The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-28
A CINCH FOR ENGLAND.

lingo is person that uses steam
heat as substitute for brains. AS soon
as any question concerning the country
comes up, he turns on the steam, blows
his whistle and off he goes with a blind
splurge in any direction he happens
to be headed, and, regardless of conse-
quences, he will smash through his own
China shop just as likely as not
1t was this spirit that drove the jingoes
of this country to attack the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty in its orig
inal form, although it was
strongly in our favor, and by their
blind opposition they caused it to be
amended in such way as to give Eng
land very decided advantage. Now, by
strange perversity of lingo nature, our
jlngoes appear perfectly satisfied while
the English jingoes are raising a howl.
Yet England has all reason TO be de-
lighted with the amended form of the
treaty. AS long as we are at peace, Of
course, all nations will have the same
right. to use the proposed Nicaraguan
canal upon paying the fixed rate of toll
But suppose we get into war with Eng
land or any other country, what then?
In any case, we shall have to maintain
a fleet there big enough to keep the
enemy away from the canal If we sue
coed in this, it does not make any diff
ference whether the canal is neutral or
not But what if the enemy should de-
feat our fleet there? If the canal were
strictly neutral as originally provided,
the enemy after forcing his way into it.
might sail through it, tamely peaceably,
without committing any act of hostility,
for to do otherwise would be an offense
against all the powers who had joined IN
guaranteeing the neutrality. Under the
amended form, the enemy, after forcing
his way into the canal, may destroy it,
blow up the dams, smash the locks, and
put it out Of use for years. This would
be ten times more in the interest of the
enemy than to merely sail through it
and it would do us ten times more harm
as it would prevent our Atlantic and
Pacific squadrons from cooperating.
In case of war, everything would de-
pend on whether we could keep a suf-
fcient fleet there to drive the ships Of
the enemy back from the canal To do
this we shall have to keep at least as
big a fleet there as the enemy could send.
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require the greater part of our navy at
the risk of leaving our coast cities I'M
protected. lit the enemy should succeed
in defeating our fleet there, he would
cific squadron from coming to the res
cue. He would then be at his leisure to
attack and destroy our unprotected cities
of the Gulf and Atlantic coast and what
ever ships we might have left in Atlantic
waters would not be sufficient to offer
resistance. II the canal is built under the
present arrangement, we-shaiI have to
make our navy equal to that of any
other power, so that we shall be able to
keep enough ships down there to protect
the canal from. any fleet that may be sent
against it land that will require a good
many and at the same time still have
enough ships left for the protection of
our coastsseIf there was danger of a war
with England. we would be obliged to
make our navy at once Just as big and
strong as the English navy. That is i
pretty big proposition, but until we had
done so,qMes could. not afford TO go Into
war with England. The amendment VIII,
therefore, have just the opposite effect
from what SO many of our jlngoes wish
ed. 1t will guarantee peace betwe en-
England and the United States, because
we could not afford to risk war with
| her.
| The discussion of this treaty has not
been along party lines Republican and
Democratic papers have stood on either
side of the question. Some Democratic
papers have opposed it merely because
the administration was supposed to favor
1t With the. rest, whether Democratic
or Republican, it was merely case OF
purblind jingoism and not of reason
The kind of writing INDUCED in by the
opposition may be seen from the follow
ing specimens
sherburne County star-News: The