| Show THE OUTLOOK ABROAD an editorial in the news a few days ago gave a kind of tentative fore shadowing of the attitude of certain of the foreign powers in the event of a war between the united states and spain in that article it was pre figured that prance france would be against us because of immense indebtedness to her that the quasi alliance between france and russia would cause the latter not to help us even if it did not help the enemy and that the queen regent being an austrian would be the means of swinging the moral it if not the actual support of that nation to the spaniards this would in turn mean the sympathy it if not the support of the other two signatories signa tories to the dref bund treaty germany and italy for spain whereby a of a possible all english against an all latan all combination was ivas presented A dispatch which appears elsewhere in these columns makes it appear that part of the then hypothetical combine has passed beyond the first stages of mere hypothesis and is slowly developing into a contemplated movement it to Is stated that the emperor of austria austria is busily engaged in the pub lie sentiment of his and the adjoining realms favorably to the royal widow and hr her offspring a labor in which he receives the hearty operation cooperation co of that erratic young despot wilhelm IIA correspondent of the st petersburg eremya sets this out as ai a matter of course and adds to the discomfort which he doubtless hopes his will create in this country the comprehensive statement that in the event of war no Euro european peem power would be likely to sympathize with the united states all he sets out would sympathize with spain if not actively certainly ce by categorical protests against president mckinless McKin leys con duct an astonishing climax is ireae reached hed in the statement that this is well known at madrid if this be true and who can doubt it since a newspaper correspondent affirms it no wonder the blue bloods and the canaille the lawyers and the loafers of madrid are so saucy and independent it to is hardly reasonable that anything more than show of assistance without the accompaniment of much of a substantial character would be the result of such a getting together as that spoken of it would be two incongruous a mass to cohere and act concertedly for any great length of time just think of france and germany I 1 for instance fighting shoulder to shoulder against a power with which both are fin the most peaceable terms possible and all because of the aggressive and inexcusable tactics of a power which long since passed out at the back door of the third class is utterly bankrupt hopelessly involved and now has no independent rating worth speaking of of course in this life and upon this sphere we should not be surprised I 1 j at any possible thing the concert of I 1 the crowns to is liable to make as many strange bedfellows bed fellows as our internal political systems do but france and germany ermany why the suggestion is enough to make the first wilhelm be come restive in his tomb there should be less surprise at france aiding spain then at any other otheir t nation of europe doing so the french are mercurial quixotic unstable and easily carried away by any kind ot of catchy spasm their republic la is the grossest misnomer in existence having not the slightest relation to a popular and representative system except in 6 a shifting uncertain sort of form ene land is a republic in fact without the name and Is thus very much more like ly to lend a sympathetic word or extend a helping hand than any of its neighbors are at the same time we of this favored land desire most particularly to impress it upon friend or foe beyond the sea that we have no quarrel with them and desire none that we ask no aid except such as may be obtained to in a commercial way and paid for that we axe are not in the slightest degree afraid of either or all of them and will take care of ourselves and look out for our in teresta regardless of what europe may say or do we are somewhat divided just now being democrats republicans populists lists and having some few other classifications but let us be made to understand that a hostile visitor is approaching our shores then indrea would it be the case that and saxon and norman dane ar are e we but all are dane in omiR se thee the e 0 |
