Show WARS AND RUMORS OF WAR from T point of view the bering sea imbroglio em broglio is ig looked at it bupt mint be confessed that the situation is in grave to sa say the least the correspondence pon dence between the tLe representatives of great britain and the un united I 1 ted states as synopsized in recent dispatches from washington indicates that trouble Js ia brewing the comments of the london papers that the harrison administration if ib attempting to make political capital out of the misunderstanding are silly and groundless such ruch a course of action on the part of the english press will not help to modify public feeling on this side the trouble did not originate during the present administration and if it is fully demonstrated that britain Is if riot not willing to await the decision of impartial and disinterested arbitration oi on this question then no opponent can afford to charge president harrlson harrison with jingoism the english press will then find that it la Is not a matter of party lem and that the republicans and democrats will unite in maintain haj e national rights of this country boynton in an article re bently published at washington shows that E gland is better prepared than we are for war on the atlantic side she has strong naval post and on the pacific she has a station which corn com mands bands the entrance to puget round bound she has a number of ironclads iron which can be transferred to the lakes lake 19 in forty eight hours and with these the corn com merce and cities un on the south borders of the lakes are at her mercy in addition to general boynton general miles and several other military authorities assert that britain is now better prepared for a conflict than we are they insist that during the past five years she has hag been actively pushing her strategic and military broj projects acts until at present she actually holds the united states in her grasp with her great naval station stati at vancouver vers s island she can cazl control puget sound bound and all its commerce and its cities the bar harbors of san francieco and san diego and the entire pacific coa coast t by means of the st lawrence and the military canal into georgian bay now nearly completed she can control every american city ora on the lakes from duluth to buffalo with her gunboats gun boate boats on the atlantic the naval stations of Hali halifax fai bermuda san lucia and jamaica have been strengthened of late all these stations are connected by wire and in a moment a simultaneous advance could be ordered along the whole line gen boynton says that the war has already commenced on the part of england inasmuch as an she has perfected these preparations in anticipation of hostilities wj we believe however that a conflict will be avoided A dispatch from washington received this afternoon states that the czar has made the proffer to president harrison of a russian fleet beet to go to 10 bering sea to help this country to pro hect the seal fisheries if this be tru true the fact to la a significant one and would account to some extent tor for the late overflow of russian cordiality toward the united states for which the recent contributions toward the famine relief fund were made the occasion it would also show the depth of the czars azars anxiety to get a feasible opportunity to aim a blow at england such an offer as that referred to would give our government arditto ILI al confidence to insist on ita demands which are reasonable and just on their face england would rather back down than engage in war with this country especially if we had such formidable backing as would be offered by a combination on our part with russia |