Arizona republican., 1902-08-31

london, August 0U.-- "A lGtl lANsiii9 y which may some day be settled by the arbitrament of the sword" seems tC fairly sum mp the Saturday Reviews opinion of the rela tions between Great Britain and the United States. Dis cussing President Roosevelt's pro- rouncement on Monroeism the always bitterly anti-American Saturday Re- view uses the presidents speech as a text on which to enunciate a long ser mon on American greed and hypor- risy' and the danger threatening the British empire from United States fu- ture expansion.
 It says in reviewing the history Of the Monroe doctrine:
 Tt is unfortunate if not exceptional that the United States cannot be satis- fled with the plain straightforward pol icy of self-interest without attempting to explain it as a disinterested and highly moral position. II was on this basis that the war with Spain was un dertaken resulting in the Philippines being annexed and Cuba being put under the heel South Americas nat ural resources are enormous but the individual states cannot act together. It is plain that they will not long resist
 
 American protection from European aggression will soon incubate to occu- spatiOn by the United States"
 e Proceeding to discuss the effect of Monroeism on the British empire the Saturday Review says:
 ''The United States is the only great power separated from the British em- pire by nothing but a land frontier, and it is the settled object of the Unit ed States. ultimately to include Canada. The United States is commercially growing fast at our expense, and judg ing from its present progress the power of the United States in wealth and numbers will soon exceed that of any rival we know possibly excepting Rus sia, whose position in relation to the United States territorially is not near ly so critical.
 Under these circumstances it is surely clear that the power we need, to be most concerned about is America. Acute territorial and commercial rival ry always results in ultimate trial by force. It is the only final settlement. If that is so, the policy of either coun- try must be to avoid anything which can increase the others power or give 1t points in the struggle. On that prin- ciple the United States has steadily act ed in opposing us automatically. never conceding a point We on the other hand have usually gone out of our way to help the United States.
 "In the matter of the isthmian canal We lost ground and America gained. The only balancing advantage would be such a consequent and active friend ship on the part of America that We might count on her as meeting us half way by abstaining from injuring us or such friendship the Saturday Re view has shown again and again that there is neither evidence nor likelihood There is no question of liking or dis liking Americans. It is simply a ques- ton of which shall ultimately get the better of the other side. The con. trolling factors make it impossible to Eut the position of the two countries in any other way"
 A curiously divergent view is ex~ pressed by the Spectator on the same topic. It says:
 We are glad in the interest of the United States and Great Britain and the peace of the rest of the world that President Roosevelt announced in such clear and unmistakable terms that the Monroe doctrine will be enforced by the OHlIeu states at all costs. l ne MOnIOe doctrine is a danger to peace only when it is undefined. All authoritative state ments of the policy of the United States in this effect are therefore welcome. We hold the Monroe doctrine is good for us we'll as for the United States. We. like the United States, have no desire to see the status quo violently altered by the efforts of continental European states to carve out for them selves colonial empires in Central and South America. It would suit us no more than the United States to see Germany established ir Southern Brazil or elsewhere on the western continent
 Proceeding to point out that Mon Toeism cannot rest on air and that un- less based on power it is sure to be ex- posed to be pushed aside and disre- garded, the Spectator continues:
 The power on which it must pri- marily rest is sea power. If the Euro pean states know America has sea power enough to enforce the Monroe doctrine it will be scrupulously re- spected. The moment they see that the doctrine is based only on paper it will be disregarded. To make the doctrine effective America must build fleet un- occasionally stronger than that of France or Germany. She need not