The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-07-13

remains 10 De seen. Inc nsnt IL get
ting very warm. and some of the smoke
can be seen away down here in WASH
ington.
Didn't Know II Was "a Law.
The right Of petition remains un-
abridged. The Michigan senators and
representatives. even on the eve OF con-
gressional adjournment. received petit
tions from all over the state on all
sorts OF topics. Many petitions favored
the adoption OF a bankruptcy law, after
that law had been adopted
In this glow of victory has IL oc-
Cured to our statesmen that we owe
our triumphs TO the forbearance of the
great powers? Had any one of them
raised a finger we could not have de-
stroyed the Manila fleet nor main
tanned the Antilles blockade. Is it in
keeping with our national self respect
that we should have been rotting in
the canker of a generation OF unread-
ness ignoring every suggestion of pru-
dence, wasting our substance, and yet
expecting in a sudden flash of war TO
conquer even Spain. The sardonic irony
OF those war speeches in congress
ready to whip all creation in fifteen
minutes!" We now see where we would
OF Cleveland prevailed in the Vene-
Zuelan business and we had plunged in
to a war which was prevented by the
magnanimity Of Lord Salisbury.
Looming Up of the Philippines.
We know that events go hand in hand
with debate. Take these Philippines
| for instance. Did any one want them
three months ago? They were as I'M
/ Crf, 70 T., Itch, ct
in 1854. They gave us hemp which we
did not especially need. and tobacco
which We did not smoke. The Dewey
| victory was a transformation. The
| Philippines with us, as Crimea TO the
English, became an issue. No one ex-
pected that Dewey would take the Phil
| ippines, that the over-ripened pear
would fall at the first shake of the tree.
The pear fell We were helpless as to
| it's possession. Nearly two months
since Dewey delivered home the fatal
| blow to Spanish power In the Pacific,
and yet we have been unable TO follow
up the victory. The unexpected, per-
haps the undesired, found us unpre-
pared. Other nations flock towards
Manila. Germany already has a fleet
that might bid us go no further and
the best 10 be hoped for Is that our ad-
vance guard will enable Dewey 10 hold
| his own.
All this is a part of the fruits of the
policy Of paralysis SO long paramount,
and which still meets with the advo-
cacy of eminent and venerable states
men. The policy of paralysis! What
other name can we give it? Progress
| must be averted. The hand Of the
clock must be turned back. We must
stand still. We must cast down what
has been won by the vigor and valor
of our people. The civilization which
| changed California from a struggling
| group of Catholic missions into a vas
| cular empire; which converted the In
| dian hunting grounds and prairie lands
Of the Upper Mississippi into Illinois,
| Wisconsin and Missouri; which trans
| formed the wastes of Nebraska and
| Kansas into wheat fields and gardens
| of roses; which dared the perils of de-
! wasting war to do what il would with
! its own, must be averted because there
are some leprosy cases In Honolulu.
Contingencies if Paralysis Prevails.
II the policy of paralysis is to pre-
vail if the republic is TO stand still,
| if we are nameless and dare not keep
our own, if we are to have an atrophied
army and a stunted navy, if we are
content TO hold our greatness as the
sufferance Of other powers, then let us
accept paralysis as a blessing in dis
| guise-a narcotic or an anaesthetic. Let
there be no acceptance of Hawaii, no
safeguarding of our interests in the
| Antilles or the Pacific, nothing but a
gentle, sudorific acquiescence in the de-
mands of the trusts, the extension of
| the pension bills and the tariff on wool.
We should study history and see in
the movement of the Anglo-Sax race
| the pregnant lesson of the nineteenth
century.
Read it in India, from the time of
Wolseley to that Of Dalhousie. Read
it in the Burmese policy of Duffern.
| Read Ii in the foundation of those
Australian commonwealth, with their
already worldwide influence. Read IL
in the Louisiana purchase the Floridas,
the annexation Of Texas. Read il in
the FL Dorado empire, and in the gold
imbedded hyperborean Businesses of
| Alaska. Read il in the guise of the
South African confederation, the ad-
vance of England towards the equator
and the Nile. Read ii in the victories
which overthrow Napoleon and de-
stroyed Lee. Read it in the resistless
march of science, adventure and
achievement. Read il in the sure,
steady growth of the British American
confederation, soon likewise to be po-
tent factor in the affairs of mankind.
And thus illustrated, put aside the
puny, whmpering policy of paralysis
and despair and accept the advance
into the Pacific and the Antilles as a
part of that high duty which provi-
dence seems to devolve upon the Amer
lean remnant Of the Anglo Saxon race
We DO Things Well.
Let US drink in the inspiration Of our
own history. American civilization
means creation and growth The Unit
ed States has touched nothing she has
not improved Take this first century
OF our work. An imperial race with an
imperial purpose-the founder Of COM
monwealths, and a masterful people.
what we have done has been we'll done.
Therefore, why shrink from these OPP
pressed West Indian islands, or the