The record-union., 1899-01-15
Britons Hope His Words Do Not
Voice McKinIey's Wishes.
Want the United States to Permanently
Control the Philippines.
IF the Americans Withdraw the ISL
auds Would be Thrown Into the
Field to be Scrambled for by the
Colonizing Nations = Americas
Duty Should Constrain Her to
Establish Civilization.

Duty Should Constrain Her to
Establish Civilization.
Copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Press-1
LONDON, Jan. 14.-When the Amer
lean correspondents succeeded in i'm
pressing upon the British mind that
Senator Foraker, in his recent speech
il. the United States Senate, spoke only
for himself when he suggested that the
United States might eventually with
draw from the Philippines, 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 spoke for the President, ana
the declaration made not only succeeded
in giving British public officiaidom an
shock, but it fell like a. oasn
of cold water on the ardor OF the Brit
ish for an Anglo-American understand
ing. They began to question what was
the profit of this friendship if America
did not propose to back up Great Brit
AIMS policy in the Far East by retain
ing the most important base of opera
tions in the event of a war over China.
The incident has illustrated how
deeply the late war has left the United
States entangled in the worlds poll
cies. for one of the foremost arguments
advanced against Senator Foraker's
suggestion 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 Philippines into the field, to be
scrambled for by the colonizing nations.
The leading editorial writer's fell to
proclaiming most strenuously that
Americas duty to the world at large,
as well as the Filipinos, should con-
strain her to establish civilization; and
throughout the British press and in the
clubrooms and streets only one voice
was heard. The principle of the con-
sent of the governed, all contended.
does not apply to people who are i'll
capable Of forming rational opinion
upon which to base their consent, and
that tho United States stood in the
place of parents of the Fflipinos. and
must regretfully chastise her rebellious
children for their own good. Many
drew a parallel from the so-called CO.
ercion of the South into the Union.
The power of the trades union is gone
so far as Great Britain is concerned.
The British employers are forming
gigantic combination to fight the work.
men with their own weapons. The en-
gineering federation, which proved so
powerful in the recent strike, has in
vited employers in all the trades to
crush the tyranny of trades union
ism. One object of the combination is
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employers.
The Railroad Review asserts that
one firm has placed f35,000 at the dis
posal of the organization Parliament
airy Committee, though how it could be
expended legitimately does not appear
If such thing happened in America 1t
would be called a corruption fund"
The second object of the organization
is to secure for the employers freedom
to make contracts with individuals in
stead of with the unions. The employ
ers 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 by the arrangement that a firm
fighting a strike will receive indemnity
equal to it's average profits. Even the
Daily Chronicle" the workingmen 5
organ, warns the labor leaders that
they have been carrying matters in
little too high handed a manner, and
admits that the standard days work
fiyed by the unions is below the capa-
city of the average man. The "Chron-
icle" admits that there are many work
men living on the union funds who
could get employment if they chose.
John w. Bookwalter of Ohio, whose
views on Russia We're published in a
dispatch from here to the Associated
Press under date of December 22d, is
returning to the United States with
the intention of writing a book describ-
Ing his three months travels in Siberia
Incidentally this work will be a plea
for an American alliance with Russia
instead of Great Britain. He says his
observations in this country have
STRENGTHENED his prof. Russian views,
and adds: .The interests of the United
States and England are radically an
tagonistic. and the attempt to foster
an alliance is an artificial movement so
far as England is concerned. 1t has not
captured the hearts of the people. and is
merely a political device. with two
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ton from conflicting interests in her
own hemisphere; second, to make the
United States Great Britain's catspaw
in her diplomatic game in the East.
She thinks that if she can point to the
United States as an ally she will be
able to extort better terms from Rus-
sia. What America wants in the East
Is trade, and she will do more by CO.
operation with Russia than by antag-
onizing Russia The latter already
practically controls China, and will give
the United States what she wants, II
friendly. 1t would be madness Tor
England and America to attempt to
coerce Russia into concessions. The
combined nations of the world could
not whip Russia. any more than they
could the United States. The most
they could do would be to lombard a
few coast towns. while Russia's rail-
road could pour so many soldiers into
China that any the United States and
Great Britain could send would be a
handful in comparison
Father and Son Drowned.