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Show W.lllS AMI ItllJHIIW 01' WA1I. FnoM whatever point of view the Beting sea embrogllo Is looked at, It raustbeconftsiied that the situation Is grave, to ssy the least. The correspondence corres-pondence between thereprcsentatlves of Ureatllrllslnaudthe Utilted Htates, as synopslied In recent dispatches from Washington, Indicates that trouble Is brswlng. The comments of the London Lon-don rapcrs, that the Harrison administration admin-istration Is attemi ling to make political capital out of tho mlsunderstau Hug, are silly and groundless. Hucb a courao of action on the part of the Kngllsh rias will not help to modify lubllo feeling on this side. The trouble did not oilglnate during the I resent administration, and If It la fully demonstrated that llrltaln Is not will-lug will-lug to await the decision of Impartial aud disinterested ort It ration on this iiuestlon, then no political otjHinent (aaallordto charge President Harrison Harri-son with Jingoism. The llngllsh press will then find thst It Is uot a matter of partIsm, and that the Iteiubllcans and Democrata will uulto In maintaining maintain-ing the national tlghta of this country. (Jenernl lloyntou, lu an nrtlcle recently re-cently lubllshed at Washington, shows that Kuglsud is better jreparetl than we are for war. On the Atlantic side she hss strong naval ot, and on the l'aclllo she has natation which torn-inands torn-inands the entrance to Tugct Hound. Hhehaaa number of Ironclads which calibe transferred to the lakes 111 fort, eight licurs, und with these the commerce com-merce nnd cities on the south bordurs of tho lakes aru at her mercy In addition to Oenerut Boynton, General Miles and several ottier military authorities aihcrt that llrltaln Is now better preared for a i-onlllct than wo are. They Insist that dur InS the past fl.o jcars she has been eultely pushing her strategic ami military prijecta, until at I resent she actually liolJe Hie United Hlate's In her grap. With her gnat naval station nt Vancouver's Island she ran control I'ugot Hound an I all Its corameree aud Its cities, tho liar, bora of Han 1'rauclrco, aud Han Diego, aud the entire Pacific coiut. Hy lueaus oftbeHt. luewremo mil tho military eanal IntoUeorglan Hay, now nearly completed, she can control every American ell) or. the lakes from Dulutli to Hull ilo, with bir guuboitr. Ou the Atlantic the nival stattous of Halifax, Bermuda, Han I.ucla and Jamakie have leeu strengthened of late. All these stations are connette'd by wire aud lu a moment n simul. lanrous alvnucu could beordtred along the whole line. (Irii. Hoyuton ja that tho war has alieady commenced on the art of 1 tiftUnJ, In.um.ichM h Iitu xrfic(vil tliw prtitloii In atldpMlon vt hotIIIllM Wt txllcre howevpr. thai court let will I A (Heratcti from WnOilnRtan, r-CrlTfil r-CrlTfil UiU Afltrnoon. tatrthttht C'rar Uni maJe the frodvr t) I'rrjIJtDt HarrUon of k ItuMlAn rtwt to goto Utrlnif to help IhU counlry lofrv teel the m-I flf!)vTle. If this It true, tho fact IsfittlcuMcaitt "or, aud wouU arcouht to onie rxtrnt tor tho lata OTctflow of ItuMtan contUUtjr toward lbs UnltrU HUtn, for which th rrctnt ronlrlUitlona lowar.1 lli famlna rIM fun J wcra ma-Ii lhVloii. It wuM alio aliow tho Jipth of Hit Ctua an xlftytoyt-ta ftailbt o(portunltj to almahlowal Ilnglatjil. HurhaDoiTff m that rtiVrreJ to would glrr our rot-trnment rot-trnment aJdltional conndencoto tntlit on lta demand, which ar rtatonaMe and Juat on ttirtr face. l.tigland would rather hack down than iif;ai, lu war with Ihla count fjr, rrrclalljr IfwahaJiuch formidable Lacking w would tu onrinJhjra comVluatloaoti our fart with Hum I a. |