Show I CLEVELAND HOtJXDLY CONDEMNED BY THE BRITISH PRESS One of the Writers Believe That Americans Generally Are Pro lonndly Hostile to England LONDON Dec 20A dispatch to the Standard from Penis dwells upon the fact that French opinion is valued in the United States more than that of any other counry and adds The French people enterifcain the most friendly feelings for the United States yet their opinion unanimously condemns President Cleveland Mr T B OConnors Sun is t notable nota-ble exception to the general tone Jt says To us whose public men are almost most without exception honest It is Incredible that statesmen should be prepared to bring misery and death thousands for the transient t glories of office That t President Cleveland such methods are possible is reason why America should pause The Sun also states I The southern states must be reckoned reck-oned with Yankee is yet a term ot reproach in the south and the tattered tat-tered war flags of thorn capital Richmond Rich-mond are revered and sacred relics The name of Jefferson Davis is a greater one to conjure with than Cleveland There axe men yet living In the south who dream that the star and bars will one day wave abova the stars and stripes The comments on President Cleve lands Venezuelan message by the leading British weeklies appearing tomorrow to-morrow are confined to denunciations of President Cleveland and to expressions expres-sions of confidence In what they describe de-scribe as the good sense of ithe American Amer-ican peonle The National Observer is a notable exception to this in that it indulges In very direct language as to its sentiments sen-timents towards Americans generally I says iTihe message ought in the main to be not unwelcome in this country Its menacing tone its outrageous preten sicns and the general approval of i amount to a demonstration of what has often been denied but is none the less the truth that outside of a very select circle of millionaires and mug wumps Americans are profoundly hostile hos-tile ito England They may like the Individual Englishman but for the British government they have nothing noth-ing but detestation and pleasure in seeing it crossed and humiliated Those who have been living In a fools paradise para-dise made up of maudlin sentiment about kindred communities and blood being thicker than water may experience ex-perience a disagreeable shock when I the unsympathetic reality is forced upon their attention Now that President Pres-ident Cleveland comes forward and with a firm hand strips all cant aside amid the great applause of Americans we know where we stand After dealing with the hollowness of President Clevelands claim the National Observer proceeds Diplomatic good manners has made it impossible for Lord Salisbury to say what we do not scruple to write that nothing more impudently provocative ever came from the pen even from an American secretary of state playing the patriot with a view of a coming presidential election President Cleveland has taken the most effective measures to commit his country to a pretension from which it cannot recede without discredit and to which we cannot submit without danger to our interest and honor Un less this is disaowed by the American people which is eminently unlikely unlkely there is no satisfactory issue to the dilemma If the worst happens the fault is not ours I the United States wishes to fasten a quarrel upon us the responsibility must be left with i I is idle to hope for peace with a persistent bully The National Observer is Unionist in politics |