Show i LONDON TIMES COMMENT I SdcKinley Shaped His Policy According r Accord-ing to Public Sentiment London Aug 15The Times this morning comments editorially upon the generous universal recognition of the part which President McKinley has played throughout in the a between the United States and Spain and says r I foreign observers might presume to han an opinion upon his conduct it would probably be that President McKinley has kept his fta sr constantly constant-ly upon the national pulse and has i I known how to stimulate and direct t national thought without too markedly outrunning its movement Everything has been done in the open every move has been discussed as a possibility allover all-over the United States before the goA f crnment was irrevocably committed one way or the other and the result of the cautious tentative policy is that where he stands at this moment the president k presi-dent has the whole American people at his back f We do not know that there can be any higher statesmanship for a president presi-dent governing under the constitution I of the United States f I is noteworthy that while the Spaniards t Span-iards who are usually regarded as chivalrous romantic and mediaeval have turned first to the financial aspect of the situation the Americans who l are usually supposed to be Intensely pa triotic have a yet hardly given a thought to the financial or economic side of the question What occupies the American people at this moment is not the cost of the war not the value of their acquisitions or the balance of profit and loss account but the moral result of the struggle and the nature of the ideas which It stimulates Whether Bryanism Is dead or only sleeping whether the smaller issues of party warfare are suppressed by large and worthy conceptions of national policy pol-icy or only thrown for the time into the background there can be no doubt that the war has had and will have n profound effect upon American ideas r and aims Not only has it renovated the idea of national unity impaired r by the great civil struggle but i has supplied that sense of contact with external ex-ternal forces whichTs probably one of I i the most potent influences In favor of 1 maintaining the national spirit The Antilles themselves introduce a novel element into American life and open up questions upon which parties I may differ greatly and worthily Thls in itself is a gAin and one which Is more or less conscientiously sought when the war was undertaken The perilous unrest spoken of by the New Y York Times was a real national evil which sprang directly so far as foreigners for-eigners can judge from the ca disappearance ance of clear intelligent party issues k That unrest we may assume ha vanished van-ished and been replaced by new anxieties anx-ieties or solicitudes which may become acute but are very unlikely to become I morbid Beyond the Antilles lies a more difficult diffi-cult question the Philippines and that question does net end with the Philippines Philip-pines themselves These islands may ba taken jurz ntrv as a symbol of kinericnn Ca of the entry I crc 3 te i 4 1 of the republic upon a new career I I which Philippines or 20 Philippines I she is henceforth bound to follow |