We have heard from what we believe to be a
well-informed source an account of the Continental attempts at interven- tion in the Spanish-American War, which makes the action undoubtedly taken by our Government assume a very dra- matic form. M. Hanotaux, it is alleged, designed the plan of intervention, and proposed it in turn to the Continental Powers. They agreed, and it was assumed that England would, of course, readily assent to what was already a fail accompli. When, however, our Government was sounded, the French Government heard with unfeigned astonishment that the only intervention that England was likely to under- take would be the placing of her fleet at the disposal of the President of the United States. When will people learn that though John often quarrels with his younger brother, it is not safe to approach him with schemes for laying that brother on his back and kicking him on the head P
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