Evening star., 1901-05-06
EUROPE AND AMERICA
CONTINENTAL COALITION AGAINST
THIS COUNTRY ADVISED.
Africa and Asia Included With Us
Basis of the Continents Annoyance
With the United States.


deserved After telling his interviewer
that the triple alliance would not be
broken. but that the reconciliation with
France would conduce to the settlement
OF many questions in the Mediterranean.
the count. in conclusion. uttered most
seighty and ominOus sentence. which we
may. we think. make was never In
. vented by any reporter He was convinced
that the triple alliance and the dual al
lance. taken together had given Europe
thirty years Of peace-which. we may re,
mark en- passant is certainly true-"and
sud that this fact would perhaps lead the
European nations to consider the Iossibii-
fly and the necessity of uniting against
America. Africa and Asia. as the future OF
civilization would require them 10 do
great many of our readers, we doubt not,
treated this extraordinary utterance as q
- rash outburst by an irresponsible man
but they Were as we believe. grdvely in
error Admiral Cauevaro Is no man in
the street" lie Jttracted favorable atten-
ton from all Europe during the Cretan
imbrogIio. h. has been minister OF Iorelsn
affairs for Italy. and he is reco2n nIzed by
statesmen as something more than good
sailor and clever diplomatist. His utter
. that of th. Austrian chancellor, Count
G"luchnwski. aud with all the recent
trend of affairs. There can be no doubt in
the mind Of any one who has watched re-
cent developments that all Europe moved
by an almost insane desire for fresh mar
kets, and consequently more wealth. is
and there is none in ours that the contl-
nent regards America as a dangerous OBJ
stacIe TO the fuliillnent of its plans, and
intruder into the field of world policy
who is at once most embarrassing and
most formidable. Africa. though not alb
snrhed for useful purposes-an operation
which will take century-iS already di-
Siied in theory and by agreement: but the
attack Asia has just begun. and the OBJ
stdcIa presented by America is now clearly
perceived 1t had been f0reseen before, as
estsb of (,DluChpWSki showed.
but The vague impression was suddenly
y dcepened by the collapse of Spain under
American blows. and the decision to build
a great American fleet. That collapse
startled the continent. which for three
hundred years mad reckoned the Spanish
court among tie members of the Euro
pean family and unconsciously exagger-
atad its resources, almost as much as the
descent of a brigade from Mars would
sttrtie the whole world. a force singuiarly
potent. absolutely new and not quite ac-
Countable had suddenly put itself In evil
dence, and the old conservative forces sui
lenly prepared for resistance or reprisal.
The papacy in particular. which has to
think of Spanish America as We'll as the
rest of the world. will never forgive the
Union for crfppling the most Catholic of
powers. and the influence OF the papacy,
though it is indirect. penetrates all through
Europe.
America. which is very deep, Is based upon
three reasons There is first of all a dread,
or rather conviction. that competition in
business with America is nearly impossi-
hle. Her wealth and energy are too great.
and both are employed. continentals
think. to nonopolize trade, and so control
IN the end all the wealth of the world, an
idea not wit hOut advocates even among
ourselves. These giant trusts regarded
enemies. ineXpressiby formidable be-
cause they do not raise prices, which would
II traders be some compensation. but look to
monopoly of business their reward. and
because. if the governments fence them off
with tariffs, the Americans. being protec-
a., 4t,,iF. IL
aud severe reprisaIs. AS the governments
are always trembling with nervousness lest
their industrials. if driven out of work,
should turn to socialism as refuge. this
cause alone inspires them with perma-
I.nt suspicion and dislike of American
ton Then they see, as yet dmly, but still
without doubt. that America will interfere
grievously with their plans for securing
Hew and permanent markets. America
docs not interfere in Africa because Africa
. Is negro. but the hopes of continental
chaEcelors OF the exchequer turn to Asia.
and in Asia 1t is clear that America will
b. sadly in their way. The whole action
OF Washington in this Chinese muddle
points u a single conclusion. that although
Americans took the Philippines, they
unwilling TO see any but native powers
Il possession or control Of the richer Coun-
tries Of Asia. They do not much mind
England. because she admits all the world
II share her commerce, or Russia, because
they regard Manchuria a mere railway
route. but they are utterly opposed to a
q. Partition Of China. a SubjUSatiOn of ia
pan. OF any other great change which
would place their manufactures at a dis
advantage. That opposition is most irri-
tI-Iug u men who sincerely believe that
CP.E trade is Of use to them because
America and England are sure to get it,
and who look therefore to conquest in one
form another the only permanent
protection for their industry. The bitter
I-SS is all the deeper because IL IS. In a
sens. philAnthropic those who feel it hon
. estly pitying their own people because they
cannot. in the fierce competition which pre-
walls. set enough work to do. And. lastly,
every state on the continent feels Eeenly
til" dog -in-the-mangrr attitude of America
about the future of South America. She
VII neither take il nor let anybody else.
Th-r" lies the vast continent. with scarcely
Huy body in it. with climates which. though
Varied. do not prohibit European labor,
with sources Of wealth In the soil that
practically llInltleSs. and with vast rivers
. which render entrance into the far interior
a. once cheap and easy. There is prize
lift in this rapidly dwindling little planet
Ike South America Germany would like
the whole Of Brazil. In which she is already
strong; Italy even now sends her children
by the hundred thousand to Argentina;
France would feel richer If she could ac-
Gu1re the Hinterldnd of Guiana and even
Hungary would much rather that her Slav
children. who In tens OF thousands are
doing the hard work of North America
Should md acceptable homes under their
own flag in Uruguay. All are warned off
10y the MON in a way which she will
mot annex. or even allow herself to he re-
eponsible for these territories to the
Statesmen of the continent the very height
OF selfish impArtinence. Why, they think
should their children be shut out by pure
caprice from natural and profitable ca
Ts~rS, The total result of these feelings
s. bitter dislike of America mixed with
certain dread that produces the sense ex-
pressed alike by Count Goluchowski and
Count I4ueyaro. aud not obscurely hinted
Ht by Count Won Buelow, that a league of
Europe against America will ultimately
prov TO he "a necessity Of civilization"
Our friends in America. who are incura-
hly 1Ptiinist, believing that whatever hap
pens all will go well with them will not
credit Oflr description OF the situation, or
Will even imagine that are only plead
Ing for the Anglo-SaxDn alliance which
have 50 often predicted for the future
They are In error. We have not stated the
case against the continent-and especially
In regard TO Gcrmanys aspirations and
sims-half strongly We believe it
ought 20 be stated, and We are entirely at
ease about the Angio-SaxOn alliance. That
Is SAFE enough i'll the fuiness of time,
k.-lLA f-n 4. u. 4.