The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-30
JOHN BULL COOLING
IN SIX MONTHS ENGLAND'S ARDOR
HAS SHOWN A DECIDED
CHANGE
MANY CAUSES BACK OF 1T
to Cuba. Porto Rico and Hawaii
Regarded as n Slap at British
shipping England's Point of
View Is Not Understood In the
States-SaIisbury Impatient.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29-Henry Nor
man, who is an authority upon Anglo
American relations, cables the follow
ing to the New York Times, which is
the more significant in view of his
friendliness to the United States:
Il should not be faithful chronicler
If 1 shirked the duty of reporting that
a certain falling off In cordiality in
Anglo-American relations prevails in
official circles in England.
THE difference between the feeling
now and six months ago may be small
in amount but it is unmistakable.
Many causes, each, perhaps, not great
in itself, have combined to produce
this. The application of navigation
laws to Cuba, Porto Rico, and Hawaii,
a deliberate blow to British shipping,
was much commented upon here.
In the last two places British trade
is now virtually destroyed. In the
press here comparisons are appearing
between the French action in Mada-
gascar and the American action in her
new possessions. a considerable num-
ber of contemptuous and hostile ut
terances toward England by American
public men have been cabled. Even
Bourke Cockran's recent speech,
though he is too we'll known this side
of the Atlantic for much Importance to
be attached to his words, produced
something of the effect he doubtless
intended.
Again, the declaration Of RESPONSE
bic American legislators that the Clay
on-Bulwer treaty should be simply
ignored has created a bad impression.
In inside circles it is now known that
no negotiations toward a fair settle
ment of this matter have been inau-
eurated. And worse still is the fact
that virtually no progress whatever
has been made in the American-Cana-
dian commission, owing to the Amer
lean refusal TO give way at any point.
Happily, this is not yet realized by
the public here. The worst of all, how
ever, is the ceaselessly repeated belief
in America that only for her own ends
has England encouraged America to
retain the Philippines. This charge
rankles here, and may yet affect the
governments action.
ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE.
1T is extraordinary and incompre-
hensible that America fails to under
stand the British point of view. Moth
ing could be simpler or more straight
forward. First, it is known that the
Philippines are extremely valuable
possessions, and as England does not
want them, having her hands already
full, she hopes the people, whose well
fare she desires after her own, may
secure them.
Secondly, England is struggling
against the world to prevent a parti-
ton of China among the protectionist
powers and she desires the help of
America in keeping this vast potential
market open to the trade of all the
world on equal terms and thinks that
the American possessions of the Philip
pines would naturally lead to this.
France takes Madagascar and clos
es it tight. England takes the Soudan
and throws it wide open. In the Ger
man part of the Solomon islands every
foreign trader must take out $50 Ii
cense, and is forbidden to engage ma
tive labor. In the English part every
body trades alike.
'These are concrete examples, and
United States, which is destined prob
ably to be the greatest manufacturing
nation in the world, is so blind as not
to see that its interest in this point is
identical with Great Britain's, but is
apparently ready to impute any un-
worthy motive to British diplomacy.
sand, finally, English statesmen are
growing rather impatient Of the Amer
lean charge that the English want the
United States to help them fight their
European battle. Happily, as Eng
lands neighbors here never realized
more than today, Englishmen are
abundantly capable of fighting their
own.
England does not hold an individ-
ual so foolish as to think that America
would allow herself to be dragged into
q European difficulty which did not
concern her. A formal alliance is as
foreign to the British as to the Amer
lean policy, otherwise England could