The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-01
ANGLO AMERICAN ALLIANCE.

United States will ever come together
in the terms of a definite alliance is
an engrossing subject with the review
eEs and editorial moralists on both
sides OF the Atlantic. 1t is admitted
that the ill-feeling caused by mistakes
on the part of Bri. nistries. by
common MISUNDERSTANDING by the
exigencies of American politics and the
partisan tone of text books, has in a
measurable degree abated. But wheth-
CT this change of sentiment Will ever
lead TO joint action in the politics of
the world is an open question. People
suggest many things as being pro or
con. Perhaps such an alliance would
bring down upon the United States the
enmity Of all the rest of the world;
perhaps on the other hand it would at
tract the weaker nations into the mys-
tic circle of the giant brotherhood for
those who oppose the change that two
powers which are rivals in commerce
could never be true friends in politics,
but this does not account for the fact
that as British commerce and trade
have declined the feeling in Great Brit
ain in favor OF locking arms with
America has increased The utilita-
rian of the moment declares that no
Ministry in the United Kingdom and
no party in the United States could
Withstand the protest which the OPP
posing political forces-Irish and Ger
mans in America and reactionaries Of
all kinds in Great would make
a the polls; but this theory. though
practical enough for the hour. could
hardly stand the test of common dan
ger.
One thing * certain: If Great Britain |
should go down in the abyss where /
Imperial Rome and no one knows how /
many other world-powers have van I
ished. the United States would stand ,
alone in championship of /
the democratic idea. Can she afford /
to stand alone? Could she have af-
forded to take Spain by the throat last
year if Great Britain had been a
power? Perhaps. but
there would have been danger in the
air. One cannot but remember the
significant stir among the Continental
when America sent the Ill
.imatum to Spain and the sullen atti-
ude of more than one great power
when Great Britain said that she would
see fair play.
Ii alliance ever comes it will come
IS the logical and inevitable result of
/ common peril. of the alternative of
ruin or united self-defense. I'm
every Continental monarchy, I.
whatever temporary ententes there
may be, is averse to Great Britain and
The United States because the vast
success of Anglo-Saxon democracy
is wealth, its happiness. its influence
and its power-is menace to the sys-
ems and the aims of autocratic gov
III one of these free nations
Gould be crushed the other would soon
DC attacked in overwhelming force.
That is one reason why Great Britain,
II the light of her newly acquired wis
iom. hastens to get between the
United States and any threatening CO.
tlition. Ii knows that the Anglo-SaX-
lns must make common cause or be
assaulted in detail. Napoleon foresaw
his danger when he said that Europe
must be either Republican or Cossack.
There are great powers-one of them
empire in the disguise of a re-
are conspiring in every
shadow TO make it Cossack. Against
.hese armored forces stand the democ-
'acy of Great Britain and the democ
-acy of America. They are apart from
)ne another. it is true, but they occu
Dy the same ''far-flung" defensive line.
Could they help coming together if
either one were in danger of being
driven from that position and COM
PEELED TO yield to the forces that men
ace both? /
Perhaps an alliance may not be need