The San Francisco call., 1898-07-11

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 E/a marked manner, to events that will follow the close of with Spain
 At present the only easy place in the outcome seems to be Porto Rico, where there vas little dlscontent with Spanish rule and where the people seem to pre- fer government to none, and have not gwen
 their interests and aspirations into the keeping ot grandiloquent general or word-nongering Junta. Being inclined to look with favor upon government, they also discriminating enough to prefer the best they can get which IS distinct advance upon
 the practice of their congenors in other parts of Latin America. Turning away from Porto R1co we confront difficulties which promise to transcend any that arise from the Spanish situation direct.
 The future of Cuba and the Philippines presents the problem toward which American thought Is run ming It Is not probable that to witness sud den change in policy that will acutely wrench our institutions as to them like the work of con- vulsion The assumption of distant jurisdiction and the appearance of a nation power in all zones, is not usually sudden natter not in the air yester day. but to-day accomplished Even when such policy conforms to the genius and meets the necessities of country, it does not fall from the skies like the meteors of November but begins in cloud less than a mans hand England acquired the greatest ot her external possessions, India slowly and by ndirecon It was a far cry from the first factory of the East India Company, fever smtten coast, to Plassy and the final ruin of the Mogul Empire English men first appeared in the Hndostan peninsula traders, and commerce went before conquest. The method of English administration in India of slow growth. Its germs were i'll the experiences of the East India Company, and its expansion and ap plca.ion have been wrought out by of the best intelects in Great Britain.
 As American ambition toward an imperial colonial policy has first settle with Spain, and then with various and very ncpient Caesars, in Cuba and the a1-, ha fDrt tha sober second thought of our people to weigh and measure an acute departure in the second century of our existence from the pledges and policies of the first
 There is in process of manufacture public sent- ment against giving up any territory which we take by conquest, and to propose 1t may soon come to be denounced unpatriotic. In order to ease the su- aton and purge of that element let be understood that if 1t be good policy to wage the to close for the purpose that declared at its opening when the President said to the world "Ths is not war of conquest it will be quite patriotic to ab stain from imperialism to enter upon it.
 It is a mistake to suppose that patriotism is pos sibe in war only It is necessary in peace than in war. It is needed to keep virgin the national honor and preserve 1t unstained by bad faith and hypocrisy.
 The patriotism of war will fill the ranks, fight the battles and cherish the weak and wounded preserving the memory of the fallen in unfailing honor. The patriotism of peace will settle the results of the war and determine the further duty of the republic; whether it be to remain the of the world by striking in far lands and for rights of man, and giving all nations notice that those baptized into lib erty by the chrism of American blood must hence forth be respected, for will smite off the hand that touches tsem or whether it be to stay in the arena of contention by taking Spanish government and self-povernment both from the people we have rescued, to hold them, not fellow citizens, but as subordinate co1onists the decision will not be sud den but the distant hour of judgment will find us with judgment matured