Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-05
TAKE HOPEFUL VEN
Englishmen Coming TO Believe
They Can Retain Suprem.
acy in Trade.
Fear of the Yankee Peril Not So
Prevalent in the King.
dom.
Liberal Party Not Friendly ia
United States-Foreign
Gossip.

LONDON May 5.-MaSSlnghamS con-
ception Of vigorous young America as
another IN more potent Siegfrfed,
knocking at the gates of England, is not
approved by many of his compatriots,
and probably not based either on any
abiding admiration Of the United States
or on a sincere belief in our pre-emi-
n commercially, but rather on the
desire Of the English radical to show
contempt for existing conditions of the
British empire. ,
AS a matter of fact, AXE them all
in all, the government papers and
ministerialists generally are much more
favorable to the United States han the
liberals and their il~l-assorted allies, ex-
cept the Irish. to whom America means
that big-hearted Hibernlan portion of
1t which furnishes so largely the sinews
of war for the obstructionists in par
lament.
Indeed, the conservative and impe-
rialist feeling is stronger in sympathy
with Americans 10Y than ever before
In consequence of the tales from the
Philippines, showing that we have been
having u share of trouble in carry
ing out u destiny" The same conti-
rental critics who have been loudest in
denunciaticn of the British course in
South Africa are now abusing the
United States roundly for being more
cruel than Spain and more selfish than
England.
these critics, 1t is amusing to note,
are generally not socialists or other adj
vanced folks, but r~eactionaries, fire.
quently of that peculiarly %unprogres-
s;ve kind who have yet to learn that
council Of Trent.
But 1t matters little to America what
the Austrian, German and French ma
%tionalists nay say Of her, while 1t
might matter a great deal what En-
gland might say and do If hot-headed
councils prevailed.
In all this hullabaloo concerning the
navigation syndicate, about which so
little is known and so much is said, one
note that the soundest and wisest
journals and most practical men are
the least disturbed. Every Englishman
thinks 1t a pity that his w country
men have not taken the lead in certain
recent enterprises, but the war has had
q most depressing effect on capital,
while 1t is remembered that English
moneys are still employed in much
larger quantities In the United States
American money here.
1t is a good idea of the Westminster
Gazette, one OF the few avowediy lib
eral journals-liberal in more seEsts
one-that with America blotted
from the map England would be but an
outpost in the Atlantic, while now she
Is both the end Of the old world and the
beginning Of the new. 1t seems good
advice that some Of the more sensible
stop advertising American supremacy.
This is the plan one paper of big cir
culation took up a year ago with the
express purpose Of awakening British
spirit, which it now appears will not
be awakened that way.
AS for the trusts, the general trend
of public opinion in regard to them hero
is much the same as in America, exag-
gerated ideas of their power to Cypress
the poor and control the government
prevailing among the ignorant folk who
enjoy looking at the dark side of things.
while nobody has much to say for them.
Moreover, one finds a growing belief
here, outside of financial circles, thai
the wave Of prosperity on which the
United States has been riding is sure
to subside soon. Even the sedate Spec
tator goes SO far as to predict an early
period of commercial depression If not
an actual financial crisis. in which the
trusts and their shareholders will be
hard hit.
That may be poor consolation for the
angry Briton, but 1t is more than he
got out of the forced debate on the
shipping trust in parliament last week.
That came to nothing, and nothing
seems likely to grow out of 1t. There is
some consolation for the Briton, how
ever, in the reported establishment of a
new line Of turbine steamers between
Cardiff and Canada to maket the passage
four days and destroy both the pres
tige and trade Of all trust steamers.