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ministers were waiting for a joint in
terview with him. Quickly deciding
that he did not wish to give them an
opportunity to make such threat
ening demonstration of the union OF
their two nations, the secretary had
| the wit to balk them without giving
offense. Stepping out of his office. ne
greeted the ministers in the hearty.
off hand manner of shirt-sleeves di-
plQmacy and. choosing to regard their
coNbined presence as an innocent CO.
incidence. he told the Frenchman to
| step right in. while he left the Eng
lishman helpless by shouting over his
shoulder a cordial invitation to din
ner that evening.
In the Spanish War.
The Spanish American war was the
| occasion of much perturbation in the
chancellories of Europe. At first the
Old World statesmen were fearful that
in the courts of the conflict the Amer
leans might at last burst in upon that
continent. They were troubled les,
American warships should carry the
war to the home coast of Spain and
hoist the Stars and Stripes above Eu
ropean soil. Their dread or sucn an
| invasion was only less real than that
of the Spaniards themselves.
However. 1t may be by this time.
there was no lighthouse at Cadiz
when I visited that port. The Span
iards had hurriedly torn it down to
keep the Yankee shippers from finding
Cadiz! / saw the bare spot where
the demolished light had stood, and
that. it may be said. is the only scar
on the entire face of Europe which
the United States has caused. And
even that was self-infiicted,
When it became only too apparent
that Spain could be conquered with
out a home thrust. some of the Euro
pean governments were disturbed by
the ease with which the United States
was smashing the crumbling colonial
empire of the Spanish crown. AS they
saw Uncle Sam picking up islands in
the East and West. there were NUT
terings of virtuous horror at his raw
enous greed, his brutal rapacity. To
restrain him within the limits of de-
cency. 1t was proposed that he should
be brought into a conference of the
powers and compelled to disgorge his
booty in order that there might be
IAN equitable distribution of the spoils. -
But there were no presidents for
such a thing. The United States never
had entered any conferences or con-
crosses of that kind and never HAD
one, therefore. had the temerity to
bell the cat. and Uncle Sam finished
the job as he had begun 1t without
asking leave of anybody.
The only element in Europe whics
appIauded the United States at that
time were the British Imperialists.
When they heard Dewey's guns in
Manila Bay they thought they saw
the Americans abandoning the pru-
they had followed throughout the CEN
fury since he inquired: why quit our
own to stand upon foreign ground?"
As they saw the republic hosting the
nag Of conquest in Asia they enthu-
siastically welcomed 1t as recruit
to their ranks. Kipling. the poet Of
empire, smote his blooming Tyre in a
seductive serenadc and warbled his
appeal to the United States to take
up THE White Mans Burden" The
late Joseph Chamberlain, then in the
Cabinet. exuberantly waved the Union
Jack and the Stars and Stripes to-
eether, whereat his Tory audience
Justify cried: Hear! Hear" Older ana
wiser friends of the republic did nos
cheer the new imperialism. James
Bryce, in the midst of the Spanish
war, said that Americas highest
claim to the gratitude of mankind will
continue to be this-that she was the
FIRST country to try the great expert
u.ent of popular government" and he
declared that upon the success Of
that experiment. upon the peaceful
and orderly development of her demo-
cratic institutions. the fortune of the
world very largely depenos.-
John Morley was no less earnest in
his hope that the United States would
not be unparalleled. and n reply to