The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-23

The solemn warning is offered that this ma
! ton cannot annex the Hawaiian islands and
stop there. Quite true. 1t does not want to
stop there The Marianne and Caroline and
Philippine islands lie far beyond. New York
Tribune.
Differ from the New York Sun. we
may (and do) upon the foreign policy
which it so zealously advocates, but we
recognize the fact that it is honest in its
convictions. When we read its neighbor,
the Tribune, however, we are certain
1t has sinister motive in its (advo-
cacy of territorial expansion and col
onial policies. We know that the Hon.
Jacob Whitelaw Reid is without a
diplomatic mission, and we believe that
nobody more keenly feels it than he.
| We are morally certain that he aches
for some position in connection with a
colonial policy and that he would not
refuse it, not even at the Marianne or
the Carolines.
But do we want the editor of the
Tribune for governor general of even
one Of these benighted groups? Do
we want any man, for that matter,
who is bound to misrepresent us as he
has m srepresented the heroes of Ameri-
can history during his career?
Gen. Grant sat on hill at Shiloh and
saw Bragg in front, and an impenetra-
bic swamp between the two opposing
forces./ He knew that Buell. was on
his wy and would turn up on his left
with the morning sun. He calmly wait
ed. He was therefore intoxicated, if
the accounts written by War Core
spondent Reid were to be believed
Sherman found pestiferous war cor
respondent hanging on his TANKS, crit
| losing his movements and conveying
misleading information to the country
Agate" came near being drummed out
Of camp in consequence but he lived
to become the editor of the Tribune
and malign the bluff old soldier in it's
columns
Apart from his inability to fairly rep
! resent his countrymen, there are other
! reasons why any administration should
hesitate to identify the Tribune's editor
with a colonial policy. We all remem-
Der his appearance as special ambas-
sador to the queens jubilee, a year ago.
How the Greeks would have wept to
have seen him arrayed in plush small
clothes On that memora BILE occasion The
| truth was forced home to us then that
nature never fitted his underpinning to
portray the dignity. grace and poise of
American manhood. Bandy legs, of
p1pestem structure, encased in hose
never yet created an impression
heroic. and we doubt if they ever will
| Western Republican editors should give
| thought to these Democratic sugg es-
tions concerning one of their Eastern
! leaders.
Speaking for ourselves, however, we
should say that if we must have gov
ernors general in the Orient, or else
where, let them be men who are fight
ers, not runners; men broad of beam
II you please, mounted on substantial
UNDERMINING, straight, with pedal ex-
trenities fitted for brogans rather than
court slippers; men with round heads,
hard and well hinged to the spinal
! columns, with nasal organs that would
have won Napoleon-with some knowl-
edge Of other men, some acquaintance.
| possibly, with rum and it's potential
forces when applied to the Christian
ization Of savages and the conduct Of a
colonial policy.
1t is our impression that Horace
Greeley's successor isn't that kind of a
man. And when we read his fervid
declarations we are confirmed in our
belief that the American people want
no imperial, colonial policy no scheme
Of territorial expansion that begets It.
no entangling alliances with foreign
powers do they speak TIE Saxon tongu-
or use a foreign gibber