Uncle Sam and Samoa.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 21, 9 March 1889, Page 2

Uncle Sam and Samoa.

(From the Evening Newt, Fehruanj 8

j Tho fueling of iniuuion which tinI Samoun troubles have caused in the j United Stiitos m significant of much. j Tho possibilities wliich it t>uggests are very serious and enriouß ours. Suppose that such a thing as war between America and Germany should happen, whet would follow? In all probability a struggle would bo witnessed such n'a tho world has not seen. It is hanllv conceivable that it could bo confined to tho two nations who would begin tin' quarrel. All tho rest of the Great Powers would be dragged into it as well. Borne of them, indeed, if appearances count for anything, need litil" dragging in a case of this kind; and would only bo too OHger to take part in the fray. But whether addressed t<> willuig or unwilling oars, the first hostile note heard from Germany ami America would be equlunlent to a general t-all-to arms, llie terrible conscquonces which would be involved if the Empire should actually come to blows would be sure to be so enormously disproportionate to tho advantages which either could hope to gain from a struggle of the sort, that it might seem wildly absurd toapeoulute even for a moment on such a contingency One of the best ▼erified.-and at tbe same time the most threadbare of proverbs, warns us, however against the danger of too confidently discounting tbe impossible, or at least what human foresight pronounces impossible. What we know at present with reference to the difficulty in question the likelihood of its having a Manful •oluhon. There would appear to be a growing belief in America "that Germany has no intention of regutotio* her Samoau poUey in accordance with *?V i *?» oi »• American people, and that, while oiv% expressing a wish to ftmve at some amicable arrangement

■with them regarding the matter she is determined to*tr«u^then herinfluo:ea in Samoa, and ultimately render her authority paramount in that quarter. Ifthe A*»erfcnn*>rV Equally d.toi(alnedtnaf she •Juill not, the situation at once assume?'"tu uininnas aspect. The chances nro perhaps ten to* one] that, sooner than encounter the tremendous risks which a war with America would bring to the empire, and in view j of k which I it wojdj| K*tn America itself, B ' B W PtlhUhauphty spirit | krionp W of the kind on i her I)MSIijM fcrTT' '' -should be one i of thoJH tain tees against a war I with f|Mi jji-'Stutcs. Tho troubles | in SattOMi iuH,really furnish nn snfoftftb, '0 IWHIHs from trivial causes withra| rJto wart of modern days. -'^ahiTVfory' -ii