| Show AFTER TUB WAR WAB so much attention has been given to the war and its conduct that there has been but little time and disposition deposition to look beyond the hour and estimate the outcome with its probable train of consequences that these consequences consequence will be momentous is not a matter of speculation at all it to is a fo foregone con cl elusion great vicissitudes mighty changes and perhaps a derangement of the worlds tolerable peace status may be hanging in the balance but we are not at this time permitted to see just what how or when these will be brought about we only feel assured by analogy and the logic of circumstances circumstanced that sooner or later and at the most not very tar far off the war as it now stands must cease with spain defeated and as a result of her defeat a morg more or less unseemly scramble scrA anble tor for a finger in the pie going on apropos of this the editor of the london chronicle has an article the gist of which appears in the telegraphic columns of the news today his hia name is henry norman and he is recognized as one of the ablest writers on international subjects in the world As a war correspondent to his big paper he has cabled it an article on the subject above spoken of he looks upon the result of the war as being as above seit out and regards each days news as it now transpires as an so much merely incidental he looks upon the approaching pro aching issue as one that will be found more momentous than anything the country has confronted tor for a century past but the united states win not alone be affected the european nations being nearly if not quite an a much so after stating in substance that he be knows whereof he speaks mr norman goes on to state things which but few of our people or any people perhaps have previously thought of or greatly cared for but told seem to bear the stamp of genuineness upon their face he announces that neither at the executive mansion nor at the state department to is there any definite conviction or determination of the future direction of the national policy with regard to the disposal of these oversea over sea possessions upon which the american flag will be flying when the wax war is over he denies entertaining anything like hostile feelings in making such remarks but holds to it that the united states to is drifting steadily toward its new fate instead of the administration formulating events mr norman insists upon it that events have moved and the administration has followed he concludes with a statement to the effect that the new policy of this country will make a strong navy indispensable but this step has already been determined ter mined upon and that the grand finale will involve a considerable change in the balance of power the chronicle editor states the case somewhat after the fashion of a lawyer summing up stating effects without going into the minutiae of causes that his statements bear the impress of correctness has already been herein admitted but it might as well be added that the time honored practice so generally observed by steady doag people of not crossing the bridge ui UA U A til it to is reached may obtain in the case does not seem to be a part and parcel of his computation there Is in at present what to superficial people or those whose occupation causes them to observe and treat upon some particular phase of a case only an indifference at bead headquarters Quarters as to the ultimate disposition of the philippine islands cuba and porto rico it Is not however indifference it to is due to two causes causer either of which would seem to be sufficient in the first place carrying on a war which came upon the land with considerable precipitancy and after nearly a generation of profound peace is so go exacting and en gross ingan tin occupation that if the mind were kept constantly trained in that channel and every waking hour of the th day were devoted to it there must till stin be many many things unattended to overlooked or held over so what part of such precious time can be spared to events which are unborn and exist only as a presumption we do not possess posse much less own either of the colonies named and ale are in only constructive tive ve occupation or of one of them besides the ultimate object to in not ownership but indemnity secured through two of them and independence to the inhabitants for the third will it not be time enough to arrange re garding these matters when the occasion presents itself and be wise not to add to the present stock of trouble by borrowing it |
