The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-13

ington.
Didn't Know IL Was 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 bankruptcy law, after
that law had been adopted.
In this gov OF victory has 1t &C.
Cured to our statesmen that we owe
our trlumphs TO the forbearance of the
great powers? Had any one of them
raised finger we could not have de-
stroyed the Manila fleet nor main
tanned the Antilles blockade. Is Ii in
keeping with our national self respect
that we should have been rotting in
the canker Of q generation OF unreadi-
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
have been had the hysterical counsels
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 Inland
with debate. Take these Philippines
| for instance. Did any one want them
| three months ago? They were as un-
| known as Crimea to our English friends
| 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 fieet
that might bid us go no further, AND
the best to be hoped for is that our ad
vance guard will enable Dewey to hol(
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! VIVA
other name can we give it? Progress
must be averted. The hand of thu
clock must be turned back. We mus
. | stand still. We must cast down VIVA
has been won by the vigor and valo
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 land
, of the Upper Mississippi into Illinois
, | Wisconsin and Missouri; which trans
! formed the wastes of Nebraska an
! Kansas into wheat fields and garden
. ! of roses; which dared the perils of de
wasting war, to do what 1T would wit
it's own, must be averted because ther
, are some leprosy cases In Honolulu.
Contingencies il Paralysis Prevails.
n If the policy of paralysis Is to pre-
I vail, if the republic is to stand still
: lie we are nameless and dare not kee
q our own, il we are to have an atrophie
n army and a stunted navy, If we al
content to hold our greatness as I'll
: sufferance of other powers, then let
g accept paralysis as a blessing in di:
II guise-a narcotic or an anaesthetic. Ii
> | there be no acceptance of Hawaii, I
n | safeguarding of our interests in TT
n Antilles or the Pacific, nothing but
Il gentle. sudorific acquiescence in the d.
a mands of the trusts, the extension
; the pension bills and the tariff on woo
We should study history and see
the movement of the Anglo-SaXon RAJ
+, the pregnant lesson of the nineteeni
Is century.
- Read il in India, from the time
: Wolseley to that Of Dalhousie. Res
,s IL in the Burmese policy of Dufferi
"a Read 1t in the foundation of tho
- Australian commonwealth, with the
.. already worldwide influence. Read
m i'm the Louisiana purchase, the Florida
81 the annexation of Texas. Read 1T
the Eel Dorado empire, and in the gol
49, imbedded hyperborean Businesses
"a Alaska. Read IL in the guise of q
81 South African confederation, the
% vance of England towards the equat
- and the Nile Read it in the victori
20 which overthrow Napoleon and d
- stroyed Lee. Read it in the resistle
march of science, adventure al
20 achievement Read 1t in the SUI
- steady growth of the British Americi
-, confederation, soon likewise to be p
-, tent factor in the affairs Of mankir
~ And. thus illustrated, put aside t
be puny, whimpering policy of paraly'
~ and despair and accept the advan
"a into the Pacific and the Antilles as
mart of that high duty which prov
~ dence seems to devolve upon the Anne
"a lean remnant of the Anglo-Saxon RAJ
lie We DO Things Well.
as Let us drink in the inspiration of
,ir own history. American civilizati
We means creation and growth. The Un
b. ed States has touched nothing she
all not improved. Take this first centu
of our work. An imperial race with
imperial purpose-the founder Of CO.
H. monwealths, and masterful peor
n what we have done has been well do
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