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ANTI-EXPANSION SENTIMENT.
Wo now propose to take under our
control eight millions of n race on the
other side of the world who are as much
below the American negro in civiliza
tion as the American negro is below the
American white. Is it any wonder that
with the great race question at our own
doors , puzzling our own statesmen and
leading to an appalling annual record of
crime , many a thoughtful American is
disposed to call a halt on the Philippine
experiment and to ask that wo shall
look more to civilizing our own inhabi
tants , botli white and black , than to
civilizing an unknown population , sav
age or semi-savage , 7,000 miles away
from our shores ? Philadelphia Bulle
tin ( Rep. ) .
The question of the Philippines is still
an open question. The republican party
has not passed upon it. Public opinion
is still in doubt. The country has not
spoken decisively. Patriotic Ameri
cans and good republicans are at perfect
liberty to differ upon this question ; and
they do differ. Hartford CourantRep. ( ) .
The national ideal lowered ? The na
tional ideal is lost , unless we awaken to
our dangers , and reverse what appear to
be present tendencies. The lesson of
the sacrifices of our Civil War has be
come a vague memory in danger of
sinking into utter oblivion. The forces
that appear 'uppermost are the lust of
power to bo irresponsibly exercised , the
greed of gain , the passion of conquest.
I The equality of man is a claim that is
met with contempt. The monarchies
of the Old World say we have come to
occupy new relations. We certainly
have. They are the relations which
they prophesied when we entered upon
the experiment of self-government.
They said it could not succeed , and if
the recklessness and folly now at work
prevail to the end , they will have been
proved fatally accurate prophets. Bos
ton Transcript ( Rep. ) .
There is little doubt but that the pro-
Imposition of the Massachusetts anti-imper
ialists to extend the anti-imperialist
movement to cover the whole of the
United States will find a ready and a
hearty response , and it is not unlikely
that such a volume of sentiment , op
posed to imperialism , will be found
among the more enlightened and more
thoughtful of the American people that
congress will hesitate before committing
the country to such an un-American
policy. New Orleans Times-Democrat
( Dem ) .
I believe that a majority of the people
of the United States , if the issue is ever
brought squarely before them [ for decis
ion , will never be willing to take under
our jurisdiction a people , n vast majority
of whom , for reasons of wise public pol
icy , are not allowed by our laws to come
within the United States. I firmly be
lieve it to bo most desirable to extend
in every way the commerce of the
United States. A joint protectorate ,
providing for equal privileges to all
nations , in my judgment , would effect
this as regards the Philippines , and such
a protectorate would strengthen our
sphere of influence in China. Charles
S. Hamlin.
And this is our successful experiment
in popular government ! It is to be hoped
that our treatment of the Pillager In
dians in Minnesota and the state of af
fairs in North Carolina will not reach
the ears of the foreigners before whom
wo are asserting and are anxious to de
monstrate our ability to govern "sub
ject races" humanely and to their ad
vantage. Chicago Advance , Congrega
tional.
We believe that an appeal from the
American people drunk to the American
people sober will reveal the truth that
this wild and sudden policy which its
advocates do not even attempt to justify ,
and the solid arguments against which
they only meet with "generalities and
cheers , " is not to prevail , that the civic
conscience is not dead , and that this
constitutional republic will not long
consent to stand merely for an unscrup
ulous appetite. Boston Transcript
( Rep. ) .
The now issues of "imperialism" and
"territorial expansion" born of our
recent conquests in war present the
gravest and the most dangerous prob
lems with which this republic has had
to deal. They cannot be disposed of by
the snapping of fingers , by the cheering
of crowds at railway stations , iior even
by the president of the United States
hiirself , unsupported by the conserva
tive second thought of the people. St.
Paul Globe ( Dem. ) .
The question is settled , Attornoy-
General Griggs says ; there is no xiso of
discussing it. It thus appears that in
his view the people of the United States
have nothing to say about it. They
have in the past claimed the right to be
consulted on tariff taxation , or such an
abstruse matter as coinage questions.
But when it conies to a policy that
ignores the fundamental principle of
democratic government , for which they
will have to pay $50,000,000 to $100,000-
000 annually in increased taxes to sup
port the military and naval establish
ments in the East , and in pursuit of
which their sons and brothers must face
Asiatic diseases and the bullets ol
natives obstinate enough to aspire to
self-government , the people of the
United States have nothing to say. The
matter has been settled without consult
ing them. Pittsburg Dispatch ( Rep. ) .
After having called the world and the
God of battles to witness that we fought
only from the noblest and most unselfish
motives , after loudly proclaiming our
virtues in the sight of all the earth , and
thanking God that wo were not as other
nations , we deliberately demand of
Spain nearly all her territorial possess-
ions and threaten her with even worse
things , if she does not comply. Phari
sees among individuals are common , but
a Pharisee nation , which for a pretence
makes long prayers and robs the weak
and defenseless , was loft for exemplifi
cation to the nineteenth century and to
the land of liberty. Spain , however , is
not so much to be pitied as ourselves , if
the policy of imperialism becomes an
accepted fact. She will lose an encum-
brancewhich she may well be glad to get
rid of , while wo will gain a Pandora's
box of evils , which will plague us in
definitely. It is not yet too late for the
sober second thought of the country to
assert itself , and to prevent by constitu
tional means the consummation of an
imperial scheme that threatens the very
life of free institutions. The country
never faced a crisis so pregnant with
far-reaching national danger and disas
ter , and true patriots may well pray that
the people of the United States may
realize it before it is too lato. Baltimore
Sun ( Dem. ) .
There are indica-
" th °
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rounding political
atmosphere that Governor Stone of
Missouri , is a very lively mortal at about
this time in having his foot-gear measured -
ured for presidential mountain-climbing.
He laiows that the sixteen to one busi
ness is likely to cause Mr. Bryan a
sudden stumble , if not a fatal fall , next
year , and the gifted and gyrating states
man of Missouri is not to bo caught nap
ping. It is known , because he has been
heard to say , that he is not bigoted about
the ratio in the silver issue , upon which
Mr. Bryan insists as being vital to his
plan for paying public and private debts
in clipped coins of the realm. A double-
barreled statesman , is Mr. Stone , and ho
shoots both ways on the silver question.
Make it six to one , governor !
The Scientific
NIKOLA TESLA.
American pub
lishes drawings of the device by means
of which Mr. Tesla , if ho is reported
correctly , expects to "make war impos
sible , " and moreover devotes an editor
ial to the subject , which is of a distinctly
disparaging tone. It seems , however ,
that Tesla has taken a patent on his ap
paratus , and this at least gives him tan
gibility ; some people have maintained
that there was no Tesla , that he was a
creation of the Now York reporters , who
kept him going for their own diversion ;
but in view of the fnct that his nmch-
heraldcd inventions are always things
that ho is going to do , instead of things
that ho has done , wo may still bo per
mitted some skepticism as to the results
to be looked for from them. This may
be an unjust suspicion ; but Mr. Tesla is
certainly unfortunate in having a num
ber of injudicious friends on the Now
York newspapers.
