The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-12-11
Cold Water for Jingoists.

has = plethoric pocket book aud
level head. He issues little pub
ication called "Our Dumb Animals"
which is devoted to the prevention
of cruelty. He has lately fallen
afoul of American jngoism and de-
livered himself to the following
effect:
Tho 60 ,sllel Monroe doctrine is
humbus.
Great Britain has right to ac-
quire peaceably qhatever territory
she wishes in America.
That as all the gr,a powers Of
Europe have larger armies and
navies than the Unit States, which
has two enormous sea coasts to de-
fend, "unless we want to lose the
gold mines Ct Alaska aud pay per-
haps thousand millions Of dollars
for ransom Of our large cities, we
had better attend diligently to our
own business and treat all other ma
tions with respect"
That the tall; about invading
Canada is as silly as it would be to
propose the erection OF Chinese
wall along the interl .tional bound
airy, or to empty the Great Lakes
into the Atlantic Ocean.
That lot of old politicians want
to get up war in which young men
would have to do all the lighting.
That "war is hell" aud politicians
who try to incite it should be put in
lunatic asylums or set at hard labor
in state prisons.
That there is plenty Of room for
employment of all the unemployed
on public works and internal i'm
provements.
The jngoes will not relish this
sort of talk, but there ia barrel Of
good sense in it The United States
has as little to gain and as much to
lose by war as any country in the
world. Sensible, patriotic Americans
understand this perfectly we'll. The
jingoes shut their eyes to things that
everyone else sees. They talk of
war with Great Britain as if it would
I've sort OF picnic, forgetting that
in AZ hours after it was declared the
blunder OF the Northwest boundary
would be- corrected, and this mouth
OF the Columbia would be the
southern limit OF British possessions
on the Pacific, and that the bankers
in the Atlantic Coast cities would
be getting together their specie TO
purchase the safety OF their cities.
But there is 20 necessary in writing
in this strain. II an American lingo
wants to know just how SILLY
creature he is, le, him send to
Washington, D. g., for copy OF the
report OF thu Senate committee on
COd-' uSlVhto ihduo III lCOO no
will learn there OF guns without car
riages or ammunition or machinery
to make them; OF empty arsenals;
of an absolute lack of means or
plan Of mobilizing an army; Of an
entire absence OF commissariat ar
engagements; of an insufficient fleet
manned chiefly by foreigners; OF an
entire absence of land batteries; OF
an almost total lack of means to re-
pair damaged vessels. Admiral
Walker said that in the event Of
war, Great Britain would have all
the coasts of the United States at
her mercy without weakening her
squadrons at other stations. General
Miles was asked if a million men
would not spring to arms at the first
call, and he replied that they pro-
badly would, but he added, in effect
eve have no rifles to arm them with,
no ammunition for the rifles if we
had them, and only the most made
quate means OF manufacturing
them"
Nevertheless, things are drifting
in such direction that war may be
precipitated with Spain. If it is,
Uhila thara oan ha No rnannar of