Show COURTING UNCLE SAM The nations of Europe appear just now to be nervously anxious to court thefavor of the United l States In this anxiety they are making ouch showing as they can of their friendliness or their lack of enmity toward this country coun-try four years ago when our war with Spain was coming on The showing is pitifully meager when considered as evidence of good will It had better not have been made in that cause and probably would not have been made but for the now exploded claim of Great Britain that she was our only friend Uid but for her veto a coalition of European Eu-ropean powers would have been formed against us at that time which would have involved us In n tremendous I struggle It now appears that German Ger-man owns also our friend quite as much as Great Britain was Inthat the Kaiser also negatived a proposal that would have meant a European war upon us It also appeared from statement we printed soma time back that Russia too rejected Spains proposal for a coalition against the United States That leaves France Austria and Italy to hear from Probably no donlalo of readiness to enter such a coalition will come from either of them Frances sympathy with Spain was open and notorious Austrias active hostility was manifest Ital would probably have agreed to whatever the other powers did Tho whole game was one of dip lomatic overreaching among the dif ferent powers none of them caring particularly for the United States but each Intent on getting whatever ad vantage van-tage out of the contest that might be possible for itself Great Britain Is said to have been especially averse to our acquisition of tho Philippines though It must bo confessed that Admiral Ad-miral Doweys account of the friendliness friendli-ness and sympathy shown by the Brit 8h war vessels In Manila bay does not bear out any charge of that kind but quite the contrary The accounts that we had of the actions of the German Admiral there also were of a declded l ty unfriendly nature and do not at all accord with the contemporary friendliness friendli-ness that is now claimed Probably he real key to the maneuvers of the European nations In 1S9S and tho feeing i feei-ng of the different courts has not yet been furnished So much has been printed now however that to withhold tho remainder would bo unjust to all concerned Let In the light give us aU the negotiations |