The Felding Star. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1892." Our American Cousins

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 108, 10 March 1892, Page 2

The Felding Star. THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1892." Our American Cousins

. « Now that the election of a President is about to take place, the old plan of raising a war cry against England has been adopted. It never gets stale, which is its only good, and, besides, although useful at election time it never does any harm to anybody. It is never raised by the real Americans but by that peculiar class called " White washed Yankees, " the years, and sometimes months, of whose residence in the United States may be counted on the fingers of one hand. The Behring Sea difficulty which has beea created by the cruel rapacity of the sealers, is one which can be settled easily by the two countries in a manner to meet the exigencies of the case, without an appeal to arms. The more sensible mode of settling it by arbitration has been practically adopted, and will no doubt be brought to a finality, but that does not suit tbe class whom we would designate here "the Great Liberal Party." They object to peaceful measures, and prefer blood and massacre provided always that their own delicate skins are not endangered. Put briefly the case stands thus : Lord Salisbury has made certain proposals regarding the difficulty, to which the United States Government cannot agree. That is simple enough, and as soon as the English Government were informed the proposals were not acceptable to the United States, a Cabinet Council was at once called for their reconsideration, of which fact the United States Government would be at once made aware, and the matter placed in abeyance. But that was not enough for the American Jingos. "We are told by the cablegrams from New York that "The proposals were a menace to the industry," "The position is regarded as serious," " The press is furious at Lord Salisbury and have taken to publishing names of vessels which are ready in case of war." Now the last is utter folly because the United States have really no war fleet worth a moment's consideration on the part of a great naval power like England, and it is nonsense for the American press or at least that peculiar section of it, even to broach the subject.