Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-01-16
BRIT0NS STIRRED UP.
Don't Want Us to Retire From the
Philippines.
COUNT ON OUR FRIENDSHIP.
Trades Unions In the United hfng'
dom Threatened by League or
EmplOyers-A Suggestion That
We Make Russia Our Ally.

London, Jan. 16.-When the America
correspondents succeeded in impressln
upon the British mind that Senate
Foraker in his recent speech in tn
| United States senate spoke only TO
himself when he suggested that tn
United States might eventually with
draw from the Philippine Islands. dis
tinct sigh of relief might have beel
| read between the lines of the British
| newspapers. Every one here assumed
| that because the senator was from thu
| presidents state he was speaking fo
| the president, and the declaration mad
| not only succeeded in giving British
| public officialdom an unpleasant shock
but it fell like a dash of cold water or
the ardor of the British for an Anglo
American understanding. They begar
to question what was the profit of this
friendship if America did not propose tt
back up Great Britain's policy in the
far east by retaining the most impor-
tant base of operations in the event oil
war over China.
A Duty We owe.
The incident has illustrated how
deeply the late war has left the United
States entangled in the worlds policies.
for one of the foremost arguments ad-
vanced against Senator Foraker's sug-
gestions was that the United States
owed it to the world not to disturb the
balance of power and not to furnish
possible subject for war by throwing
the Philippine Islands into the field to
be scrambled for by the colonizing ma
tions. The leading editorial writer's fell
to proclaiming most strenuously that
Americas duty to the world at large
as well as to 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 consent
of the governed, all commended, does not
apply to people who are incapable of
forming a rational opinion upon which
to base their consent, and the United
States stood in the place of parents to
the Filipinos and must regretfully chas-
tise her rebellious children for their
own good. Many drew a parallel from
the so called coercion of the south into
the Union
40 NuTD FiCeS NHiOuS.
The power of the trades unions is
gone, so far as Great Britain is con-
cerned. The British employers are
forming 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 union
ism. One object of the combination is
to secure legislation favorable to the
employers. The Railway Review as
'erts that one firm has placed e. 900 at
he disposal of the organizations par
iamentary committee, though how 1t
Gould be expended legtimately does not
appear. If such a thing happened in
America, it would be called "corrup-
ion fund" The second object of the |
organization is to secure for employers |
reedom to make contracts with indi-
'iduals instead of with the unions. The
mployers pledge themselves not to ne
'otiate directly with strikers, but to
eal through the committee of the or
The backbone of the scheme is found
I an arrangement by which anv firm
ghtlng strike will receive an ind fs177r.-
lty equal to its average profits. Even
ne DAILY Chronicle the workingn1en's
ryan, warns the labor leaders that
ley nave been carrying matters in q
tile too high handed manner and adj
nus, what every che knows, that The
days work fixed by the I'M
ms is below the capacity of the aver
&c man. Yet the unions will not per-
1T their members to exceed the stand.
a and also assert the rights of work.
en to take holidays Whenever tbav
ease REGARDLESS Of their emnloyers' in
rests and protect them for 50 doino
he employers complain that thew ~. c
y iiuuce lole men to work even at the
s'h wages Whlch prosperity warrants,
ne chronicle admits that there are
any Workmen living on the union =
mas who could get employment if
ey chose. r
Looking For Advertising, *
me American society here is taking =.
tfaofdinary measures to check the :,
eat notoMetv attained by Colonel -
orge Gourand who of his own mo- .
m assumed the leadership of the =,
lieflcah wing of the Anglo American -,
|
'Vement in London. Colonel Gourand "
81 came forward on the occasion Of -
arrival of General Lord Kitchener
khaftum in England. The colonel
nj to Dover to greet him and is tho
st conspicuous figure in the kineto-
'pe pictures of the event shown l., O.
music halls. Since then he bas dol CT
Ell the papers with letters. writing te
avs IN the name of the United States -"
ny or OF the Americans in London Id
nihg string of titles to his name nf pl
'cn 'he llrst was Zone Time Assist CT
inspector General of Artillery on pc
stan or General Sherman" Ha to
aged the Americans to contributo 81
w to the fund for the erection of
GORDON memorial college at Khar-
ana issued a circular with glarinc =,
dimes requesting contributions to ~ ~
no an Edison chair of science " Tho Nl
mel latest appeal is for money for ~ ~
Ehgilshmen who enlisted in tho -,
ted states army, helped to defeot VI
III ana ware afterward DISCHARGED va
Whom' he says, there were NAV ~
was taken up by some of tho no
as corfoDorating the assertion ~
Cunninghame-Gr Graham that +ho NJ
hShtlng in the Spanish war v..s In
. by Englishmen. vas te,
he whole business has mada a., LIE
don Americans a LAUGHING stoa,H ws
the executive committee of ~. no
,rlcah society has issued letter 70 me
ofs and others declaring the colonial ins
no warrant to speak for anv one ag
himself. o"e de,
Eourke Cochran is a wa
ehger on beard the American line
Nler faris, which has sailed for
York from Southampton. He NAV S
hter politics on the issue of i'm 30
ism" The former congressman 'ol
he felt strono1v IN 49, ,s,.. pc;
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