The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-29
ANGLO-RUSsIAN SITUATION. The Feeling i'm England Very Similar to that Here When the Maine Was Sunk.

Julius Chambers in Brooklyn Eagle. The Anglo Russian situation Is matter of worldwide importance. We can imagine what would have happen ed had such a catastrophe as this oc- cured off Cape Cod, where the Glou- avocation. The warlike spirit of the United States would have been ram pant.
 Sometimes wonder if the American temperament has changed since that night of the 18th of February, 1898. when the battleship Maine was destroy ed in Havana narbor! That incident. to speak of it historically, was one of the momentous events in American his- tory.
 Consul-General Lee had asked that war vessel be sent to Havana to give to him a status with the other nations of the world. He was justified in ask ing this. was In Havana at the time, and he often spoke of the isolation of his position when nearly every Euro bay--a silent suggestion that the rights of foreign citizenship must be respect cd. General Lee and I sat In the Cafe de Paris one afternoon. and he said Don't you think it rather anomalous that there should be a German, French and English an-of war in this harbcr E,tonight and not a single ship that rep rssents the power and majesty of the
 NO, because at Key West, ninety miles across the Straits of Florida arc warships enough to dominate all the sea power in this harbor tonight" was
 ''Very true. but the Spanish authori- ties do not understand that. They think l am without the pale of my Government: They .ai cannot ,,s,l,n understand stration. I tell you, must have a ship in this harbor equal to any that floats and 1t must carry the flag of the United States"
 The result of his appeal, wired that night to the Mckinley Government- and my diary shows that this was the 2Sth of December. 1S9s--was that the battleship Maine was sent to Havana, from Moro Castle, and was then taken to an anchorage due south of the Cafe of the Dos Hermanos--where we who morning and marvel at the place she had been put. It was exactly as If the port wardeHs of New York were to an- ehor a foreign warship on the flats would be thought of such an act espe- cially among the Knowing ones" who comprehended that the keel of the vis- iting ship would be fast In the mud. at low tide, twice day?
 That the Maine was anchored over A Spanish mine, I never have doubted Knowing Havana harbor as have un- derstood 1t since the days of the Vir- ginius troubles, when I went there with Government chart and padded over 1t In small boat to take soundings.
 All this Is predatory to the Russian episode in the North Sea. That Is far national law. Twice has England re- suit!
 Coming home to ourselves-and noth- ing so nearly appeals to us. as Ameri- cans. as our experiences with the Span lards-every. citizen this country must remember that we positively re- fused to accept the apology of the Span ish King for the outrageous destruction of the battleship Maine and the wanton drowning of 360 unarmed sailors, asieep in their hammocks.
 Did you ever hear anybody in tho gallery of a theatre shout "FireV' If not, you are unable to comprehend the true explanation of the catastrophe in
 The Russians have been in panic for several weeks. The philosophical ex- planation of the horror of the hour is that some man at the lookout of a the Hull fishing fleet and shouted:
 "Japanese torpedo boats!
 Ihat would explain everything to me; because have passed through sev- eral terrible mobs and have seen leyel- headed members of the human family act in an utterly 4rresponsibie manner.
 Despite everything we hear from tho East today. 1t is a safe gambi ether. will not be a general European war Russia Is appalled, by the menfai oblquity of the admiral of the Baltic meet! And yet, that official may moi be actually accountable for this catase trophe. N"'
 This incident In naval warfare ,s something entirely out of the ordinary and cannot be gauged by "the r,,Ia ny three." "'e oi