Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-09-07
BETTER FOR THE WORLD
Broad Canadian View Of Americas Hold
Ing the Fruits Of Conquest.
Will Promote Commerce and General Prosperity
and Give the United States Occupation
for Growing and Dangerous Energies.

There is no paper in North Am.
erica which takes a more intelli-
gent and catholic view of univer-
sal politics than the Montreal Wit.
ness. The following is a recent
article in that paper, under the
heading, "Rsiling at Uncle Sam:
The structures of our correspon.
dent, "Pax Vobiscum," on the
Spanish war records of the United
States would have been more cog.
ent had his array Of facts been
less one-sided. The President OPP
posed war until he had a peremp-.
tory mandate from Congress to
declare it. Congress for its part
was carried off Its feet by an ir.
resistable wave of war fury which
swept over Washington, due part.
ly to the pathetic recitals of
Vermont Senator who had been
shown over Cuba by the insurg-
ents, and partly to the baying of
the yellow press, necessarily
shouting, Remember the Maine"
There is no reason for assuming
that either Congress or the nation
had, in thus going to war, any
other thought than to punish the
barbarities of Spain and to set the
Cuban republic on its feet. 1t was
not plain to them, as it was per-
haps to "Pax Vobiscum," that in
conquerlng Cuba Il ey would only
be assuming SPANS task of en-
forcing order on a turbulent peo-
pie. The misery the war itself
might entail they did not stop to
count. When the war came it had
to be handed over to the strate-
gists. 1t was war with Spain, and
had to be waged all over the
world wherever Spain was weak
est. Hence many acquisitions
which for the same reasons which
promoted the war to Cuba cannot
be handed back. The sympathy of
GreatBritain and that ofCanada for
the American in this conflict was
not based on the illusion that the
United States was not going to war
for the acquisition of territory. On
the contrary, it was because it was
plain to them that the United
States could not avoid mourning
permanent liabilities beyond her
own boundaries that they hailed
it with satisfaction. Not only
would it bring 30 much more of
the world under stable Anglo
Saxon oversight, and thus promote
commerce and general prosperity,
but it would introduce the United
States into an imperial state of
existence, in which it would have
active and wholesome occupation
for it's growing and dangerous en-
ergies, and in fact bring that power
into the comfy Of nations. The
acquisitions of the United States
during the few months past will
make it necessary for the United
States to maintain a police force
abroad of seventy-fve or hun
bred thousand men, who at first
will have to be mostly Americans.
This will be a fine missionary SER
vice at the expense of the United
States, which is we'll able to afford
it. That country will find itself
confronting the worlds great
powers as never before, and,
though they are at the moment all
bidding for her friendship, she
will, like each of them, need
friends as never before. The edu-
cstional value to a country like
the United States of these new
responsibilities has already been
abundantly proved.
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