Show AIDING AMERICAN federation giving jonathans ficek nose a tweak seem beems to be a fad with which the european Europe aa nations are boot beat on amusing themselves they don dont 19 appear to be very particular how bow sharp the twitch to ie either britain im action regarding jk alaskan laskan territory and later her attitude to in the nicaraguan affair the silent allent contempt with which spain treats secretary groshams Greaham Gre shams le demand lor for apology and france Franc ets summary pro ledure cedore with respect reaped to ex Consul Wai waller lerall all show that the european powers power evince little disposition to treat the united states with that courtesy and consideration which they demand from this government and from each other in one way logically peaking it may be said bald that recent political events in this nation have indicated that the mass of the tho people ar are not in with the policy of the th administration and that therefore as the people have adminis administered tere d a xe rebuke buke foreign nations way may treat the administration with contempt for if a government to is not respected a home it will not claim respect abroad this line of reasoning however Is i too superficial for the existing situation as european nations yet may flad bud in their dealings with those who dwell on the ithe american continent whatever may alay be the view taken by the american voter of party policy his lon ion thereon Is not to be construed as an set act of contempt toward he be government ant itself least of all such as would justify any foreign power in arrogant and disdainful demeanor toward the me united states it is an old saying that pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit be before forea a falland fall and it is not impossible edible that the hauteur displayed by S european powers toward the chief nation on this continent may result dis die astrousky to their colonial and other 1 interests in america to say that this end nd might be effected by any warlike procedure on the part of the united states would not be consistent with past experience or present indi indications cat ions for if this govern government ant has displayed any special quality in its relations with other powers it has bre been that of a very large laree amount of patience and forbearance at the same time it has exhibited a tendency to combine on all suitable occasions with other Amer american ioan peoples in antagonizing european Bur domination upon this coati neat this is 10 the spirit of the monroe doctrine it is the source of sympathy given to cuban patriots patriot when any of thaw are in action orloo it to is the sentiment of broad liberality which would see the whole of america controlled by the voice of her inhabitants to the exclusion of foreign royal edicts and the more disdainfully the united states la is treated by europeans with respect to matters that concern any part of the american continent the more pronounced will be the sentiment and action in favor favor of solidifying the in teresta of the whole people both in north and south america and the islands adjacent W whatever else elee may be the I 1 mediate immediate in outcome of the he incidents which have prodded american national dignity of late it may be concluded that they will hasten american federation in some bome form or other to the exclusion of european interference on this side aide of the be water five years ago mr blaine as keerl decre tary of state made efforts for a pao american Amerl can union but the time was waa not ripe his hie was waa not the first suggestion in that direction however for a movement in that line has hag had strong advocates almost since the beginning of the century it is being augmented by the later events eventa and the me not far distant future may show that the european attitude towards america has contributed tri buted to effect a union onion by which cuba canada and otner places now giving allegiance to old world powers may recognize sovereignty in a federation of american republics european contempt for and arrogance arroe ance toward american nations or peoples of necessity tends tend to cement the latter for purposes of common defence |