Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-09-05
British Feeling Over American Ex.
pansion.

The friendly feeling existing between
England, during the latter part of the
reign OF Victoria, and the United
States, was so marked as to excite the
jealousy OF other nations, and some ap-
prehension on the part OF our own
people that liberation OF Inonarchial
methods might in time mould popular
sentiment into recognition of govern.
mental principles inimical to our own.
That that cause for apprehension has
happily disappeared now seems evident.
The accession of cold. blooded sover.
eign to the British throne checked the
admiration for anything peculiarly
English you know" and the colossal
wealth piled up by a few lucky indi.
viduals on this side the water and the
development of the greed which fol-
lowed as a natural sequence, where
by the Morgans, the Rockefellers and
the Carnegies obtained the power, by
combination, to monopolize the in.
dustrial pursuits and the CONNER
cial enterprises Of the world, has
brought about an antagonism which is
already taking measures to check the
avarice OF the American Lords of Fl.
nance.
A London dispatch OF the Both nit.
says that the approaching limit OF time
for completion Of the Atlantic Ship.
ping trust, under the Napoleonic con.
troll of J. Pierpont Morgan, is arousing
lively interest in the methods to be
employed for dealing with the CON-
bination.
The promised statement of Premier
Balfour, on reassembling of Parlia.
ment, it is hoped will contain some
adequate means of relief. 1t is not
thought that it will for government
subsidies for British companies, for
that proposition has considerable op-
position, and it is considered probable
that his scheme will embrace q merger
of all lines outside the Morgan com.
bine, and that the Canadian Pacific
Railroad will participate as an impor.
tant factor.
A large shipowner, close friend of
the Colonial Secretary, Mr.. Chamber
lain, has said:
"America must not think that the I'm
perial Government is going to leave the
colonies at the mercy Of the shipping or
any other trust. The discontentis acute
enough now in many quarters of the en-
pire. While Great Britain does not want
q commercial war with the United States.
she will not stand indefinitely being shut
out by the American tariff wall while
keeping open house for American traders
in the United Kingdom. The question
of retaliatory duties is not so improbable
as many people imagine. There is no
reason why the British colonial market
should not be opened to British goods on
preferential basis. We have been
asleep here in England for q long time,
but when we wake up America had bet
ter look out"
Then, again. our relations with Eng.
land are somewhat strained by the in.
depreciation placed upon the Monroe
doctrine by President Roosevelt. The
Saturday RevieW, in commenting upon
it, says that he is the exponent Of
american Greed and Hypocrisy"
and emphasizes the danger threatened
the British empire from the absorption
Of trade by the colonial system. That
journal sees in the attitude of the
President an intent 10 expand south
ward, and predicts that European a.
gression in South America will soon
incubate into occupation BY the United
States. It sees likewise, in the dim
future, purpose ultimately to include
Canada, basing the forecast upon The
phenomenal increase of wealth and
population, backed by the craze devel.
oped on American soil for expansion.
It regards these conditions - great 4
menace - the rivalry OF Russia, whose
position territorially, is not nearly %
critical.
That journal sums up with the fol.
lowing frank avowal:
Under those circumstances it is surely
clear that the power we need be most
concerned about is America. Acute ter.
ritorial and commercial rivalry always
results in an ultimate trial by force. II
il the only final settlement. If that ID
so, the policy of either country must be
to avoid doing anything which can In
crease the others power or give it points
in the struggle. On that principle the
United States has steadily acted in op'
posing Us automatically, never conced
ing point. We, ON the other hand
have usually gone of our way to help thu
United States. In the matter of thu
isthmian canal We lost ground and Amer
lea gained. The only balancing advan.
tage would be such consequent and &C
tive friendship on the part of America
that we might count on her as meetin,
Us half way by abstaining from injurini
The utterance of the President
which impels the Review to say that il
implies . hated rivalry which ma,
some day have to be settled by the ar
bitrament Of the sword" is this:
1--WE believe in the Monroe Doctrin.
not As q means of aggression at all. I
does not mean that we are aggressive
toward any power. It means merely
that, Is the biggest power ON this cont
nent, we remain steadfastly true to thu
principle first formulated under the Pres
idency Of Monroe, through John Quincy
Adams-the principle that this continent
must not be treated as such for politica
colonization by an European power. Al
say, that is not an aggressive doctrine
It is doctrine of peace, . doctrine O.
defense, doctrine to secure the chance
on this continent for the States here t.