The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1889-06-12

Ing every V1C1SSlbuQe In the lives OF
nations, fail utterly I'd produce an
instance where two peoples differing
iii religion, institutions and laws
have cast aside the hopes of their
youths and the faith Of their fathers
land learned to love and cherish the
same government and the same flag,
| they have not only failed to assimi-
iHlate, but continued territorial expan.
sion has brought innumerable evils
| upon every nation that has listened
to it's promises of superiority and
grandeur, downfall and ruin have
gone baud in hand with this delu-
| siye policy There remains no ex-
ample of it's successful application.
HHistory with all her volumes vast
hath but one tale" The Medo-per-
sian empire gathering in people
after people and nation after
nation, staked her continuation and
life on the extension of her bounda-
ries, the policy was fatal, the bands
THAT bound her dependencies faded
like the frosts of morning and after
lone conVulsive struggle on the verge
1sof dissolution she went down under
1.-THE chaotic reaction that swept over
Eher and there remained Of Alexan-
Ider's Kingdom nothing but a cold
/ dead body from which the national
soul had fed. The Hellenic civiliza-
i ton, believing that it was immortal,
attempted to absorb the Kingdom of
| Persia, and when the clouds Of for
eign and domestic war, had lifted
from her bosom "The land of poets
and the nurse of Arms" "Was
/ Greece, but living Greece no more "
/ The imperial empire following this
| ambitious policy extended her
| boundaries by the brains of her
1 statesmen and the power of her LEI
gions from the Euphrates tothe isles
Of Britain, but the inevitable came;
! the weight of the branches broke the
tree; the Turk, the visi Goth and the
Britain that for centuries had bowed
| to her dictates served in her armies
and fought for her amusement the
savage beasts in the blood and dust
of the arena, poured down upon her
like the mountain torrent, and the
banner Of the yandal foated in tri-
umph over the imperial eagles. -
But the past standsnot alone. The
darkest and most pathetic chapters
| III the history of modern atoms
knN1 b1sn 8Nlcod 6rlni& ~ lnsi1D
policy. &c wrote the nALne Of Turkey
ii the book DC retrogression It
brought to Spain only loss, shame
and dishonor. It plunged Russia
into along and bloody border warfare
before it robbed the Circassian peas
ant of his country and his freedom.
It scattered q people, violated d
law Of nations and hurried into OBJ
! liyion the identity Of dismembered
Poland. before Peace reigned in
/ WARSAW. If4here be any warning
in those lessons Of the past would it
not be well for the republic to profit
by the policy that has proved 80 IA
tai? Would it not be well for her
to cons ider long and carefully before
she trusts her government, her in
situations and the liberties of her
people to the Icarian wings of terri
torial extension? For if adversely
should ever come; if ever wealth
or personal ambition in its mad
struggle for individual aggrandize-
ment should allow the sacred prin-
ciples ofour free institutions to fall
into oblivion, if ever the Prone.
thean vulture of political corruption
should attack with impunity the Vi
tails ofthe state; if ever discordant
elements should appeal to t he arbi-
tration of the sword If ever anarchy
should raise its voice against the
constitution of the land and Eight
for lawlessness and call it liberty"
and at that hour the republic should
contain within her borders a vast
| population repugnant in it's ideas of
/ laws, in institutions and the great
fundamental principles of govern
ment the danger would be infinitely
greater both to liberty and union.
| Before one century of national ex-
istence our vast territory stretching
| from ocean to ocean with the wealth,
the resources and the diversified in
dustries Of distinct and separate
nation had hurled into the American
Congress vital and intricate ques-
tions of legislation that not only
plunged the. country into civil war
butEstilI tax the federal government
toits very utmost. The Judgment
settler of the distant territory cries
out against the encroachments of
land lordism and the great landed
corporation attempts to smother his
cry with gold in the lobby's Of the
capital. The Pacific State demand
an expansion Of the currency in order
that they may bring ont the untold
wealth that lies hidden in the noun
tains of the west while the east rich
and powerful uses her great influence
III favor Of contraction. The plant
ers Of the south and the farmers Of
| the northwest insist that restrictions
ha taken from commerce. whilh the