Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-09
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.

OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Washington has been quite uneasy
of late over the details of the agreement
between the Samoan. commissioners
and has been awaiting official advices
from the American commissioner, Mr..
Bartlett Trip, with no little anxiety
There are all sorts of rumors afloat of
complications we have gotten into with
the other powers to the tripartite agree
ment regarding the recent outbreak in
the island
1t appears that the English commits
sioner accuses Mr.. Trip of unduly sid
ing with the German commissioner
aid this it is that is reported to have
alarmed the administration, which in
these days of imperialism and conquest
has mighty warm and deep regard
for Great Britain whose foreign policy
it has been aping. Englands shrewd
diplomats seem to be well aware of
the situation and this is not the first
time they have endeavored to embroil
us with Germany and otherwise to use
the United States as a catspaw to pull
British chestnuts out of the fire in var
iOus parts of the world, for nothing
would suit English statesmen better
than to force the United States into a
position that would compel an alliance
between this country and Great Britain
that much talked-of "invincible' Anglo
Saxon union against the rest of the
world.
Hence the anxiety of the administra-
port of our representative regard
ing the Samoan imbroglio, which affair,
also, by the way, the English are ac-
cused of fomenting in order to create
rupture or bad feeling between Ger
many and the United States.
We will await the outcome with much
interest not altogether devoid of APP
prehension, for the United States have
their hands full just now and could i'll
afford to indulge in the luxury of anoth-
er war and especially with a nation like
Germany. AS the military situation
stands to-day it is nip and tuck with
the administration to raise the first in
stallment of one-tenth of the reinforce
ments Gen. Lawton says are needed in
the Philippines.
nth inn O.io1 scti
corners that must be watched closely
and on this account we can't afford to
send all our available troops to the
other side of the earth to play hide and
seek with the natives and die of trop-
ical disease. No one can tell at what
moment the administration may be
dragooned into sending troops to San
Domingo, where the creditors of the gov
eminent and other outside influences,
largely representative of the Presidents
benefactors in Wall street, are doing
their best to force that country into
bankruptcy and bring about an Amer
lean protectorate with a view to annex
alton. Moreover, no one can tell when
ii may be necessary to send an army
to Cuba to preserve the peace with the
ever restless and shiftless Cubans. In
Porto Rico there is the same danger
menacing and without a sufficient force
at hand there is danger that the people
of that island might at the first oppor-
tunity sever their allegiance to the Uni
ted States, of whose rule they have
complained more or less from the start.
In Hawaii likewise, according to re-
cent reports, there have long been sim
liar complaints and restlessness. news
of which, however, has largely been
kept from 'the American people.
Nor is this all There has been on
foot ever since the administration at
Washington embarked on its policy Of
conquest, territorial aggrand;zement
and Imperialism, a movement among
South American republics toward the
formation of an alliance for their pro-
lection against the imperialist spirit
of the United States government. 1t IS
an eye-opener to true Americans to
contemplate the attitude of these sister
republics to the South of us. Things
have come to a strange pass, indeed.
when the United States, the pioneer Of
free government by the people, is ac-
tually feared by other free govern