| Show EUROPE IS DITTER william stead the great english editor commenting on the acquisition of the philippine archipelago by the united states the consummation of which was virtually attained by the spanish commission acceding to the demands of our commissioners at yesterdays ter days joint session 0 the peace commissioners in paris says that in hla late travels in continental europe he found every one of the great powers bitterly in opposition to american aggressiveness in the far east and a tear prevailing that american undiplomatic ways in dealing with their neighbors in asiatic waters would eventually bring on complications and involve the powers in no end 0 trouble while the bold blunt and honest course of this country in the treatment of all foreign ques tlona Is given as the excuse for the antipathy that prevails among the crowned heads it is our conviction that the real incentive to their dislike and bitterness is the dread that republicanism as exemplified in our form of government may eventually spread from the seed sown in the lalands of the pacific and reaching the mainland of china ancito the races of the far east to take on 1 greater independence and to exact greater privileges than are in keeping with monarchical forms of government with all the dominant forces of europe mapping out zones of influence in asia and looking forward to the time when they mchall each take onto themselves absolute control over provinces inhabited by peoples that have never had their eyes opened to the advantages of some form of self government it Is not to be wondered at that they look on with aversion in the contemplation of the westward course of democracy as the stars and stripes are about to be unfurled in asiatic waters it there Is any one thing more than another calculated to unite the american people in backing the foreign policy of the administration it is the bitterness that is heard to come over the ocean in coarse harsh murmurs the more europe Is dissatisfied with the going up of the biag of this nation over new territory the greater will be the demand of the american people that old glory wave back a defiance |
