annual convocaton in the British
metropolis, which no less man than Mr. Chamber
lain referred to OF the modes OF promoting an
mperialistc policy, in which the transatlantic
brethren OF the British people were expected to join
Among other facts prominently mentioned in that
convocation was the inclusion of three hundred mil
lions OF "colored people within the British empire
This is the imperial combination OF which the United
States is to form part and it is this domination of
the inferior races OF the world in which our republic
with its elaborate protection OF individual rights and
OF the sovereignty OF man. is expected to participate
Amicable relations with Great Britain the closest
association and cooperation only with that en-
pre, but with Germany so deeply represented in our
population with the French republic associated with
by hereditary ties and with every aspiring aggre-
cation OF human beings to be found upon the earth
are fundamental ideas in American civilization But
to be absorbed by the nation from which we wrested
our independence, to be drawn into governmental
doctrine from which extricated ourselves by force
to be induced abandon political system that we
have presented to the world realizing the most