Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-15
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We are inclined to think that
~ people OF the United States are
'eu6ering unspeakable evils from an
lntense pArtizanship. We have
not only had to endure great draw
backs from the extravagancs Of
p&rty which has been in unchecked
Pos6ession Of power, but there are
eome respects in which the United
States occupy positively humili-
eting attitude. We seem to have
given up all ambition as to having
any art or part In the affairs Of the
world. The Monroe doctrine, In SO
far ~ 1t aimed to prevent foreign
l5owers from extending their influ-
ence on the American continent,
Was all very we'll. 1t served its
purpose admirably. But it did not
80 far enough. The Ostend mani
feeto was the next advance in
American statesmanship; but, of
1ato years, we have been drifting to
The lesward at rapid rate.
The Republican party seems to
have become possessed 0f the idea
that it, whole mission was confined
to regulating the United States
proper In the interest of the mon
eyed oligarchy which has sprung
up In this country with mushroom
nuddenness. New England, with
oemmendable sagacity, has con-
sesaded that she is about big enough
60 ssboss" the country as it stands
ot present, but her leaders evident
~ think that if the territory OF the
United States is extended, their
ability to rule, and, II need be, to
rain, will be painfully circumscrib-
"a and jsopardized.
IN contemplating the fabric OF
British power to-day it is astonish-
ing when we reflect how much of it
= referab!e to al aggressive and
enlightened foreign policy. Eng
land laid the foundations of her
great riches and power in the time
Of the Stuart Restoration, when the
great East India company was
shattered. Her Olives and Warren
Hastings pushed her sway step by
step In India until to-day she has
two hundred and fifty millions OF
poople laboring for her aggrandize-
nsnt. For now little over two
hundred years the helots of India
have been working with might and
main to enrich the little island
whish Victor Hugo described as a
sand-b in fog, in which the
fog fed the grass, the grass fed the
sheep and the sheep fed the people.
It is this energy and enterprise OF
England, exerted beyond her own
borders, which have made her rich
Z great.
NOtlNng but the squabbles of
parties has, in our opinion, pre-
vented the United States from ex-
tending the sway of their IDEAS and
Institutions indefinitely and reap
ing the benefits which flow from a
vigorous foreign policy. Our sell
0sh partizans, immersed in the
war OF local factions, have never
seemed to think it worth their
while to mature any sagacious and
beneficial foreign polic5-thet lie
{ t,say, since the days Of the Demo.
e.Atic ascendancy. The Demo.
cratic party was always ready 10
tncrease the territory and prestige
Or the United States.
We confess that it has always
seemed q mystery to us that Eng
land should number her depend
nncies and colonies In every corner
Of the world and that We, on the
other hand, should sit with our
1ngers In our mouths, claiming
and being conceded nothing. There
may be deep wisdom and policy in
onch q national role, but we confess
" fail to see either. The United
utates should be emphatically a
propagandist nation. We have the
latest modern ideas aud we should
labor to disseminate them, prose-
lysizIng the American continent
ani Asia, at least. We find our
selves to-day with few rotten
hulks which we call navy, on
which we have expended almost
Thousands of millions Of dollars,
and we might just as well have
navy equal in every respect to that
og Great Britain. Why it should be
ooncaded that Great Britain is to
be permitted in turn to force opium
into China and British Ambassa-
dor upon the Ameer OF Afghanis-
tan. while the United States sits
demursly down, demanding and
acquiring nothing, is, we confess,
beyond our comprehension.
Como day or other we hope. that
the vulgar and violent partizan-
ship of the United States will be |
- aided into a hearty and irresisti-
bic patriotism. We are not with
ont hope that, some day, the Re.
pubiicans Of the United Stp tes will
nufrender power to the Democrats,
and vice versa, with the grace with
which the English Tory surrenders