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EUROPEAN SENTIMENT inthe in the current number of the literaty ty digest expressions of several eu journals on the spanish war aa aft quoted they give a good idea of the sentiment across the atlantic at the present time it Is found that in england the journals that backed armenia and greece now support tho the united states while the government organs sit on the fence and some conservatives serva tives openly side with spain the subjoined sub joined quotations represent the divided aided vided sentiment in england the morning leader deader says I 1 it 10 a easy for partisans to decry the purlay of Afir american tean motive but it is wt wise wine how often have hae we entered jt ona holy mission with an eye on w we main chance the average engi lishman locks at the broad aspect or of this case spain aln has been guilty ot of hateful and abominable cruelty for many years in an island close to the itcan american continent she has also in treacherous manner sunk an Ino broad nolad belong belonging big to america in a g spanish port a avd and so murdered more than two hundred officers and men AMr america leiL has carite come to the colic conclusion lusion that this sort of thing must cease and she to talking steps to end it once more we say that we and the vast ma 7 of englishmen wish her good ssie je saturday review in the course of at a long article says davidt avett la in probably right in that the ruling in it ild land als wish success firstly be f I 1 thy they are truly patriotic a and n d av W that tue americans have no at 1 onor ai people second 41 they tey are ale at fl t heart atista 1 i we are an dis i seated d litif tto raw raw vulgar blatant atto dobur europe yn tn searah A of their self respect and can not con duct dua a mere legal case with decency there Is confidence in spain and confidence in the united states with a difference fighting bob evans evana said he would make spanish the most popular language in hell tor for ten years to come admiral villamil ll and his men simply took a vow before ch cha shrine of the virgin never to return unless victorious The these seare are only two of many pairs of contrasts which could thus be set side by side tm roll rolland holland and the cause of 0 the united states has a strong defender in the Handels bladet a journal with an extensive influence that paper says spain behaves nobly in this mis crisis but that carmot cannot take away the fart fact that the boorish speculative yankees are fighting in the cause of justice though some same of them may not even know it we admit that the press of europe does not share this view that press takes sides with the under dog but let us in the first place be just if our own people had committed in india a tenth part of the barbarities practiced by spain we would advocate the expulsion of the hollanders from the dutch east indies spain has done in cuba exactly the same thing which louis XIV did in paje palatinate anaste he knew he could not hold it and he ordered that beautiful region to be changed into a desert we do not say that the spaniards like the french fre king committed the barbarities bari ties Intent intentionally donally the fact remains however that hundreds of thousands of people have died in cuba in consequence sequence coo of general wellers Wey lers cruel order of concentration no doubt the american financiers politicians and journalists who brought about this the wax war axe are disgusting but behind them stands the american people whose alms are pure and that people deserves the sympathies of the nations of the earth in france only a few voices are heard in favor of the united states one paper poetically says that the spanish falcon was caught by the AmeT american ican eagle in the act of strangling the cuban nightingale the german papers generally are in sympathy with spain they ridicule the idea that the war is one for the liberation of an oppressed race they take the view that the cuban rebellion is of our making and profess to see that democracy is a failure as an administrator of justice what is of importance to notice however is this that there is at present no inclination whatever towards actual interference in behalf of spain the weser says spain must fight her own battles europe had good reasons to regulate matters in the near east baat yet the concert barely escaped breaking up whether spain has cuba or not is a matter of third rate importance to europe spain has done nothing to deserve the friendship and assi assistance or of 0 ther other countries she has been purely egotistical the loss logo of her south american possessions should have taught taugh ther her ho how to treat colonies england has learned it efforts in the right direction come too late she he must bear the consequences the hamburger na wisely observes we we are not going to disturb our Ame american trade for ahlo tb sake of spain in austria the people do not t seem M to shabe the anxiety of the emperor for the welfare of ahja relative on the spanish throne the people are inclined ined to remember that thoy they have hava relatives stives ft Ives in 14 the united St state atelL tc T zeita published at vienna says sags our axe are with ith t the e union anlon 1 next toB to berhn etlin and vienna new york is thought to be the largest german city what german or austrian family is without a relative on the other side of the great water and these rela relatives are perhaps about to shed their blood for their adopted country we believe that all friends of freedom are ara on the side of america it seems to be pretty well settled at this time that spain must fight her own battles european sympathy for a once great nation and for a decaying throne is not strong enough to set the lm im mense war machinery in kotiw motion europe has evidently settled down to the fact that interests are not of paramount importance to the rest of the continent |
