The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-30
SEE DANGER IN
 0.- ROOSEVELT
Ia BALTIMORE CITIZEN TALKS OF
 EUROPEAN VIEW.
s,..ks Interestingly of Apprehension Preyailing Abroad with Regard to Spossible Election of Roosevelt. Respect of rorei&ners for Mr. Cleveland.

Professor Henry E. Snepherd re- turned last Wednesday to Baltimore from a stay of several months in Ger many. France. Switzerland and Italy. Toss reporter of the Baltimore Sun Professor shepherd spoke interesting iv of his observations while abroad and his statement of the European view of current American politics is especially interesting at this time. Through the courtesy of personal ac- ouaintances and through letters of in- troduction from distinguished men in this country to scholars and mon of letters abroad he enjoyed exceptional advantages for the observation of the trend of thought and of events on the Continent. says the Sun of Saturday He was greatly impressed. he said. by en by tho most cultured Europeans in American affairs. and especially in the approaching presidential election. On every side. he said. the possibil. ity of the election of President Roosc- welt was viewed with the gravest ap- prehension; first. because of the action of the government in the Panama-C lombia affair last November, and, scc- ondly, because 1t is believed that MT. Roosevelt's continuance in power would be a menace to the worlds DeaC6, peace of the nations and would even- tually involve the United States in war with one or moro of the foreign powers. The action of the United States in the Colombia affair" Mir. Shepherd said, fin bringing about the revolt in Colombia is looked upon as a gross
 breach of faith and a specific viola | ton of the treaty of 1s46. A promi- nent professor in the University of Geneva, Switzerland. said to me: we were disappointed. We expected some- | thing better of the United States gov- ernment.'
 IT do not think that anything that has ever occurred In our history" con- tinued Mfr Shepherd, has so lowered the government of the United States fin | the estimation of Europeans of culture | as the Panama affair. And this im- pression. I found. was universally diff
 fused among the sympathisers of Mir. Roosevelt and his party as we'll as | those of opposite opinions. It was | looked upon as sort of moral deca- | dence.
 Nothing impressed me more deeply | than the attitude of the European
 mind toward MT. Cleveland. It was matter of surprise to me to discov-
 CT that no living American is held in
 such esteem and regard as he is. I
 was not aware of the extent to which his personality has attracted the at-
 tention of the cultured, thoughtful
 foreigner Mir. Cleveland is regarded
 as such powerful moral force in the
 sphere of politics that If he had been
 nominated his election to the presiden-
 cy would have been hailed with accla-
 nation; not only as a great political, but as a great moral triumph.
 l T was very forcibly impressed with
 the fact. also. that the opinion very generally prevails abroad that a logi-
 cal consequence of the reelection of
 Mir. Roosevelt would be to preciptate
 a race war on a greater scale than has
 ever been experienced in the history
 of the nations.
 | Sentiment as to Lynching. l You have no idea how the lynch
 ing question has seized upon the pub
 lie mind. I had great difficulty in
 convincing htose with whom I dis
 cussed the matter that 1t was large
 ly due to the defects in our judicial
 system. in consequence of which all
 sorts of subterfuges are resorted to to | block and retard the action of justice
 To the European mind this Is extreme
 ly difficult to comprehend, for there
 the course of justice is extremely
 swift.
 Another thing impressed me; the
 idea that Is prevalent in this country
 that Europe is decadent Is absoIuteiy
 fallacious. The European world has
 never been SO alert, so much on the
 qui vive, commercially, intellectually
 and politically as today. Europe, in-
 stead of being decadent, has under
 gone a sort of renovation and Is
 watching this country with the keen-
 est interest. It Is only pleasing
 hallucination to think that Europe Is
 moribund. I never saw people who
 were more intensely alive. And so ap-
 prehensive is the thoughtful element lest the lingo element in this country gain political ascendancy that might | in the end bring about serious interna- tional complications and involve some of the foreign powers in a war with this country that I actually heard some Germans discussing how they would conduct a campaign against us. I served under Lee and Jackson, and tho soldier instinct has never left me, and you can understand that I listened to their discussion with the keenest in- terest."
 While he was in Switzerland Mir. shepherd said that he had the pleas ure of reading in the Lausanne Ga zette, one of the leading papers of Genoa, an account copied from the Sun and translated into French of the ironical resolutions passed at their last meeting by the Texas Daughters of the Confederacy, in which they compli- mented President Roosevelt on his change of base in the sectional issue. Mir. Shepherd was in Geona when the news of Won Plehve'D assassinnt ton in Russia reached there. While tho crime itself was regarded with abhor- sidered as just retribution. While ..le keenest interest Is taken in the war in the East. he said that the sympathy is all for the Japanese and Russia stands isolated and friendless, and her losses are, looked upon as rstril'utlon for the Kischeneff massacre, the destruction of the autonomy of Finland and the long series of expressions of the Rus sian people.
 Even tho Russian students who at- tended the summer courses at tho Uni versity of Geneva. MT. Shepherd said expressed the hope that Japan would be victorious Apropos also of the war, he said that while he was in Flor ence he saw in one of the English papers an article in which the writer said that there was only one hope for Russia. and that was that Providence would raise up some inspired general like Frederick the Great or Stonewall Jackson. The writer added that ao far such a man had not appeared.
 "It seems strange" Mir. Shepherd said. that the writOr did not mention