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Show TO HELP ENGLAND. H 'M ALUANCQ WOULD DB A OOOD 'lB THINQ FOn JOHN. "H 'iiH TTvU Country Would Only lie the But- tB ferei Th Pcopla Who Hare Money to 1 Xrfmn Are Afraid That tho Might ot lel Britain Ii to Da Dethroned. , V fl Sir George Sydonham Clarko has in 'JB tho current Nlnotconth Contury an ar N'H tlclo concerning an Anglo-American alliance. Ho considers the subject JH from tho British point ot view. Ho "H doalg with concroto facta instead ot lontlmont or day dreams, and thoro foro affords Americans a fair concop- tlon of what a coalition with Great '-B Britain would mean not in tho pnlplt, 'B not in tho classroom, not in the lec- ' B turea ot dreamers and lltorary onthu- B Blasts but in tho actual courso ot tho B living politics of the civilized world. ' J At tho outset Sir CJoorge turns hie at- B tontlon to tho offensive and detenalvo .B foatures of an Anglo-American alii- B ance. Ho docs not wasto his time in ' ,B discussing all tho sweetness and the JH light which would come to civilisation with tho now combination. Ho goes f directly to tho point, and that point -IILH Is war. For instanco, ho Bays: "An iB Anglo-American allianco would for ' 'H purposes of war bo wholly freo from ; tho condltlona which Involved the co- .B alltlon ot Pitt, tho Anglo-French com- , .B blnatlon of 1854, or tho Gorman leaguo H against little Denmark In 1864, which . 'B by an easy transition dissolved itself jl Into the Prusio-Austrian campaign ot 'B 180C." It will bo observed that 3Ir ? Qoorgo Is not deluding himself with expectations ot universal peace or jH tranquil conquest. Ho takes It tor IB granted that the allianco In quostlon B would be an alliance ot fighting pow- lB era. Consequently ho bolds up for our . B edification tho picture ot the exhaust- lB ing warfare ot England upon Japo-leon, Japo-leon, of the bloody and costly invasion ot the Crlmoa, and of tho six years ot conflict by which Germany fixed tho -'H present boundaries in Western Eu- iB rope. In a' word, he makes prominent the very patent fact patent to every- 11 body except Amorican advocates ot an " :jB Anglo-American coalition that It la JjB tho duty of an ally to fight, and that it wo entor into an alllaneu with Eng- land wo have to expect only what .the ; t JH allies against Napoleon, against Rus- 'QH sia, and against Denmark havo ex- " perlencod in this contury. Blr Georgo also discusses sovcral posslblo at- tempts to rob Great Britain ot Canada, South Africa, and Australia, to divido ' tho spoils among continental powers, anil numorous additional contingency 'H which tho United States would t ex- 'H pected to fight against on sea ivnd land. Tho question that sensible Ameri- .H cans havo been asking for eevoral 11 months la: What posslblo benoCt oonld tho Unltod States derive from an alliance with Great Britain T Unfor- " 'H tunately, llko other British publicists, '"M Sir Georgo neglects to answer this question. As far as can bo gathered from his artlclo, our business In the alliance would bo meroly to save Grcator Britain from partition, to fur- hap hnr dlnlnmntln caDinalBim. and to ;-H hold our army and navy In readiness -M to support her against tho rest ot the world. It Is Interesting and rB Instructive to contomplato the one- .- ijl Bldedness of the proposed Anglo- ' tfffll American bargain as It appoars the moment wo got down to details. What '11 do tho Amorican peoplo think of itT Ifffll Just now, whon thoy aro recovering 7bJ from their only war in this genera- 1fl tlon, whon they aro mourning their , '--JB dead and counting tho cost, how do 3iHfl they foci about being pledgod by their national government to enter upon a -M boundless sea of complications, war- HJ faro, and oarnago to uphold tho -M threatened power and commerco of a 'flfl foreign governmontT Tho mero state- IJ ment ot theso questions implies on in- iiB suit1 to Amorican intelligence and '11 statesmanship. It Is atrocious that men exist In this country who are so callous to the best interests ot their :BJ own poopie and so sensltlvo to tho as- 11 plratlons of a foreign power that they' HJ tolerate tho idea ot an Anglo-Ameri-can allianco oyon as a subject ot academic discussion. It Americans would only consider fnB the wholo question as practically and ;' minutely as it Is being considered In ' England, It is doubtful it evon tho H most perverse of our political dream- era and the most supine ot our An jliH glomanlacs would dare continue long' tfl er the present agitation in favor ot ILB blackening our glorious future with dHl all the burdens ot Etaropo's dyinfc .fl Dust, Inter Ocean, B |